Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-10-07

vass since the war. To illustrate his
check. He charges that the Republican
party spent s4OO, 100000 on navy,
and the Tallapoosa is the only vessel to
show for it. Fifteen minutes are devoted
to this ship. Now, the truth is, the Tai
lapoosa was never built by the Republi-
cans, but by the Democrats before the
war, aud the, Republican administration
is only to blame for attempting to patch
up and repair huh constructed by Dem
ocrats. Bob also forgets that the Repub-
lcans built lot Of iron clads that run
the blockade at Fort Jackson and restor-
ed New Orleans TO the Union; Port Hud-
son, and captured 10000 Confederates;. !.
Island No. 10. and captured Memphis
and 5000 men Vicksburg. and broke the
backbone of the Confederacy. If Bob
had been confederate at either of these
points, he would have given $4OO, 900, 900
to have seen either of these splendid
monitors sunk, as was the Tallapoosa.
Alf does not waste any time on these mat
ters and declines to go into the laundry
business to wash or wear bloody shirts.
Bob's tariff speech is the most remark.
able effort Of the ages. He started out as
an out and.out rank, American w after.
SON. Morrison free trader. Hard times,
depression in trade, every III was attribu.
ted to the war tariff, which he placed at
43 per cent. and declared everywhere
was laid on 2, 900 articles of consumption.
He illustrated its hardships by the trace
chain and wool hat. This, he declares,
is the Chinese wall that bars the progress
OF trade, drives our ships from the sea
and deluges the land in misery When
this speech was reported in the american
and endorsed editorially, Col. Colyar
mounted the cars and hurried after the
young man. To please Col. Colyar, /
presume, he added this to his remarks,
after he had done his "Chinese wall"
performances: Il am for protective
tariff, protective tariff equal to the diff
ference between the price of labor in
Europe in America" Bob did not elabo.
rate 1t, just flung the chunk Of wisdom
to the hungry tariff Democrats and made
'em howl with joy. Colyar cut the
IL
pigeon wing and shouted to Cooper: II
told you so. Bob stands on the platform
and that's what the platform means"
Celyar went home as happy as mug
wump. Bob, in succeeding perform
ances, would repeat 1t or leave it out as
his memory dictated AT franklin, when
Cooper of the american was behind him,
he forgot 1t. At Columbia he remem-
cred 1t, Cooper being out in the crowd
and not on tho dstand. All. let him wall;
in and out Of the trap until he became used
to 1t, and al Fayetteville said: Fellow
citizens, upon the tariff to-day, the diff
ference between US is this: My competi-
tor is for q higher protective tariff than
am. He Is for tariff equal to the differ.
ence between American and European
labor-this difference, according to Mr..
Morrison, Mr.. Watterson and all leading
Democrats is fifty per cent. The present
war tariff, that he denounces so bitterly
and magnifes into a Chinese wall, is
only 43 per cent. yet he Is for one so pei
cent, or for one 7 per cent. higher
than L.
| At Pulaski Bob left out the Colyal
part, the difference between labor in
Europe and America, but ALI. in his
speech shot it to him and made him awful
sore. Bob, in his rejoinder, still ignored
1t, but when Alf., in his rejoinder. read
the following from the American of Fri
day, Sept. 25th:
1--WE may as well state now, as at any
other time, to those Democratic candi
dates, who are running for office or hope
to do so, and who profess to stand square
ly on the platform adopted at Chicago
(Bob's language quoted) that 1t will bC
we'll for them to read that instrument
Occasionally we hear 1t said by persons
whose positions should render them more
careful In their utterances that war take.
must be reduced, but in so doing we mus
protect our laboring classes to the exten
of the difference between rates Of wages
here and abroad. Bobs exact language
J Now, the Democratic platform says moth
! ing of the kind. " By his owr
(Bob's definition he must vote for a tar
i'll of 700 per cent, because there Is tha
difference in the rates of wages between
the two countries. Now, the perpctua
, liberation we hear about pauper labor is
senseless jingle.
This was tearing Bobs flesh. HI
writhed and twisted and objected to ALI
reading, because, he said, 1t was new mat
ter. ALI. felt sorry and concluded not Il
read; but the Democrats and Republi
cans, yelled, "readl read !" and he di,
, so. This is just one specimen.
, Bob started out on the Blair bill to ridi
/ cule and belittle 1t, but he knew that h
7 must offer something in its place, and Il
general terms suggested or favored tn
0 appropriation of money derived from th
5 sale of public lands.
: ALI. with crushing force, showed tha
this was dodge, and when Bob saw fror
5 the storms Of applause that greeted ALI
Q that the people wanted something better
: he elaborated his land sale idea until a
Fayetteville, he advocated the throwin
. Of fifty million Of railroad lands on til
, market and declared that they would rt
Q alizc more than five times the Blai
: bill scheme. Then Alf. rose to the grand
, eur Of his eloquence, and with witherin
blasting logic, pointed out the shameless
hypocrisy Of the party. what" say