Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-28
Bobs First Speech in the Campaign.

Wednesday night, and on being in
troduced by Chairman Mcconnell re-
sponded as follows:
"Ladies and Gentlemen: / thank
you for this delightful 'serenade and
for the compliment of your presence
here tonight. | congratulate you
upon the peace and harmony and
enthusiasm which pervades the Dem
ocratic party throughout the length
and breadth of the Old Volunteer
State. / congratulate you, fellow
citizens, upon the fact that the old
questions which have distressed and
discovered and vexed our party are
dead. / congratulate you upon the
fact that the State debt is settled, and
that the other questions are settled,
and that now the hearts of the Demo-
cracy in Tennessee throb in unison
for one grand triumph in the year of
our Lord, 1886; [applause] but, fell
low citizens, if you have come here
tonight to hear fowery speech you
will be sadly mistaken. l propose,
in the very near future, to take the
standard of Democracy in my weak
hand and to bear it, with all the
power of body and mind and soul,
and preach the pure principles of
Democracy wherever | go-to every
COMMUNICATIVE the hope that our
State will come back in this year to
the good old times when the Demo-
cratic majority was 10000. But to-
night, my fellow citizens, l am in
the situation of an individual / once
heard of. Two men had been on a
drunk together, and they got separat-
ed-and they met one morning, and
one said, "Good mornin'." The
otheDsaid, "Good evenin'w Why,
the other Teller said, cts mornin' ;
that's the SUM-" "No, it's evenin',
that's the moon," replied the other.
"Well, We'll leave it to the first
friend we meet" They went on
down the street and found a fellow
holding to a lamp-post. "Mish'r,
got ques'hion want to put to you to
decide. 1 says'h mornin', this man
says'h etenin'-want you to decide
quesh'n." "Gen'man," said the
man, you'll have to 'scuse me-hic
-hic-Pm stranger in this country
Cheers.
Fellow citizens, great events have
TRANSFERRED in the State in the last two
years. The old Republican party
that started in 1860 in triumph, and
that lived and ruled and fourished
for twenty years is dead; and the
Democratic party, born of the brain
of Thomas Jefferson, like Minerva
from the brain of Jove, armed with
truth and clad with truth and shoe
with truth is again the master anC
the controller and the ruler of thi,
Government, and has taken its place
and will be the destiny Of this Gov
eminent not for hundred years, bu
five hundred glorious years to come
and you will never hear ofthe Repub
lican party again after 1888. WILD
applause
You you never hear again of thu
Republican party except as the party
of fraud and party of corruption;
party that the people could not trust
We have come UP and they hav'
gone down. Cheers Did youe eve
hear Uncle Remus' story of the rabbi
and the 'possum?-Uncle Remus
'possum. A rabbit went to a well t,
get a drink-'tWas one of these old
fashioned wells that had a bucket OF
each end; when one went down TIN
other went up. The rabbit got OF
one end to drink, when, to his aston
ishment, the bucket went down il
the well. While he was fiounderin,
at the bottom an old fox came up t
the side and looked over. "What i
the matter?" said he. ooh, nothing
Nothing at ALI" said the rabbit
"Just down here fishing" "Catcl
anything" Catching more than
can use-finest fishing 1 ever saw il
my lifew cpd like to have som
myself" said the fox. "All you &c
. to do is to get on the other end of tn
bucket" said the rabbit. 1t starte
down and brother rabbit started W
AS he passed the fox he lookek aroun
and said:
Brother, this world goes round an 'rount
And some 60 up, and some 90 down."
[ Cheers.
For twenty long, weary years tn
Democratic party was at the bottoI
1 cnrnan inCr for holm on6 tho Ranuhl