The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-05-08
JERE BAXTER VISITS Us.
The Next Governor of Tennessee
Makes Friends in Johnson City.

ment Hon. Jere Baxter addressed the
citlzensof Johnson City last Thurs
day night. In company with Lytton
Taylor. Esq, Mr.. Baxter drove over
from Jonosboro in the afternoon in a
private conveyance and reached the
Piedmont House about 5 o'clock.
The Governor was CHARTERED in room
3 and greeted the delegation that call
ed on him with thu COMET in that
pleasant manner peculiar to himself
He was in fine spirits notwithstand-
ing his trip from Jonesboro had been
anything but pleasant, owing to the
Indictment weather and the condition
of the roads, and his friends partici,
pated in his good feeling when he
read q telegram from Hawkins coun-
ty, stating that the convention just
closed had a4yen him votes and
Buchanan 5. Such news is well cal.
culated to cause a candidate to smile
and as he is continually receiving
such kilograms he has gradually
grown used to being called Govern
or" as he is Familiarity called by the
masses wherever he goes. The guests
left him reclining in an easy chair and
preceded him to the Opera House
where large crowd was gathered to
greet 1.-The next governor" When
Mr.. Baxter entered he was loudly
cheered and when he arose to speak
after brief but timely introduction
by Robt. Burrow, he had to wait un-
ill the cheering ceased. He only spoke
short time but unlike most candi-
dates he talked to the point. He is a
plain, practical man and his speech
abounded in practical ideas about the
development of the country. He
showed in round numbers what the
South had lost by the war and how
its growth had been retarded for 20
years by the West, but that now the
West was no longer competitor but
a contributor, as the great stream of
wealth that had been flowing into that
country for years had been turned
southwark and that we were on the
eve of as great boom as the West
ever knew but much more substan-
tial one-because we had all kinds of
iron ores and Goals in inexnaustible
quantities and everything else requir-
ed to build up and maintain great
nation. We have practically monop-
oily on the sugar, rice and cotton in
dustries and it is only matter of time
when the center of the iron industry
will be in the South. The South is
today consuming 100000 tons of
ircn ore yearly and he has estimated
that at the present ratio of increase
the consumption will be doubled in
90 years. Mr.. Baxter has made spe-
cial study of these things for years
and has watched the South's growth
very closely and has not failed to do
his part in its development. He turn
ed Sheffield, Ala, from corn field |
into large manufacturing town and
connected it by rail with Birmingham
and has been instrumental in bring
ing over 100000 of northern capt.
tai into the South. All of this proves
that Mr.. Baxter is representative
man and before he finished speaking
he had convinced our people that
such man would make Tennessee a
good Governor and that it would be
great stroke for our State to take the
initiative and elect a business man,
known outside his home, to look after
our interests and through him gather
to us enterprises that would give en-
ployment to our labor and that might
have been taken to some of our sis
Ter States by such man. The Demo-
Gratis in this "neck O. the woods" be-
ieve that man can do his State no
better service than by developing its
natural resources and inducing for
sign capital to locate with us and
make manufacturing towns out of our
yillages. That is the kind of politics
hat helps the poor man and the only
lind and for that reason Washington
county will instruct its delegates on
he 10Th inst, to cast 16 votes for Bax-
er when the Gubernatorial conven- ,
ion meets in July. Added to all his
ther qualities Mr.. Baxter is Jeffer- 6
oman Democrat with the Grover /;
,leveland amendments and stands ,
atfooted on the National platform of
88S. As straws show how the wind {
lows the following shows conclusive I
Y that the breezes are toying with q
If. Baxter. Only few counties have 4
ED conventions but the result is q
Polk, DeKalb and Bradley counties c
ave instructed for Baxter. Grundy q
nd Van Buren, instructed for Buch- r
nan first and Baxter second. Hawk h
Is gives him and Buchanan 5. |,
ibson gives him % and Patterson g. a
umner gives him 10 and Patterson i
B. Jefferson sends Baxter delegates ?
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