The Portland daily press., 1890-07-07

one OF the interesting things about the
contest was the stand taken by the Republi.
cans Of East Tennessee. In East Tennes.
see, In the rolling country between the Cum
Derland Mountains and the Allegheneys,
there live hundred thousand white Repub-
licans, who send three Republican congress
men to Congress as regularly as any of the
Northern States. The second Tennessee
district now represented by Judge Houk,
| hes not sent Democrat to Congress for over
sixty years. In the old Whig days 1t sent
snch men as Churchwell and Maynard.
Parson" Brownlow belonged in that district
also, although he was member of the Sem
ate and not OF the House. Judge Houk re-
celyes majority OF nearly 14,c00 votes, this
majority being about one and one-half times
as large as the entire Democratic vote.
The first Tennessee district is also strong
ly republican, and is represented by the le-
doubtable Alfred Alexander Taylor, who, in
1886, made the famous campaign for the gov
ernorship OF Tennessee against his Demo-
cratic brother "Bob'' Taylor, the present ex
ecutive of that state. The two brothers
made tour OF the state together, debating
before audiences at every stopping place.
They were good violinists, too, and It was
SAID that they used to compete with the "bow
ana rosum, as well as in oratory- ''Alf"
Taylor Is fiery orator, and made one of the
most stirring speeches for the federal cleo
tion bill.
Taylor heard Hempnill's now famous sem
tence: I'VE are om fathers sons" ETC., and
returned it: "The descendants of the stur-
dy mountaineers who, under the leadership
OF Sewer. Campbell, aud Shelby, struck the
death-blow to the British army at Kings
Mountain and turned the tide Of the Reyolu-
tion, my people are the sons and daughters
OF their fathers and the blood has never
turned back in their veins. (Applause). FL
dellty TO the American Union, love of liberty
reverence for the American flag has ever
Deen tne prevailing sentiment among them.
and they are as free today as .he air thew
pTeathe, enjoying in fullest measure every
pressing conferred by the Constitution of the
United States" (Applause) Then Taylor
Went on 20 say that, being free themselves
tney wished all their fellow Republicans in
the South to be in the same condition.
No Republicans are quite SO radical as the
Republicans OF Kansas. bleeding Kansas"
cannot forget her old wrongs at the hands of
the border ruffians; and whenever any Re
publican doctrine is up, or whenever any
question involving the sectional issue arises,
the kansas men usually try to be at the fore.
Every one of her seven representatives In the
House is a veteran of the Union army. In
Kansas today there are several thousand
more Union veterans than the state had sol
diers in the field, Kansas having in the last
twenty years received thousands of veterans
among her immigrants As the election bill
debate drew to close, Bishop w. Perkins
of the Third district, delivered fiery speech.
at the close OF which he sent to the desk the
following verse, published in the Newberne
IN. C.) Journal Democratic paper, in con-
necLlon with the ceremonies at the dedication
OF the Lee monument at Richmond:
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Are still in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot,
wish there were three million
Instead OF what we got.