Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-10-18
BROTHER BUCK.
Another Epistle From Our Irving Col
A lege Correspondent.

Irving COLLEGE. oct. Ia, 1891

Irving College, Oct. IA, 1890.
To THE STANDARD Permit me
to say to the people that | am sorry
that the editor of the STANDARD cam
not digest 6,tzzard! Why, I have
digested it in times past. 1t is no
trouble, provided a crowd of newspa~
per men and stump-orating politi-
clans gather around and encouraging
ly yell "vote the straight ticket"
"don't scratch" etc., just as the
STANDARD has done biennially for
many years now past. Hence Inow |
have confidence (the STANDARD
taught it me) in yelling "vote the
straight ticket, support the nomi-
nee'' ETC., and now as The STAND
ARDS digestive apparatus is a little
out of fix, l will generously halloo
"don't scratch" and, perhaps, with
such encouragement, even the
STANDARD can oo,digest buzzard. If
my memory serves me right (and it
does) the STANDARD swallowed "Our
Bob" slimed all over with "the peo-
pie anxiously looking for Federal aid
to education" 1. e. the Blair Bill.
And now it talks about not being
able to digest buzzard What a joker
you be! Now if to elect man Gov
ernor of a State is an endorsement of
any particular view of his upon any
national question, then the good peO-
pie of Tennessee (the editor of the
STANDARD included) endorsed the
"Blair Bill'' in the re. election ofGov.
Taylor. Now the STANDARD will
not plead guilty. Nor will the DEM
ocrats endorse any view of Mr.
Buchanan upon national issue (un-
less that view harmonizes with some
principle enuciated in the platform
upon which he makes the race when
they shall have elected him Govern
or of Tennessee. ..a
In view of many things seen in va.
rious papers published in the State,
permit me to assert that the Hon. j.
P. Buchanan is the nominee of the
democratic party of this State, and as
such should receive the unqualified
support Of every democrat in the
State. Y
4 Iassert that his nomination was
secured fairly, or as much so as any
one in the history of this State; and
J no man dares galway this assertion,
unless it be one of that class to whom
it is a sin to have served in the
Southern Confederacy when among
republicans, but glory when among
5 democrats. "'-e
assert that iftBuchanan is the al
3 Ltuace candidate because the laboring
element captured the convention, y
z then the platform Of that convention
7 is the alliance platorm, hence there
( is neither a democratic nominee Oh
Q platform in this State.
5 assert that the democratic State
: platform is the standard by which
!. the democracy of our candidate fol
9 governor should be tested, and no
IS by list ofirrelevant questions touch
> ing national issues, religious creeds
or the tenets of secret societies.:
assert that the Hon. j. P. Buch
}. anan has not ''tried to straddle tw'
7. platforms" in this canvass; though
q q do admit that a few disgruntled news
g paper men, mugwumps and sore
IS headed politicians have very labori
r. ously tried to get him astride 0
1t many questions not in the dem
ocratic platform, but that he yer.
sansibly refused.
AS those questions are so yer,
important and so imperatively de
mand an answer, let me answer on
N of them. l can do it, for hav
z "absorbed" enough from borrowed
q, newspapers to answer to your liking
rs "Do you favor secret political organ
b, ization." Well, that depends upo
ID whose "bull is gored." If one editor
IN three lawyers, and two street.corne
II politicians secretly meet in law o
" flee (the back room) and cut, dry
IN and fix up things just immediatel
u preceding the meeting of CONVEX
ST ton, why everybody should be i
favor of that. 1t expedites busines
D. you "know." Yes, 1 am in favor {
h of that kind of a secret political S,
OF ciety(?). But, for two or three hui
e, dred good citizens to meet and If
nj things" little, and on conventiC
day set down on that other cut ar
ny dried affair, that is criminal. No,
st. do not (?) favor any such presumpt