Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-29
The Power Behind the Throne.

Democrats who fear that Mr..
Buchanan viii be controlled by com
munistic or any influence danger
GUS to the wellbeiDg Of any class or
thelState, will read the following ex-
tracts from the Murfreesboro Free
Press and the Obion Democrat, both
reliable papers, and know whereof
they speak. The Free Press says:
IA fear is expressed of the powers
that may be behind the throne, If
Buchanan is elected. When John
Buchanan enters upon the duties of
Governor of Tennessee there will be
no power behind the throne. Men
who express such a fear do not know
the man. He is full of keen convic-
tion and verges upon obstinacy when
he thinks he is right. He is as hon
est as the summer sun is bright, and
me powers, be they behind or before,
above or below the throne will in
duce John Buchanan to diverge one
inch's breadth from what he deems
his duty TO his native State.
b. LET every Democrat stand true to
his principles and his party. Let
him support John Buchanan as the
nominee, not of class, not of an or
ganization, but of the entire Demo
cratic party. He is worthy of all
support his record is spotless his
Democracy is interchangeable and
as man he is sans peur ct sans re-
proche."
Editor Tatum, on his way to the
meeting of the Tennessee Press AS
ISOLATION at Bristol, wrote a letter
back to his paper, the Obion Demo.
crat, from Nashville, from which we
take the following pointed and
rather spicy extract:
buchanan will b. elected by a
larger majority that the Democracy
has polled in several years, He is
J. good man, and unless he allows him
self to be controlled or influenced by
selfseekers will make good gov
ernor. Those who suppose him to
be under the influence of Mcdowell
and that he will do as he directs are
mistaken Mcdowell was not an
original Buchanan man he favored
another man, but was overruled by
the Alliance leaders who selected
Buchanan. When Mcdowell was
candidate for Comptroller two years
ago Buchanan, who was member
OF the Legislature, voted against
him every time. He has made re
cent statement to the effect that he
would never appoint Mcdowell to
Office. Ii IL pretty certain that he
will not be controlled by the dema-
gogue who is endeavoring to pose as
the great Alliance leader. Mellow
ell has considerable influence among
the wheelers of the back counties
the more ignorant kind who can be
led like sheep by an ordinary schem-
or, but he is unpopular with many of
the better Class Of members. The
election of Lea for Supreme Judge
on the first ballot in which Mellow
ellis brother received only ITO votes,
shows the status of McDowelIs in
f1uence. William Wallace's boast
that he was sure of the nomination
that he was merely doing the bar of
the State the courtesy of calling on
on them, and that his brother John
would attend to the country, is seen,
In the light of recent events, to have
been the vain, silly boast of vain,
silly man whose election to the Su-
preme bench would have been ca
lamity. The McDowells are much
smaller potatoes and are much scarcer
in the hill than they and some of
their ignorant admirers imagine
them to be. The more | know of
Buchanan the better / like him and
the better satisfied | am that he will |
make a good governor
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