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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
IN EXPLANATION
Editor Chronicle:

Editor Chronicle;
Your Holiday correspondent is
incorrectly informed in regard to
the base ball game on the 11th
instant The game was between
the Holiday and Camden clubs.
The Cowells Chapel club has never
been challenged by the Holiday
club. j. w. PREssoN.
CowELL's CHAPEL, October %.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
Ayres. Enloe. Total.
*Returns not official.

On the strength Of the official
figures contained in the above re-
turns Mr.. A. B. LAMB, chairman Of
the Congressional committee, has
published a statement, dated Octo-
Der 21st, in which he declares Mr..
ENLoE the nominee Of the Demo-
cratic party.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31

The lower house Of the Z fifty
second Congress will have just 1872
members. The Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette, a bitter Republic
can paper, gives a table showing
the probable complexion of the
House to be 169Democrats and 1853
Republicans. This estimate, from
a Republican standpoint, indicates
that the Democrats are in the ma
iority and should control the affairs
Of our Government But in the
estimate furnished by the CONNER
eial Gazette, Tennessee has the
same division as last year, while it
may be conceded that the Demo-
Gratis will gain one Congressman
IN this State. Conservative Dem
Ocrats estimate that the Democrats
will carry the next House by eleven
majority.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31

One dollar per year in advance; fifty cents for
siXmonths; twenty-five cents for three months.
THE CHRONICLE viii be issued on Friday OF
may be sent by pOstoi1ice order at our risk.
Postage stamps are not desirable, but when II Is
found necessary to remit them one-cent stamps
are preferred.
Agents wanted to solicit subscriptions Write
for ferns ptr
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COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.

We shall spare no endeavor to furnish valuable
reading matter to our patrons; and hope TO Sc
cnre II correspondent nc every p0st-otilce In Ben.
ton County to furnish us with county news.
sagy"We assume no responsibility for the eX.
pressions contained In communications appear
ing in the columns of this paper.
Rates on advertisements, and estimates on Job
printing furnished on application.
mittances TO
TRAVIS BROS,
CAMDEN, Tenn
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31

GENERAL PALMER is making a
vigorous campaign in Illinois, and
the farmers are rallying under his
leadership for reform in the affairs
of Government, and Republicans
are drifting rapidly into the Dem
sOratic ranks as the only hope for
the country. The Republicans in
THE North and Northwest are be-
ginning to see that the issues that
divided the people Of the United
States during the war were differ
emit from the issues of the present
that the duties Of the present are
none the less important than those
of thirty years agowhen they were
united in the perpetuation OF the
great principles Of constitutions
government. They are uniting tx
resist the result Of mistaken poll
tics, and their ballots next Tuesday
will doubtless prove that the wa
cry of the G. o. p. has lost its effec
IN the State Of Illinois at least
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1890.

THE party workers should not
fail to get out a full vote and de-
feat any attempt Of the Republi-
can leaders to gain control Of Ten
nessee.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
MILLINERY GOODS.

A complete line of Millinery has
just been received, embracing the
latest fall and winter styles. This
department will be in charge of
Misses Mccullough and Hagler.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
ANNOUNCEMENT.
ROE STATE SENAr0R.

WE are authorized to announce Mr.. WILLIAM
w CARAwAY a candidate to represent the,
Twenty-siXth Senatorial District, composed of the
counties of Benton, Carroll, and Decatur, in the
next General Assembly of Tennessee.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
PRIMARY Reforms.

The following are the returns Of
the Congressional primary election
held in this, the Eighth Congress
sional District, September Goth:
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31

At every voting precinct in the
State there must be two sets Of Of
ficers and two ballot-boxes, and
voters are required to vote for Con-
gresham in one, and Governor and
State officers in the other. Keep
this in mind when you go to the
polls next Tuesday.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31

The chiefobject of the leaders of
the Republican party is the defeat
of the Democratic nominees. Not
much noise is made, but it is the
general opinion that if they can
not accomplish this end accept
through union with the Prohibi-
tionists, they will just before the
election throw their full strength
to DR.. KELLEY. The Democrats
have nothing to fear in this event
if the full strength of the party is
polled, but we urge upon the De-
mocracy the Importance Of avoid
ing all signs of danger by standing
by the party organization and pile
up the Democratic votes.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
DRY GOODS, ETC.

Our line of Dry Goods, Clothing,
Boots, and Shoes, and Furnishing
Goods is complete. The latest
styles are represented and every
article is bargain within itself.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When shehad Children, she gave them Castoria.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
LUMBER. GROCERIES. &c.

We also carry a large line Of
Doors, Sash, ETC., Paints. and Oil,
Brides, Saddles, Hardware, Fam
lily Groceries, etc. Our stock is
full and complete in all branches.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-10-31
THE CHRONICLE
4 DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
CAMDEN, BENTON County, Tenn.
TERMs oF suBsCRIprION.

THE CHRONICLE Is entered at the Camden,
Tenn, post office as second-class mail matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

The Marion Chronicle and Paramount
News have been publishing some polit-
ical revelations which are rather inter-
esting, for the reason that they impli-
cate that esteemed Democratic leader
and saloon-keeper, the Hon. Sim Coy, in
a conspiracy with the leaders of the Pro-
hibition party in Grant county to nom-
mate candidate for Representative to
the Legislature who will, if elected, vote
for Mr.. Voorhees, for United States Sem
ator. Mr.. Coy, it seems, appeared in
Grant county last July for the alleged
purpose of purchasing the saloon at the
Soldiers Home, but it has since been as
certained that he was in close consulta-
ton with the leading Democrats, who,
in turn, were in consultation with one or
more of the Prohibition leaders, with a
view to capturing that following in that
county, which has polled 40 votes.
These 45O Prohibition voters. are what
the Indianapolis Democratic leader and
saloonist was after. If they could
be induced to sustain an Alliance
OF peoples ticket, headed by a Voor-
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business. The advicet from interior
cities are all of the same hopeful char
acter. Manufacturers are not piling up
stocks of goods for which there is no de-
mand, and are, evidently, very well sat
istied with the outlook. The same is
true of the jobbing trade very generally.
Prices in some lines of merchandise have
advanced somewhat, and the general
tendency seems to be toward higher
prices than prevailed the last year, but
thus far the only marked advance has
been in the staple agricultural products.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
A TALE OF woy.
The Lamentation of the Organ of the De-
mocracy of Northern Indiana.

The Lamentafion of the Organ Of the De-
mocracy of Northern Indiana.
Fort Wayne journal tDem.)
The State convention has passed into
history, such as it is. The result is disap-
pointing to the Democracy of Allen county.
but In politics We must taste the bitter
with the sweet, and look as pleasant as
possible In swallowing our decoction OF
Gall" Mr.. Berghoff can well point with
pride to his vote. and what is more, 1t was
came from the masses not from the lead
ers, with one or two notable exceptions.
He went into the convention with his per-
sOnsl strength, but it is obvious that
In his magnificent battle for suprem--
acy the generals of his neighborhood
either traded or deserted him. They had
an able ally in the person of James X.
Slack, of Huntington county. who, with
out ghost of chance for nomination,
land his friends knew it, went in and re-
NAMED in the race, doc in the manger,
for the sole purpose of defeating Mr.. Berg
hoff. He got his price, let him take the
consequences. Mr.. Slack had an exact
counterpart In Mr.. Mcdonald. of Plymouth,
ination of Mr.. Berghoff. and into this plot
Mr.. Stoll. of Sonth Bend. also
entered heartily, stretching his in
fuence into Noble county. where he
is interested In newspaper.
The banks of indianapolis, too. had a very
u
They have so arranged their politics that
they can command the Republicans with
as much force as they can the democrats,
and have mixed their combinations to con-
troll the finances of the State. no matter
what party is in power. The second choice
of Allen county. If 1t had any at all, was
poor Tom Byrnes. with chances favoring
his nomination next to Mr.. Berghoff. for he
had the good will of the people in his right
eous cause. But the Indianapolis boodlers
can see neither merit nor righteousness.
and Bergh0ff and Byrnes wentI down be-
fore their bank-roll. Let us wait and sec
whether the party can Justify it's ticket or
repair its ingratitude to Allen county.
There is no enthusiasm here. and il must
be manufactured on it's merits. Mr.. Jewett
and his Indianapolis cohorts stole the State
convention from Fort Wayne, and by
means equally reprehensible they captured
the State ureasurership. Let us see what
they have TO offer in extenuatioB of their
victory. The Journals COMPLAINTS against
men and methods. for Allen county is weary
of the lntolerant hatred that its majority
begets In the bosoms of men who ought TO
applaud it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
"A PLANE OF EQUALITY

In many of his campaign speeches
Representative Mills, of Texas, who is
now regarded as the most conspicuous
and authoritative free-trader in the
House, announced the purpose of the
policy of his party in these words:
We Will put our own intelligent, and
skillful, and productive labor upon plane
of equality with the laborers of all other
countries.
There can be no mistaking the mean
ing of the above language. 1t is the
policy of the Democratic party, or at
least its leaders in Congress, to so adjust
the duties on imported merchandise as
to place the labor of the United States
in equal competition with the laborers
of other countries. If the labor, and
that practically means all wage-earners,
is upon plane of equality and free COM
petition, either the wages of those of all
the world entering into such competition
must be raised to the scale of American
wages, or those paid to American labor
must fall to the level of the worlds
plane. In all Europe the number
of wage-earners must be nearly ten
times as many as in the United States.
Thousands of women perform labor
which they would not be permitted to
do in this country, working in the fields.
in coal mines, brick-yards, and at like
employments for which they are un-
suited and at which the American idea
of woman's sphere revOlts. In the tin
ned-plate industries, whose product the
free-traders are anxious to put on the
free list, women and girls work for less
than 25 cents a day. In the linen in
dustry, which the majority of the pres
ent Congress is endeavoring to stimu-
late in this country and the free-traders
are opposing, men who are skilled in the
weaving receive $3.50, and for the sever
est work less than So week. In Munich
women saw wood for 20 cents day, and
in Italy they make thread-laces for 8 to
10 cents day. In the Coates thread
mills, in Scotland, women earn $3.50
a week, but in the Coates thread-mills
in Rhode Island women doing the same
work receive nearly So week. The
average rate Of wages in all employ
ments in the United States is from rs to
100 per cent. more than in England and
France, and the average for all employ
ments in Massachusetts, few years
ago, was ~ per cent. more than in Great
Britain.
In view of these facts, when Mr.. Mills
and his party put our wage learners upon
a plane of equality with those "of other
countries" including, of course, India
and China, will the competition elevate
the wages of many millions "of other
countries" to the level of the American
wages, or will the many more millions
''of other countries drag down the
wages of the American laborer to nearly
their low standard? Which is the more
prOhable-that one laborer with high
wages will bring ten to his standard in
free competition, or that the ten will
sink the one to their low level?
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hees Democrat, his purpose would
be attained. Soon after these consnlta-
tons and conferences meeting of the
F. Nj. b. A. and X. of l.. was held, at
which the supporters of Mr.. Coy's
scheme attempted to pass resolution
calling for convention to nominate a
peoples ticket for the county, but the
meeting voted otherwise. Then call
was issued by conference committee,
whose names were not given, for q peo-
pies convention. The convention met
the same day that the Democratic county
convention was held, and was made up
of Prohibitionists, Democrats and few
mugwumps. Some of its leading manip-
ulators were alleged Prohibitionists. A
committee was appointed to name a
ticket, of which a leading Prohibition
manipulation afterwards boosted he had
named every man. 4 Prohibition leader
was given one of the best places, and
several Republicans, who were not pres
ent and who have since declined, were
nominated, but the nominee for Repre-
sentative is lifelong Democrat and
stanch friend of Mr.. Voorhees,. The
Democratic convention met on the same
day, but adjourned without making a
nomination, to the end that the party
may vote tie peoples ticket and make
sure of a Voorhees, Representative.
1t must be admitted that this is very
neat scheme, and doubtless Mr.. Coy was
moret than amused, while attending to his
vocation as saloonist, and an indicted
one at that, as soften as he thought of the
Prohibition leaders and voters in Grant
county coming to his aid and to continue
in the Senate man who voted against
the original package law. And well he
may be; Mr.. Coy is many sided states
man and potent leader, but the capture
of $50 Prohibition votes in Grant county
is undoubtedly the most wonderful ex-
plot of a saloon made politician.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

THE bitter attack upon Judge Woods
by the Democratic platform-makers is
as absurd as it is malignant. He was
not the prosecuting officer in the case Of
Colonel Dudley, which one would infer
from the language of the vituperative
resolution. but the judge before whom
it would have been tried, If Mr.. Cleve-
lands prosecuting officers had been able
TO find any evidence upon which to
base an indictment. When. there
fore, those reckless platform makers de-
Asre that Judge Woods has decided
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01
THE NEW sTREET-CAR ORDINANCE.

The provisions of the street-railway
ordinance to be presented to the City
Council tonight seem. in the main. to
be reasonable and fair to all parties con-
cerned, and to unite the interests of the
city and the railway company in man
ner likely to be satisfactory to both.
The first section, providing for the pay
ment of proportionate part of the ex-
penses wherever street improvements
are made on the line of its tracks, will,
ii agreed to, at once settle the dispute
now pending in the Supreme Court over
this question, and remove the difficulty
that has hindered the immediate i'm
prOvement of certain streets. The
most; important provision is that
providing for an extension of
the franchise for twenty years
after the expiration oflthe present char
ter, which will remain in effect until
1901. From and after January, 1901, for
five years the company must pay to the
city per cent. of it's gross earnings; for
the succeeding five years, 3 per cent;
for the remaining ten years, 4 per cent.
This gradual advance is in accordance
with a probable increase of receipts,
and will add materially to the income of
the city; but the proposed setting apart
OF this fund for the purchase and inn
provement of public parks is very OBJ
jectionable. No specifications for its
disposal should be made. The money
received from this source should by all
means be turned into the general fund,
to be used with the remainder as the
city authorities may decide. Parks are
needed for Indianapolis, but other i'm
prOvements are more essential, and are
needed first. Parks should not be thought
Ofwhile garbage system is unprOvided
for. The sewerage system is also incom-
plete and defective, and its proper carry
ing out will call for alarge outlay. Many
miles of pavement are needed. The
sanitary condition Of the city is involved
in these matters, and they demand at
tention before all else. 1t is possible
that all these improvements will have
been made previous to 1901 without the
creation of debt, but it is not probable
with the immediate financial prospect.
That part Of the ordinance should be
changed.
1t is required of the company that it
shall build and equip with improved
motive power at least five miles of track
yearly, and ten miles the first year after
the acceptance of the ordinance, includ-
ing line to Garfield Park. The trans
fer system is maintained, though moth
ing is said about fares-a possible over
sight. which should receive attention.
Some further objections may suggest
themselves on discussion of the ordi-
nance, but, with minor amendments, it
is probable that the contract is one on
which the city and company can come
together. 1t is at least the most equita-
BILE arrangement yet suggested.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BEING jockey in England is not bad
business; it pays on an average $500 week.
BERTHA VoN HILLERN. the artist, has
become wealthy, not from her art, but
by specializing in real estate in Virginia.
JOHN DILLON. the famous Irish agitator,
has brother who is an obscure lawyer In
O little country town near Denver. He is
a graduate of the University of Dublin.
JEAN INGELow, who is fifty years old.
lives in retirement with her mother at
Kensing ton, England. She writes but lit
tie. and devotes much OF her time and in
come to charitable works.
Mr. PAUL DU CHAILLU is thorough
American. having been born in Louisiana.
and not In France, as is commonly sup
posed. He is bald and over fifty, but is
still as gay and agile as boy.
Mr. f. w. FAY. the new professor of
Greek, Latin and Sanskrit in the University
of Michigan, is only twenty -six years old
He graduated with high honors from Johns
Hopkins University, where he received the
degree of Phi. ID.
AS e rule the g. A. Il. men are abstemi-
Gus. The Boston saloon-keepers who put
IN a big stock of liquors for the encamp-
ment week, expecting a big trade. were
disappointed. Their sales for the week,
it is SAID, were not above the average.
Mrs. ELLEN BRowN, of Saco. Me-. al
though not yet seventy-five years of age,
has seen seven generations of her family.
The seventh Is represented by q three
months-oid child, to whose grandfather
and grandmother Mrs. Brown is o great
aunt
MRS. LIvERMORE says that her husband
is Republican. while she is Prohibi-
ZIONIST. he rs protectionist. while she is a
free-trader; he has a pew in one church and
she in another: he has one doctor, she an
other; and yet they are happy and har-
monious, and never dream of quarreling.
WHAT do you think of trees $50 feet
highip Fred G.. Plummer, civil engineer.
asked an Olympia tWash.l Tribune re-
porter. "They are to be found that high in
the unsurveyed townships near the foot of
Mount Tacoma. and what 10 more. l have
seen them and made an Instrumental meas
uremeut Of uumbex with that result
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

Mr.. ENLoE's war-claims omnibus bill,
which he has been working all the ses-
sion to get through the House, did not
pass the other day, as has been asserted,
in its original form, but with a proviso
that no one of the claims should be paid
which is not approved by the Court of
Claims and the Attorney general. Mr..
Enloe was mad. and several lobbyists.
who saw the significance of the amend
ment, muttered imprecatiops on Mr..
Thomas, of the claims committee, who
killed 250 of $40 claims by the amend
ment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-01

FTAnkfOrt NeWS
Claude Matthews, the so-called farmer
Secretary of State, never did days work
on the farm in his life--never raised q
Gallons with hoe handle or lifted plow
at furrow turn. After good time in col
lege he married rich woman and settled
the outskirts of Clinton, Vermllion county.
Here he has lived In luxury for years. en-
pertaining royalty his many city visitors
and introducing the latest "fads'' to the
natives. When Claude Matthews. 'the
farmer is mentioned the first thought
suggested to the average farmer is a shady
porch. big armchair and ringlets of
smoke from a Havana cigar. He is great
lover of blooded horses and is better quail
fed TO select a colt that has speed in il than
stand. The chickens don't roost on his
wheat drill because he keeps hired man
to .'shoon them off.
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South Carolina. their attention is in
yited to an interview in Sundays issue
with Mr.. E. S. Morgan, of the Greenville
Is. Co. News, who was in this city the
past week. He speaks frankly on the
subject. evidently assuming that in the
North the suppression os suffrage and
the intimidation, and even the killing of
negroes, are regarded in the nature of a
pleasantly. In answer to question
relative to the organization of the armed
Democratic clubs, Mr.. Morgan said:
That happened away back in 1874 or 1915.
The negroes had possession of the State,
and had passed kind of State constabu-
larry law, under which they often abused
were formed what were called the Red
Shirts" and the ''Shotguns," two organiZa-
tIons having similar purpose. When we
heard of negro getting ready to annoy
we would-well. we would lose the boy in
the swamp. He would take to the woods
and-well, get lost. Our plan was so sue
cessful that the idea occurred to us why
not organize the whole State that way and
carry the State at the coming election. 1t
was done. and the negroes were either
driven from the polls or counted out 1t
made no difference; we didn't intend to be
ruled by negroes any longer. We have
taught them by this time. to keep out of
politics.
This fippancy seems rather out of
place In connection with the deliberate
murder of American citizens for no other
cause than a desire to exercise the right
to vote; but it does not seem to strike
the South Carolinian as being cruel or
wrong. Mr.. Morgan was in this city as
a representative of South Carolina to
the Supreme Cammandery of the Knights
of the Golden Rule, which is evidently
suspended when that gentleman and his
friends turn out to "lose boy in the
swamp