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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-06-12
THE sUB-TREAsURY SCHEME.
Hon. Josiah Patterson, Of Memphis
talks TO the Farmers.
h CAREFUL ANALYSIS or
ITS PROFESSIONS.
The Injustice it WOWLd WOrE to
AOricWJtuFdLiStS.

Recently there have appeared in
many Tennessee papers urgent APP
peals to Democratic leaders of the
State to define their positions rel
alive to the sub-treasury scheme.
The Alliance journals and Presi-
dent John II. Mcdowell, Of the or
der, have been accusing the Demo-
cratic leaders of timidity and lack
Of courage to speak out. A Mem
phis Appeal-Avalanche reporter
called upon Congressman-elect Jo-
siah Patterson for the purpose Of Sc
curing an expression Of his views.
"In view of the discussion now
going ON over the sub-treasury
scheme, have you any objection to
giving the public your views on the
subject"
"Not in the least. | am one of
the servants of the people, and they
have the right to know my views
on public questions in which they
feel an interest. 1t is well known
that l am one Of those who believe
that agriculture, the greatest of all
interests, and the one on which
the prosperity Of all others is bas-
ed, has grievously suffered at the
hands of the General Government.
| am in full sympathy with the
farmers in their efforts to secure re-
dress of their grievances, and stand
ready to cooperate with them in
effecting such legislation as will
bring to them relief and better their
condition. [ have at all times con-
graduated them on the interest they
are taking in public affairs, and have
frequently expressed the opinion
that the Alliance, properly directed
by intelligent and patriotic men
would accomplish great good fol
the country. lam disposed in the
discussion of any measure advan.
ced by the farmer to treat it only
fairly, but with disposition to sup
portit if can dosowith a conscious
ness of doing my duty to them ant
to others.
" In what [ may say in answer t.
: your inquiry, | shall not attemp
to confuse the subject with an ar
gument on the constitutionality O
the law, or by any resort to tech
nical or legal reasoning, / shall dea
with it from the standpoint of tn
farmer himself, and shall determin
whether the general veal will b
promoted by the passage of such
measure"
els the Vance bill not the on
, preferred by the friends of tn
measured"
81 think not The Picker bil
. is the one with which the public
. most familiar. However, L hav
here a copy of the Vance bill, an
if you will compare the two yo
will find that they are in all re
t spects the same, except that III
A der the Picker bill the people i
$ the respective counties in whic
: the sub-treasuries are establishe
: elect the managers, whereas unde
S the Vance bill they are appointe
: by the Secretary of the Treasury
d Washington. The Vance bill ha
J. recently become the favorite bC
: cause this feature Of the Pickle
g bill is thought to be unconstitl
; tional.
: "In the outset | will say in gen
i eral terms that l can not see m
: way to support the measure. M
IS reasons are several and L will 81,
y them in their order:
+ "(D | see no practical good
) the farmers, or rather the class
farmers it is intended to benef
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-06-12

Let us look at it from their stand
point Themeasureis only intend
ed for the relief of the farmers
engaged in the production of five
agricultural staples, to wit: Cotton,
wheat, corn, oats, and tobacco No
county is to have a sub-treasury
unless it shall appear from evidence
supported by the oath of the coun-
ty court clerk and sheriff, showing
the average gross amount per an
mum of cotton, wheat, corn, oats,
and tobacco produced and sold in
that county for the last two years
exceeds the sum of S500,000 at cur
rent prices Now, it does seem to
me that our farmers will know that
this, the vital and pivotal provision
of the bill has no practical applica-
ton to them. 1t was evidently
conceived in the brain of men who
have monopolized the lands of the
West and who are engaged in the
production of grain on a large
scale. Senator George, for whose
talents and patriotism | have the
highest respect, is now engaged in
the discussion of this measure be-
fore the farmers of his State, and /
will venture the assertion, and re-
fer to the statistics for it's veri6ca-
ton, that there is scarcely a county
I'm Mississippi having a majority Of
white population which under the
act would be entitled to a sub-treas.
ury. The act would only apply tC
the black counties engaged in the
production of cotton, and it is wei
known that the planters in these
counties, in nine cases out of ten
make their crops on a credit anC
on shares. How the merchant
who advances the money, the plan
ter, who owns the land, and the
: cropper, who furnishes the labor
are to adjust their accounts so as
to avail themselves of the blessing,
} of a b-treasury | will not under
take to solve. | have studied thi
question as far as Tennessee is con
cerned and can speak with NOR,
: accuracy in respect to my owl
State. AS the census of 1890 ha
: not been published, [ have takel
7 my data from the census of 1886
: Those acquainted with agriculture
: in Tennessee will concur with M
| in saying that the products of tn
farm in 1880 and 1890 are not ma
} terially different from the statist
ical point Of view. There are nine
: ty-six counties in Tennessee.
{ have made the examination, an
: the census of 1880 shows that tn
! estimated value Of all farm pre-
e auctions sold, consumedor on hand
e in each of thefOllowingnamedcou l
e ties was less than 100000 to wit:
n Anderson, Granger, Monroe,
Benton, Grundy, Moore,
Bledsoe, Hamblen, Morgan,
Y Blount, Hamilton, 0verton,
e Bradley, Hancock, Perry,
Campbell, Houston, Polk,
II Cannon, jackson, Putnam,
e Garter, James, Rhea,
Cheatham, Jefferson, Scott,
. Claiborne, Johnson, Sequatchie.
q Clay, Lake, SEWER,
u Cooke, Lawrence, Trousdale,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-06-12

IT is noticeable fact that near
ly, if not all, the Republican papers
in the State are for the sub-treasury
scheme. Why? Not because it
will do the farmer any good. Not
because it will benefit the country.
Not because it is a good measure.
Why, then? Because they hope
to disrupt the Democratic party by
pandering to the measures adopted
by the third party. Democratic
members of the Alliance should re.
member this Milan Exchange.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-06-12

THERE need be no fear Of the
Southern Alliance going over to
the Peoples party, for a few planks
in its platform that they could not
swallow even if they had several
coats of grease. The plank advo-
eating woman suffrage and the one
proposing to pay Union soldiers
the difference between the green
backs they were paid and gold, the
Southern people, whether they are
Alliance or not, can not possibly
Union City Commercial.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-06-12

1t thus appears that fifty-four
out of ninety-six counties are alb
solutely deprived of the luxury of
a sub-treasury. 1t will further be
observed that the estimate contain
ed in the census embraces all farm
productions. Now, if you will
eliminate barley, buckwheat, rye,
flax, sorghum, clover, hay, beans,
rice, potatoes, hops, peas, peanuts,
broomcorn, and other products of
the farm from the gross produc-
tons of the remaining forty-two
counties it will be found that the
production of cotton, wheat, corn
oats, and tobacco will not. in some
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-06-12

Your Uncle Bob Coles latest
tactics, according to the Obion
Democra is a move to put Gus
Enloe's apple-dumpling in the sub
treasury. Colonel Cole neither af-
firms or denies, and his silence goes
to confirm the Democrats state
ment. Brother Mcdowell has said
too many good things about Gus.
1t would appear strange inconsist-
ency for him to go back on the
distinguished Eight district repre-
sentative now, and Bob would GER
tainly have to rely ON the combi-
nation support. But Brother Nc
Dowell is man who, when he goes
'possun, hunting, takes in every
kind Of varmint he trees, no mat
ter how it smells. GAINESVILLE To
bacco Leaf.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05

corporate management for that end would
be very lonely in Wall street. Therefore
the surprising point is to find the Tribune,
supposed to have very soft side for
Wall street capitalists, attacking it with
such vigor.
The attack also goes to the extent of in
timating that the money gained by such
means does not belong to the holder. That
may be so in strictly moral sense; but
practical enforcement of the rule would
work havoc among the millions which
adorn New York society. We should re-
gard it as an ideal effort for the Tribune
to persuade Messrs. Gould, stamford,
Huntington, Sage, Rockefeller and man y
others to give up the money they have in
their hands belonging, by this rule, to
some one else. We fear that such an ef-
fort would be foredoomed to failure.
Or will the Tribune maintain that these
are practices only to be exposed and de-
nounced when the millionaire, by reaso
of his inside position in corporate manage
ment, has the bad taste to become Demo-
cratic candidate?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
THE PEOPLES AFFAIR.

The reassembling of the Senate and the
determination of its course with regard to
the Treasury management will give point
to the remarkable theory of democratic
government propounded by party organ
Just prior to the election. 1t was to in
form the people that they have absolutely
nothing to do" with the questions before
the Senate "This is a matter" declares
the organ, ''that rests properly with the
members of the Senate and with them
alone"
There has been more than little prac-
teal enforcement of this theory in State
matters, and it has not worked well. 1t
might be well supposed that all the deal
ings between McCamant, Livesy, Boyer
and Bardsley, to say nothing of prior
Treasury administration so sacredly
guarded by the Senate, were based on the
idea that the people had nothing to do
with them 1t rested with the Treasury
officials and with them alone. 1t might
rest with them so long as they discharged
their duties honestly and efficiently, just
as the present duty rests with the Senate
if it can do its duty impartially
and fearlessly. But when the State funds
are made the material for favoritism and
the consequent loss is told by numerous
hundreds of thousands, or when in deal
ing with such a case the Senate develops
its resources of evasion or whitewash, the
people will be very likely to make up
their minds that they have something
to do with it.
No political system has yet been devised
which is not subject to the ultimate con-
troll of the fact stated by President Lin
coin, that this is q government by the peo-
pie and for the people. The organs may
forget this, but party managers cannot
afford to- They may temporarily assume
that the people have nothing to do with
the question whether official misconduct
shall be restrained, but if they act on that
principle they will find out that the peo-
pie have radically different view of the
subject.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
OUR MAIL POUCH.

Complaint About the Library.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
] had occasion on Monday to seek rare
book at the Carnegie Library. Being very
much interested in the subject reached
the Library at $40 o'clock in the morning,
and, finding the door open, entered. The
placard: ''Books given out from . A. NJ. until
P. NJ" SO seated myself to wait until
o'clock A one-armed man came up to me
and said: "We don't open up yere till
o'clock, we amt busted up yit." 1 replied:
$50 see; but suppose 1 can sit here" "f on
can't sit here till o'clock. Them's the
rules" So 1 withdrew.
Standing in the outer hall to fasten my
wrap, which 1 had thrown aside in the
Library, the man followed me out to expe-
dite my going. l said: "Do not get uneasy;
] shall go when 1 have fastened my wrap"
He replied: You needn't git so huffy: them's
the rules, and gentleman coming up the
steps, he added: "There's the Superintend-
ent: you kin talk to him. told the Superin-
tendent L had been ordered to leave the
Library because had arrived 20 minutes too
soon. He said such were the rules: that he
mad nothing to do with the making Of them,
and graciously gave me permission to re-
turn and wait until the proper hour. But.
alas, my thirst for knowledge was slaked.
and had no further use for the Library that
morning. Now, had no desire to infringe
upon the rules: but 1 think common polite
ness might be used i'll telling one of such in
fringement. Also. would it not be advisable
criminate between woman who comes to
refer to book and one who comes to idle
away her time KATHERINE VAUGHN.
ALLEGHENY, November g.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
SAID ABOUT OHIO.

ONCE more the Republicans Of Ohio may
we'll ask their brethren the country over to
doff their hats to the Buckeye State.-Cgeve-
land Leader (Rep.).
OHIO Republicans have, happily, also seen
the error of their way in electing O Demo-
cratic Governor and redeemed the State
from Observation-Disclosures Times CRep.).
NEW YORK sends greeting to Ohio! 1t con-
graduates her on her magnificent victory
a victory for Republicanism, victory for
principle, a victory that counts for the high
est development of American manhood
Bravely done, Ohio.-Ne,o York Recorder
(Rep9.
In Ohio the Republicans boldly challenged
their opponents on National issues by the
nomination of Major Mckinley, and they ap-
pear to have elected him over Governor
Campbell by a decisive majority, in spite of
the attempt to divert all the votes of the
Farmers Alliance to Campbell.-New York
Tribune (Rep.).
."THE Dutch have taken Holland" Ohio
has gone Republican once more. a. it has
done with a few exceptions ever since the
Republican party was formed. Governor
Campbell made a gallant fight, but it was
against heavy odds, and the Democrats had
more cause for fear than hope when they
saw the forces arrayed against them.-Cgeve-
land Plain Dealer (Dem.l.
THE result in Ohio is the most important
and significant Of any of the elections held
yesterday. 1t is victory for protection
and sound money and honest government.
Ohio never had a more important election
to decide than yesterdays. The State un-
derstood its full significance, and voted with
the full knowledge of the situation. The
verdict is one that cannot be mistaken or
Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
IMPROVEMENT OR MIGRATION.

Considering recent revelations as to the
sort of government which exists in Allie
gheny City it is no great wonder that the
people over there refused to vote the priv
ilege of spending million dollars OF so for
special work into the hands of the present
office-holders. The first great improve
ment which Allegheny needs is to prevent
official breaches of trust in the administra-
ton of its affairs That is even more i'm
portant just now than getting more elec-
trio lighting, street paving, water or sew
age.
But no city can. permanently stay in
darkness or in mud and retain its popula-
ton. The Alleghenians may well be ex-
cused from taking up heavy financial
burden until they get through with the in
vestigation of the scandals alleged against
their officials. When that is done, how
ever, there must be an intelligent mo We
for the comforts of modern city life, or
else Allegheny property owners will wit
ness rapid and extensive migration of
their tenants over to Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05

One of the few women in Pittsburg to be
really excited on election night was little
Miss Jane Stuart, who has made the newly
coined word "woosy" and her impersonation
of a cheeky but warm-nearted, loving and
lovely American girl outlive a great many
other things in "The SENATOR Miss Stuart
had right to be excited, for she is the
daughter of Tammany Sachem, Mr.. O'Hal-
lihan, Deputy Commissioner of Public
Works in New York City. She hurried
back to the hotel from the Duquesne
Theater after the performance of "a
Modern Match" on Tuesday night with
a. firm belief that Flower would
be elected Governor, and that her father
would telegraph the news to her. And she
was right, for the telegram came and it con-
veyed the news she " anted. No Democrat
reioiced more heartily than Miss Stuart and
it was hard to get her to talk OF her work as
an ingenue yesterday-she preferred poll
herself that ought to be recorded. She said:
Its rather hard upon me that people will
confound my personality with that of the
characters / assume. Now have had to be
a forward afraid-of-notlling-an land nobody sort
of girl in two or three plays, and even some
of the newspaper critics are beginning to In
sist that am naturally and OF my own self
forward and pert and all that sort of thing.
Well hope and believe I'm not, but it isn't
pleasant even to be suspected of it by peo-
ple YOU don't know. What I've done to the
authors and managers that makes them cast
me in such roles all the time can't say, and
/ don't care so long as I'm not held account
able for what Sue Thompson and all the other
madcap girls do"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
THE USUAI METHOD.

A striking and instructive article ap-
peared in Mondays New York Tribune.
1t is presented as sort of finishing touch
to the campaign, being condensed dis
QUESTION on the manner in which Mr. r.
p. Flower increases his large fortune
Summed up, it amounts to giving in
stances, in two of which Mr. Flower is al
legged to have bought-up corporate proper
ties cheap and owned them until he could
unload them on the public at four times
their present value; and in third case he
gobbled valuable property for song by
reason of the financial strait of the previ-
Gus owner. Consequently the Tribune
asks, with regard to Mr.. Flowers gifts to
charity, "Whose money has he been giving
away"
1t is by no means incredible that Mr..
Flowers fortune has been enhanced, if
not built up, !v just such means as this;
but the RENAL ka de feature of the article
is to find the Tribune reproving it. For it
is by just such operations as those out
lined in the attack on Mr.. Flower,
or by the kindred arts of stock-wa-
tering, construction company contracts,
or preferential notes, that the great
railway fortunes are : expanded.
The man who has not increased his for
tune by using position on the inside of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

A report was sent out yesterday that
Philadelphia had gone heavily for the
Constitutional Convention scheme. and
for a little while fears were expressed that
the light vote and general indifference
might have carried the measure. 1t was
finally discovered that the wire had re-
versed the figures, and that the Quaker
City had given $1,000 majority in favor of
the present fundamental law. This re-
moved the last element of doubt in regard
to the result.
The people of the State have rebuked
the meddlers in the most emphatic man.
ner, and there is no probability of such a
plan being again proposed for some time.
This does not mean, of course, that the
Constitution is not open to amendment,
but the changes must be made and ratified
as provided in that instrument itself, and
each proposition stand on its individual
merits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
KNOWN THE WORLD OVER.

BISHOP BROOKS is fast talker. He
breaches his sermons at the rate of 3l2 words
q minute.
LoTTA believes that "it is never too late
to mend" She is reported to be engaged to
Douglas Shirley, of Louisville.
TIMOTHY HOPKINS has shaken Boston's
dust from his clothes and is on his way to
San Francisco accompanied by his lawyer.
Mr.. ALTZyMovICH, Russian Consul at
San Francisco, George E. Dabovich and B.
NJ. Gopchevich have become involved in a
CORY three-cornered quarrel, in which pistols
and coffee are threatened.
CONGRESSMAN MILLS says that stump
ing is harder work than campaigning in the
Civil War. He probably found the political
battlefield more dangerous to his peace Of
mind than the actual fighting in the war.
PRESIDENT HARRISON father-in-law,
j. w. Scott, is on his way back from Port
Townsend, Washington. He says he likes
to live at the White House better than where
he has been. Most everybody will agree
with him on that point.
MINISTER WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS
has been so successful in having German re-
strictions taken of the importation of bacon
and corn bread that Philadelphians are said
already to be agitating concerted action on
the part of Minister Charles Emory Smith
with view of getting scrapple into st.
Petersburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
Mr.. Henrici on Election D.v.

The prospect OF crowded streets and cleo
tion disturbances did not keep Mr.. Henrici
from coming to town to transact some busi-
ness on Tuesday. But the venerable Presi-
dent of the Economy Society showed some
signs of being prepared for more arduous
labors than usual. A tall youth with smil-
ing face accompanied the gray-haired
patriarch. giving the latter his arm when he
alighted from the train in the Allegheny
station, and more wonderful still carrying
the precious black bag or sack which every
traveller on the Fort. Wayne Rail-
road knows and respecfs as the in
variable attribute of sovereignty which Mr..
Henrici carries with him whenever he goes
abroad. Nobody knows for certain what the
funereal satchel contains. One person, q
woman of course, who peeped into its inky
recesses On a day long ago,asserts that there
is nothing more awful than bottle of bone
set bitters, medicine in high favor at
Economy and very effective if nastiness goes
for anything, and a light lunch. No matter
what is in it Mr.. Henrici has never been
known to allow anyone else to carry the
black bag before.
Somebody asked Mr.. Henrici jokingly how
many times he was going to vote and the
joke grew larger when the Economy sage re-
Piled in German as is his wont generally:
'Nein,"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
A NOMINAL REPUBLIC,

The news from Brazil that Congress has
beer dissolved, martial law proclaimed,
and dictatorship established indicates
that the governing powers there have
concluded it is no longer convenient to
name Republic.
Shortly after Dom Pedro was over
thrown, and when some of the Jefferson
Bricks of American journalism were max
ing great to-do over the spread of lib
erty and popular government, THE DIS
PATCH took occasion to observe that it
was not enough to establish Republic in
name alone. If, as was the case, there
was no representative government, the
power lodged in the hands of military
Jun;a, the liberties of the subjecSs placed
at the will of military courts, and the
rights of the press and speech restricted,
there was less liberty under the so-called
Republic than under the liberal rule of
Dom Pedro, which was professedly shap-
ing the destinies for ultimate republican
rule This has been the condition of af-
fairs in Brazil for most if not all the time
since Da Fonseca displaced the old EN-
peror.
The calling of the Constitutional Con-
vention last year and the assembling of
Congress this year gave ground for hope
that Brazil was to attain gradually to con-
stitutional and representative govern
ment. Bt though the Congress was sub
servient to the military executive, it
seems that the mere presence of body
which might be a check ON absolutiOn
was too much. Unless the report from
Brazil is pure fabrication the result of
that much-vaunted republican" move
ment has been to establish there more
absolute and irresponsible tyranny than is
known anywhere else in civilization out
side of Russia.
The United States has shown in the
cases of both Chile and Brazil that it
needs to remember that there is a wide
difference between military usurpation
masquerading as Republic, and the real
freedom of genuine Republic