The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-08-07
COL. JOSIAH PATTERSON'S
GREAT SPEECH.
Sturdy Blows at the Sub
Treasury FaIlaCy.

Sturdy Blows at the Sub
Treasury FallaCy.
Tie Straight Road to Financial Relief
Pointed Out.
Below is printed a full report of
Hon. Josiah PattersOn's great speech
at Gallatin Saturday the 18th OF July.
Fellow Citizens: When Mr.. Ben Ter
| rilI came to Tennessee TO fill II list OF
| appointments it was ostentatiously an
| nOunced that he would meet all corners
| in fnint discussion. When he came in
| to West Tennessee the Democratic EX-
ecutive Committees of the counties OF
! Dyer and Lauderdale requested me TO
meet him. With his consent ala so.
| When L went to his appointment at Dy-
ersburg called on him u pay my re-
| spects, and when was about TO leave
him, with a good deal OF protu5lon he
| aXpro Ssed the hope that We would have
| "A courteous discussion, and that per-
sonalities would DO avoided. L replied
to him that l was always courteous in
debate.
| At Dyersburg and Ripley I treated
him with marked courtesy and re-
| Trained from personal illusions to him
| and his associates, Notwithstanding
| had damaging material which L could
| have used legitimatcly. L met MIN at
| Memphis before a small audience OF
! farmers at the invitation of the Farm
| er's Alliance, and there, being guest
| of my constituents, treated nln Win
| Increased courtesy and cordially.
i called upon my newspaper friends
and requested them TO treat Mr.. TerrllI
like. a host, Notwithstanding they dlI,
| fered with him. Mr.. Terrill disarmed
| me in a measure and to such an extent
that my speech, a synopsis of which
| was published in the A Appeal-AValanche
was disappointing to my friends be-
cause of Its tameneSS. You can I'M
agine, my fellow citizens, my astonlSh-
ment when I read in The Nashville
American an interview with Mr.. Ter
rill, in which he is reported TO nave
used the following language in respect
| to me:
| "Patterson is the iackass and catspaw
| of Harris, Bate " Co. Those fellows are
too shrewd to poke their heads about
i'll the bush, and use Patterson as TOOL.
He is a daisy, too; has one set speech
ersburg he did deViate some, but with
! him it's paternalism, until everybody
gets disgusted. 1t tickled me to watch
/ him snort and caVort and dance about
| at Dyersburg. But there are shreWd
/ men in Tennessee, Harris and bate
especially, but Bate won't go back to
the Senate"
| In the meantime 1 had been invited
| by the Democratic Executive Com
| mittee of Sumner County to meet Mr..
/ TerrIlI in joint discussion to-day at
| Gallatin. On reading the interview l
Immediately wired the commute that
| would be glad to meet Mr.. Terrill, but
| that would not go to Gallatln unles
| was assured that he would keep his ap,
pointment. l was positively assured
| bV the committee that Mr.. Terrill would
| be here, and this accounts for my
| presence among you to-day. Mr. Ter
| rilI is not here, and desire to say that,
| Notwithstanding his denial of the inter
| view in The American, in card pub
| in tho Nashville Hammer, l De-
lieVe the reporter OF The American tolu
the truth. I denOunce Ben Terrlll, OF
| Texas, as a political mOuntebank ana
| braggart, unworthy or furtner cohslu-
Grafton at my hands. Prolonged ap-
/ have refused to meet John II. Nc
Dowen in Joint discussion on this or
any other occasion, and this requires
further explanation on my part.
1t is proper that l should say that Mr..
Mcdowell has never commanded my
respect or confidence since L served
with him in the Legislature OF 1855
He has recently charged that 1 was
one of what he terms the conSplratorS
who instigated the Investigation OF ms
record in Arkansas. Some Two months
ago, while attending meeting OF the
Executive Committee OF the MISSISSIPPI
| River LeVee and improvement ASSocla-
| ton at Greenville, Miss, John ii. NC
| DOwell, who had recently ODtruueU
/
Mississippi, was very generally uls-
cussed by the Mississipplans met
there.
gentlemen from kansas, and among
, others several citizens from Desha
county, who communicated to me Win
great particularity the career OF John
II. Mcdowell while residing IN ATKah,
sas. These gentlemen were introduced
| To me as men of the highest respecta-
bility; and on further inquiry in Mem
phis L learned that they were Demo,
| Gratis entitled to the fullest faith ana
confidence. This information com,
municated to number OF friends, anu
among others to E. w. CarmacK, the
editor of The American.
John II. McDowell's record in Arkan-
sas has been under discussiOn, more or
less, for several years past, and the IN.
formation which came to me was OF
such a direct and reliable character thar
1 expressed the opinion ana sugSesISu
that his career in Arkansas ought TO De
Investigated when he, tennessee
| official, holding office under a. Demo
cratic administration took 1t upon him
self to attempt the defeat OF dlstln,
4 ruished Democrats like George and
1 WaIthall for the Senate, and Thought
the time had come when Tennesseans
bought to know what manner OF man
sire to add that 1 believe that the
charges made against hiIn by The Nasn-
| Vile American are sust tined by Dem,
oerats of the highest Sredlbllcy ano
that they are substantially trues and fol
this reason i refuse to meet him IN JONI
discussion. Prolonged applause.
Fellow citizens, it would be supernu
Gus for me to say that am mere as
\ Democrat with singleness of heart and
= purpose. 1 take as the cardEnat prln
ciple of my political faith the doctrine
declared by the Farmers Alliance a.
ST. Louis IaEqual rights to all and spe
cial nrivileges to nome" Democracy
in its ultimate analysis, is simply a po
litical doctrine which is intended to So
cure to all the citizens OF common
country an equal and fair chance II
life. tApplause.l The DemocTatl'
| DartY came into existence with the Con
stitution, and it will survive all poIlu
. cal changes and organizations as Ions
| as constitutional government is main
tanned by the American people ZAP
| plause1 The Constitution was III eXls
tenee for seYenty-two years prlor 10 th'
4th of March, 1861, and during that pc
| riod the Democratic party administered
the government fifty-two years. Ihel
| there was no intermedling of the GOV
ernment with the affairs or the people
and every citizen had the right to ruf
an equal race in life according as COO
had Iiven him capacity. Then there
was no complaint of inequality III TIT
distribution of wealth, and all the Voca
tions in life equally furnished opPortu
mites for prosperity and happiness
No man. who loves his country, ant
who is a student of the environments
the American citizen can doubt that we
4 have fallen on times of unequal fortune
4 The inequality in the Distribution
wealth in the United States endanger'
the perpetuity of our free institutions
= and presents conditions OF wealth ant
4 novertv, luxury, and unrequitted labo
that were never contemplated by tn
!. founders of the Republic. As thes
: conditions never existed when th'
; Democratic party administered the gov
ernment, - must be evident to every
reflecting mind that the country cal
safely look to it to restore to the peopl
what they have lost by means of gov
10 ernmental faVoritism and class leglsla
tiOn. - .
The Democracy attributes these in
euualities in the condition of the peopl
TO several causes:
/. To a long continued protectlV
tariff system, whereby the Governmen
leYies tribute on the necesSarIes OF lif
for the support of the Government,
the relief Of wealth in all its forms,
system by which the accumulate
Wealth of the country is not only re
lieyed from taxation, but, as an Incl
q dent to the tariff, the manufacturers O
this country get tariff prices for thei
products and thereby rob the people G
their substance.
2 To the opportunities given tn
w favored and protected classes to bull
mn and maintain within the tariff wall
III trusts and combines which prevent