The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-08-07

CATION was suppressed. 1t never 1ounu /
its way to the members OF the conVen-
| ton. Now it is significant fact that
Mcdowell, President OF the Farmers /
Alliance of Tennessee, Hall, President
| OF the Farmers Alliance OF Missouri
and McGrath, President OF the Farm
| ers' Alliance of Kansas, were all MEM
| befs of the committee and heard the
testimony that was offered in the case.
Aside from this they all know Macune
personally and have had an opportuni-
| ty of weighing him and forming cor
rect Judgment as to his character. Mr..
| Hall recently, in a public speech, openly
| and without reservation denounced
Macune as a scoundrel. McGrath i'm
mediately afterwards, through the pub
| lie press, indorsed what Hall said and
proclaimed to the world that Macune
was ScOundrel without mitigating
| circumstance.
Mcdowell, while he does not use an
epithet in his letter to McAllister dated
March 81, 1891, now familiar to the pub
| lie, details the facts connected with
Macune's record. do not hesitate to
! say that if Mcdowell is to be believed
Macune is an unmitigated knave and
| imposter. Applause. Nor is this all.
There recently convened at Fort Worth,
Tex, a convention of farmers composed |
| exclusively of Alliance men, who de-
nounced the sub-treasury and land loan
schemes. This was large and repre-
sentative body of genuine farmers dis
tinguished for their patriotism and un-
selfish purpose to deliver their order |
| from the domination of corrupt and
INSCRIPTIONS political charlatanS. This |
convention adopted a platform of prin-
ciples as remarkable for comprehen-
siVeness as for its true Democratic ring.
Applause.
These farmers, in convention assem-
bled, sOlemnly "Resolved, that we de-
nounce @. w. Macune and his corrupt |
methods, together with the acts of his |
tools and henchmen, as being a dis |
grace to the order and stencil in the
nostrils of all honest men who know OF
| their corruption and Villainy, and thus |
! point out to the order that by continu- |
| ing such men as these IN power they are |
enabled, by betraying US and our inter |
ests, to most effectually chain US TO the |
Judgment car of monopoly" lGreat |
Applause. Was there ever such an ar |
raigunent of a man who pretends to be |
| IA guide to the people? This is the father |
of the subtreasury scheme. This is the |
editor of the Economist, newspaper to |
which the farmers of Tennessee are |
taught to look for political wisdom. |
And Ben Terrill, the disciple and man |
Friday of Macune, has been perambu-
| lating over Tennessee addressing |
| numerous audiences and playing the |
role of braggart, and who contemporary |
| speaks of Senator Bate as the doughty |
| General"
These are the worthless who drive |
Isham q. Harris and VIM. B. Bate to |
the "brush," and who strike such terror |
| into the hearts of Democrats that none |
| but political 'jackass and cats-paw" |
would dare to come out from under COW |
or and fOolIshly put himself in the way |
of these reformers and political teach |
ers of the people as they sweep like a |
| tornado over the State made illustrious |
in the annals of American history, by |
| Andrew Jackson. [Applause.l
| FellOw-citizens, the tlmr has come for |
| honest speech and courageous action in |
| dealing with these mountebanks, who |
| taking advantage of the desperation to |
which the farmers have been driven, by |
| the class legislation enacted by the Re- |
publican party, are attempting to drive |
| them into unknown seas, where ship |
| wreck and disaster await them. So far |
as 1 am concerned do not hesitate to |
| say that, if these men are to be accepted ]
as political guides by the people of Ten
| neSS9e, L tor one prefer the retirement
of private life to public station. APP
! plause.l
| In the Northwest, Weaver, Ignatius
| DonnelIy, Pfeffer, Willetts and mon of
| their ilk advocate these schemes, and
| in order to pOpulariZe them in the North
| declare in tie platform of the third par
| ty that they favor universal woman
| suffrage, the eight hour law and the
payment to the Federal soldier the diff
| ference in value between gold and the
| greenbacks he received during the war.
| Knowing that in advocacy of such
declaration of principles as this would
| not advance these schemes in the South
| ern States, Polk, Macune, Terrill, Nc
Dowell and their ilk hypocritically
| claim to be Democrats while propagat-
| ing EQ0lr anLl-D0LnOcTdLlC bn0OEl0S Do-
| fore the Southern people.
| It all means nothing more or less than
! third party movement in the South,
| the displacement of the Democracy and
the ascension to power of q lot of pOlitl-
cal quacks. 1t means that such men as
| Harris, Bate, Marks, House, Porter and
| host of other honorable mon and tried
and true Democrats, shall be relegated
| to the rear and the political fortunes of
| Tennessee entrusted to the keeping of
such men as John ii. Mcdowell. [Ap-
plause.
FeIlow-citizens, before concluding
these remarks, let me call your alton
tion to the fact, which you all know,
| that the Democratic party Is the last
| and only hope of the Southern people
for prosperity and for equal and honor
able recognition in the American Union.
1t is a great national party, composed
of white men, the defendants of ReVo-
lutionary fathers, and trlumphantly OK,
tending its banner into every State and
every section. It not only stands fast
| by the people in their struggle against
class legislation and for an equal chance
| in life for all, but it stands for more; it
stands for white supremacy and for an
honorable recognition of the achieve
ments of every brave American soldier,
nc matter whether he fought with his
face turned towards the North or toward
I Recently l saw two pictures. One
represented monument to Gen. Grant,
and in front of it sat a Federal veteran
4 Well dressed, we'll kept, rotund of per-
son, stalwart of frame, with forgive
| ness in his eye, he was the very per-
| sonificaticn of generous manhood. By
him sat an old Confederate Veter-
! an, lean, unkempt, with look
I of expectancy. in his face, re-
n gretful and in the attitude of receiving
forgiveness. The picture was as re-
markable for that which was absent as
| for that which was present. 1t plainly
taught to the eye that the Confederate
veteran had turned his back on all the
glorious memories of the past, and was
: in the act of receiving forgiveness,
. | while he was transferring his affections
to the idol of the Federal soldier. This,
nv countrymen, is the idea which the
Republican party has of a restored and
perfect union. Applause.
In the other picture there appeared
two monuments which Lifted the sta
tues resting on them towards the skies.
| On one stood the statues of Grant, OF
| sherman and of Sheridan. On the
other stood the statues of Lee, OF Jack
son and of Johnston. Between these
monuments stood Columbia, the geniHs
1 of American liberty, entwining con-
2 tinuous chain of flowers and immortel-
: les around the heroes OF both armies.
, This, my countryman, is the Demo-
} cratic idea of perfectly restored union.
} Who in the South would not be Demo
crat9 TCheerS and applause