Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-12
ANOTHER LETTER.
Louis" Has Some More Hard
Questions and Deep Secrets.
He is Afraid That Some of the Boys
Win Turn Their Backs on
Buchanan and Weaver.
To the Tobacco Leaf ,nronlcle.

10 bne TOBACCO Leaf chronicle.
CLARKsvILLE, September 9.-Dear
Buck: No; | can't find out how my
letter to you got into the LEAF
CHRONICLE. thought, perhaps, the
pOstoffice folks had something 10 do
with it, but after few moments re-
Election knew they would not, for
they are all Republicans and we are
sorter running with them this time.
How do you think twill work? Are
you sure you can get enough votes
| from the Democrats to elect Win
kstead? The Democrats down here
say you will not get a corporaPs
guard in the State. We must not fail.
OF course you don't expect to be
elected, but that don't make any diff
ference, you have gotten all the glory
out of the thing there is in it for you,
and you have made almost rs much
money out of it in two years as any
Governor since the war made in four,
and you will be even anyhow, pro-
vided you can succeed in electing
Winstead governor. They are put
ting some pretty hard questions to us
down here now, and they are danger
GUS questions.
You know we all claim to be JEFF
fersonian Democrats? Well, they ask
us who we are going to vote for for
president, and we are forced to say,
"for Weaver" Then they ask,
"Who for Congress? and we answer,
"for any one to beat Washington"
Then they. ask: Who for Repre-
sentative and Senator" aFand we say
for Ledbetter, and slaughter. They
ask us then why.we are.going to vote
against Cleveland, and we answer be-
cause he amt with us on free silver
and then they say, "Well, Washing
ton is for free silver, why do you
vote against him ?" And / tell you,
Buck, man can't retain his selfre-
spect and double deal in this way. l
am in favor of coming right out and
acknowledging the corn, and saying,
"Yes, we are for the Third party,
and we want to bust the Democratic
party into pieces, and if necessary to
do so elect the Republicans" There
is no use trying'to hide itany longer,
we might as we'll come out, we are
not going to fool any more fellows,
we have got as many, and think
more now than we can hold.
We are. for Mcdowell for the U. s.
Senate, and everybody knows he is
no Democrat, for he says so himself.
l think John will run for Congress;
he had us to endorse him for the
place. Really, Buck, l think thisis car
rying the thing too far. Of course he
stands no earthly show to be elected,
and there is no use making the thing
ridiculous. The idea of John Allen
in Congress is enough to make a
clown ashamed of himself. Buck, it
is carrying it too far. The whole in
dependent movement will bust wide
open in twenty-four hours after John
publishes his announcement, and
just as sure as you live he will run.
He has got his head set that way and
ii is thing too hard to be changed by
an appeal to reason. OF course you
know Slaughter is an independent
candidate for the Senate. He is
good one. He had just as soon start
from one post as another. When
the flag drops he runs the way his
head happens to be turned just at the
moment, and he runs as fast as he
can whether he stays on the main
track or gets out into the bushes.
Dick is still running. There are not
two political ponies in the State better
matched than Dick and Slaughter.
They are both possessed OF will; they
choose their own roads, kick the
harness all to pieces whenever they
feel like it, and both have plenty OF
wind. Dicks wind is little strong
er, but the supply is not quite so
good as Slaughter's. Have you read
Slaughter's platform You ought to
see it. Every man can stand ON it,
and if not, he has some planks left,
already tongued and grooved to be
inserted whenever he finds a man
that is not satisfied.
Can't you hurry the election up?
Every time the sun rises and sets we
lose. The old Democrats-the men
who fought in the war and who have
worked in peace for the South, for
the homes of the South and all these
Southern folks hold dear are hesitat-
ing and many are going back to their
first love.
They say: "We think Buck
ought to have been nomi-
naied by the Democrats, but
since he was rot, we guess we had
better stand by the party that stood
by us, by our homes and by our
wives and children; we cannot desert
our Southland at this hour of trouble;
We cannot follow men led by