The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-04-08
RALLY AND MASS MEETING.
r. P. COLE ENDORSED FOR CONGRESS,
Resolutions Condemning the Attack OF
Captain Cole and the Committee.

Pursuant to a call by DR.. +. +. Porter,
chairman of the Democratic executive
committee a large crowd gathered at the
courthouse last night to take action in
regard to certain charges and kilograms
of recent date from Jackson, Tenn.
The meeting was called to order by
the chairman who first read to the com
mittee the following telegram:
JACKSON, Tenn, March 2.-[Specall- II.
p. Cole, of Paris, standing candidate for Cor
gress i'm this, the Eighth Congressional District,
against Hon. b. A. Enloe, made most miserable
failure in his recent effort to call the Congress
sional committee together in this city Thursday.
He had visited majority of the members of
the committee personally and asked themto sign
q call. The whole thing came through n junior
member of the committee, and friend OF Colonel
Cole The object of the w0uld-be sharer of the
"apple dumplngs" and his friend committeeman
was to secure the proxies OF majority of the
committee, meet in Jackson, elect friend of his
chairman of the committee and thenissue snap
call for a convention of primaries In this Mr..
Cole made miserable failure. AS it is major
ity ofthe committee favor the reelection of Hon.
b. A. Enloe, who is at Washington and who has
not canvassed the district, and they refused to
sign the call Colonel Cole is considered to be
McDowell's candidate, who said he would stump
the district against Enloe. He attends all the
Alliance meetings and is now said to be painfully
silent on Ocalaism, which he denounced last sum-
mer.-
He then said: 81 know the above
statements as to the action of the COM
mittee and Captain Cole are false, and 1
have called you together that the facts
can be made known to you and you can
take such action as such gross efforts to
prejudice the people deserve. Mr.. o.
G. Barton, the committeeman from this
county, is present and ask him to state
what action has been taken so that you
can see how outrageously unjust this tel
egram is" Mr.. Barton then said that
when he was appointed on the commit
tee Mr.. Lamb, the chairman, retired ;
that this left the Congressional commit
tee without any organization. He about
the 4th OF 9TH of March addressed the
committeeman from the other counties
q letter stating the fact and asking them
to sign call for committee meeting at
Jackson, Tenn, March "a. He request
ed immediate replies so he could give
ample publication of the call. He did
not write to Mr.. Scott, of Lexington, or
Mr.. Cherry, of Savannah, but requested
Captain Cole to see them as he was go
ing to their respective towns. The call
was signed by Judge Whitwell, Messrs.
Edwards, England, Cherry, Gillespie,
and himself. 1t was not returned by
some of them in time to make the pub
LEGATION aud two of the committee offer
ed some objections to the meeting be-
cause of personal engagements. He said
81 therefore did not publish the call but
wrote those signing asking them to con.
sent to another date just after the meet.
ing ofthe Republican Congressional con.
vention. There was no secrecy about
the matter my letters were plain open
letters asking replies so as to give pub
LEGATION. | had no desire to promote the
personal fortunes of anyone [ am the
personal friend of both the candidates
I only sought the organization of the
party and think 1 was right in doing so
The watchword of the hour is to organ
ize, and / together with the above named
committeeman were endeayoring to de
so. The time for holding primaries wa,
but little discussed by myself and Cap
tain Cole and he always said any actor
of the committee would suit him. TIL,
charges from Jackson to Memphis ant
Nashville papers, that any one sought tt
call q snap convention OF primary is falls,
In every particular"
Mr.. Barton further said that for rim,
years he had stood by Enloe for Con
gress-had spent more money and work
ed harder for him, than he ever did TO-
any one, and while he is not for him nov
he would under no circumstances do hin
an act of injustice OF permit others to d,
SO.
At the conclusion of his remarks Mr.
r. M. Blakemore was appointed secre
tary and on motion of Hon. A. B. LamI
the following committee was appointed
on resolutions viz: \, B. Lamb, Col. N
Y. Cayitt, I. L. Fryer, M. H. Freeman
and J. J. Head, the committee retire.
and soon brought in the following reso
lutions:
Resolved, That we, the Democrats of Paris an
Henry County, in mass meeting assembled, here
by endorse the action of 0. G. Barton, Thoma
Whitwell, John Il. England, Edgar Cherry, W
II. II. Gillespie, and John r. Edwards in tryin