Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-01
is CENT PER WEEK.
W. W. BARKsDALE. PROPRIETOR.


last Saturday to an audience of sew
eral hundred citizens. The attention
paid him was earnest and respectful
throughout. The questions he discuss
ed were felt to be and are Of the great
est CONSCIENCE to our tax payers and
voters, and the speaker himself was
temperate in what he said and made
strong presentation Of his cause.
One noticeable thing in Mr.. Ter
rell's speech was the decided change
in his position since his address here
last summer. Then he announced,
replying to Mr.. Washington, that ne
was a Democrat, and when the
National Democratic Convention
met and spoke in 1892 he would
stand on its platform and support its
nominees. He urged Mr.. Washing
ton to make the same promise, and
when Mr.. Washington, as it was
thought, hesitated considerable ap
plause was bestowed by the Alliance
people on Mr.. Terrell. Last Satur-
day Mr.. Terrell spoke from a differ
ent political standpoint and with a
different purpose. He came fresh
from st. Louis, holding in his hand
the platform of the st. Louis conven-
ton, declaring that if the next
National Democratic Convention
adopted that platform he and the
members of his order would vote
with the Democrats; otherwise they
would put ticket in the field at the
Omaha con vention, which has al
ready been called to meet July and
would support the third party ticket.
Mr.. Terrell and his hearers, OF
course, well know that the National
Democratic Convention could not
and would not adopt the st. Louis
platform, therefore he stood before
his audience as the distinct advocate
of a third party, presenting the
claims of that party to our people,
urging them to forsake the Demo-
cratic ranks and enlist under the
banner of the new organization. In.
deed the very platform which Mr..
Terrell held up and advocated de-
nounced the Democratic party as cor
rupt and declared it did not intend
reform, and Mr.. Terrell himself, but
two days before he came to Clalks-
Vile, had at st. Louis signed call
to the voters of the country to meet
in their various Congressional dis
tricts, on the last Saturday in March,
and name delegates to The Omaha
convention, which was to put pres
idential ticket in the field.
The avowed purpose of Mr.. Ter
rell's tour through the South, then,
is the organization Of a third party,
and he carries with him the plat
form of that party, presenting it in
the most adroit way, so that all men
may determine whether or no they
endorse its principles and are willing
to be enrolled in its ranks.
This call fixes the basis Ofrepresen'
tation in each State at four delegates
from each Congressional district and
eight from the State at large, and
concludes by saying: "We call upon
all citizens of the United States tc
help us make our principles trium'
plant"
This is serious matter. The
LEAF.CHRoNICLE has been making
a square, honest fight for free silver
and sound Democratic principles as
handed down by Jefferson and Jack
son, and have supposed that the
great body of the Farmers Alliance
was with us. Before our friends
leave us and join this new party
which was born at st. Louis las
week, we wish to call their attention
to some of the demands in the plat
form of the so,called Peoples party
Section II says: 1--WE demand
that the government issue legal ten
der notes and pay the Union soldier
the difference between the price of thu
deprecated money, in which the.
were paid, and gold"
How do old Southern soldiers
Southern people generally and tax
burdened farmers like that? w
have been taking our hard earning
for the last twenty-five years aI'
paying large sums in pensions to tn
men who fought against us. Las
year this pension grabbing amount
ed to 1920, 100000, which was ia.
of more than $40 on every voter il
the country. We of the South hav
protested and fought against it, am
even Gen. Grant said when he wa
President, that it was an outrage
He said disabled Union soldier
ought to be pensioned, but that $25
100000 a year was enough for tina
purpose. Many of the disabled sol
diers are dead, and the $4,000, 90
year has grown to $l20, 100000 an
is still increasing. Now comes thi
new political party which our peopl
are asked to join, and demands tina