Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-30

crowd in the building. By permits
sion of Chairman Bob, we did all the
following and stubbornly refused TO
eat any crow until the thing was
over. Our man German declined to
enter the contest, and rather than
miss we put in for Hill, Boies, Wat
terson and Bourke Cochran. Leech
in the meantime was battered in the
pit among the Tennessee fighting
cocks, ready for the fray and looked
lonesome and tired, aud OF course
missed all of the fun we fellows were
having in the gallery.t The Tennes-
scans put forward Editor Ochs of the
Chattanooga Times to second. Mr..
Cleveland's nomination. Ochs mount
ed,the stand with great deal of stiff
fleming in his spinal column and fired
off some sky-scraping platitudes
about like he would write in describ-
ing Lookout Mountain. This was all
the great audience could stand. Some
fellow exclaimed: "Oh, he's one of
them dam temporary speakers, "and
instantly the pararie dogs set up &
tumultuous howl and Brother Ochs
had to come down with that speech
broken off in him. He commenced
at the wrong end; had he fired off
the latter part first, he might have
headed off Bourke Cochran and
brought Tennessee to the front, as
Jim Mckenzie did for Kentucky.
Leech could have done much better,
but he got up too soon and wanted to
retire early. He never did discover
that he was in Chicago. He would
insist on calling for dinner at lunch
time, and supper for the dinner hour.
People live all night in Chicago.
Henry WattersOn got all of the
glory he wanted out of the platform
when he mounted the stand to
speak for Mr.. Meals minority
report, denouncing the tariff
as a fraud and declaring
for tariff for revenue only. He char.
acterized the majority report as a
stump speech, eight years back, and
declared that from the reading Of
that document he could not tell
whether he was in Democratic or
Republican convention. The crowd
yelled for Watterson. Brother Jones
was paralyzed. Manager Villas hus-
tied to the front declaring "them"
had always been his sentiments, and
he was willing to the amendment,
which the convention carried with a
WhoOp.
A big, jolly Dutchman sat in our
rear, who took delight in stealing OFF
our convention hat, making it do
duty when it came his time to wave
and hollow for Cleveland. We finally
had to tell him in plain words that
the act was unconstitutional, and no
good Democrat would be guilty of
such a Vii as notification that no
mugwump or goldhug had ever
lived under that hat, and repetition
of the act would insure certain defeat
for his man, and he let up.
The convention did not go off just
as we desired and intended, and it is
useless now to enter into the details
of reasons explaining why it did not.
The fact is, the great body was COM
posed principally of field marshals,
generals, licutenauls, and captains,
who had the Dutch well in hand, and
there was no use in arguing with
such fellows, and we gave it up as a
hard job, preferring to take our
crow gracefully, and having never
split ticket, kicked the nominee or
bOltcd convention, we accept the
work of the convention as the best
that could be done under the circum-
stances, and believe that all good
Democrats will join in with
hearty enthusiasm to elect the ticket,
anh. this is just what the country is
gOingto do.
Contrasting the Cleveland admin
istration with that of Harrison, there
IS but one choice for people who de-
ksire good government, and that is
Cleveland. The tariff and currency
planhs in the platform are not all
that could be desired by the South.
They are mixed and motley, mean-
ing everything and nothing. Mr.
Cleveland will doubtless place plain
construction on the conglomeration
of both in his letter Of acceptance,
and that the party will go to battle
on. 1t is already apparent that Mr..
Cleveland has learned something
from experience, and will give the
New York Democracy, Hill includ-
ed, such reasonable assurances as will
unite the warning factions and give
great inspiration to the campaign in
the Empire State. He knows he
can't afford to take any risk on los
ing New York, and will certainly
mako terms with Tammany, and
now that Harrison is kicking the
Blaine followers out of the 9Republi-
can party, Democratic victory is
strong in the breeze,