Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-30
A BIT OF POLITICS.
The Campaign in Tennessee Has
= Now Begun,
And Will Go Bravely On to What the
Rural Editor and Stump Orator
Gall the "Ides Of November"

the country over has been oDscureu
by labor troubles for the past two
months. The two great political con-
ventions had hardly finished their
work before the stike begu- at Home
stead and was followed by similar
disturbances in all sections OF the
Union, eliminating in the miners
uprising in Tennessee.
For time the Importance OF Har-
rison and Cleveland was altogether
sec ndary. Mr.. Frick and Hugh
O'Donnell held the public eye, and
the seat of war being shifted to our
own State, the men with brass but
tons have altogether eclipsed those
who display their patriotism in
stump speeches and being candidates
for Office.
But the labor riots have been every
where promptly put down, the ex-
element incident thereto is subsid-
ing and the people have returned to
a realization of the fact that this is
presidential year, with many inter-
esting local cor tests in the various
States that go to make up this great
American republic.
The awakening was demonstrated
in Tennessee by the old-fashioned
big barbecue and deluge of Demo-
cratic oratory that was poured out at
Gallatin Saturday. Old Pete was
there and talked straight democracy
to he applauding hosts, striking the
harmonizlng note of charity for all
and malice toward none" in his atti
tude toward those who have been
disposed to take up with false doc
trines and follow strange gods. Sen
ator Bate was there and "shlvered a
lance" in the right cause on his ma
tive heath. The eloquent Rhea from
Kentucky was on hand, and hie
speech was probably the best OF the
season. Benton McMillin, too, th'
most national figure N Tennessee (,
talked to his constituents, and after
the crowd had amply tested the
quality of Sumner county Southdown
and Berkshire, the inimitable Bob
Taylor held them spellbound or put
them in roars of laughter by flights
of lofty luquence, intersp. rsed with
sudden transitions 10 racy humor.
So the campaign in Tennessee has
begun, and it will 60 bravely on te
what the classic stump orator ano
able rural editor are wont to call the
sides of November"
Mr.. Winstead shot off his first gur
at Knoxville and then, like the poe
says of the triumph of truth, "ceaset
awhile" He wished to allow th'
angry war cloud to roll by, thinking
it too great tax on his powers t.
play against the superior attraction
at Coal Creek. Such was Mr.. Win
, stead's reason for quitting the, stump
but that was only subterfuge. Tn
Republican candidate is an artfu
dodger. He had appointments t
speak at many places in East Tennes
see where his Republican supporter
are largely in sympathy with tn
miners and he wished to avoid ar
swering troublesome questions. Som
inquisitive voter might have wishe
. to know what Mr.. Winstead woul
have done had he in GOV
l. Buchanan's place when the rioting b'
gan, and question like that woul
have PLACED the statesman froI
's Weakley between the devil and tt
sea.
But to return to the sides of N
= vember," or rather to the contempt
ton of what may happen then
don't mean to perpetrate the Hibe
nianism of proposing to go back
something in the future-what is g
ing to be the result? Why, judi
Turney will be triumphantly electe
of course. That Is what we Dem
Gratis, straight Democrats, all say, b
y we must avoid the danger of ov
confidence. In saying this l dor
mean to get off joke, as Whitels
Reid did in his recent speech
Springfield, Illinois. Mr.. Reid's
Junction to the Western Republics
not to be over confident was simI
y an exhibition of humor, OF cour
- but am serious when / repeat thu
words of caution to the Tennes
|. Democracy.
In the fight with the tri-cornel
neutrality-suspicious., boilers a
Prohibitionists--the Democrats Sc
to have big majority because Il
can make the most noise, all
newspapers, or nearly all, are on
side, and so are those old wh
m horses whom we are accustomed
" designate: sour leading pu|
~ men," These are good cards. III
!. constitute about all the trumps in
- deck, but trumps are beaten sol
Y times il they are not played careful
" The danger is this: In many
10 tions of Tennessee populites