Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-22
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Stick to the Party.

Senator Harris has written letter
to Col. VIM. FL. Carroll, chairman of
Democratic Executive Committee, in
which he reviews the political situa-
tion in the State and nation. AS an
excuse for writing the letter, the SEN
ator says he will be absent from the
State for several weeks and will not
before the expiration of that period
take an active part in the campaign.
When he returns, however, he will
enter the canvass with his whole
energy. Before going, however, he
wishes to say that in his opin-
ion no political contest has been
fraught with more important conse,
quences to the country than the one
now pending. Herecognizes the bat
tie as being between Democrats and
Republicans, that Grover Cleveland
or Benjamin Harrison will be the
next President of the United States,
and that Turney or Winstead will be
the next Governor Of Tennessee. This
success of the Republicans means the
force bill under which Federal bay
onets will hereafter control all State
elections. 1t means the perpetuation
of the highest OF high protective
tariffs, under which hundreds of mil
lions Of dollars are annually transfer
red from the earnings of sixty-five
millions of people to the pockets of Il
small number Of capitalists, who own
manufactures. Senator Harris al
ludes to other wrongs that have been
heaped upon our people by the Re-
publican party, but il is unnecessary
to mention them in detail here.
Enough has been said already to
show people how they should vote in
the coming election. The force bill
of itself is an issue of more vital i'm
portance to the people of the South
at the present than anything else
which the Republican party is en-
deavoring to fasten upon them.
Should the Republicans succeed in
passing this infamous measure the
people OF the South would have their
hands tied 50 hard that they could do
nothing but stand by and witness
the delight of greedy Republican
office-seekers and race agitators as
they grew fat off the earnings of q
tax-ridden, overburdened people.
The Third party shriekers who say
there is nothing in the force bin
scare are either too ignorant to COM
prehend the true meaning of the
iniquity or they have forgotten that
truth is still virtue. There is sure
ly something in it. 1t is a rope that
will bind the people of the South in
such strong embrace that nothing
less than the blade of an Alexander
could liberate them, and every man
who votes Third party, buchanan
or East ticket furnishes one stran for
that rope. The tariff issue is nothing
new to the people. They have been
ground so hard and so long to the
earth by high protective tariff that
they know exactly what it means.
II means that the hard earned money
of the producer is taken from him by
a greedy hand and dumped into the
Golfers of millionaires. The tariff
protects such men as Andrew Carne-
gle, while his Gatlin guns and Pink
erton thugs protect him from the
wrath of people he has robbed under
the Mckinley tariff law. The Re-
publican party is responsible for all
the ills of which the people complain
and with its downfall relief Will come.
Instead of running off after strange
gods that have been set up by the
Republicans to split the Democratic
party In the South, the voter who
wants his burdens lightened should
cling to the party of the people-the
one founded by the immortal Jefler-
son.