Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-04
It Will Never Win.


There have been some .develop-
ments in the local political field
within the last few days that are as
amusing as they are contemplate.
1t all comes from the fusion of the
Republicans and populites. The
leaders have had their heads TO.
gether and have dropped on to plan
by which they hope to throw the De-
mocrats off their guard and capture
the county for the fusion ticket. AT
the dead hours OF night the leaders
of both these fusion parties have had
their heads together and have con-
cocted this scheme. II is silly thing,
and its projectors would give the
earth il it had never seen the lig It OF
day, no doubt. The populites are
having tickets printed in GAINESVILLE.
This ticket has the names of all the
presidential electors on it, but from
there down Buchanan and the fusion
candidates occupy all the space.
They have been trying TO lead the
Democrats TO believe that this is the
only ticket they will have here, but
this is all too thin. Republican tick
cts have been printed in Nashville,
and when Montgomery county is
reached in the list JnO. Allen is
named for Congress, Squire Slaugh-
ter for the Senate, II. Ledbetter for
Representative and j. n. Black!ord
for Floater. The names OF all the Re-
publican electors appear over these,
together with that OF Geo. w. Win
stead for Governor. This is the ticket
that will he worked for oil ii is worth
here next Tuesday, and Democratic
workers at the polls are hereby warn
ed to look out for them. They will
be thick, and Populite and Republi-
can leaders, one common gang, will
be manipulating them. That "Inde-
pendent Democratic" ticket was a
nice blind, but it won't work. De-
mocrats are too wide awake for any
thing of that kind. The wonder is
that any sane man would have at
tempted to work it. They made it a
point to 60 around and publicly
compare this ticket with the straight
Democratic ticket TO see, as they
said, If it was all right. OF course
this was little piece of cam
paign humor for a Democrat to see
through and have little fun over.
But, there is a serious side to the
move. 1t shows that there are
men in the county who have aired
themselves as simon pure Demo
Gratis, who are now doing all they
can to give the reins OF the govern
ment into the hands of the Rcpubli-
cans. They are attempting to fasten
around the people o! this county that
colossal iniquity known rs the force
bill, and they will use all their efforts
to succeed. They publicly declare
that Winstead will be the next Gov
ernor, and seem to gloat over the
prospect. They no longer claim that
Buchanan will be elected, and will
hardly discuss the matter along this
line now, Notwithstanding the fact
that only few weeks ago they de
clared all over this State that
Buchanan would be the next Govern
or. They propose now to drive the
negroes Of the city and county up to
the ballot box and vote them like so
many dumb cattle. They propose to
do this under the walls OF the city
they have chosen as their home.
They propose to do this in county
whose citizens are proud Of the
names Of its illustricuS sons who have
crossed the last river, having to their
posterity histories It. 'Jc i3"n"rtal-
" carved on the scrol, Of memory.
Can they turn this county over to
Republican rule? Can they, by COM
bining with the rotten Republican
element OF the county, defeat the
popular will of the white element {?
Can they, we ask again, do this? We
are far from believing it. The men
of this county and city have not for
gotten their duty. They will go to
the polls on Tuesday morning TO
WIN. and they will via 1t is fight
for principle, and chat knowledge
will spur them on TO victory. No
scheme Matched by Republicans and
populites at the dead hours of night