Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-11
FRANK BOND SPEAKS.
The Eloquent Son of Haywood
County on Political Issues.
Into Their Ears a Flood of
Democratic Truth.

hHt was a NcIy well piCdoSu crown
that left the courthouse last night
after hearing Hon. Frank P.aBond,
of Brownsville, speak on the Issues oil
the campaign. To say that Mr., Bond
captured his audience puts it but
mildly. He filled it with enthusiasm;
and cheer after cheer woulI ereet
him as he would. eloquentIy dweli Oh
the virtues OF Grover Cleveland a d
Judge Turney, and the cardinal
truths OF the Jeffersonian idea of gov
eminent.
ssMr. Bond arrived.here.on the even.
ing train from Brownsville, in
answer to an invitation from the
Young Mems Democratic Club, for
the purpose of addressing the citizens
of Clarksville. The crowd that was
present at the courthouse to greet
him was not as large as it should
have been, but what it lacked in
numbers it made up in enthusiasm
The speaker began by saying that the
Democratic party was in need of or
ganization, and if it won the fight it
must be well organized. He did not
come to abuse men who had wander
ed away, but to call them back. The
fight was between the Hamiltonian
and Jeffersonian ideas CT govern
ment. 1t was between Republicans
and Democrats. One or the other
must win this fight. There is no
chance for Third party.aa Must the
Republican idea of government con-
tinue or shall it give place to the De-
mocratic idea, which is the true idea?
Other parties are claiming the atten-
ton of the people, but there is no
earthly chance for.any of them. The
Republicans or Democrats would be
victorious in November. When the
Republicans were put into 'powef
theyi. found prosperous country
Through their class legislation they
have succeeded in sowing desolatior
where once was prosperity. They
had changed the course of the slip OF
state and were running the old craft
upon the reefs and rocks of class legis-
la;ion. The speaker then went into
a detailed discussion of E tn
evils that have followed in the
wake OF class legislation un
der Republican rule, showing
how4it was that the money had been
taken from the fal mers of the South
and put into the pockets of the favor
ed manufacturers of the East, under
the baneful workings of a protective
tariff system, He conpareds.the per
capita circulation Of this country
with that of the manufacturing coun-
tries of the East, and showed that ii
made no difference how much money
you would pile down here now, if
the protective tariff system remain
ed it would all eventually be trans
ferred to the pockets of protected
manufacturers. Nothing would give
the.people permanent relief except
tariff reform. This protective. tariff
is what is making the boys leave the
farm and crowd into the cities, where
they stand behind the counter and
sell goods for $50 per month. The
hand of thesprotective tariff has been
laid 50 heavily on The farmer that
his farm products are worth nothing,
and his sons naturally have to seek
where they can make
more money. The time was, how
ever, under good Democratic rule,
when this was all different. Pros.
perity was abroad in the land, and
the Democratic party was in power.
When the Republican party came in
to power all this ceased, and now the
country was overrun with paupers.
The speaker then discussed the
force bill, the Third party demands
and the currency question, standing
on the Democratic platfol m
with regard to these measures, and
produced incontrovertible argument
to show that he was right. With re.
gard to the government ownership
of railroads, he said that if this prop.
erty were purchased by the govern.
menf it would entail a debt that
could never be paid, and the other
demands of the Third party were
equally absurd.
The speech abounded in plain facts,
eloquence and humor. His anec
1otes were fine, especially the one
about the seersucker suit. This struck |
Phil. Lieber all over. He used to
sell that kind and knew what that /
1rawlng up business meant. I'll
" ould be impossible to give correct
dea of the speech, 1t must be heard
20 be appreciated.
Mr.. Bond is fine speaker and will
10 good wherever he goes, and de
ivers the same speech that he made
lere. The people of GAINESVILLE will
,ver give him welcome should ne
ind it possible to visit us again. lie
eft on the 10 O'Clock train for his