The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-02

house on that dar. The assem-
! bIage was composed OF democrats,
republicans and third partyites,
sometimes called populites. Hon.
j. A. Manson. who was colleague
of McDowelPs In the Legislature e,
has, within the last few months,
made several speeches in this coun-
ty, during which he assailed the
legislative record of Mcdowell. In
the Appeal-Avalanche OF the 23rd
instant, Mcdowell is quoted a. say
ing that che would be in Bolivar
next Saturday, when he would be
willing 10 meet any reputable OPP
ponent and divide lime with him.
Mr.. Manson saw the article and
consindered it a challenge to him.
He decided TO accept 1t, and came
here Saturday morning tor the
purpose of entering into a joint de-
bate with Mcdowell. A commit
tee was sent to confer with Nc
D0well as to a division of time
with Mr.. Manson. The exhorter
refused to divide time, and denied
the accuracy of the article pub
lished in the Appeal-Avalanche.
He is W ell aware that j. A. Man.
sou not only knows his record, but
if allowed TO speak, he would have
sifted it and laid ii bare. Mr..
Manson is one of the last men that
Mcdowell wishes to meet in joint
debate. Having the field to him.
self, Mcdowell made an ingenious
and deceptive speech. The object
which he has i'm view is to weaken
the democratic party. Not one
word of praise for that party es-
capped lis lips during the whole of
his speech. When here the time
before the last, Mcdowell advised
The al.Iancemen not to desert the
democratic party-that party which
he now so bitterly assails and de-
nounces. Then he was of the
opinion that their hope of relief
was through the democratic party;
now he characterizes it as rotten
hull, which ere long Will surely
sink. He said that he had been a
member of that party for twenty
one years. Now If it took him
twenty one years to find out that
the democratic party was nothing
but rotten hull, it is surprisingly
strange that he has, in so short
time, discovered that the peoples
party is a panecea for all woes. He
asserted that although the demo-
Gratis had majority IN the lower
house of the present congress, they
did not pass single revenue bill,
but stated that they did pass few
pop.gun measures. referring, we
suppose, to the bills for reducing
the revenue on WOODEN goods, cot
ton bagging, ties for wrapping
cotton. Irvine and tin. In char
acterizing those bills as pop-gun
measures, he proved that his motive
was to deceive, or that he really is
not competent TO distinguish
revenue bill from pop-gun. Said
be, "whY did they not introduce a
sweeping. re venue bill?' 1t is be-
cause there was no more hopes of
passing such bill through a re-
publican senate than there is of
the peoples party ticket beng
victorious in Hardeman county.
Therefore our representatives at
tackled the Mckinley bill in detail.
His reason for leaving the demo-
cratic party is on account of the
proscriptive policy adopted by that
party. In condemniDg a pro-
scriptive policy Mcdowell condemns
the advice which he gave his
brethren" in speech here prior
to his last. In that speech he told
them net to vote tor any one, for a
political Office, that did not advo-
cate their demands. and yet
proscriptive policy caused him to
leave the democratic party. Such
an excuse is so transparent that
through it we see the real cause of
his departure, which 10, in the
democratic party there are no more
offices for John Henry Mcdowell.
OF course the speaker did not say
anything complimentary about
Grover Cleveland. He told his
audience that Cleveland signed
twelve hundred pension bills. being
more than any republican up to that
time had signed. But he did not
state that he had vetoed more
pension bills than any republican
had. Neither did he state that
during the four years of Cleveland's
administration surplus of $83,
0OO, 900 was accumulated and that
under his leadership $4,000, 900
acres of government land was
wrested from those who had robbed
ma and restored TO the nnhIic do