Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-18

Gov. Buchanan Has Come and is
Now Gone.
The Third Party Rally Thing Of the Past
and Democracy is Very well Pleased,
Thank You.

ter of attraction to many Clarksville
people last evening, and they went
through pure curiosity. They knew
that Gov. Buchanan would attempt
to explain why he had forsaken the
party that honored him two years
ago by clecting him to the high Of
flee of Governor of Tennessee. They
wanted to hear just what he would
say, but only few of them could
hear him after going. There were
some five or six hundred people in
the house. The stage had been erec-
ted as near the center of the room as
possible, and here 1t was that the
apology was delivered.
The Governor was accompanied to
the city by Lecturer Roberts, who
has been in CIarksville on previous
occasion, and by Commissioner of
Labor Ford, who was arrested at
Briceville charged with melting the
miners to riot. He is one of the
Governors appointees, and seems to
be acting as a kind of body guard.
When the speakers reached the
warehouse the ball was opent d by r..
Ledbetter, candidate for the Legisla-
ture ON the Third party ticket. He
spoke briefly, telling the people in as
few words as possible that he wanted
an Office, and that If they would elect
him he would do anything they
wanted him to do.
Mr.. Ledbetter was followed by
Squire Slaughter, who spoke in the
same strain, but somewhat longer
drawn out. They, however, all de-
livered the stand up to the orator of
the occasion, Gov. John p. BuchaI-
an.
The Governor was introduced by
Col. W. f. Young, and at once dived
into his subject. He said he came be-
fore the people as an independent can
didate for Governor, and that II was
caused by the other side. The ''sky-
blues" and the "uppercases" had
beat him and they ought not to have
done it. He ought to have had the
nomination by all means, then this
trouble never would have come
about. The Governor then branched
of into the money question, and said
the contraction of the currency was
the cause of all the ills OF which the
farmers complain. He did not tell
them why this was fact, but left the
impression that if he was elected gov
ernor all of it would be removed.
The tariff was another thing In the
way, and If elected governor he
would have the thing paid off and
stopped, or words to that effect. He
seemed to try to make the impress
sion that ali the trouble the farmers
have is due to the fact that he was
defeated for the gubernatorial nom.
nation. The speech was read from
manuscript and was very tiresome,
so tiresome in fact that he could not
hold half his own crowd. Col. Young
was kekpt busy calling them to order
and before the speech was half over
there we're not over 150 men listen
ing to the speaker. They preferred
walking about over the warehouse
! looking vt the big crowd and yelling
at the wrong time. The governor
could not begin TO hold them. He
spoke fcr three hours, and they were
very long ones at that. There was
no intentional interference, however,
aud all the trouble mentioned was
caused by the governors own follow
ers in their herculean effort to get
away from him.
To sum the day up as q whole, 1t
was a failure. The crowd was here,
but there was lack of enthusiasm,
and it was hard task for the speak-
ers to get UP rousing cheer. 1t Ia
all over now and the straight Democ-
racy of the county is In nowise
alarmed. Judge Turney will carry
the county and a combination OF the
Republican and Third parties cannot
defeat any man on the Democratic
ticket. So mote 1t be.