Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-24
SENATORIAL FIGHT.
The Bate and Taylor Factions
Getting to Their Work.
The Internal Revenue Colleotorship May
Play a Part in the Senatorial
Contest Now Waging.

II IdtnST appears now tndL tne con
test for Internal Revenue Collector
for this district will have some bear
Ing on the Senatorial contest. A
fight Is on, and the Taylor faction O
the party is trying to make capita
for their man out of some pledges
that are reputed to have been made
to Jno. Il. HilIsman, 0f Memphis
Dy Senator Bate. The NashvillS
Banner few days ago gave il out
that several men had said that Sen.
ator Bate had pledged himself tt
JnO. Il. Hillsman for the Office o
Collector. Senator Bate denied this
in the American the next day, in an
interview, Col, Pickard came out
the next day in a card stating that
Senator Bate had told him at Waver.
ly during the campaign that he wac
pledged to support Mr.. Hillsman.
To make matters worse Frank =.
Bond, of Brownsville, is reported as
saying that Senator Bate wrote him
a letter to the effect that he (Bstp)
was pledged to Hilsman for the
Office. Thus matters stand, and
along this line the following from
Tuesdays issue Of the Banner will
e interesting reading:
"Senator Bate weEt to Alabama
this morning, and consequently
could not he seen by Banner re-
DOrier. But numrer of his friends
nd also number of Gov. TayiCr'S
friends were seen, and ali OF
then were talking about the sena-
torial race. The Taylor men are
making much OF the difference be-
tween Senator Bates statement and
Col PiCkaru's statement, md ~ d.
dition, it is said among them this
morning that Fran 2. Bond, who
is also e candidate for Collector for
Nashville, has in his possession
a letter from Senator Bate,
which was written in reply
to one asking support, and says
that he, Senator Bate, is under
obligations to Mr.. Hillsman, and that
it would put him in an embarrassing
situation to lend aid 10 Mr.. Bond.
he story goes that one Of Gov. Tay
lor's friends in this city wrote to MIR
Bond asking for copy of the letter,
and that Mr.. Bond wrote back, using
the above expressions as Senator
Bates wOrds il tie letter, but saying
yhat he h ID mislaid the epistle. Gov.
TaylOr's friends seem to tate the in
cident as an advantageous one to
their candidate and assert that they
have renewed confidence in the elec
ton Of Mr.. Taylor 10 the Federal
Senate.
"Senator Bates friends treat the
whole matter lightly, saying that
what Senator Bate said to Col Pick.
ard was probably that "he hate to
see clash between his Democratic
triei.ds over an Office" and that Col.
Pickard probably understood him to
mean that he, Pickard, should not
oppose ilillsman because Hilisman
was first in the Senator'S estimation.
Aud they hold that when the letter
Mr.. Bond is said to hold is iuVesii-
gated it will be found that Senator
Bate has said nothing lie should not
-ay. The Bate men feel posi-
i've that Senator Bate will
be elected, and charged that
the little things being trumptd
up against Bate in the in
terpsts of Taylor viii rrbounr and
help elect their man, They say SEN
ator Bate is a ugan of too much
acumen, and that he has represented
the-people in high offices too long not
10 know that such words rs he is
said TO have used would be, al least,
| injudlcious. Their chief argument
is the published statement that
Hillsman will not be a candidate for
the collectorship at Nashville. The
raylor men say that il Hillsman is
not a candidate, and Bate is still un-
der obligations to bin, the matter is
worse still for Bate, as it would LOOK
like Hiilsmar was 10 have something
like dictatoriai powers This the
Bate men answer by saying that OF
course Bate il under some obliga.
tons, in genera way, since Hills
man was chairman Of the Democratic
executive committee both times
Bate was elected governor. And in
this connection, it may be mention
ed that it is said b Gay that Hills
man is a candidate for United States
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
Ca th am su ject the Banner o.
last evening saws: 1.-THE charge
made by Gov. Tay o,'s friends that
Hon. Frank =. Bond had a letter
from Senator Bate in which he said
That he was uUder obligations tC
MIR. Hilsmtn,' vas emphatically re-
futed to-day 10y Mr.. Bond 'You may
say said ne, that the letter / re-
ceiVed from Senator b te is perfectly
non-com initial and contains nothing