The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-04-15

senting him were fully committed to it. His
utterance was comfortable to and consistent
with it. By it he practiced his advice of ''set-
Ting all questions on the floor and carrying
no differences outside" Therefore he will
not say whether he will accept the nomination
on platform repudiating the Ocala and St.
Louis demands.
Judge Turney's Position.
1 say here and now, under no circumstances
will accept the nomination upon platform
indorsing or approving these demands.
In the main they unsound, impoltic,
unconstitutional and undemocratic.
Sub-Treasury Schemes.
will now notice some Of them. The first
Ocala demand is as follows:
| Il. We demand the abolition of national
banks. We demand that the Government
shall establish sub-treasuries or repositories
in the several States, which shall issue money
direct to the people at low rate of taxation, not
to exceed per cent. per annum on non-perish-
| able farm products, and also upon real estate
| with proper limitations upon the quantity OF
land and amount of money. We demand that
the amount of circulating medium be in
creased to not less than $50 per capita"
Whatever may be said of national banks
(and was educated to oppose them), there is
| no substitute suggested, and i am certainly
opposed to their abolition without some pro-
| vision taking care of their present circulation.
If the national banking law is bad law a
| good one should be proposed as basis for its
| repeal.
That part of the demand asking for the es-
tablishment of sub-treasuries or despositories
which shall issue money, etc, was certainly
adopted. either without due considera-
! ton of the consequences of such
law IT as a snare for the casual reader.
To establish these repositories we must look
! to their purposes, if they are to accommodate
| the farmer they must be so located to con-
veniently give the accommodation; they must
be in reasonable reach of each farmer who
may prop, sc to avail himself of them.
The farmer must be at the trouble and ex-
pense Of delivering his produce to the deposit
tory security for the amount of money he
proposes to borrow, and when he has paid
his borrowed-money debt, he must be at the
same trouble and expense of returning it to
his garner or crib. These facts make it neces-
sary to have the repositories dotted all over
| the land, at least one in every civil district.
The repositories must be large and suhstan-
tial, sufficient to protect from weather, thieves
| and vermin the property they contain; so
they must necessarily cost large sums of
money. and that money must be raised by
either taxation (and it would be unequal
law to tax one man for the accommodation of
the person who patronizes the depository.
Agents of the Government must be en-
ployed to take charge of them and see that
they are protected by night and by day. This
brings another tax upon the taxpayer or
patron.
There will of course be loss by shrinkage,
vermin. thieves, rot, negligence of the agent
and otherwise; this must fall upon the de-
positor or borrower. Count all these things
and the rate of per cent. will exceed the law
full rate of interest allowed by the laws of any
of the States. Besides we will have in each
State an army of new Federal office-holders
appointed because of their allegiance to the
appointing power. Appointed not from our
people, but sent from abroad Selected be-
cause of their fitness and willingness to do
their masters bidding ard to serve him at all
times, in any way and under all circum-
stances
There are ninety-six counties in Tennessee
to be thus Differed
There will. of course. be differences between
these agents and the depOsitOrs or borrowers
of money and the mortgagors of land. OF
course. controversies will arise that must be
settled by some judicial tribunal. The de-
position or mOrtgagor cannot sue the Govern
ment, the law does not permit it, He cannot
a Federal agent in the courts of the State,
and is, therefore without remedy. and if any
shall be given him it will be in court of
claims at Washington City. appointed by the
Government for their political value and not
for their legal attachments.
Everyone feeling himself aCgrieved will be
compelled to resort to that tribunal and none
other. Some of you have had experience in
such courts when you tried to get paw for your
property taken or destroyed during the war
You remember the red-tapeism, the strict
rule, the technical objections, the long delay
and the final refusal of such courts to allow
your claims, or the arbitrary and unauthorized
cutting down of your claims, however salts
factory the proof of their right and Justice
may have been
The borrower of money on land security
would become at once the tenant of the Gov
eminent, and if he at all failed to comply with
the terms of his mortgage and presumed to
entertain political opinions adverse to the
ruling power, his mortgage or trust deed
would be at once foreclosed and he turned out
of house and home.
The whole de..iand is plan to sell all who
might avail themselves of its provisions to the
ruling party, to make them its slaves and COM
pei them TO go 10 the ballot-box and by their
sutfrages uphold their oppressors.
The demand requiring the circulating me-
dunn to be increased to not less than $50 per
capita would require a circulation of three
All to be derived from taxation. our census
report showing about 65. 00OtOO pe, pie Make
these demands a law and you thereby enjoin
yourselves forever from free speech, free
thought and free ballot, you are tied as
galley slaves to the will and behests of the |
Gear of the consolidated Government once
known the Federal Union"
The st. Louis Demands
We will now go to the St Louis platform |
which embodies the Ocala demands and goes |
a bow shot further. 1t lays down these de- |
mands; remember, it always demands
Transportation Transportation being a |
means of exchange and public necessity the |
Government should own and operate the rail- |
roads in the interest of the people.
THE telegraph and the telephone, like the !
postoffice system, being a necessity for the |
transmission of news, should be owned and |
operated by the Government in the interest of |
the people"
Bear in mind the language. The Govern |
ment should own and operate the railroads" |
No suggestion is offered by which the Govern
ment is to become owner of the roads, whether |
by coniscation or purchase. If by purchase, |
what will be the cost 1 have in my hand |
railroad statistics showing that the cost of |