Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-06
Senator harris, speech.

speech at Fayetteville last Monday.
1t was low tariff speech; II was a
free silver speech il was an anti-force
bill speech; it was n Democratic
speech. 1t ought to.he published in
pamphlet form andssown broad cast
over the State. Isham G. Harris is
the Gladstone OF Tennessee. $ AT
seventy nyears he has the ~vigor OF
youth, aud the fires Of patriotism
burn brightly on the altar of his
heart. He does not love the South,
OF course, like Scott and Weaver and
Mcdowell, but he loves 1T as he did
when with the Tennessee boys he
faced the enemy on the field OF
Shiloh, Just thirty years ago.
Senator Harris says we need more
money, and he is right. He takes the
Democratic platform and shows what
il proposes to do for the South 10 the
way Of giving us more money, and a
sound currency besides. He fakes
the Democratic record and shows
what the Democratic party has done
in the years that have passed SINCE the
South was subjugated; what II has
done in spite of all the obstacles 1t
has had 10 encounter; what 1T has
done in spite OF Scott and Weaver,
and others of their kind who were
cursing and damning the South
while Harris was fighting its battles.
1t is, OF course, very kind in Scott
and Weaver, who for the last twenty
Ave years have abused and slandered
and vilifed the South, who with
other Republicans have helped to
fasten the letters on us, it is very kind
in them to come down now and tell
us how TO get out. of the scrape they
have gotten US into. II the hair oil
the dog is good for the bite, Scott and
Weaver ought to be fine medicine for
our people now, and we don't blame
Southern voters for running after
them. But in the meantime we hope
nobody will be angry II we ask that
o little attention be paid to what
Harris aud Bate, and men like them,
who were born and raised among us,
have got to say. We hope none Of
our friends will he offended If we ask
them to read the words of Ishan G
Harris. We know, of course, that
Harris is our enemy, and Scott and
Weaver are our friends, but let us al
least hear what Harris has to say.
Let us give the old man chance.
Here is what Harris said in his
Fayetteville speech last Monday on
the silver question:
Suppose that gold instead of silver
had been demonetized stripped OF It's
money junction and left 10 depend
for its market value on such demand
as its use in the arts may have made!
1t would, in my opinion, have depre'
ciated even more than silver mas
done. The most fatal stab that sill
yer ever received was its dem0netiza
ton by the United States, the great
est silver producer in the world. AUD
ifit is 10 be restored to its ancien,
and legitimate rights as a money
metal the Govern ent OF the United
States, in the plentitude Of its grea
power financially and in all othel
respects, must take the lead and by
its full recognition and free coinage
increase its market value, and there
by encourage other nationalities t.
admit ii to free coinage, and all com
mercia, nations to an agreement as t
ratio between the two money met
ais which shall be common to all.
If the laborer is to receive FAIR
reasonable and adequate compensa
tions for his toll, ifthe agriculturist il
to receive fair and remunerativ'
price for his products, we must have
larger volume of money In circula
ton, and should utilize both OF GU
money metals to the fullest extent o
production.
Are the free coinage Democrats o
Tennessee opposed to this doctrine
DO they not know that two third
and more of the Democrats Of tn,
country agree with Harris on thi
subject that the Democratic party i
now fighting the battle of the peopl
on this currency question Do the.
not know that we have both house
of Congress now with us on this sub
ject? Do they not know that t
leave the Democratic party now is t.
leave the only party in the countr!
that holds out any hope of relief OF
the currency question Will gu
people, like the Israelites In tn
wilderness, lose their temper ant
their senses at the same time ant
turn back now when we are nearl.
at the end of the long, long journe.
we have been travelling ever sine
the war ended? Democratic energ.
and perseverance have given us on
greenback currency {; it has given u
four hundred and fifty millions o
silver money now in circulation |
will give us free coinage if we vii
but walt and work.
Shall we leave the Democratic
party because all its members are no
united on this currency question
Shall we leave the old party whei
the great majority is for financial re