Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-26
BATE, HOUSE, PILLOW.
Matchless Oratory Heard Yes
terday at Woodlawn.
The Campaign Opened in the Western
Portion of the County and Great
Day the Result.

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four different districts all seemed
bent on one common duty-that OF
hearing the speakers who were an
nounced for The occasion and TO eat
free barbecue.
Woodlawn is situated in the north
west corner of the Eighth district. To
the north and almost touching the
village lies famous No. 4. West OF
the place is the Ninth, and south the
Twenty first is in hailing distance.
1t was happy thought on the
part of the executive committee in
changing this appointment from
Oakwood to Woodlawn. A better
place could not have been selected
in the whole western portion of the
county for the speaking, as was evil
denced by the large crowd that was
assembled to meet the speakers. 1t
was the first rally that had been held
on the north side of the river, aud
the people were thirsting for the
gospel. They fiocked from every
quarter, and significant fact was
that they gave the speakers the
closest attention. They drank in the
democratic truths that fell from elo
quent lips and cheered as they drank
it. There has not been a more at
tentive crowd gathered together
in this county, and right here it is in
order to add, by way of parenthesis,
that the report which has been cir
culated to the effect that the country
tributary to Woodlawn belongs body
and soul to the Third party, libels
the good people of that portion of the
county. They are Democrats, and
the way they climbed over each
other to shake hands with Gen. Bate,
the old war horse, would have given
Third party leaders the shivers.
But to the point. Gen. Bate and
I1Ou. CillSSU lIIOW dIlLNCu III thC
city Monday night, and early yester-
day morning they were taken in
hand by Judge Tyler and others and
driven in Surveys, accompanied by a
band of music, to Woodlawn.
Gen. Bate was introduced to the
crowd first and spoke about two
hours. He made a Democratic
speech from start to finish. He re-
viewed the prosperous times the
country enjoyed before the war under
Democratic rule, and then took up
the record of the Republican party
from Lincoln's inauguration to the
present, and held it up to view in
such convincing and eloquent man
ner that men shouted themselves
hoarse and renewed their allegiance
to Democracy. 1t was a grand pre-
sentation and did incalculable good
for the Democratic ticket. AT the
close of the speech regular hand
shaking took place. Men who had
worn the gray for four long and
bloody years crowded around the old
warrior and grasped his hand, telling
him that they believed every word
he said and that they would support
the ticket.
Dinner was here announced, and
after every man, woman and child
had been filled with good barbecue,
more speaking was on the program.
Col. House was introduced. He
began by saying that when the band
played "Dixie' few minutes before
his mind went back to the days
when he had heard the same grand
old tune amid the rude shocks of war.
1t also carried him back to the day
he returned from that war without a
dollar in his pocket, a ragged Con-
federate soldier, but thank God a
free American citizen. He could
never blot those days from his mem
ory, and it was with the deepest
pangs of regret that he now saw men
who fought under the same flag ruD-
ming off after principles that were
false and could never profit them
anything. Col. House then took up
Buchanau's record and tore it to
shreds He minced no words in this
job, and il there was Buchanan
man in hearing of his voice he must
have wanted the eartn to open and
swallow him. "Gov. Buchanan says
he has been badly treated" said the
speaker. ''The Democratic party
took him from between the pIOw
handles, a noble calling, and from
the business end of a mule and sal
him in the gubernatGrial chair. He
has new bolted the party that thus
honored him and is running on d
platform of his own. Who does he
represent? The facts are that he
called his own convention, elected
himself chairman and secretary
enuncatei his own doctrine anC
made the nomination unanimous
He is playing a lone hand, AMI LEI
me tell you, fellow citizens, he viii
be the worst euchred man in the
State on election day." Col. House
reviewed the Alliance movemen