Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-19

forward. There was none of the dem-
agogue about 1t, and ii had a good of.
feet on all who heard it. Dinner was
here announced and the crowd was
well fed on good barbecued meat.
The committee had done its part, and
all were satisfied.
After di1ner speech was made by
Col. Holman, of Fayetteville. He
made good speech and was heartily
applauoed. His speech dealt with
the issues involved In the campaign,
but a lack of space forbids the ex-
tended mention it deserves.
Col. House was introduced after
Col. Holman and the crowd cheered
him to the echo. The occasion car.
ried Col. House back to the days
when he had appeared before the
same people as candidate for Office
They had voted for him then aud he
trusted they would vote like he told
them in this election. After he had
been honored by the Democratic par
ty he said he would be Jan migrate If
he should say anything to hurt it
now. He surveyed the field of can.
didates and paid an eloquent tribute
to Judge Turney and Grover Cleve-
land. He could find no reason why
man should refuse to vote for either.
Judge Turney was the nominee of
the Democratic party and no enemy
could find blot on his fair escutch-
con. Why then should you not vote
for him? Col. House said he had
gone to hear Gov. Buchanan speak
in Clarksville. He wanted to know
how he would make his apology for
running against the nominee of the
Democratic party. The Governor
said he had been badly treated.
He was of the opinion, however,
that it was the taxpayers OF Tennes-
see who had been badly treated.
Here Col. House took up Buchanan's
record in the bond signing business,
and such a roasting has never been
given any governor as the speaker
gave the present one. Governors
Porter and Bate had signed State
bonds while they were in Office, but
they had not taken cent of money
for the work because they knew the
constitution of the State forbade it.
Governor Buchanan, however had
pocketed thousands of dollars of this
money in direct violation of the con-
stitution of the State. This money
is gone from the people of Tennes-
see forever. Taking up the Third
party Col. House riddled it. He pour
ed hot shot into the men who had
been yelling for Buchanan until they
wanted to get away from his wither-
ing arraignment. There were only a
few of them present, but the ones
who w,re there caught the hottest
fire that has ever been thrown into
their ranks in this campaign. The
flight of Weaver and Mrs. Lease
from Georgia, as pictured by the
speaker, brought round after round of
deafening applause from the great
multitude before him. They crowd
ed up, pushing each other over seats
to get nearer the speaker, as in great
burst of eloQuence he described the
national Democratic standard bearer
Grover Cleveland--and compared
him with the man who had retreated
from Georgia in front of d rotten egg
thrown by little niger. 1t was u
great treat to the people to hear Col.
House and there was much regret
that his time was limited. There is
no man in Montgomery county who
holds the esteem OF all citizens in
such high degree as does Col. Jno.
f. House and they will 60 miles to
hear him speak.
Before Col. House had spoken
twenty minutes the train whistled for
the return home, and after the speak
er had eloquently appealed to the
people to vote the Democratic ticket,
the assembly was dismissed and the
train pulled out for home.
1t was great day for Montgomery
county Democracy and good was
done the straight ticket.