The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-04-01
GLORIOUS OLD DEMOCRACY.
A FIELD DAY IN MADISON COUNTY
Hone. s. r. Wilson and Frank =. Bond De-
liver Stirring Speeches.

day to the Nashville Americansays:
This was field day for the Democ-
racy of grand old Madison County
Early in the morning the returns
came in from all parts of the county
confirming last nights report that
the straight Democratic ticket was
nominated over the Alliance COM
bination. Hon. S. +. Wilson, the
war-horse of Democracy from Sum
ner, arrived last night, and that
hotspur of Democracy from Hay
wood County, Frank Bond, come
in at IL o'clock to add his eloquence
to the addresses to the crowd that
had gathered from the hills and
hollows to hear the gospel Of pure
Democracy.
Soon after IL o'clock Hon. S s: f.
Wilson faced an audience of 1000
Democrats, including a number of
leading Alliancemen, and was in
PRODUCED in an eloquent manner by
Hon. E. l.. Bullock. He was greet
ed by Democratic yell that shook
the court house from cellar to dome.
After paying high compliments
to the Democracy Of Madison, the
speaker said a spirit of restlessness
seemed to pervade the masses, not
only of America, but the entire civ
ilized world, and it devolved upon
every citizen to do whatever was in
his power to relieve his fellow-man.
He came as Democrat and free
man to talk plainly to Democrats
and to freemen. He said, address
ing the Alliance, that they we're de-
parting from the ways Of pure gov
eminent. Government can give no
one property except it despoil OF
take from some one. It has been
the fundamental principle of De-
mocracy to keep the Government
within its agencies and powers with
in the Constitution. tits the Great
ure of the great Creator. No i'll has
ever come in the history of govern
ment except by a departure from
these principles. The enactment
Of class legislation never cured the
evils Of class legislation. The AL
lance claims we have had futile
legislation and they would multiply
the evils tenfold by the sub-treas-
ury plan and unlimited borrowing
of money. Sub-treasury teachings
tend to destroy individual reliance
and American liberty and indie.
pendence.
Speaking of the Alliance he sale
no man or set Of men had the RICH
to 90 behind barred doors to form
ulate political ideas and make
agreements to control the country
It is treason to individual liberty
They have the God given right t,
think as they please and form pc
litical parties, but they had no RICH
to formulate their ideas and unde
oath-bound secrecy and then com
into Democratic convention AM
try to cram them down Democrat
throats.
He said the Alliance had don
this, but they would not do it nue.
longer in Tennessee. They woul,
: have to be Democratic or go wher
they belonged, in the third party
He claimed that the Democrat
party had never been able to enac
and pass any fiscal laws for the re
lief of the people since the war, tn
Republicans always controlling
some portion of the law-makin
power. The Alliance claims exac
Justice to all, and the land-loa
scheme meant anything else.
Referring to the gubernatoria
contest, the speaker asked what ha
become of the Democratic leader
in Tennessee. He said the Allianc