Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-01
For County Representative,
j. II. ROSSITER.
Chairman or the state Executive Com.
G. w. ARMISTEAD, of Nashville.
Chairman of the Sixth Congressional Dist
W.D. TURNKEY. of GAINESVILLE.
County Executive Committee,
H. G. MERRITT. Chairman.
w. d. TURNKEY, Secretary.
L. v. McKESSON, Treasurer.

IL. v. MchE SSON, treasurer.
Last Monday dawned hot and dus-
ty, but that did not keep the country
people from coming TO town to hear
Judge East speak. That distin-
guished gentleman, accompanied by
Hon. John l.. Nolen, arrived on the
10 O'Clock train from Nashville.
They were met at the depot by the
GAINESVILLE Military Band and es.
corted to the Franklin House. After
a half-hour rest the party proceeded
in an open carriage to the court
house, where for two hours Judge
East held the immense crowd spell.
bound with his matches eloquence,
wit and logic. TO say it was a
grand speech does moi begin to ex-
press it. Very many who were not
Prohibitionists declared 1t TO be the
finest political speech they had ever
heard. The large audience, many Of
whom were standing, remained in
their p aces from IL O'Clock to p.
M, and seemed sorry that the
speaker stopped for dinuer at all.
Our space is too small to give a
synopsis of the grafton. Read The
Issue this week for full account.
By the way, The Issue, of Nashville,
ought to regularly reach the home of
every Prohibitionist in Tennessee.
1t is grand paper, and it ls the vote
maker our party has in the State.
AT night a good crowd of intelli-
gent citizens assembled to hear Mr..
,Nolen expound sound doctrine. He
has fine physique, commanding
presence, a good voice, and is terri
bly, in earnest. His shot fell thick
and fast, aud surely some went home
to honest hearts. We are well pleas
ed with Mondays work, and look
forward to a largely increased vote
this fall.
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Vote for J. r.. Rossiter, our candi-
date for the Legislature from Mont
gomery county.
Nv
There were nine white preachers
lin the audience when Judge East
spoke Monday, besides several color
ed ones.
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Right in Their Demands, Wrong in Their
\ Methods.
/ The situation in Tennessee has
presented several distressing features.
In the first place the grievance of the
miners was Just one. Tennessee
has the contract convict labor system
still in vogue--a system that every
State of the North, we believe, has
discarded. 1t is an abominablessys-
ITEM, particularly so in Tennessee.
by means OF it mining and other
companies are enabled to secure con-
vict la Dor at the lowest prices that
will barely support existence, and
with this galley-slave labor the wage
earners have had to compete. AT
Coal Creek mine the company, not
securing enough convicts, worked
free miners side by side with con-
victs, and when work grew slack the
free men were discharged and the
convicts were retained because they
were cheaper. The situation was
and has neen for years simply afro
cious. Why was il not long ago re-
moved? Why indeed A plaus-
liable explanation given is that legis-
lature after Legislature has been
elected to abolish the system,
and every time the lobbyists
have, in the interest Of the
corporations, bought up the iegis-
lators. At last, goaded to despera-
ton year ago or less, the miners
organized, charged the stockade
where the convicts were herded, and
released them or s Mt them back TO
prison. The Governor (Buchanan)
at that time called special Legisla-
ture, which claimed that it could not
terminate the contracts, and nothing
was done. Hence the recurrence of
the trouble. The miners of Tennes-
see are wholly right in their de-
mands for the abolition of this sys-
tenn. They are wholly wrong in the
method they choose to right matters,
and they left no alternative but to be
treated as any other rebels are treat
ed.-Me ". y. Voice.