Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-14
THEIR HAND is SHOWN.
A League Between the Third
Party and Republicans.
Letter From Headquarters Tells the
Story-Read it and See If You Can
Swallow It.

mornings American:
"Their hand is shown.
"The leaders OF the Peoples party
are in league with the Republicans.
"This is not surprise to the Dem
ocrats who have kept up fully with
the progress Of events, but to the
rank and file it will be as a bomb
shell.
"Here is the way the thing got out.
A letter was written from the Peo-
ples' party headquarters to one Thos.
s. Williams, at Columbia, profes-
sor. The letter plainly stated that
deal had been made between the
Peoples party committee and the
Republican committee. Prof. Will
liams went to Dickson county to or
ganize Third party club. He sue
ceeded in getting eight men. The
next morning part of the above let
ter was found on the floor of the
school-house where the meeting was
held. 1t reads as follows:
Headquarters Peoples Party of
Tennessee, J. III. Mcdowell, Chair
man L. X. Taylor, Secretary-Nash-
vile, Sept. 2, 1892.-Prof. Thomas s..
Williams, Columbia, Tenn,-Dear
Sir and Bro: / want you to make a
list of appointments in your county
at once. Get out posters and have
stuck up so as to insure crowd, and
speak and organize Peoples party
clubs. For every day you speak and
organize l will give you So a day for
say ten days. Send in your reports
OF clubs twice week. At the end of
ten days, if you have succeeded in
organizing, 1 will make agreement
to keep you in field until election.
We want good, effective workers,
and believe you will make one. Bro.
Weatherspoon writes me you are
willing to make the effort. The State
Republican Executive Committee
promise to give us the solid Repub
lican vote for Representative, Float
er, Senator and Congress in your
county and district. So, you see, we
can elect all If our people will organ
ize at once and put out ticket. The
Legislators put out by the Turneyites
are oil instructed for Bate for United
States Senator, who is bitter oppo-
nent of our financial demands. If
we lose
"Here the letter breaks off abruptly,
the other page or pages of it having
been lost.
"The finder OF the letter was j. J.
Hadley, school teacher. He turned
1t over yesterday to Congressman N.
N. Cox along with the following afh-
davit: Dickson, Tenn, OF. 49,
Personally appeared before G. w.
Larkins, Justice of the Peace OF Dick
son county, OF the Fourth district Of
said county, J. J. Hadley, with
whom I am personally acquainted,
and made oath that on the 4th day
of October man calling himself
Williams and proposing to organize
Third party or Peoples party clubs,
came to my sehool-house at night
and made talk and organized such
club. This was Oct 4, at night. The
next morning 1 went to the school
house where 1 was teaching and
where Williams had made his speech
and found the following letter on the
floor where Williams spoke. / de-
livered the letter to N. N. Cox on
Oct. 13, at Dickson.
y. j. HADLEY.'
"Sworn and subscribed to before me
this Oct. 13, 1892.
&c. w. LARKINs, J. p"
Congressman Cox gave the letter to
Congressman Washington at Dick
son yesterday and MIR. Washington
read it last night during his speech
on the public square.