Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-17
Weaver and the South.

DIR. j. 20. Roberts, of Pulaski,
Tenn, is a man who has lived in that
city something like forty years, and
has been one Of the most public spir-
tied and upright citizens of the place
all his life. He stands well with the
members of his profession, both at
home and abroad. The people among
whom he has lived the greater part
OF his life have the utmost confidence
j In him, and will believe what he says
about anything. This man goes be-
fore the Circuit court clerk Of Giles
county and makes solemn affidavit
to the truth of the following:
Weaver was a terror to all men,
women and children in this region
around about our town and cOnn-
try-especially to those who were
known to have money. He arrested
me and tried to extort from me $500
for my release, but when he found l
could not be bulldozed he turned me
out without charge. He extorted In
that way from many Of oui best citi-
. zens' money and everything else.
4 On another occasion Weaver had
me arrested and forced me to receipt
$1,000 due me on farm sold before
the war on a credit. All this money
proved dead loss to me. l regard
him as stamp or photo of the old
arch demon himself.
This man Weaver Is the same one
.who commanded the Federal forces
at Pulaski during the war, and is the
same one who is now asking the PEG
pie of the South to vote for himo In
November for President ofthe United
States. He Is the same man also who,
as a member of the Congress of the
United States, introduced that in
famous bill to pay the Federal sol
diers the difference between the
greenbacks they received and gold.
This bill carried with it an appropri'
alton OF three hundred million dol.
lars as the first installment
This was purely sectional
measure, 1t sought to pay that
amount ofmoney into the hands OF the
people of the MOI tn who were hostile
to the people of the South. The
Southern people must pay their pro
rata of this enormous sum in the
shape of taxation but they would
get nothing in return for the same
Does this not show copclusively that
the man who introduced the bill was
an enemy of the Southern people,
II more evidence is needed to make
this point clear it can be had In
abundance by reference to numbers
of his speeches delivered shortly aftel
the close of the war. In a speech de
livered at Oskaloosa, September Is
1872, he said:
"No Republican can ever, undel
any circumstances, have any part Of
lot with the hungry rebellious, man
hating, woman-selling gang, corpor
ated under the name of Democracy
name 50 full of stencil and poison
that II should be blotted from tn,
vocabulary OF civilized man anC
handed over to the barbarian that /
so fitly now and in all the past ha
represented"
The men of the South were loya
in 1872. Twenty years later they ar
still loyal. They understand per
fectly well how 1t is that chang
has come over the spirit of Weaver
dreams. The Third party has nomi
neted him for President and he nov
comes among us asking our votes
He is giving the Southern peopl
taffy, hoping that he may be able Il
gull them into voting for him, bu
these things are all remembered
e. They will never cast a vote for
man who has villified the South an,
her people in any such way. The,
want a President who will represen
the people of the South and those G
the North honorably and impartially
They want Grover Cleveland an,
s they will have him, despite the O.
forts of Weaver, Buchanan, Mellow
4 ell and all the aid of their Republi
can allies.
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Worth knowing.