Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-29
vote For weaver.

doleful epistle addressed to mankind
in general and Yankeedem in partic.
nlar, he declares he has been mall
treated at the South; that his wife
has been struck with rotten egg,
and he can no longer risk his life in
so dangerous a community. He and
Mrs, Weaver and his friend, Mrs.
Lease, who was speaking, or rather
screeching for him, have all gone
North to spread the tale of their dis
aster. The South needs 10 be recon.
structed, he has been outraged simply
because he Is Northern man. We
are barba1ians down this way and
not worthy to unloose the latchet OF O
loyal mans shoes. There can be nc
free speech or free expression Of
opinion at the South and conse
quently he and his have to flee the
country, so cries Weaver as he runs.
The, fact Is Brother Weaver lies
about this whole matter and he now
ISLANDERS the South as he oppressed
and robbed Southern people when
they were powerless and he had a
little brief authority and strutted
round in epaulettes and blue uniform.
When he came South short while
ago he would have been civilly
treated II he had behaved with de-
cency. People were willing TO go
and hear him speak, though his
record was such that it was brazen
impotence on his part to show his
face before a Southern audience. In
stead of conducting himself properly
and discussing the merits and de-
merits OF his platform and the issues
now before the people he thrust for
ward as his principal spokesman his
friend, Mrs. Lease, who is not only a
woman suffrage shrieker from way
back, but who last year after trip to
Nashville wrote to one of her home
papers that she hoped to see the time
when there would be black heels on
white nccks down South. This fe-
male in speech at Albany, Georgia,
q few days since when Weaver and
his wife were on the platform with
her pitched into some of the South
ern papers and especially into
the Atlanta Journal. She drag
ged up Weaver's Pulaski rec
ord, undertook to whiiewash the
Federal officer, and declared that
the Southern papers, especially the
Atlanta Journal, had slandered the
great and good Weaver. The re-
porter for the Atlanta paper was
present and came forward and said
that he had affidavits Of respectable
citizens of Tennessee to prove all that
his paper had said. AT this Mrs.
Lease and Brother Weaver fumed
and raised such muss that a police
man was called in and the reporter
was arrested and taken from the
stand. He (the reporter) then went
outside the house and addressed
large crowd there. He read his af-
fidavits showing Weaver's Pulaski
record, and told them ofthe indignity
that had been offered him inside.
The crowd was so incensed that
when Weaver came out he was
hooted at; disturbance was raised,
and, he says, rotten egg Was
thrown which struck his wife.
We certainly do not justify the
throwing of a rotten egg at any one,
and II such thing was done 1t was
highly improper. But what right
has Weaver to bring woman like
this Mrs. Lease down to insult South
ern people? Is it not very trying
and really great risk for Weaver
himself to come among us with his
record? What Southern man, who
had abused Northern people as
Weaver abused Tennesseans during
the war, would dare to travel North
now? Would he be safe in any North.
ern town even if he behaved him.
self, and If he took along with him a
blab-mouthed female to abuse and
Islander the people whom he had
formerly oppressed, what chance
would he stand Of getting out of the
country with whole skin? The
Southern people are human. They
are willing to let by-gones be by
cones, but the man who crushed
them under his heel thirty years ago
ought not to come back now and
fling insult in their faces.
The fact is that Weaver's trip
South and Viewers canvass this
year is all very plain. He is a Re-
publican in very thin disguise. II he
can stir up trouble, now at the South
aud rouse the animosity OF his North
ern brethren, he may help to save to
the Republicans some doubtful
Northern State. II he can stir up bad
blood among the Southerners them
selves, and get them to wrangling
among themselves, he may divide
the solid South and help Harrison to
another four years in the White
House. The thing for our Southern