Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-17
AN OPEN LETTER.
"Louis" Indites An Epistle to
Gov. Buchanan.
A Communication That Has Been Re-
ceived and Which is self-Explana-
tory -Raoy Reading.

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Tennessee, was read by me to-day
with very great interest. From
what you say in your letter, / Judge
there will be no trouble in electing
you governor, for if we only have to
contend against "sky-blues" in this
fight yeu are better than elected now.
There were only about four thousand
of this genus In 1882; many of them
have long since died, and there re-
mains only handful to vote in No
vember. There are few in this
county, and Turney will not get all
Of them, for 1 know some who are
for YOU, and have been all the time.
! have never been able to understand
why you were not renominated by
the Democratic party, Two years
ago when the people of the State
knew nothing OF you, when you were
absolutely unknown, and known not
to be an Office seeker (never having
run for anything in your life but con-
stable, and being defeated for that,
did not become known by holding
office) you were nominated by a very
large Democratic convention; and
now after you have become known
to the people Of the State, you were
defeated by the same party that nom.
mated you before. There Is some.
thing wrong somewhere; wish you
would explain it, for air asked this
question every day. Some of your
enemies here say; "That is why he
was nominated two years ago, nobody
knew him." / am glad you art
turning your attention to national
affairs, too, and feel sure II you are
reelected the land will flow with
milk and honey, | am with you on
the free coinage plank. The part
l like best is that we'll get sixteen
for one. The same plank In your
national platform (by the way, who
is running on your independent ma
tional platform p seems altogether
unnecessary, for if every time we
make dollar we will receive sixteen,
that will settle the question of crcu-
lation: The currency should be tlex-
ible, however. You are right about
that. [ am for it in such shapes
that it can be turned, bowed and
twisted, and above all things, capa-
BILE of being adopted and accommo.
dated to the wants of the needy, no
matter to whose purse it belongs.
! think you are right about abolish
ing the national banks. They ought
to be abolished and the money
divided out, share and share alike
among the members Of the ipdepen-
dent movment in Tennessee. Can't
you do that nows You might not
be elected, and it will never do to
allow such an opportunity to pass.
Let's abolish them now Pm in favor
of an income tax. Think we ought
abolish the poll. ! am heartily in
favor of your suggestion, with any
amendment. OF course the income
tax won't apply to government Of
ficials, for l want to be coal oil in
spector next time. BY the way, don't
you think it would be well to create
few more coal oil inspectorsnips in
Tennessee ? 1t seems this Office is
the stepping-stone to fame and for
tune. Mcdowell is going to the Sem
ate, and John Allen to the lot0er
house of Congress. Talk about abol-
ishing national banks, what do you
reckon Nc and John will do with the
Congress of the United States. Free
commerce with a nations and re-
duced tariff, you y, would be good.
/ am afraid you made a mistake. The
Democrats down here have been talk
ing that kind of talk been saying "a
tariff is tax" We have been deny
ing the whole thing. We have told
the people there wasn't any tariff,
and that it was simply Democratic
"bug-a-boo," and until your inde-
pendent letter they believed it. Now
they are saying, "What does Buck
mean by talking Of the tariffR
By all means have the United
States Senators elected by the people.
All of them are with us except the
sky-blues, and they never were the
people, any way. enthusiastically
endorse your plank against allowing
future crops have anything to do
with present products. 1t is shame
and sin, that the crops our children
are going to raise should influence
the prices of what we have to sell.
don't know much about this ques-
ton, hut am in favor of allowing
future crops to have monopoly oil
future markets. We need law on
supply and demand worse than
any law | know OF. 1t seems
to me that if we had good
law on this subject, wouldn't need
anything else, except to look after
our merchant marine (ought to have
one) and coast defenses. II we had a
land that would supply our de.