Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-22
Vote For Weaver.


When General Weaver was In Con-
gress he introduced the following
bill:
"Whereas, the soldiers and sailors
who served in the army and navy Of
the United States during the late war
for the suppression of the rebellion
were from the necessity Of the case
compelled by law to receive for their
services deprecated currency great
ly inferior in value at the time to the
gold coin of the United States; there,
fore
"Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States in Congress assembled,
that there shall be paid to each pri-
vate soldier, non-commissioned Off
Ger, sailor, teamster or musician reg
ularly mustered into the service OF
tho United States during the late war
for the suppression OF the rebe lion,
or to his or their legal representatives
in the case of death, as soon as his or
their claim shall be examined and
audited by the Second Auditor of the
Treasury, the sum found due him or
them, the amount thereof to be as
certained as follows: The Second
Auditor shall ascertain the amount
OF currency paid said soldier or sailor
at each date of payment during mis-
term OF service, and shall ascertain
the gold value of said currency pay
ment at the time by reference to the
quotations OF gold as compared with
the currency, in which said soldier or
sailor was paid, in the city of New
York at that date; and said soldier,
sailor, or his legal representative,
shall be allowed and paid the differ
ence in value between the currency
which he received and the standard
gold coin OF the United States, in
which he should have been paid"
The standard gold coin In which
he should have been paid. Brother
Weaver then Is gold bug. No do.
preciatt silver for him. The Audi
tor of the Treasury shall ascertain the
commercial value of gold at the time
the Union soldier was paid in green
back and the difference between the
government paper and gold shall be
made up to him. We poor devils
down here at the South did not get
either greenbacks or gold for the part
we played In the war. We took
Confederate scrip; we fought four
years for principle we came back
at the end to our suffering families
and have been having hard fight
with poverty ever since. Out of our
scanty earnings we have to pay
every year heavy pensions to North
ern soldiers. Fifty millions of dol
lars are taken each year from the
South for these pensions.
Fifty millions year would run all
our State and county governments,
and give us good system of schools
all over the South. Fifty millions a
year in our pockets would leave us
contented and happy at Christmas,
able to meet our debts and have some
thing left for the women and chill
dren. Fifty millions year, what is
II we couldn't do with this fifty mil.
lions a year If we could only keep it /;
If we could only spend ii at home,
where we earn it. But ii must go. 1t
must go to gladden. the hearts of the
loyal people north Of us who demand
money for their patriotism. Brother
Weaver now has plan by which he
will yank about twenty millions a
year more out OF us and send it along
the same road, and God bless Brother
Weaver, say we. May he and his
wife and his children, and his sisters
and his cousins, and his aunts and
his neighbors grow fat on our money,
and be as happy as kings while they
are spending it.
Let all true Tennesseeans rise early
on the morning of the election and
crowd TO the polls and vote forWeav-
or. Let no man stay at home, but let
oil 90 and vote for paying out more
pension money. The old women can
darn our socks and mend our ragged
clothes during the coming winter.
We can get along any way so we
have the blessed privilege of voting
for Weaver, and paying more money
for pensions to loyal people across
the Ohio river. Let us vote forWeav-
er then If we have to go naked. II
he takes the bread out of our chill
dren's mouths, let us vote for him.
What business has an internal old