Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-24

I iuOutY anu d pIOuilSt thdl ue SIldI
have our support for the United
States senatorship. You know
have no respect for the mugwump ir
politics, have still less for the non
deseript; still less for the man wht
misleads the people; who, having
gained their confidence, sells then
for a price. What do we gain by
this mistaken alliance? The bargain
with Mcdowell was to give us cleal
field for our electoral ticket in the
three first and in the Eight Congress
sional Districts, and to help us elect 8
Legislature that would not only re-
peal the present election laws, but
enable us to establish system that
would give us permanent control ol
the State. Mcdowell for the $15,'
900 and the guarantee of support fol
the Senate, stipulated and contracted
to bring Buchanan out as an indie.
pendent candidate for Governor,
and to keep him in the field until
the close, delivering to us full
control of the State. This we all al
first thought worth agreeing to. We
have paid-I mean the National
Committee have paid-about, if not
quite $1,000 of the money to date,
and promised TO pay the remaining
50 600 ten days before the election,
Chairman Carter not being willing
TO pay the whole amount at once-a
wise precaution, / am led to sus-
pect. We have complied with our
side of the bargain so far. Mellow
ell has complied with his part, as far
as to place the governor, who seems
to be either. helpless or plastic in his
hands, in the field as candidate.
He has broken faith on the Legisla-
ture agreement by inducing or per-
mitting populite candidates to come
out in Republican strongholds, thus
showing his untrustworthiness as
" ell as his distrust of the promise to
send nim to the Senate. He has
placed a Congressional candidate in
the Third district, there is Peoples
party candi late in the Second dis
trict, and he has served notice that
unless the Republican candidate in
tie First district "cOmes to time" on
legislative promises he will put can.
didate out up there. He has also
made the impression upon the imme,
diate followers that Mr.. Winstead
will yet be withdrawn as candidate
for Governor and the Republicans
will then support Buchanan. Many
believe that he has so impressed
Buchanan, but / do not join in this
last opinion. / dislike to believe
that the Governor of Tennessee is in
open league with Mcdowell. be-
Iieve Buchanan is a Democrat; ]
want to believe him an honest man.
But the circumstances are all on that
side mysterious. You know there
was a hitch in Buchanan's announce.
ment as an Independent candidate
until the payment of the first sum
agreed upon was made to Mcdowell
then came the Third party indorse'
ment, manipulated by Mcdowell
After this, your emember, there was
another delay in the payments, and
then came McDowell's threat tC
Chairman Baker, of the State com
mittee, that unless the second pay
ment was in his hands by specified
day and hour he would take Buch'
anan out of the race. 1t was ther
that you, Capt. Baker, Hon. John G
Houk and others hurried to New
York to procure the immediate fur
ther action of the national commit
tee. 1t was about this time that hi
visited the Nashville custom house
officials and threatened according t
his statement to go into the ThirC
District and beat the Republican
nominee 1900 votes if those gentle
men threw any distractions in th'
way of receiving further money
Nor is this all. On Sunday, Sept. IS
he was at Knoxville meeting prom
inent Republicans and again threat
ened that Buchanan would Withdraw
the following Tuesday evening at
O'Clock unless more funds were b,
that hour paid over to him. You
and | had just returned from Nash
vile, where l learned that Chairman
Baker had procui ed from individual
and advanced a considerable sum
Hearing this threat and actually fear
ing its execution, and that Jack Ba
ker, my friend, would then lose hi
money, l on Monday and Tuesda.
wired Secretary Jeffreys and Chair
man BAKER to hold things 5tatu gu
until Thursday, and repeated tn
same to our third party friend, Co
Tom Cain, at Morristown, whose sin
cerity / always trust. Meantime, 9
your solicitation, l prepared to go t
New York to see if Bakers none
could not, at least, be saved, which
t abandoned on kilograms from Seer,
tary Jetfreys and letter saying
: was unnecessary, as the matter ha
J heen ARRANGED