Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-03
Public Speaking.

Pursuant to previous notice Hon. W..
G. Anderson, Republican nominee for
Congress, addressed the people of this
county at the Court House Monday,
commencing at one O'Clock. County
Court brought all the Magistrates to
town and there was a good crowd in
attendance, many of them being DEM
oorats who gave good attention to all
that was said.
E. A. Shipley Chairman of the Coun-
ty Committee, called the meeting to
order and designated s. B. Keefauver,
one of Jonesboro's young lawyers, to
introduce Mr.. Anderson to the audience
which lie did in a happy and appropri-
ate manner, paying a high compliment
to East Tennessee and her statesmen
present and past, referring to Mr.. An.
derson in very complimentary terms as
the nominee of the Republican party.
Mr.. Anderson then took the floor
and proceeded to discuss the issues of
the day, remarking that some Demo-
cratic paper had said that he was a
good business man, but not much of O
speaker. he said the trouble with the
Democratic party was that 1t could
speak well enough but when put in
possession of Government they were
incompetent to transact Its business.
He referred to history of the two parties
and declared that the Democratic party
always opposed everything Republi-
JAMS advocated, only to come along
four years later and camp on the same
ground we had occupied in the last
campaign.
He arrsigned the Democratic party
for its record on State banks and other
heresies, and eulogized the record Of
the Republican party in giving to the
country a financial system that makes
gold, silver and paper currency circul.
ate at par in all parts of the country.
He declared the Republican party
was the best friend that silver had, and
claimed that the protective tariff policy
of this party had given to the country
the wonderful prosperity 1t has en-
joyed for thirty years ending with
Democratic supremacy in 1892.
In the midst of Mr.. Anderson 3 speech
a street fight produced a small panic
in the Court House, and caused a large
number to leave the room which was
calculated to embarrass the speaker,
but in q few moments he resumed his
remarks and discussed the business de.
preston and labor troubles of the
country, for which he held the Demo
cratic party responsible.
The Democratic doctrine that the
consumer pays the tariff, and that
the tariff Is a tax, was shown to be un.
supported by the facts OF history,
which records the fact that protection
has largely reduced the price Of every
thing on which a protective tariff has
been levied by Republican tariff legis,
lation. Mr.. Anderson then ~pulverized
the Wilson bill, and paid his respects
to Mr.. Cleveland for permitting the bill
to become a law, whereby the peoples
sugar Is to be taxed, so that where you
have gotten twenty pounds Of sugar
for one dollar, now you will get about
fifteen pounds. To the farmer he
showed, by reference to statistics from
Texas and Pennsylvania, the impor.
lance Of fostering manufactures and
predicted that East Tennessee would
under Republican politics yet be one
OF the greatest manufacturing sections
in the Union unless free trade Democ.
racy was retained In power.
He then referred to the position OF
the Democratic administration upon
the question Of pensions, and Of the
unjust proceedings in ~suspending pen.
s%ioners by the Wholesale without cause
after the claims had been adjusted and
allowed under former administrations.
The Republican party, said Mr.. An
derson, 10 tho friend of the old soldier
The Worlds Fair Tests
showed no baking powder