Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-06-20
NOT ORIGINAL, BUT AN LMITA-
TOR.

self, crank though he be. From the
deep shades of an Ohio obscurity he
leapad at one bound into national fame.
He is the nightmare of a Democratic
President. the terror of a Democratic
Congress and when he arrived with
his CRIME covered and tattered clothes
of strangely hammered Commonwealers
the city authorities of Washington
could not have been more affrighted
had a m%enagerie of Bengal tigers been
turned loose in the street. And now
since he has been nominated for Con-
gress, with the waxing quality of a
young moon the CONSERVATION is ION
the increase
When the General" demonstrated
his''peaceful mission ION the steps of the
Capitol the police did muster up cour-
age enough to pull" him and he was
jailed as rapidly as the processes of the
law would permit. When he gets in
Congress he will be apt to have lively
recollection Of these unwarranted in
dignities and to act promptly in pur.
suance Of some very dangerous designs.
(Our mind is so %perturbed and dis
torted by fears and misgivings as
to the ultimate fate of our county
ticket, we forgot what we started out
to say, but a timely glance at our head
ing brings us back to our fugitive sense
and theme
The records Of recent history show
that Gen" Coxey is not an original
genius, and his petition with boots on"
did not spring from his brain like
Minerva from the dome of Jupiter. We
make this statement with the honest
intention to accord to the Gen" all
the honors he fairly won. The worm
Of decay shall never feed upon a single
laurel on his brow if we can help it.
But we must maintain and defend his
torical accuracy, though the heavens
fall and the sun moon and stars be blot
ted from their orbit.
A distinguished gentleman Of the
Kentucky metropolis, whose pride it is
to poise himself astride the equatorial
line of union between the North and
South, and whose occupation it is to
forge various stunning sensations in
the editorial dome of the leading jour
nal of the country, has the first claim
upon us in locating the origin Of the
Coxey movement. He it was, who,
when the only sound that could be
heard was the musical swelling of the
Ohio's majestic bosom and the full
orbed effulgence of the gentle sheperd.
ess of the stars lay golden mist of mel.
low glory on the p~ulseless silences of
the sleeping city, discovered "the Star
eyed Goddess of Reform" hopelessly
and helplessly lost in the mazes Of its
deserted streets and ever without the
fimsy protection of a night robe. And
to keep the memory Of that discovery
forever fixed in the mental clutch of
the reading world, he it is who exhibits
from day to day the nude graces of
her divine symmetry and beauty.
(Another depression and recovery. !
And now for fear that the next stroke
of forgetfulness will be permanent we
will here say what we started out to
say that Col. Henry Watterson, of the
Courier Journal, kentucky is the pro.
life womb of military titles, you know, J
devised the admirable model of mobi,
lizing and marching an ''unarmed'.
army on Washington, with 'the peace.
full mission" attachment included.
Like ourselves his memory is ofttimes
in "a state of suspended animation y
too t%reacherous for a sustained effort,
and in his rejoicings over his invention
he forgot to have it patented, and is
therefore in the unfortunate dilemma
of having no basic plea for a legal pro-
cedure against Ger" Coxey neither
is Ohio a pauper as regards military ap.
pelations) for infringement.
Col. Wstterson's model was the
concentration Of 100, 900 uDarmed
Kentuckians" at Washington on Janu.
airy the ID, 1877 with the peaceful
mission" of counting Mr.. Tilden in.
The concentration did not material.
ize, and even the knightly Col. with
his thunderbolts of peace and gorgeous
costume of plain civilians dress re-
NAMED at home dreaming away the
rosy hours in the Oriental voluptuous.
ness of his beautiful city Of the Falls,
whilst Tilden was being counted out.
The 100, 900 K~entuckisns notified the
valiant Col. in time to withdraw his
picturesque invention from the public
gaze, that they were wholly unskilled
in the use of his brand of wal furniture
and too we'll settled in their habits to
learn its manipulation, and in fact "a
! peaceful mission was q grotesque in