Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-17
Election Tuesday, Nov. 8.
EVANS AT COLUMBIA
A Profound Sensation Pro-
duced BY His Speech.
Not Satisfied With Hearing Him Once,
They Ask Him to Address Them
at Night.
COLUMBIA, Tenn,

NeIoeH odndefS, chairman ItePHo-
Hcan State ExecutiOe Committee,
Chattanooga, Tenn:
Columbia is near the center of
the garden spot Of Tennessee, and
therefore of the world. Her mag
niicent men, beautiful women, fast
trotting horses, superior cattle, I'M
rivaled scenery, grand forests, lux.
uriant blue grass are the admiration
of the world, and pride of every
Tennesseean. For seventy : five
years it has been the southern home
of the southern aristocracy. The
Folks, Pillows, Whitthornes, Nick
olsons and other names distinguish
ed in military and civil history,
have from this point dominated the
policy of the state for over a half
a century.
Since the war the population
has been made up of the ruined
and decayed aristocracy the poor
laboring whites and the negroes.
The latter soon became an i'm
portant factor under the leadership
and control of the republican
whites, and were pitted against the
class that ruled before the war.
The latter arrayed the country
whites against the negro on strictly
color lines, with the result that
democracy triumphed, not upon its
principles, but through prejudices,
and democratic leaders have been
so we'll satisfied with the result
that they have never cared to have
republican doctrines preached in
their midst. More than one repub-
lican orator has had the cold
shoulder turned toward him. More
than one has heard the hooting of
an owl when it should have been
the scream of an eagle.
The friends of Mr.. Evans even
hesitated about bringing him here.
They doubted the wisdom of SUBJ
jecting him to the cold treatment
that he would possibly receive.
He came.
His most ardent admirers were
not prepared for the reception that
awaited him. They were not pre-
pared for the feelings of unrest,
disappointment and dissatisfaction
that pervaded the laboring white
class of Maury county.
They did not know that hum
dreds of laboring white men had
been voting the democratic ticket
for years on account of prejudice
against the negro, led as they had
been by Carmack, Hatcher, Whit
thorne and other hotspurs. They
had fed on prejudice, wal stories,
and outrages until their souls had
become emaciated and their bellies
empty. Evans coming was that of
a political Messiah.
He talked to them as a laboring
man to laboring men. He showed
them that wealth honestly acquired
must come through labor that
evidence and only evidence of the
prosperity of a country was the
employment of its labor at fair
wages, enabling the laborer to
secure the necessities and comforts
of life. He tore the mask from
democracy and pictured her as the
old slave system stalking about the
land using the bull whip of "negro
domination" and yankee suprem-
acy."
He paid a glowing tribute to
Tennessee. Her wonderful re-
sources and marvellous possibilities.
The story of her achievements in
the Revolutionary war, at Kings
Mountain, where her sons had
turned back the tide Of British sue
cess; her sufferings and triumphs
in the Seminole war; her part at
New Orleans and on the plains of
Mexico, were pictures on the men,
o y of the youth of every state.
When a mere boy, in looking out
fgr a place where he might carve
for himself a name and fortune, of
his own free choice; he had selected
Tennessee as his future home. For
over a quarter of a century he had
been identified with her interests.
His audience listened with close
attention for an hour and a half.
When they were dismissed, they
went back to their homes and told
their neighbors the wonderful
story of Tennessee development
and they came back and begged
him to tell it over again. They
made him speak at night to a
crowd hat filled the house to its
utmost capacity.
Such a bath of common sense
and patriotism old Maury has not
had for many years. Men who
went to scott, went home to think.
The war is over up here. Secession
was shot to death in 6I-64.
Negro domination is not half as
frightful as a belly famine. Our