The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-26
HON. b. a. ENLoE
Replies Go fbo Sims oireulnr.--Ercn silver
Candidate with q Gold stand.
ard Platform.

HNIffHt lN tIt new HlHHiH circular I
signed by four citizens 81 Linden, which I
was prepared by Mf Sims. ud ia being
by him throughout llo Eighth |
Congressional District in the interest of
DIS candidacy ilr Congress ask space
to reply io g.
BIZ. Sims claims that am not an avail
able candidate. Neadmits that receive
ed more votes than the candidates who
ran ON tho ticket ior me Legislature with
me in 1894, iu their respective counties.
received 8s7 more votes Tor Congress
than Bob Taylor received iu the district
for governor in 1888. received 23O more
votes FOR Congress than John H. Buchan-
ma received ior governor boo the district IN
1890. I received 4l3 more votes for Com
eress than Peter mmey received for gov
emog Boz ih6 district in 1902. j received
lI7 more votes Dor Congress- than Peter
Iumcv received for governor u lhe disc
tict iu 1884, In order tO serve his pul-
pose Mr. Sims takes certain figures and
twists and turns them about lon q conius.
ing manner, and in that way attempts 90
support his insnpportable arrument.
lie cen not deny that j have been and
was in the Jos. race stronger H7 a candle
date than my party, because ! reCoiyej
more Than the party vote.
With remarkable Inconsistency Mr.
Sims Jays Tits true that Mr.. Enloe re-
ceiyed more votes 90 this district than did
Governor Tuney both In 1892 and IN 1894
II is true thgi be resolved more votes in
the same territory than did the Hon. A.
w. stovall, u ~. johnson, r. a. Mays.
j. q. Sweeney and u. ~. Crawford as stat
cd, but did MIR Enloe receive more Dem
cratic votes han these gentlemen i'm their
respective counties and disricts2 Woula
not any other Democratic nominee under
the then existing conditions have receive
cd more votes tlan Governor Tumey and
the other gentlemen nAmedY
Mr. Sims may be q good jury LAWYER,
and ne may know how 10 make the worse
appear the better part, but he win not
make even the most ignorant men believe
| that tits easier 10 beat one candidate with
a united vote than it is 10 beat two can.
didates with a divided vote
But Mr.. Sims says / received votes that
were not Democratic votes, and that ad-
mission destroys the whole force Of his
argument against my availability. Would
Mr.. Sims decline to receive the vote of a
P0pulist or of a Republican,
Two years ago he fought me for the
nomination on the silver question, when
[ occupied the same position which l oc-
Cupy to-day. tle said i'm every speech In
that canvass that he was for putting q
dollars worth of silver in q dollar, az thC
market price Of silver bullion, If it made
the silver dollar as big as cart wheel
| He was then Cor the free coinage OF silver
at the ratio Of 30 to /.
! lie declared that the free coinage of sill
yer at l6 to ! without limit and without
the consent and cooperation of other ma
tons would make the United States TN,
7 dumping ground for the silver ofthe wOrlC
that the country would be flooded Will
fifty cent dollars; that it would drive al
Of the gold ont OF circulation that woul,
bring on the worst panic the world eve
J saw and that it would ruin the common
people. told him then that his plan o
! doubling the size of the silver dollar Woul,
rob the people who hold our present sill
yer dollars of one-half their money, ant
, as wehave nearly five hundred million
Of silver it would rob the people OF abou
, two hundred and fifty millions OF dollars
Is it reasonable to suppose that mel
: who left the Democratic party on this yer,
t question would then have voted for him
{ agold stand ard man, in preference to v0t
p ing for me when was in accord with then
! on that question. Even the Democrat
party would not vote for his nomination
and he quit the race, not for the sake q
c harmony, but to avoid a disastrous defea
in the primary election.
MIR. Sims seems to imagine that th
> people have forgotten his record ON thi
! question, and he seems to think that the
= have forgotten the strong opposition, an
q the many trials and difficulties, unde
:, which ] stood up and fought for il Will
he was fighting againstit. We have hear
o(men who were elected to Congress fol
getting the people and deserving them (
serve Wall Street, but the people hay
8 never proven untrue to those who hay
q stood true to them, and they will not no
= desert the men who have made this figl
> TO follow the leadership Of men who trie
Y to lead them into The shambles of Wa
a Street.
. When the sub-treasury scheme Of IL
: Popuhsts was most popular, in TACT +
. much 50 that it threatened the existenC
q OF the Democratic party, opposed it, an
e the POpuhsts have themselves since abal
p doned it. | agreed with them on the 81
yer question because it was Democrat
i and right. have continued the fight f
n free silver SINCE ! was defeated for Co
; gress as before. What has Mr.. Sims bee
doing? He attended the sound none
convention at Memphis with Carlisle al
!. Josiah Patterson, but when Senator Fla
! ris and the silver men held the silver co
!, vention little later at the same place
d was not there
= Mr.. Carlisle might as well 20 to Chic
7. 20 and be could as consistently 90 and al
3 the free silver Democrats to nominate hi
II for President on the ground Of his avail
Is bijity as Mr.. Sims can come to the Der
, ocfats Of this Congressional district az
= ask them to nominate him as the me
available candidate. 1.-The has Joined Il
church IN good faith, he should waitun
II he is baptised at the next election beio
Il he asks TO be made The presiding elder