The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-06-27
PUBLIC SPEAKING.

HENDERSON NatNfI
ON Monday last an the candidates FOR
honors except Mr.. Sims,
spoke 10 a crowded house here. Uncle
Bob Hamilton, candidate Tor everything II
or every old thing was Che first speaker
on the floor aud devoted most Of his time
20 a scathing TRADE against Mr. Sims
record. He seemed TO be loaded for bear
and I'm his eagerness 10 shoot at every.
thing in sight, attacked the character and .
record Of Hon. ID. A. McDougal, a private
citizen, for which be was severely crti-
cised by a number Of his hearers. His
speech was made from type written notes
evidently furnished him by the enemies
of Mr.. Sims.
Hon. j. NJ. Trout followed, and made
a strong speech, part Of which we pro-
duce below
Mr.. Trout outlined his policy and plat |
form as follows: "Was in favor Of an
appropriation to reclaim the overlooked
lands in this section; was in favor Of ru
raj free delivery; amending the Constitu-
ton so that we can enforce the income
tax law; Of electing United States Sena-
tors by a direct vote Of the people"
Mr.. Trout did not attack Mr.. Sims
record, stating that he was "too much Of
a gentleman to attack a man in his alb
sence;" however he made a forcible at
tack upon his opponents present, and to
use his own expression, "what he did to
them was plenty"
General Lewis was the orator of the
day, and by request we reproduce his
speech in part below;
GENERAL LEWIS SPEECH
Monday was indeed a gem of eloquence
and oratory. Being mixture Of sledge
hammer blows against the Republican
party, eloquent appeals in behalf Of the
people, and interspersed with sparkling
wit and burning sarcasm.
He arraigned the Republican party for
holding Porto Rico as a possession Of the
republic and taxing it under our tariff
system as a foreign country.
He charged that they had given Cuba
a republic, and taken away their means
of support; that they had been given the
bone of freedom after being stripped of
its meat; that Cuba was denied reciproc-
J ity, denied the right to contract debts
, with other nations, and required to carry
/ out the adopted plans of the United States
as to sanitary regulations, etc., thereby
crushed by our tariff walls.
In the Philippines, he said, they are
j making desert and calling it peace.
} They are killing the natives to enlighten
t and chrlstianize them; teaching them lib.
4 erty with bayonets; spreading the gospel
a with the sword and teaching Sunday
{ school upon the ruins and ashes of burn
ed towns and destroyed homes.
r He paid a glowing tribute to the Amer
r lean army. Said for bravery and chival-
+ ny it was unmatched in history or on
g earth, but that General Smith had dis
: graced the army of America and of civil
= ization. His criticism of Smith were
t scathing and terrible.
r General Lewis said the curtain lecture
4 to General Miles for his mild suggestion
a of the cruelties Of the war in the Philip.
pines could only be given by President
f who would and had insulted the South
i by eating dinner with a negro.
b General Lewis argued that the greatest
e mistake of the republic was the purchase
Y Of the islands. Said "God forbid tha
y they should eyer become part of this
t government, with their black death t.
e add to the black peril we already have.
r "Lets adopt the minority resolutions O
the Senate committee" he said, "and es
e tablish for them stable government anC
e after proper guarantees as to coaling sta
e tions, loans, etc, sail agay With Goo
}. help and bless YOU to them"
r General Lewis compared the condition
l. of the peoples mind to the sleeping vol
if cano beneath the mountain, upon til,
J. summit Of which the wild eagle builde,
n her nest and the wild goat fed upon it
l. rugged sides, when some unseen hant
touched the main spring, when ruin an,
If destruction followed in its wake.
" His concluding remarks were a tribut
u to education in peToration that was sub
I timely eloquent and deserves a plac
III among the classics.
10 General Lewis is a forceful and eoquen
o. speaker, as he proved himself to be Mon
day. Many good judges said the Tro
* News-Banner was not far wrong when
S. said: THAT he could in one breath ap
in peal to the fancy and the imagination
lie the ridiculous and the reason.
re His speech was we'll received, and n