Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-16
The Third Party.
Failure of the Movement
Spirit of the Press.
From the BOli7er Bulletin.


From the BOliver Bulletin.
The friends of the third party are
not so toploitical in Gath a. they
were a few days since, and the
loud mouth thunder launched from
one or two undulating craters
just after the election has almost
died out, and is no longer terror
to weakened ducks of the Office
seeking kind. Those who talked
itabout that "the democratic party
was dead and that something must
be done" are no longer exposing
their ears, but have quietly step
ped to the rear, or else changed
tone, and are now shouting for the
only constitutional party in the
country. The third party move
ment is as sick q kitten as ever
Rugged a warm brick.
From the Brownsville Bee.
Some of our heavy calibre ex.
changes are using up vast deal
of stationary on the subject of par
ties in the State. The terrible
bugaboo seems to be the name of
the party. There has been for
some years a Radical party in the
State, but is now dead. The OPP
position to it, although nameless,
killed it. 1t had no enduring basis;
nothing to stand upon but plumber
and violence, SO it was easily
done away with. The trouble
now is to get a name by which this
opposition to Radicalism may lie
known.
From some cause real or imagin.
airy, the name of Democrat has a
sort Of hydrophobic effect upon
the nerves of these gentlemen.
The Richmond Wing gravely in
forms US that, in the North, sail
who are not Republicans are Dem
ocrats," but here sit is not So"
This print goes on to add that
"both the old parties coalesced
under the name of Conservatives,
the majority of the coalition being
Wings, and not Democrats
Such may have been the case,
but assuredly it is a view of the
situation never before called to
our attention. The Wing party,
as a separate organization, had
ceased to exist in the whole coun-
try, North and South, many years
before the late war began. Our
recollection is that it ceased to ex-
list about seventeen years ago, and
a large majority of the Southern
people ranged themselves under
the old Democratic banner. The
Wing ought to be high authority,
but in this matter we beg leave to
differ with it. However, this is a
matter of small concern-the name
of the parties in the olden time.
For our own part, we see no i'm
mediate and pressing necessity for
demanding of the anti Radicals of
Tennessee the taking to them
selves a name at present. We are
personally and politically Demo
Gratis. By this we mean that we
are opposed to Radicalism in all
of its phases, and in favor of
Constitutional government.
State sovereignty.
The regulation of the affairs of
each State by the people of that
State.
The abolition of military rule
and the restoration of civil gov
eminent.
The protection of the religious,
civil, political and pecuniary rights
of everybody in the nation, and
to giving any man, or set
of men, anything more than JUS
tice and true merit entitle him or
them to.
We hope that the press of the
South will find better employment
than squabling over a name, but
we surely will not abandon ours
until we have, at least, some 9TH
er to adopt. We grant freely to
all other men the same liberty in
this matter that we ourselves ex-
ercise.