The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-12-08
THE NEW PARTY.

THE NEW PARTY.
The boilers from the Republican par
ty, known us Revenue Reformers, are
getting to be more numerous every day,
especially in the West, and their views
and intentions are matters Of great in
terest to the simon-pure protectionRad-
icals from President Grant down.
The Reformers are as earnestly pledg-
ed in their opposition to high tariff now,
as they ever we're to Democracy. They
say they can us consistently vote for Mr..
Brooks, OF New York, fortheneXt Speak
ership of the House, Il. they can for Judge
Kelly, of Pennsylvania Their object is
to destroy the power ofthe Pennsylvania
and New England manufacturing inter
ests; to anulhilate the high-tariif men;
and to assert the right of an oyerwhelm-
ing majority of the people of the North
west to seek cheap markets wherever
they Gun be found. 1t is Il simple strug-
Gle between sixteen or seventeen mil
lions of agriculturists and five or six
millions Of manufacturers; while the re-
mainder of our people, the middlo-men
Of commerce, are either neutral or sym
pathize with the farmer, because they are
also interested in cheap markets.
The Reiormers favor more direct taxa
ton, because us they explain it, the tar
III takes from the farmers nine dollars
for the benefit of the manufacturer, for
every one that goes into the Treasury;
while every dollar taken from them by
direct taxation goes to relieve the burdens
OF the Government.
Leading men among the Revenue Re
formers assertSldparty issues have been
lost sight of, not only in Missouri, but
throughout the entire north valley Of the
Mississippi. In Minnesota, forinstance,
at a public meeting in Olmstead county
which gave nearly fifteen hundred Radi-
cal majority two years ago, Appointment
Republican was interrupted III his ut
tempt to give the usual history Of his
party and claim for it the credit of hay
jag saved the country, &C., by IL sturdy
Old farmer who wanted to know some
thing about the tariff. The speaker re-
piled that he did not propose to discuss
that question just now. That i'll fact he
had not given it serious consideration,
and proceeded in the customary vein.
He was again interrupted by the asser-
ton that his audience knewal they want
ed to know about the Republican party.
But they did want to know something
about the tariff, and was admonished
that if he couldn't instruct them on that
point, he had better go home and send
I&ome one to them who could. Therevo-
Tuition i'll that district was complete. 1t
went Revenue Reform by about Z thous-
and majority.
They expect to secure the Speakershir
Of the next House by the assistance OF
the Democrats, who will they think, vote
with them rather than lend their aid to-
ward the election of a high tariff man.
While we have no idea that this move
ment will result in the formation of an
Independent party at present, tits help
ing to cripple and break down Radical
ism. Now is the time for Democrats to
stick together. Many Of these malcon-
tents, when they find that the mountain
won't 90 to them will do the next best
thing and come to the mountain. There
can be but two great parties in the coun-
try; and as the National Democratic par
ty isdaily gaining strength and influence,
and the Radical party daily losing both,
it is not probable that the Former will
break itself up for the purpose Of giving
ascendancy to a new movement. While
the dominant party is undergoing dis
Indignation, let the Democrats be firm
and watchful, and the day may not be
far distant when We will again, North
South, East and West, live once more
under Il Constitutional form Of Govern
ment.