Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-10
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sal suffrage ticket" Col. Paramore having
announced himself in the columns of the
Banner as candidate for representative
from this county Sin response to the call
of large number of the Republicans of
the county," snd in attempting to defend
its course for wishing to divide the re-
presentation of the county with the Re-
publicans in the present Legislature,
by giving them either the
Senator and one Representative,
or two representatives, the Banner says
that was during "the Brownlow regime. :"
The truth is the editorials of the Banner
which we quoted, were written and pub
ished in July, long after SeEter became
Governor, and nearly two months after
the split in the Radical ranks at the Can
Can Convention, when Stokes and Senter
both claimed to be nominated.
Hear him in yesterdays issue:
The liberal policy which the Banner
has invariably pursued and urged, and
which our neighbor has as persistently
disapproved, hiss been thus far attended
with success, where inevitable failure
would have been the result of the oppo.
site policy.
Let us see what is ''the liberal policy
which the Banner has invariably pur-
sued and urged, and which the UNION
AND AMERICAN has as persistently disap-
proved" On the 25th of May, few
days after the Stokes and Senter split,
our '1iberal-policy" contemporary said:
The Banner had repeatedly expressed
itself Tprevious to the Stokes-Senter Can
Can in favor of seeing returned to the
General Assembly such Republicans as
Mr.. Roach, Mr.. A. V. S. Lindsey, Mr..
Fletcher and others of that liberal
school. These gentlemen, we under
stand, are for Stokes for Governor. Be-
ieving the liberal sentiments they have
expressed, prevail among the leaders of
the dominant party, 1Oe TeiteTdte our en-
dOrsenle,at and repeat that among the
disfranchised there would be no objection,
much less any factious opposition to the
return of such gentlemen to the Legisla-
ture.
On the 18th of June the Banner sand !:
We will imagine full Legislature-if
all Republicans so much the better, as
there will be fewer jealousies, old records,
old feuds, old issues and old bones of con-
tention to distract the members thereof
from grayer legislation.
On the 18th of June the Banner said {:
We say again, and we say it in all ear
nestness and sincerity, that it is our sober
and deliberate conviction, that it would
be best for US all, if the nert LegisEd-
tltre should be exclusively Republican,
provided it is decently and periodically
Republican, than that it should be mis-
cellaneous chaos of all crceds and dogmas.
Better to let the old firm assume the liza
bilities, close the books, and settle up the
old business before zoe begin to rush up
the ne1O sign.
This was repeated on the 22d of June.
On the 18th, when it was believed that
the Conservatives would be in the minor
ity, and in reply to an interrogatory of the
Press and Times, "Who1l send US a
sharp, active minority " the Banner
said:
If anybody does we shall begin TO
believe the fools are not all dead yet, and
pray earnestly for an epidemic. =
So far as this journal is concerned, we
announce at the outset that we shall not
be guilty of the sin of encouraging dem
agogues, even on our own side of the
question, by occupying our columns with
their platitudes and common places. If
it is all the same to the Press and Times,
we prefer no minority-we prefer no OPP
position.
On the 10th of July it bespoke the
unanimous vote of the Conservatives for
Col. Paramore. On the 18th it thought that
the opportunity "for just division of
the representation In this county had ar
rived, by giving the Republicans either
the Senator and one Representative or two
of the Representatives. F" On the 18th of
August, after the election for Governor
and members of the Legislature, in reply
to some one who had said in the Franklin
ReUieaC, s'The Banner man, who for so
long has held the leading strings in this
State, has quietly slipped from his seat
and handed over the ribbons to the Mem
phis Avalanche" the Banner said:
Not at all. The Banner man simply
makes room on the drivers seat for the
genuine Democrat (AUaLGnche) of live
ideas on the one side, and the suffrage
Republican of liberal sentiment on the
other. Thus one may held the ribbons,
the other crack the whip, and the third
lock the wheels on the down grades, time
about.
Here we have specimens of "the Gber-
al policy which the Banner has inVari-
ably pursued and urged, and which the
UNION AND AMERICAN has as persistently
disapproved, and which "liberal policy"
the Banner claims 'has been thus far
attended with success, where inevitable
failure would have been the result of the
opposite policy"
What answer does a Conservative
Legislature, Conservative State officers,
the United States Senator elect, the Con-
stitutional Convention, the new Constitu-
ton, the complete enfranchisement of the
whole people of the State-what answer
makes each and all of these to the success
of ''thc liberal policy" which the Ban
ner has invariably pursued and urged,
and which the UNION AND AMERICAN has
as pcrsistcntly disapproved2 let them
answer.
THE Detroit Free Press says that
every little while the Radicals have a
spasmodic attack of selecting a Presi-
Dental candidate for the Democracy in
1872. They run through long list of
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