Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-08

fCT anu seLaC a. diISl NttiOilAl JAlns' SOA4Ao 1
for and some against paying the National
debt according TO law; some for and some
against taxing the bond holders, and so
on through the catalogue Of political
issues Senator Morton, of Indiana, sug-
gested a Congressional canvass for the
patching up of aplalformup1n which all
could stand without any one treading
upon the toes. of his associates. This
suggestion was defeated by attacks
of those who thought it unwise
and unnecessary TO have uniformity in
the platform upon the minor questions,
such as we have mentioned above, so long
as there was agreement upon the major
questions such as reconstruction, Fifteenth
Amendment, enforcement laws, and all of
that class. This was before the New
York Democracy carried that State by
near ninety thousand majority. That
election caused the major and minor 10
reverse positions in the estimation of the
leaders They became satisfied that these
questions which they had regarded as of
minor consideration were regarded by the
people Us of major importance. Hence
we have seen change going on
among the Radical journals-some
of them insisting with the Commercial
that ''The present Congress is TN
doubleday the last which will be elected
on the issues growing out of the war.
The reconstruction of States is over, and
the restored Union has to grant new issues
in which slavery or suffrage viii have no
part" In Missouri there is a contest go
ing on between the Radical papers as to
whether the tariff shall constitute one of
the issues in the next canvass.
The Republican party of Missouri, and
of every State, must not only meet this
| question of tariff reform, but must answer
to the indictment of legislating for classes
and against the interests of the people on
all financial questions. 1t must answer
for the exemption of bondholders from
| taxation; for the continuance of the
national banks, and the payment to them
of twenty millions of dollars year, when
every penny of it might be saved by the
substitution of Treasury notes for the bank
| circulation; for the subsidies and grants
of lands which have been voted to rail
roads; and for the extravaganza and cor
ruption which haveIprevailed in the execu-
tive and legislative branches of the Govern
ment for the last ten years. The Mis-
souri, Democrat is right in supposing that
these questions are invested with an inter
est, and have attained a prominence,
which will not permit a political party
hoping for the support of majority of
the people to evade, or treat with mean
ingless generalities.
The Democracy of Ohio announce their
political views on this subject in the fol-
lowing resolution:
| We denounce the present tariff, as well
as the substitute lately introduced in the
House of Representatives from the COM
mittee on Ways and Means, as gigantic
robbery of the labor and industry of the
country; that they are solely designed to
advance the interest of a few thousand
mon0polists, and that this should no
longer be submitted to, and that no can
didate for Congress, nor for any other
Office, is worthy of support who is not in
favor of low revenue tariff which close
| ly approXimates to free trade; that, in
the arrangement of any revenue tariff, all
the neccssaries of life should be absolute
ly free of duty.
The Democratic State Convention of
Ohio thus gave a fair indication of what
is the purpose of the Democracy of the
country in dealing with these questions.
1t is their purpose to deal with them fair
ly, and to speak concerning them with
such plainness of speech that all may IN
derstand. Hard times have made the
taxpayers of the country return to the
| consideration Of their material and true
interests.