Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-08
TIE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CALL-wHA
IT MEANS AND WHO ARE ITS sIGNERS.


TIE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CALL-WHAI
IT MEANS AND WHO ARE ITS sIGNERs.
Editors Louisville Commercial:
NASHVILLE, Tenn March 2.-In your
issue Of to-day, see you notice that an
address is to be published by ex-senator
Fowler, Chancellor East and others, pre-
tending to be Liberal Republicans, Invoking
the Republicans of Tennessee to send dele
yates to the Cincinnati Convention.
Said address was published in this morn
ing's Nashville Banner "a Democratic
sheet) which, doubtless, you will have seen
ere this reaches you. We have read this
address, and must say that the sentiments
it expresses are exactly such as we should
expect to come from the gentlemen signing
it.
Politically, who are the signers Of this APP
neal? We have conveIsed with several Of
the most prominent and active Nashville
Republicans on this subject, and we know
something personally of Tennessee politi-
clans: therefore we understand their status,
and can answer the above question. Th6
sicuers of the address referred to (Which Is
in fact all appeal to the Democrats) are
nothing more nor less than Democrats
| themselves. Those of them who once were
Republicans deserted our party long time
AGO; we Law no claim to them; they are not
! considered Republicans by either native or
! Northern born Republicans, and, to make
! their political standing understood, (as well
! as such politicians can be UnderstoOd) we
| will tell Won that they are considered Of the
| same stripe, faith, and politics as ex-Presi-
! dent Andrew Johnson; and if that is not
! Democratic, we do not know what it is;
! but this we DO know, Tennessee Republi-
| cans Law no claim to this class of politicians.
Ex-senator Fowler, Judge East, or the
other gentlemen who signed that address,
! cannot control or influence a single Repub-
! Ecan vote in Tennessee, and if they succeed
/ in being sent as delegates TO the Schurz-
! Trrmbull Convention at Cincinnati, they
/ simply represent themselves and the De-
! mOCraCy.
Tennessee Republicans en- H1aSSe are
strongly In favor Of Gen. Grants renOmi-
nation, and you can assure the friends OF
the Administration in Kentucky aud else
where, that the Republicans of Tennessee
! will stand firm and send true Grant dele
cation to Philadelphia, but will send no de-
legates to the Cincinnati Convention.
Yours, etc, Auburn.
wa puDllSu VIC dDONC lOl SilC AAllOI 4AdblOlA
of all concerned and some who are not
We presume we may also take the liberty
of saving in behalf of our local contempora
", the Banner, it is not, as this Radical
correspondent would insist, "a Democratic
sheet" Upon the contrary it is among the
most violent of those who desire Demo
cratic disorganization and disarmament
Therefore we can very candidly say: Lee
the truth be spoken.
The Commercial, commenting on the let
ter above, says:
The Nashville letter we publish this morn
ing shows Just how much the liberal Repub
Iicau movement in Tennessee amounts to
The Republicans who will 90 into it are
Republicans who have been acting with tht
Democrats, and as it is in Nashville so
will turn out to be largely throughout tn
country. The bulk Of the liberal Republi
can party viii be recruited from those VIII
dissatisfied in one way or another haT
sought refuge in the ranks of the DemOcra
! cy and finding UncOngeDial abiding place.
there seek the FIRST organization offering les
irksOme and distasteful surroundings.
/ LoYALIsTs are breaking up Republican
5 meetings In England. 1t is well remarks
! by a contemporary that they are sowin
dragons teeth which may produce ful