Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-20
e mEmPHIs AFfEAL

THE MEMPHIS APPEAL,
Whose claims 10 be the .deemaooccra-
tic organ, pareSceIgence,, of West
Tennessee, has never, until recently,
been questioned by any one-and
now only, by those whose political
sanity may well be questionable
its issue-of Tuesday last, has the fol-
lowing; q .1'7f75i5 iaElEgHs sav9 g
Policy OF the Demoeratle Party.
Since the Democratic platform
was overturned and its vital prinei-
piles. were rejected in all the great
Northern States, there has been
much diversity ofopinion among its
leaders as to the policy it should
adopt. Locally, IN Tennessee, there
! is no question as the wisdom of
maintaining intact our organization
in State and Federal elections, but
that our readers may have the opin-
ions Of others in reference to this
question, we give the following
from the New York Tribune which
asserts that ''the Democratic party
is to-day the chief obstacle to q rea-
! lization of the ends which that par
ty PROCESSES to seek. The Democrats
are earnestly and generally for uni
versal amnesty, but they are in the
way gifts adoption, because the fact
of their support prejudices it and
enables its foes to excite prejudice
against it. They well to the whites
of the South, yet their good wishes
have not availed to better the condi-
| ton of those whites, but the contra
ry. In short, they bar the way that
! they would wish to travel and to
1 take the country with Them" The
4 Leader, the Democratic organ of To-
wa, says: .lr--.sl
The bedrock of 1872 consists not
/ in the perpetuation of the tradition
al Democratic party, nor in "pas-
sive policy" which coAtemplates
only temporary waving of that
organization, but in the permanent
disbandment of the traditional
Democratic party, and in the IMAM
/ guration of a new movement, to be
| led by the people en- masse, who
should meet in their inherent capa,
city and organize new party db an
| tito. Let county and State conyen.
tions select delegates to attend 8
! grand national convention on the
! 4th of July, 1872, held with the un.
| Outstanding that the Democratic
party is dissolved, and that the new
/ party of the people is to take It's
| place in the political contests in fu.
ture, and we shall have a party
which will be strictly Democratic
and purely Republican,, and there
will be no longer any doubt of the
defeat of the dominant party, and o.
the growing corruption of all par
| ties, at least for a brief season, unit
the new party becomes corrupt
whereupon let another new party
be organized, and still another auC
another, as fast as new parties be
come old and corrupt. If this car
be done, then, there is hope for the
future of States and peoples; other
wise we shall remain as we are.
We copy these expressions O.
opinion that it may been seer
in what direction public opinion ii
directed in other States. Whether
party leaders will "stick to the ship,
"stand by the old flag" ego dowI
with flying colors," or seek Other
modes of inaugurating reform anC
ofre-establishing freedom in Amer
ica,. remains to be seen. The parti
IAN action ofthe Democratic Cen
trail committee, and OF the represen
tatives of the people at Washington
| is looked for with great interest
The New York World, asserting
two or three months ago the dis
| solution of the Democratic party
now advocates the rigid mainten
ance of the organization. tits busy
| day by day, in proving by '.figurel
that never lie, /" though they do no
carry elections it seems, that the
/ Democratic party is. invincible
Its conduct has been such as to ex
| cite the suspicion that it only seeks
to assure Grants reelection, and i
may believe that the surest mode o.
| accomplishing this result is to fight
over again the battle of 1868. Thi:
can hardly be true, but the impress
sion commonly obtains that if the
same elements of discussion are
brought into the presidential con
test this year that have uniformly
/ crowned Radicalism with victory
! tildi OEduI VIII surely DC Ifluil
plant and the South victimized.-
What policy viii be adopted by the
leaders. of the Democratic party re
mains to be seen. Recently they
have been strangely silent
! We begin TO question the sinceri.
ty Of the liberal Republicans, anC
believe that the national confess
must be fought upon the issues thai
distinguish Democrats from console
dationists. The Democracy in thi!
State viii constitute a solid phalax
and whatever the action of the par.
ty as represented by its exponent'
at Washing, Tennessee's vote may
be registered, even now, as giVeI
against the reigning autocracy.
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