The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-07-23
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EDITOR CITIzEN We beg leave TO
suggest that the call for S convention in
your issue Of the 18th may possibly be
premature, since there il a party, the
independents, named very properly.
being independent OF party ties, party
obligations and all regard for party sue
cess, which is striving 20 divide the con-
sentative party and % break down the
conservative system, the only safeguard
the people have against radical suprem-
acy. We make this suggestion because
one OF the largest segnents in the court
house circle has been heard 10 declare
that alter the August election no man
Ia Giles county will run for Office again
IN five years without consulting said
segment The corpse of the deiunct
convention viii then be buried and g
short consultation Gin my Office viii
soon settle the questions that yex those
who are unadvisedly striving TO pre-
vent the disorganization Of the eonserv-
alive party. This may ali be very well
however, since an Independent success
viii take the necessity Of calling con-
yeafions and making nominations out of
the hands of the people, and would
soon, Phsetun like, drive to their own
destruction, and place it in the hands Of
the fec, who are generously willing to
so little the proper means of preserving
their party integrity Now, the clever
and popular gentlemen who constitute
the annular combination against the
unity OF the conservative, the only par
~ from which the people have any good
TO expect, have voluntarily placed them
selves in 4 position of antag0nism to
that party, and are strengthening the
civil rights party, and SO far as they
succeed in disorganizing their own, will
contribute to the success of that party
and It's principles They are intensity
ing the unfortunate divisions thar gave
% democratic Tennessee , years ago
radicals out of ten congressman. and a
crOwning glory of their labors in the
present canvass may be an Out-and-0ut
civil rights representation for their
state in the next Congress. They
may affect to regard the risk of a radi-
cal success as a myth of the cOnserVa-
i've brain; yer that does not explain
Why they should not rather have aided
their party in this crisis than TO give
50 zealOusly their time and influence to
its overthrow. No white voter of the
county, who prefers the success of the
white mans party, should aid them in
bequeathing to this county and State
another lost cause. For the cause of
the conservative party Is the cause OF
the people, and its loss is the restoration
TO Office and power of the party of miss
rule and OPPRESSION high taxes, cor
ruptiOn in Office and negro equaEtv.-
This is no time for discussions among
ourselves. Let every conservative do
his duty and remember that defeat is
disaster, and that defeat of the nOmi-
nees may secure radical success now,
and in November a contingency ex-
tremely probable, since a division of
the conservative vote may give to the
radicals, whose thorough organization
is beyond question, an easy victory -
We are in the condition Of the bull in
the fable, strong to defend ourselves
while united, but viii fall an easy prey
TO the radical lion when divided There
is no safe middle ground for a eOnserv-
alive; he must take his choice between
his own and the civil rights party.
Omitted we stand, divided we fall"
CONsERV ATIvE.