Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13
ANDY CUT LOOSE AGAIN.
He Favors Low Taxation and Econ
omy.
He Reads the Young Politicians Lectur
ON Democracy.

O1ys
He Reads the Young Politicians n Lecture
ON Democracy.
EX-President johnson made Il speech
in Nashville on Thursday night from
which we make the following extracts:
If you talk about reducing the taxes,
why the fear is that the Democratic party
is to be disrupted. | claim to know some
thing about the thing you call Democracy,
and | clatm to have been Democrat some
time before some of those who are so scru-
pulous now about the Democracy, We're
born. Applause and cheers.) / state,
furthermore, that when they put their fin
ger upon one single leading principle,
aud cardinal point of Democracy in the
proper sense of the term, from which i de-
parted, | will agree never to appear before
the public again. (ApplaUse.) Yes, if
| those measures are not ignored, Democracy
! is to be disrupted. Let me ask all here to-
night, irrespective of party, when did any
of you hear that proposition to redeem
the taxes of the country, to relieve the peo-
pie from the oppressive burdens that rested
| upon them, was an anti Democratic meas
ure? Is this tax bill, is this assessors bill,
| is this funding bill taken and constituted
as one of the tenets of the Demo-
cratic party? If they are tenets of the
| Democratic party, / am free to say to-
night that my comprehension of Democ-
racy is entirely wrong. Democracy is
not responsible for them. They are not
Democratic measures, and Democrat has
no right to talk about disruption, when we
| say we want those burdens taken from the
peoples shoulders. 1t is only a pretext to
get up the idea that somebody wants to dis.
rupt the Democratic party; then they will
cry out disorganization and the thing Is
settled. / have never been out of the party
| a L..
Voices" That's right, stick TO it and
loud laughter.) When others get out,
who are much youngerthan the person who
addresses you here tonight, they get out
with the intention of disrupting the
Democratic party. So far as the thing
called Democracy ia concerned, / am q
Democrat in principle, and not in mere
profession. / am Democrat with those
who agree in Democratic principles, and
not simply in the name.
Suppose you reduce the peoples taxes
and by reducing them you suspend par
or all the interest on these bonds Tor short
time, would that be reputation? Would
that be anything wrOng2 You want an
item Of million and half OF dollars t.
pay the interest upon your bonds. sup
pJse you bring your assessment down L
% cents on the 500; Won pay ChIe0 pc
cent. on this debt, and, as many OF TIN
holders OF these bands bought them 70
/, fifty and sixty cents on the dollaG the
will then get six per cent on their in
vestment, and this would relieve tn
great mass of the community to Consid
, erAhle extent.
L vOnld recommend this same rule Of 70
ducliou % run through your counties an,
corporations, and give the people relic
cGrres pOndingly. But II is said that 4
tax queation must not DO touched. Now
am for Coneiliasion and reconciltat lon
boz IL seems 10 me that this proposition I
, | reduce tax alton Is one OF the best tha
could be submitted to people Of all parties
u seems to me that this ID one plank in
2 platform upon which We can all stand.
vHE LITTLE RING AT NASHVILLE.
IN this S2ats men say they want han
!, mouy between tho Chpatharu men and TN
o johnson meE, Would not thus Iue7LtO