Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-23
THE DOG AND HIS TAIL.
which shall was Che others-A Rad
zeal Organ wresfles Heroicaily
with the COnundrum.


zeal Organ wresfles HeroicaiIy
with the COnundrum.
Chattanooga Commercial, June 81.
The question as to whether the dog
wags the tail or the tail the dog, is be-
coming one OF grave Importance at
Nashville now, and in fact throughout
the State. There is at last an open
rupture between the two leading organs
of Democracy at the Capital, which is
not likely to be healed. The Banner
very plainly declares war when it says
the Union AND AMERICAN ''shall not
interfere with the BaRnei 3 yigorousa and
active participation in the important
State canvass pending, and in the
hearty support of the candidates whom
it means to help its Democratic and
Conservative fellow-citizens nominate
In the August Convention, in which the
Colonel, with his organ and his Office,
will be very superfiuous veteran"
This indicates that there is not room
enough in the party for both these or
gans, and yet it is perfectly evident
that each has a following that cannot
be ignored in the eounsels of the party.
Each faction is too heavy to be wagged
around as a tail The UNION AND
AMERICAN is probably the representa-
tive and leader of a majority of the
party, and it will be impossible to make
''superfuous veterans" of Col. Rurch
and his organ, or to unload the Demo-
cratic party Of any odium that may at
tach to them during the canvass. The
load must be carried, and it cannot
even be attached TO the party as tail,
having no force IN its counsels, no
share IN its patronage, and no response
bility In the administration of public
affairs entrusted TO it. The Banner
has undertaken herculean task which
we are persuaded it will not be able to
accomplish. 1t cannot make something
else out Of the Democratic party, it
cannot lift it up and place it on higher
ground and new footing. The tradi-
tons and characteristics of the party
are utterly opposed to the self assumed
Rer is now engaging. The effort is
commendable, but 1t is instructed. 1t
will be as futile as have been the ef-
forts of Hyaeinthe to incUlcate Pro-
testant doctrines IN the Catholic
Church. If his ideas were carried out
it would no longer be the Catho-
lie Church, whatever he might
choose to call it, because it
would be deprived of the most
marked features and doctrines of the
church. 1t is impossible to take the
ideas, the character and the following,
represented by Burch, Brown and 9TH
ers, out of the Democratic party, or to
make them subservient to different
ideas and other leaders, because they
constitute the party, and any such rev.
olution as the Banner contemplates
would be practically the formation of a
new party, free from old doctrines and
traditions. The contest In the State
must be between the Democratic party,
with the ideas, principles and character
stamped upon it by Brown, Burch and
other conspicuous leaders, and what
ever the Republican party may offer in
opposition. The Banner will find that
it and its followers will be compelled to
train either with the one or the other
or set up for themselves a third party,
as they did in the last campaign.