Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-05

indicates the advent Of political ava
lanche-a tidal wave which will wine
out Grantism and bury the third term
and the bread-and- butter brigade of
Federal ofioe-holders SO deep that there
will be no use digging for. them. A
large class Of business men and farm
ers who have for the last fourteen wears
regularly voted the Republican ticket,
have seen the abuses and corruptions
increasing, yet have held on IN hope
that these would all be corrected by the
Republican party, but have at last
come to the conclusion that the only
way TO purify the party is to defeat it.
To ascertain the real sentiments of the
public, 1t is necessary to go outside of
the politicians ring, and invoke the
services of those who look upon par
ties as the means of attaining good
government, and not as the m cans
of obtaining Office. No one can
spend any time with this class,
either of bankers, insurance men,
importers, merchants, artisans, or me-
chanics, without hearing the almost
universal expression that the time has
come to rebuke the men who have been
using the Republican party and the
Government as their personal property.
The determination to arrest the abuses
in the present National Administration
extends immeasurably further than the
politicians imagine or dream of. The
sentiment throughout the country is
like that which existed IN this city IN
1871, when the people here had made
up their minds to break down and re-
pudiate the Tweed ring. This same
feeling is now arrayed against the
managers of the Republican party and
the national ring which has been ex-
tending its arm into almost every
State, plunderiRg the South by the
million, impoverishing the people there,
and striking our merchants through
Sanborn and Jayne and moieIies. The
Louisiana outrage and the bloody-shirt
business with which the Administra-
ton leaders started the fall campaign,
with Landaulet Williams as their Major
General, has had a different effect from
what they expected. Instead of divert
ing attention from the fraudsan short
con1ings of the Administration, it has
intensified the feeling against them,
and showed to what extent the Admin
istratiOn leaders would 60 to carry out
their schemes. 1t has now been nearly
tenyears since the war closed, and
during that time our merchants and
manufacturers have established bust
ness relations with all nations of the
earth, and IN many instances have es-
tablished branch houses in the South.
These business connections enable
them to keep fully advised in regard to
all that is going on. In fact, the out
RACES of the et-baggers and the po-
litical disturbances are all considered
in their business risks, and they reces-
sarily understand the real state of af-
fairs at the South. There is not a
prominent wholesale house in any Of
the Northern cities which is not kept
fully advised by their private CORES
ponGents in regard To all the stories
started by the Administration mana
gers, and they in return report to
their friends here. Merchants who
send goods to New Orleans, and find
N4dl lLC Eot4LC4OA
some trumped-up excuse by an order
from Judge Durell, and can only be
released by paying a bonus to a GO
between Of Durel or Kellogg, and that
the entire power Of the Administration,
even to the army, Is used TO sustain
this system, cannot be expected TO re-
main good Republicans. This is not
merely an isolated case, but is general
not only in this city but throughout
the North, and viii produce some IN
expected changes in the election Ct
Congressman. Who would have i'm
aglned two years ago that S. B. Chit
tenden would have accepted a Demo
cratic nomination? Yet this very fact
alluded to above has not only lead him
to that course, but in his speeches and
letters he advises everybody to vote the
entire Democratic ticket as the only
hope for the country at this time. The
Republicans are complaining of apathy
in their ranks. 1t is something more
than apathy-it is dissatisfaction and
disgust, with determination to pro-
duce change.