Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-20
THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
Address of the Democratic State
Executive Committee,
Every Anti.Radical Voter In
vited to Cooperate.
Success Certain with Thorough
Organization. But the
Best Representative Men
Wanted i'm the Con-
VentiOn.
10 the peonle of rernessse

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| The Executive Committee, appointed
by the Democratic State Convention
held May 9, 1872, has, by resolution
unanimously adopted, called a conven.
ton 70 assemble in this city Wednes-
day, the 10Th of August next, for the
purpose of nominating candidate foI
Governor, and to take such other action
relating TO the next State election, as
to that convention maybe deemed most
advisable. The committee earnestly
urges upon the Democracy of every
county of the State the Importance Of
at once beg inning the@work Of organi-
cation. 1t with pleasure extends cor.
dial invitation to all Conservatives, to
all who oppose Radicalism, to unite
with the Democracy in this
work of organization, that thereby
a united, harmonious and we'll
disciplined front may be presented,
and thus an emphatic victory in
the approaching election made certain.
The result of the recent State elections
in New Hampshire, Connecticut and
Ohio, and of municipal elections in
some of the other States of the North
and West, is full of encouragement to
the friends of Constitutional Republi-
canism throughout the Union, and APP
peals with peculiar force at this time to
Tennesseeans, if they would escape the
despotism which rules and the desola-
ton which pervades our sister South
ern States, South Carolina, Louisiana
and Arkansas, to array themselves in
unmistakable opposition to the Nation
al Administration which has establish.
ed that despotism and encouraged that
desolation.
The gratifying fact that the great
agricultural States of the South and
the West are recognizing, more and
more clearly, the unity of their inter
ests, and that there is in the States of
the Northand the East noble band who
favor a perfect guarantee and thefull
allowance of impartial rights to the OPP
pressed and plundered of the South.
that there is IN each and every State an
increasing number who spurn mon
opoly, whether banking or a railway,
who hate class legislation, whether it
appear as a discriminating tariff or in
other guise, and who demand with po-
tential voice a reform of the official
corruptions which riot in every depart
ment of the general government, not
as simply charged by partisan malice,
but fully established to the satisfaction
of all men-each and ali of these bid us
not TO despair of the Republic, but to
strive for victory, "'like men who know
their rights, and knowing dare mann
tain" Though the recent past may be
dreary and discouraging, the future is
full Of hope. The fruition of our
efforts, after repeated defeats in ma
tional struggles and in many of the
State elections, is about to be realized
in the restoration to power of the party
of constitutional principles.
The State Committee urges the ne.
cessity of organization by civil districts,
by wards. and by counties. The Con-
gressional Committee should look to
the thorough organization of their re-
spective Congressional districts. Each
committee should see, as far as the
power in it lies, that defeat shall not
occur by a multiplicity of candidates or
dissention in our ranks. 1t is the du-
ty Of every citizen to feel an interest
and take an active part in our political
struggles. The good men of the State
should see that only the best men are
brought forward for office, whether it
be of low or high degree.
1t is IN the highest degree important
that the various county and Congress-
lonal Conventions; and more particu-
larly the State Convention, shall be
fully attended by delegates fairly Sc
lected from the body of the people, that
these conventions may be in fact as
well asin name representative bodies.
Let all remember that the interest
and honor OF the State and the welfare
of the citizens are largely dependent
upon heresult of each election. In
pressed with this conviction let all
unite with us in the good work of per-
petuating genuine republicanism and
promoting the general good of all the
people.
JNO. G. BURCH, Chm.
JOHN BLEyINs,
W. D. VANDYRE,
JAS. W. NEWMAN,
THOs. B. MURRAY,
F. c. DUNNINGToN;