Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-05-28
FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE
Democratic Convention.

The Democratic State Exec
utive Committee, in session last
Friday in Nashville, agreed to
call a convention Of all oppo-
nents of radicalism, TO meet in
Nashville, Wednesday, August
18th, to nominate a candidate for
Governor. The time, we think,
we'll chosen, and now it is i'm
portant that the true members
of the Democracy should har-
monte all differences, cement
the forces, compromise prejudi-
ces and consummate the triumph
which surely awaits us, unless
VIC are seized with blindness and
again throw away the advanta-
ges We possess. Kindly feel
ing. friendly discussion, and a
determination to adhere to those
time-honored usages which con-
tributed SO much toits triumphs,
should be insisted OH. We
should meet together in con-
yention, in ii friendly and frater-
nal spirit. All personal aspi-
rations should be sacrificed up
on the altar of common good.
We should remember that there
is watchful opposition, whose
only hope of success depends
upon our divisions, and that
nothing but diSaffection can
weaken us.
The committee issued the fol-
lowing well-timed and temper
ate address:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. >, May22,'74.
To the people of Tennessee:
The Executive Committee.
appointed by the Democratic
State Convention, held May 8,
1872, has, by resolution unan-
imously adopted, called con-
vention to assemble in this CITY
Wednesday, the 10Th Of August
next, for the purpose Of nomi-
mating candidate for Cover
nor, and to take such other ac-
ton relating to the next State
election as to that convention
may be deemed most advisable.
The committee earnestly urges
upon the Democracy Of every
county Of the State the impor-
lance of at once beginning the
work Of organization. 1t with
pleasure extends a cordial in
vitation to all Conservatives, to
all who oppose Radicalism, to
unite with the Democracy in
this work Of organization, that
thereby a united, harmonious
and well-disciplined front may
be presented, and thus an en-
Phatic victory in the approach
ing election made certain. The
result Of the recent State cleo
tons in New Hampshire, Con-
necticut and Ohio, and of the
municipal elections in some Of
the other States of the North
and West, is full Of encourage
ment to the friends Of constitu-
1ional republicanism throughout
the Union, and appeals with
peculiar force at this time to
Tenncsseeans, if they would es-
cape the dcspotism which rules
and the dcsolation which per-
vades our sister Southern States,
South Carolina, Louisiana and
Arkansas, to array themselves
in unmistakable opposition to
the National Administration
which has established that des-
potism and encouraged that
desolatiOn
The gratifying fact that the
great agricultural States of the
South and West are recognizing
more and more clearly, in the
unity of their interests, and that
there IS the States Of the North
and the East noble band who
favor a perfect guarantee and
the full allowance of impartial
rights to the oppressed and
plundered Of the South, that
there is in each and every State
ar increasing number who spurn
monopoly, whether banking or
a railway, who hate class legis-
iation, whether it appear as a
discriminating tariff or III other
guise, and who demand " it'll po-
tential voice a reform of the Of
fcal corruptions which riot in
every department of the gener-
al Government, not as simply
charged by partisan malice, but
fully established to the satisfac-
ann of all men-each and all 4