The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-18
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LEwIsBURG, Tenn, May 3lst, 1910

LEWIsBURG, 1ENN.r May oAolr l0'o'
~ the Editor Of TIE Herald and MAI;
Asa corollary to your last weeks eX-
tract from Murat Halstead letter on the |
| approaching Presidential contest IN
| which he characterizes the South an, ana
West as 'Inhationists,' comes the 1ollo"-
| ing from JAS B. Beck, now UNDERSTOOD 10
he a candidate for U. 5. Senator rom
| Kentucky: 40,
without stain, and in all respects saw
this, a suitable one. AND II ne IS eleIl
ed Governor this fall by good majority
| 10 oop,t he beaten next year for Presl-
dent. TiIden is out OF the questloh'
The South and West will have the
naming of the candidate-you can
"kaen II from them, if you wanted To-
: and no Eastern BODYBUILDING candidate
will stand any show whatever, ,u
Mr. Beck finds no fault IN Gov Amen
ave his age, and he in common win
4aIstead nlaces the issue in the approach
e mo- Presidential struggle where no doubt
= = will fall on the Great Bond Question
If the day. | have before me copies o.
he New York World and Mobile Regis
Is Ter and a careful analysis ofthe teachings
d If these journals, | am convinced una !
er The new perils of the South lie IN M II.
49, Greeuback Pendletonian Theory Oh n
nance. If this shall be the cohleS1
ID 1876. it gives the Radicals new lease
S mower for four years, and with that fou
poors extension comes the ultimate an
;navitable ruin of the South. The que'
ion is a grave one. The ConservalN
. Democratic Party have done many loo
m ;sb things of late. and no one can Sd
he What they may not do under the preSeI
10 ao,,nseIIors and the present leaders, but
we commit the irreparable biunder oI.
m Jorsino the Creenback extension heres
md Iofaat certain. overwhelming and I'M
in waits our banners. We must not sWi
mi horses with the enemy in the middle
the stream. While Brlstow, McCuuoc
~ Grant and the Government are IN WORDS
sla- not in deeds striking at a return 10
axe specie basis, for the honor ana Vehe
all ton of our past record, let Us not CO
-;u6 up the vain cry OF Imitation, or eA2an l
-, 1t is directly across the "hole c ~
WITH the pasta complete change OF %
rar- Democracy pure and genuine IS not
mo ponymous with rag money and hnal re
diation. Honesty in politics, as IN eV
re- other calling of life, is ever the best ?
ant ~, The Financial Policy OF the pa
ex- IN mower for the last htteen ye'
Tn nucb as we may condemn IT, Is
-, M menas the salient point III
the rand struggle Of 1876. There are IN
arm weaker lines than those drawn by IL
the NrCnlIoch and William Pitt teSsenl
Los and if the combined forces OF next !
axnect to carry the man cltauei, I
the mnst mass their forces on 9lHei
now alionment. A people are, ana OF d -
very ought to be, very sensitive aoo"1 y
reft. money. Louch una. gUI1 the bodv pol
1. liz
now am convinced that many men o.
,bout nd West are wild as Icons on TINS mo
..r a,esfinn. Their sole idea seems TO
WIZ l,,ro me drink and let me die. IRE
lppo- -a;aFand future misery. Like the b
serve nan in San Francisco Harbor, "
made. Iriftinc ont to sea. after his ootllG
a 'ti,s he quietly laid down aud
ohal' II -, lot the boat 90 to thunder.
their 80 fhat believes that we have mt
,ssee, anorgb for the present purposes
,boeu .,hot Tho South wants is not more mo
L,t better money and more producu'
'9, ~ hor The whole American heart mas pee
Z la" ,borourhlv demoralized 10y the vast
ted il If worthless "rag money as lug We
Io,r 10 calls it, until it seems lmp9sSlgSE5 y
strain it in proper bounds
shake off this delusIoa-W@ mus
the fever which has turned me plI 1l
tuldlcu the lhlttttt' "4''
see in Is SEX and faint. Hundreds OF our
com neorIe believe that this great Panac
pPIIiiIs lies in an immediate lss4anl
you"= fabnlous piles OF Governmental
,nthu- nromises 10 pay-Govermmental no
pride pot money at ali either in law or e
n II should bet must be, the mls S F.
our leaders next year to correct TN
ucIans ror and return to the Landmarks Q
e has constitution. Keep one idea hXea
reliant, IN The mind-burn 1t into the me me
,4.o =, Too much paper money deoa9che
o,to' a. n ,~r industry ofany people,
by his + money. and such only is the Gree
energy nnrrencv. infuses prohigacy, Wild sp
forces ton, bankruptcy and final ruin M.
- conn nommcrce, and trade Of all s3oclei
moHo ali Governments, ldleness, like
better smm;nr cancer, is feeding on our
IF Ten vitaIs and lamentations are
genera in the land. Let us look facts
in the face, and talk and
TIA uSh- ,Iero Ike men. Soon the States
internal ,IoT, in state Conventions prep
20 State, ro ,J7 and now is the time to
rDkcd. ,,gother. If the South and West
nositions assigned them by Beck Al
lon u stead, we are beaten at the start