The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14

Is the way he talks about the Democratic
party;
THE ex-Confederates will have the
dominant force in the Democratic party
in the next HOuse-the House that may
be called to elect q President-snd the
Catholic organ in Cincinnati has an
nounced that the solid Catholic vote shall
be thrown for the Democratic party next
fall. 1t does not argue that am preju-
diced when object to see
ing supreme in national affairs a party
whose right and left wings are represent
alive of the Southern Confederacy and
the Church of Rome"
Mr.. Halstead and the Northern people
need have no fears of the ex-C onfedsrates,
while they have for their leaders such
men as Gen. John B. Gordon and Gen.
Y. C. WhitthOrne. who are among the
most Conservative members of the Senate
and House. Mr.. Halstesd made use of
the following words, which are full of the
smallest prejudice and partisaHship:
"The Independent voters" however,
think there may be a chance to do some
thing. They think that the Democratic
party will get into mischief next winter
with their Congress- that the sixty Con-
federate officers who are in the next House
will to algreat extent control that body,
in which there will be plentiful lack of
competent leaders: that there will be an
introduction of rebel war claims, a move
ment looking to pensioning rebel soldiers,
and possibly toward compensation for
slaves, the whole to be backed by ire
mendous initiation; that Senator Eatons
State hag will be thrown to the breeze in
the several sovereign States, each acting
for itself in its own capacity and some
of them think in order TO check all this 1t
would be a good time for the Cincinnati
Convention $50 to speak, to meet again
and do what it did not do three years ago.
Whatever may be said in disparagement
of the Cincinnati Convention, it might
have named the President. The better
element that composed it may do next
year what was left undone three years
ago."
two-thirds of the Western Democrats are
inAationists. They mean great specula-
Honis, vast expenditures in pretended
public improvements, and all the prohiga-
cy of an era of paper money. Those
who are preparing to speculate in great
! schemes of expenditure, and who would
/ at once initiate and at last repudiate, are
| among the most efficient of the managers
of the Democratic party, in the States
| where it is most powerful and whose in
| huence must therefore be recognized as
| the real executive force of the party.
What they want is more money: 1t is
not the quality of the money they are
/ lcDIHnr o&a~ hnk TIA 1kr-s nd hot
means that if paper dollars were multi
| Piled and times hush, the currency might
answer to pension Confederate war
claims, build the Mississippi levees, com
| plete the James river canal, which Gen.
Washington invented when he was lit
tie boy, tunnel the Appalachian chain
nine miles for the use of canal boats be-
tween the James river and the KanswhR,
extend Tom SCOTS railroads to Southern
! California, and a score of kindred and
allied schemes, All these things are in
/ elusive, and they seem to be an unavoid
able part of the Democratic programme.
Southern Democrats have a record or
all measures involving corruption anC
extravaganza which Northern men of al
parties might envy. They have ever op
| pOaSu buS ESChLCSS way 4OCpuOlCdAS hdNS
of squandering the peoples money. Our
own Representative in Congress, Hon. W
c. Whittherne, who is the leading South
ern Democratic Congressman, voted
against lending Government aid to the
Southern Pacific Railroad, which would
benefit the South solely. He voted
against it on principle--because it is not
Democratic principle to give away the PEG
pies money while the people are strug-
Cling under mountain load of debt. The
charge that the ex.Confederates will de-
mand payment for their slaves, Confeder-
ate war claims, ETC., is too ridiculous tC
talk about. Gen. W. B. Stokes, Fede-
J raj soldier during the war, and a bitter
Radical since, ran for Congress last year
and csnvassed his District on one plank
advocating the payment of the Southern
| people for their slaves. He was ignomin
iously defeated, not a single ex-Confeder'
ate voting for him.