Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-31
THE STRUGGLE OF 1876.
Party Organization Essential TO DEM
Ocratic Success.
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Ocratic Success.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
There never has been a time in the
history of our government when 1t was
so important for the Democratic party
to have its organization perfect as the
present. In unity there is strength.
The Republican party has, by its reck-
less course, its violations of the Con-
stitution, and its efforts to centralIze all
power IN the Federal Government,
brought the Republic to the very verge
of destruction. This fact was so appa-
rent that the sovereign people In the
elections last fall rose up in their
majesty and made a clean sweep, beat
ing the Republicans in nearly every
State n the Union. 1t was a glorious
triumph for constitutional liberty.
That triumph, however, is worth
nothing if the party that
achieved it permits itself to become de-
moralized and divided by the machina-
tons Of the Radical leaders. 1t is an
old saying, "There are more ways to
XII a dog than by choking him to
death on butter" This fact the Radi-
cal leaders understand, and they be-
GeVe there are more ways to beat the
Democrats than by simply on number
ing them. Their tactics will be to beat
the Democrats with Democratic votes.
To be able to do this they viii select
soft Democrats and place them at the
head Of their ticket, and in this way
divide and conquer. A true Demo-
crat can never vote for a Demo-
crat who has accepted a nomination
at the hands of the Radical party, for
the moment he does that he is a Radi-
cal, or, what is infinitely worse, the
tool Of the Radicals. Any Democrat
who would run for Office as the nominee
Of the Radical party is worse than
Judas 1scariOt. He Is a traitor to all
the principles upon which the liberties
Of the people are based, and is lending
himself Ggnorantly, perhaps) to that
party who are working to build up a
centralized despotism, with a bonded
aristocracy to control and make the
people hewers Of wood and drawers of
water for them.
There is a great contest now going
on in this country between despotism
on the one hand and liberty on the
other. Grant and mis- henchmen evil
IDENTIFY intend, If they can, to- destroy
our Government and to build up a cen
tralized despotism on its ruins. The
progress they have made in accom-
plishing their purpose has been very
great. The Constitution, the great
chart of liberty, has been violated
time and again by these UPSTAIRS in
power. No one doubts that Grant has
been influenced in his official acts by the
money power. His veto Of the bill to
increase the volume Of currency
when the entire commerce Of the cOun-
try was ruined for the want Of currency
to carry it on was conclusive that the
bOndhOlders and moneyed sharks had
Grant by the wrist. 1t is this moneyed
power that the people must fight and
bring under subsection, or constitu-
tiOnal liberty on this Continent viii be
thing Of the past. The order now is,
all along the line, for Democrats to
stand by their guns, and neither give
nor take quarter. If the line is broken
it may produce a general
rOut, and result in a victory for the
Radical destruction party in 1876.