Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-13
BADLY MIXED.

the praises oil Wendell fmllpS, the
lifelong Abolitionist, and third term
advocate for Grant, against Carl
Schurz, who was the Democratic idol
in 1872. Then again we see very
complimentary references to Gen.
Ben. Butlcr-"old spoon Butler" as
these same Democrats called him It
year ago ind we have even had an
intimation from Democratic editor
that JEFF Davis and Ben. Butler would
make a strong Presidential team for
1876.
Then again the most curious lea
ture Of this funny picture is the new
issue in politics that brings these in
congruous elements together. Here
is the Press AMI Heyuld and the Nash
vile 10,ericop. hard money, specie
paying newspapers in 1874, swinging
their hats for Ben. Butler and Wen
dell Phillips in 1875, and for what?
For their hard money principles?
Not a bit Of it-for their imitation
rag money sentiments
Another funny thing about tine lat
ter day Democracy is. that Demo-
cratic speech in New York becomes n
Radical speech in Ohio and Penn
sylyania, The Democratic papers in
Tennessee abuse Carl Schurz for a
speech that New York and Alabama
papers praise as excellent Democratic
doctrine. Thousands and tens of
thousands Of Republicans in Ohio
flock to hear with delight Carl Schurz
make a speech on the currency ques-
ton, that is pronounced damnable
heresy by Ohio, Indiana. Pennsylva-
MIA and Tennessee Democratic pa
pers, but that in New York, Massa.
chusetts, Maryland, Nebraska, Wis
consin and Alabama is regarded as
good, sound Democratic doctrine.
Here is what that old Democratic pa
per, the Mobile Register, says:
1.-THE speech of Mr. SEIZURE, delivered in
New York, would certainly have been a
Democratic speech. wouldn't it, So it
would have been in Maine or Texas. Then
why not in Ohio? Does the nature of
speech depend upon the locality in which it
is pronounced? Is temperance speech in
Alabama a drunkard's speech in Maine :?
And after all, who knows what the votes
to be counted in Ohio after the election
mean And Mr. Schurz is now making the
most effective Democratic speeches that
were ever made by friend or foe, for he is
adjuring the Democrats of Ohio not to VIC
late their principles, disgrace their party,
damage their country, and make it the ieer
and laughing stock of Christendom.'
Whenever q Democratic orator in
Ohio pictures the horrors of contrac-
ton and resumption of specie pay
ments, a Republican speaker follows
and reads in reply the Democratic
platform of New York, which demands
a speedy resumption of specie pay
ments as the only safe road to pros
perity, and in stirring eloquent sen.
fences denounces imitation as demon.
alizing and corrupting TO the public
service and business of the country.
A New York Democrat, taking a
sleeping car for Chicago, rests tran
gully through New Jersey hard
money man, wakens up in Pennsylva.
MIA to find himself a Republican, goes
through Ohio cursed and abused by
Cary and Allen as an aristocratic
bondholding black Republican. In
Indiana and Illinois he would hardly
know what he was, but if he should
turn South and get to Nashville he
would be nothing more nor less than
a id radical, who was trying to
rob the people by making the farmers
and workingman's dollar as good as
the bondholder's. This is a danger.
GUS year for even sober Democrats to
travel. It's as much as a sharp. wide.
awake, sober Democratic politician
can tell, where he is a Democrat. and
where he is Radical" 1t is ncces
sary for him to make a careful calcu.
lation Of his latitude and longitude
before he can decide to which party
he belongs. If this trouble is not
cured before 1876, it will be neccs,
sary for the Democratic National
Committee to cut off all rations OF
whisky to the rank and file of the par,
ty and to have the currency question
/ ignored in the platform or we will