The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
rs LNFLATTON DEADp

Is INITIATION DEAD?
1t has become the especial delight
of certain so-ealIed Democratic pa
pers, North and South, to herald tc
the world the assumed fact that the
recent elections have consigned the
"rag baby" to grave that will know
no resurrection; and that the Dem
ocracy of the country must fall into
with the bullionists, forced resump-
tlonists, capitalists, and bondhold-
ers in order that victory may perch
upon their banner in the future.
This is not the case. The "rag
baby" as the financial plank of the
Ohio platform has been sarcastically
dubbed. is not dead, nor is it asleep;
but it is alive, awake, hale and hear
ty, and has found a firm, fixed place
in the affections of the tax-ridden.
poverty-stricken masses Of the land.
The elections have not killed the in
FAINT, neither have they crippled it;
on the contrary they have demon
strated its physical vigor and vitali-
ty, and to-day it crows as Justify and
laughs as loudly as it did three
months ago.
In Ohio the nursing enlisted I'M
der the Democratic banner upwards
of fifty thousand votes more than
that party had ever polled before.
Not only that, but in every county
of the State, with three exceptions,
the Democratic vote increased over
their former vote in larger proper
ton than did the Republican These |
three counties, in which are the cit
les of Cleveland, Columbus and Gin
cinnati, secured the election Of Hayes
by bare majority of five thousand,
in an aggregate vote of more than
half million.
Pennsylvania the "baby" carried
by handsome majority until it came
to Philadelphia; but the city of Bro
therly Love, with its ballot-stuffers,
its repeaters, its imported voters, ct
id onane genus. we must acknowledge,
proved a little too hard for the Wig
orous infant, and by the preparation
Of gigantic frauds unparalleled in
the political history of the country,
the Republican ticket was elected.
Next, comes New York, the head
quarters and stronghold of the simon
pure Democracy the swallow-tailcd, |
cane gentry, who must
have gold as their money, whatever
price the masses of the country pay
for it; who cry down as hereto and
traitor him who dares suggest doubt
as to their infallible wisdom and
They inscribed their
idol-gold-upon their standard, and {
entered the field with majority of
seyenty-five thousand as a majority.
Virtually they lost the election. The !
elected the Legislature,
and carried the State outside of the {
cities of New York and Brooklyn.
These two cities, with large Demo !
cratic majorities, saved their State {
Ticket, as it were by the skin of its ]
teeth. s
These elections have most clearly
demonstrated that the country peo-
pie, the farmers, the laboring class
IS, the bone and sinew of the land, v
throughout all its broad expanse, are c
Jhe friends of imitation. The large l.
cities, where the congregation of
National Banks, bondholders and 9
capitalists are conferred. who feel no p
need of money, but would f
iepress and impoverish the large
debtor class of the country that they
nay realize, by reason OF the depre- q
.iation in values. larger profits upon Il
ASAA NSSk'AtAt &iL CtSNAJ SSOA CO ava tie -
,lare against it. Now the question a |.
., who shall rule-the people or the E
money power? For whom shall we .
egislate the widespread class of s
'armers, merchants, manufacturers f
Ind laboriug men. who want money .
o pay their debts, carry on their
business and support their families?
Dr. shall it be for the banking. bond F
lolding kings, who seek personal Pc !:
,uniary profit through the ruin of a
heir country?
We do not favor an unlimited in v
Iation Of the currency, but we do de- :
napd that the government shall fur I
lish a quantity of money sufficient q q
d volume to meet and relieve the |
necessities Of the people. I
specie resumption in 1879, taking c
Mo consideration the present finan- +
ial condition OF the country. il an !
liter. absolute impossibility, 20 eV- J
.ry candid, clear-thinking man must '