The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-18
Gossip About Andy johnson.

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Andrew johnson, it would seem. is one Of
the men who cannot be kept down, or
out of the papers. Those interviews which
he has Just been reading with representatives
of the New York Herald and the Tribune,
and which were yesterday reproduced in
The papers of this city, have once more pat
his name into the mouths of all the people Of
Nashville. The somewhat startling an
nouncemrnt that he would acknowledge no
party ties, that he would act as he thought
best for the good of the "people," with either
the Rad ical or the Democrat parties, sounds
rather strangely in the ears of those who tri-
umphantly asserted that his election had
unified the Democratic party in Tennessee,
and paved the way for grand triumph OF
the National party in re. The thirty ex-
Confederates, who voted for him, must be
edited at the remark, that "He had Hood s
whole army TO fight in his late contest" and
his appreciation of the magnanimity Of the
gentlemen from that army who stood by him
so well can not be of the highest type. In
capable of understanding how they could
support him he is also wholly incapable of
returning to them the regard they merit from
him. The great central figure of the Senate
that was to be, the great leader who was to
rally around him in the Senate his brother
Democrats, has taken his seat, and turns out
to be a mere independent adventurer.
Do you recall that mapped ont some weeks
since possible programme of his course as a
Senator? In that letter told you that Andrew
johnson would step into the Senate chamber
filed with the idea of being again President;
that he would essay something which had
never been done by any other attempt a
personal canvass Tor the Presidency, under
the flag of no party, but relying upon the
Constitution and the people,
Some thoughtful men told me that I was
correct; more than one has told me within
fortyeight hours that have struck the key
note of his career as Senator.
I havra hauz Il M mo, ind ia ~ "a
laid down in the published interviews have
heard no one of his supporters express pleas
ure in the kowlodge that Andrew johnson is
not q Democratic Senator. Perhaps that
shrewed Radical from East Tennessee was
right when he said on the day of his election
to the Senate that they now had the Democ-
racy of Tennessee where they wanted it. II
is more than likely that the gentleman was
one of the dislntergFating mass about to fall
away from each party and INTO the loving
arms of johnson aS q leader
That pretty story telegraphed over the
country that A J. was Kept from the Dem
ocratic caucus by indisposition does not ma
terielize well in the light of his Protestatlons
against the caucus system as set forth IN the
published interview.
He has made no friends here in Tennessee
by the utterances of the past week; he has
not strengthened any of the personal ties
which bound men so closely together in what
we must now call only the johnson party, !"
since he denies to US the right to call him q
Democrat. The vanity of the man in COM
pairing himself to Andrew jackson eXcites q
quiet smile even upon the part of his strong
est followers, and his own hope that the
good for tuneof jackson will be meted
ont to him in like manner is not shared by
any with whom have conversed.
Could he be here to-day, he would realize
that he was still an object of interest, but
perhaps of a different character to that viii ch
he excited WHEN few weeks since he left hel
for W Washington, when the laurel crown of
the victor was yet fresh upon his brow. AS
disappointment he has proven q complies
success, and it is we'll that, on the threshold
of his term, he has made his confession.