Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-16
THE STRUGGLE In INDIANA.

Indiana in reference to the Presi-
Dental contest now going on is what
the chateau of Hougomont was in the
battle of Waterloo, the pivot of the
whole action, the central point around
which the battle RACES, with the evil
dent feeling on the part of the COM
batants that victory or defeat at that
point will determine in great measure
the result throughout the battlefield
The Republican party there are far
from confident as to the result-a list
was given week or two ago of from
twenty to thirty leading men in the
State who, hitherto known as active
Republicans, are now openly engaged
in the contest in behalf of Tilden and
Hendricks. Orth as candidate and
Fitzpatrick as champion have been
successfully withrawn, the former for
damaged character the latter for too
much bloody shirt.
The Generalization of the party is
still more conclusively shown by the
following extract from The People
the leading Republican paper pub
lished at the State capital, Indianapolis.
''If the election were to take place
tomorrow the Democrats would car
ry the day"
We have time and again heard the
above repeated this week, and that. too.
by highly accredited Republicans who
have heretofore been sanguine of the
success of the Radical ticket, both in
October and November. There is no
denying the fact that the speech of
Julian somewhat demoralized the Re-
publican ranks. 1t was terrible ar
raingment of the corruptionists of the
party, and graphic detail of great
many of the villainies which have
been enacted since the Republican
party came into power. 1t matters
very little if Julian is sore head; the
devil even can sometimes tell the truth;
and George W. Julian we believe to
be many removes from the devil, al
though there is no question about his
being disappointed politician, and
your most violent partisan is always
renegade
The Republican party made a great
mistake when it undertook to carry
Grant and all the corruptions of his
administration. 1t is said that none
are so blind as those who will not see.
The Republican party saw the burden
they would have to carry, and if they
knew anything, must have known how
weighty it would be-far more Weighty
than Christians burden of sin which
he bore on his back for so many miles
and yet they took it up and should
cred it, and now if they do not sink
into the Slough of Despond special
interposition of Providence will have
to be ordered in their behalf-and it is
said that the days of miracles have
passed.
The people are not all fools, and elo-
quent gentlemen, handsomely paid for
it, may talk until they are blind about
the grand old party, but if they are go
ing to shoulder all the grand old party's
mistakes, all its whisky rings, its Credit
Mobiliers, all its Caseys, its Robesons
and its Belknaps, the people will have
none of it, but, while remembering
the good it did in its early life, con-
denim its later acts, and conclude that
the best thing for it to do would be to
quietly kick the bucket and join that
other grand old party known as the
Wing party, which has gone before it.
If the Republicans are beaten, they
will have only themselves to blame.
They can console themselves with the
rehection-if it be any consolation
that they attempted to carry too great
load They should have unloaded
Grant and his Administration, in
which men have grown so suddenly
and corruptly rich, at the meeting of
the National Convention. We are now
afraid that it is eternally too late.
Read also the following from the
News which supports the Republican
candidates both State and National
A reunion of soldiers of the Union
army has been appointed to take place
in this city in the latter part of the
present month. The invitation is ad-
dressed to Republicans only, and pa
triotism is subordinated to PARTISAN
ism. In every State of the North
there are thousands of soldiers who
were Democrats when they entered the
army, and have continued to own allie
glance to that party. The terms of the
invitation shuts them out from this re-
union of their old comrades, unless
they are willing to forswear their party
allegiance; and perhaps majority of
these men feel that they are acting
from patriotic motives in adhering to
their political faith. What then?
Are they to be won over to the sup
port of the Republican ticket by being
classed as rebels" and tainted with
a party of traitors? There is reason
for doubt that this political soldiers
reunion will bring forth fruit to the
glory of the Republican party. 1t is a
part of that mistaken policy which ex-
ats the standard of the bloody shirt
and denies the average voter the ca
pacity to be reached by sound argu-
ment. The average American voter is
not fool. He is susceptible to the
influences which control enlightened
and intelligent men everywhere. He
can be controlled more effectually by
appeals to his reason than by appeals
to his passions. Why should party
that has the advantage OF position in
sound argument abandon it to wage a
warfare with the weapons of ignorance
and barbarism? The triumph of the
Republican party on the issue which
is typifed by the bloody shirt will
leave it in no condition to effect the
reforms for which the people are clam
oring so loudly. 1t should be aban-
doned.