Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-09-01

to be not so much between Repub-
lican and Democrat as between two
sections of the Republican party,
which of the two shall define its
policy. What then? Is the Re
publican vote to be divided? We
trow not. There is a controlling
force which will compel them to
unite on something and somebody,
and that is the momentOus fact that
there are four or five very lucrative
offices to be disposed of, and if unity
cannot in some way be patched up
they will fall to the disposal of the
Democratic party-it won't bear
thinking of. The fragments of the
Republican party must be bound
together in some way or other, by
hook or crook, and the good things
secured what is public principle or
party consistency compared with
that 2?
Meantime, oh reader, study and
ponder upon bit of Judge Vests
communism. He is drawing up a
charge against Mr.. PendletOn of
being a rich man and having a fine
house; and to say the truth, he goes
near to prove these henious iniqui-
ties on him. Hear him;
"Who is this Mr.. PendIeton? A gentle
man who sits in his palatial residences
millionaire of Clifton, whose ample fortune
sustains him, even above Solomon in his
| glory. The lilies of the valley, though they
/ toll not, nor spin, are not arrayed like unto
/ him.
Why, it is not improbable that he
wears an extra double-milled Saxony
superfine brOadcloth coat and has
Brussels carpet on his parlor floor!
What is to be done with him.
Here is what he might have done
himself, and it will go hard but
what Judge West and the working
men will find means to make him
| do it:
"He could have secured a handsome
! amount of this idle capital, which has been
waiting investment, by laying amortgage
| on his palatial establishment at Clifton and
| have invested it in some industrial enter
| prise along the margin of your great river,
| at Portsmouth, IrOntOn, PomerOy, or in
your own city here, if he had seen proper"
He goes further; he makes an es-
innate of PendletOn's balance at his
bankers and declaims thus about it:
Eighty thousand dollars would set
| one two furnaces in motion, and make their
! fires to blaze and mills to roar. Why is not
that eighty thousand dollars made to con-
tribute to the relief of the industrial classes?"
Why? indeed, and Immediately
afterwards he answers the why:
"Why, he would rather spend it abroad
| in the courts and palaces of the nabobs OF
| Europe"
There, we blOated rich men, pro-
duce your books and mortgage your
property and start us some more
rolling milIs-neVer mind the trivial
fact that the rolling mills now run
ming are not working at paying
profits. That's nObody's concern but
yours, Mr.. Pendleton; build your
mills and engage your wOrkmen at
maximum rates, and if then they
turn out a failure, We'll have the
fun of burning them down over
your head.
But will the Republican party,
which is the creature of capitalists,
vote for West after this trash? OF
course it will the managers of the
party know very well that this is
all BuncOmbe, and that if West once
gets elected his communistic trash
will all blow off and leave no more
trace behind than the smoke of yes
| terday's cigar.
We now turn to New York. Here
we find three candidates for the Sen
atOrship to be vacated by the eXpir-
alton of Mr.. COnkling's term of Of
| flee. These three are Senator COnk-
! ling himself and the two eX-GOVer-
nOrs, f. d. Morgan and Ruben E.
FentOn. These gentlemen are far
beyond the politicians of Ohio;
principles are things with which
they don't cumber themselves and
leave it to greenhorns to squabble
about them. 1t appears that the
question $50 far as it is one between
Radical AMI Radical) is to be deter
mined by the executive patronage;
whoever has the manipulation of
this is to be Senator if any Repub-
lican, and it would appear that Mr..
Evarts is to settle that question, and
that at present he rather inclineth
his ear to Gov. Morgan; though
there are those who believe that Mr..
Evarts being tired of his place in
the Cabinet will make himself Sena-
tor, thinking that a good point
PGppui from which to fight his way
to the Presidency in 1880.
In the Democratic party things
are also about as clear as mud, Tam
many and anti-Tammany being
here the conflicting elements. In
other words, as Mr.. Kelly owns
Tammany, the question to settle is
whether he also owns the Demo-
cratic party, and locks it up in his
desk every day when he goes to din
ner.
Now, oh reader, do you know all
about the coming political drama?
If you do, oblige us by letting us
/ know. For ourselves we are all in
! the dark.
| STATE TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
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