Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-10-24
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Our Washington Letter.

Special Correspondence Of thcOBsFRvRa
WAsHrNGToN,D DC, Oct. Is, rs
The number Of possible Dem
ocratic candidates for the Prcsi-
dency who have been killed off
lately, in the lively imaginations
OF radical newspaper men, is
very great. First is Mr.. Tilden,
unquestionably one of the pur-
est and ablest men the country
has produced, WHO'S coolly as
signed to obscuriiy or infamy
on the strength of what the
New York Tribune says that
sorse one said an unknown man
photographed in an unknown CT
pher at time when the same
Mr.. Tilden was being swindlcd
ont'of his office by Republicans.
Next is Senator Thurman, said
to have been killed by the Ohio
election. Mr.. Thurman is decid-
edly the best lawyer in the Sem
ate, land is most influential mem
ber,. That he is not exactly dead
is pretty conclusively shown, one
would think, by the following
likely and admirable statement
of political affairs made by him
in IN "intcryicw" a few days
since:
"The Third Party contains
many good men, and not a few
misguided men. The idea that
1t can absorb the Democratic |
party, or the Rcpuhlican.party, |
or draw enough from them both |
TO become the dominant party,is
fallacious. In country of free
institutions there never has been,
and there never will be, but two |
great permanent parties, the
one party of privileges crca-
ted by law, and the other a par
ty of equal rights. In our
country the party of equal
rights is the Democratic party. |
The party OF privileges, created
by law, has ever been, and yet
rs, the party opposed to Democ-
racy. l exclude from the COM
parlson the slavery Of the
blacks that formerly existed, not
only iii the South bat in the
North. That was forced upon
us by our English ancestors a.
gaiast the earnest protest of our
iorcfathets. Excluding that,
what statute was ever passed by
a Democratic Congress or a
Democratic Legislature to con-
fer special privileges upon Dem
ocrats? Not one. But on the
other hand, every public debt
law, every banking law, every
tariff law, every subsidy law,
has conferred immense pririle-
ges upon our opponents. Sir,
the Democratic party is the nat
ural party of free institutions.
1t is indestructible SO long as
such institutions exist" n
1t would perhaps be possible !
for the Democrats to nominate !
a man in 1880 who could not be
elected, but will the Republican !
papers name the man on their
side who probably could be?
Among the prominent sub ,
iects to come before Congress
This winter will be the question
of promoting a transcontincn- !
ial railway to compete with and !,
break down the present monop-
oily of the Central and Union =
Pacific combination. The Gov
ernment has experienced such ;.
in dealing with these I
roads, and the merchants have :
felt their heavy hand so severely T
in the matter Of exorbitant rates,
that all appear united in the de
mand for competing line. The
most promising plan is of course :
the completion Of the Texas Pa : :
rific read through to SAN Diego, 7 7
with branches on this side to ST. I
Louis, New Orleans, Memphis and :
aud Cairo, accommodating all sec :
lions. The only question is as to :
how far the Government is will :
ing to 10 in aid of it, bat 1t is no :
tieeable that many scruples have !
been overcome by the demands =
81 trade, aud by the offer of the :
to reiorcede about So. =
900 900 acres of lands, and put :
Is operations under government =
control, provided tie government q
win guarantee the simple interest .
IN the construction bonds. What. a
ever may be the result of this q
proposition, it is probable that
,ome plan for another Pacific rail.
Dad must be enforced at no dis 81
ant dss. ~
There is 40 effort on the part ie
{ = 4inited number Of Demo- VI
rats in Indiana, and large mum y
er of Republicans all over the -
ounIry. 10 run Democrat against
Ion. d w Voorhees, for the Dem "
cratic nomination for the Senate. ~
s ever any man had claim mp ~
n sush nomination at the hands ie.
f the party MIR Voorhees, has it. 70 70
he Indiana campaign--and ue
lphly successful one II was too
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