Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-13
From the Nashville American.
Hendricks OH Pending Issues,

The speech of Hon. Thomas A. Hen
bricks is such clear presentation of
Democratic views that it should be
carefully considered in this day OF In
dependent, Greenback. National and
other parties, between The two great
leading lines of thought. One point
as t. the Republicans is emphasized
by Mr.. Hendricks. Tnst party can
not abandon its adhesion 70 monOpO.
Iy. recommendations, contraction and
Ong-gOveTnmeut, despOtic tenden-
cies, intended to substitute force for
the government 10y the people. No
uthe rcOnclusiOn can be reached as to
the tendency of the Republican party.
What il will do can he az we'll derived
from its record, from its character,
as the course of well known man
eau be calculated with reasonable aC-
curacy from his character and the acts
Of his past life, which Indicate what
will he the acts of his future. One
can know what Jay Gould VIII do IN
stock exchange. One can calculate
the moral texture Of Ben Buffers acts
with certainty. Mr.. Beecher would
not be selected as principal for fe-
male seminary, and there is scarcely
DInus elder i'm the land who would en-
plny Bob ingersoll as n private tutor
in his family. There is this difference
"a man can repent and change his
course OF life occasionally. and even
sometimes after he has reached the
age of forty. A party csnnot. It's
course is always down until II has
found q locus peHjtcHtiCs in a forced
retirement, In tile publication made
by loss nf venal followers in defeat,
in the long meditation aud sackclOih
and ashes of an absolute divorce from
power. He must be r mailman who
would trust that party to make any
change in its way of life, To do 80
would he To cast off in that act It's ele
meut OF strength, the very class upon
whose influence aud money II subsists.
Such is the Republican party but be-
tween that aud Democracy is n mum
Der Of organizations, whose main line. |
destined to absOrh all Others, is, per-
haps, tile National party.
Mr.. Heud-icks shows very clearly |
the ground upon which the DemocTa- |
cy stands, and points out what il may
be expected TO accomplish. National |
bank notes shonld be retired and in |
lieu greenbacks should be issued. No !
one doubts that will be accomplished |
by the Democracy " hen it obtains |
power. The creation OF foreign debt |
10y the Government, under Grant, was |
Uuwise and every way policy of ruin, |
which should be reversed, and the |
debt made home obligation, placed |
in small sums amongst our own peO- |
PIE, the interest kept at home. Such |
a debt, wisely distributed in small |
will not prove burden to |
anybody. When the people can in
vest their earnings in United States |
securities, TIT grumbling and mutter- |
ing of reputation will cease. The |
Democratic party is committed TO the |
free cottage of silver Oh the terms |
now prescribed for gold. The Demo
cratic party is q rigid and unyielding |
barrier against the strong government |
idea whose principle OF protection il /
the principle of suppression. A tenn
poraTy and false security obtained 10y |
the suppression of fee speech Is the /
aim of those who advocate the strong |
idea This is TO he the |
leading theme of the Republican party |
in spite of few who will protest
against strong government and a re-
currence TO Grantism. Instead OF
leaving the popular caldron, the lar.
gest liberty to boil and bubble, and
zffervesce with stormy ebullition, they
would bind il up. suppress aud close
il III close undef-haiches, vainiy inl-
agining that out of sight it il less pO-
Leut and dangerous. Should they |
il will be To find that dead
ly force-an explosive steam has been
which will burst their
str lng government with terrible de
StructiOn. TT ere is safety in the open,
II sometimes rude and unpleasant, ex
preston of popular discomfort. II
brings remedy and at the me tim.
rools Oft those who have had uuimpe-
1ed course for their opinions. This
open air ebullition is the safety Of
popular government. Obst uct 1t and
America will repeat the experience of
Europe in '96 aud '4S.
Mr.. Hendricks shows that the De-
mOcracy is the only party arrayeu
and directly on the side Of
popular government and liberty of
,peech and action within the laW-the
y ise common law approved 10y gene
'ations of Anglo Saxon men of ali
grades i'm society. The Democracy
ilone oppnses Grantism aud strong
with a wise, eOnserva-
i've, moderate reliance upon tue peo-
pie.
All other opposition, outside of the
Democracy. is the opposition of vio-
ent measures to lawless power, when
.he only wise opposition is thst which
brings the friends of law and order to
resist the encroachments of tyranny.
Entrust the opposition to strong gov
eminent, TO the man on horseback, to
4rantism and the bayonet, in. the
hands of any of the parties outside of
he Democracy, and falling 70 draw
ia close alignment the moderate and