Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1879-07-31
Respectfully Inscribed to the
Republican Voters of the I'd
Congressional District of
Tennessee.
Tennessee.

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so persistently counseled their politi-
cal friends not to vote in the coming
election upon the question of the
proposed compromise of the State
debt, especially after the action of the
Republican Executive Committee OF
the State, which convened at Nash
vile the 18th of June, TO consider
what course the party should pursue
in the coming election, declining to
recommend any course Of action, and
declaring that the question of adopt
ing or rejecting the proposed compro-
mise, was not political one, but one
of general interest; and, following
this action of their Executive Com
mittee, when such leaders of the Re-
publican party as Hons. r. r. Butler
and A. A. Taylor, of the First Dis
trict, and like well-known State credit
Republicans throughout the entire
State, are and have been urging the
adoption of the compromise by the
men of their party and by the State.
The principal reason assigned by the
Republican, and certain other lesser
lights, for counseling non-interference
by Republican voters, at the coming
election is, that it is a trick of the
Democratic leaders, gotten up to har-
monte all the discord and elements of
that party by uniting them in an
effort to secure the adoption Of the
compromise, and thus. save their party
from imminent defeat and disruption.
We might ask what party in Tcnnes-
see is likely to defeat the Democratic
party in the coming State elections!
The failure of the Republican, or any
one else, to give a reasonable or even
probable affirmative answer to this
question is itself sufficient to prove
the statement q base fabrication and
a bold presumption. But fortunately
we arc not left to this kind of reason
ing to disprove the statement of the
Republican, and others of like faith
and order.
The Knoxville Chronicle says 'the
repudiationists of Middle and West
Tennessee, under the leadership Of
Savage, Wilson, Lands, and others,
are laboring with might
and main to defeat the 50-4 PROPOSE
ton. If it is defeated it is their vic
tory. 1t will be so interpreted in and
out of the State. Every man who
fails to vote at all, votes with the re-
pudiationists. Now suppose the pro-
position is voted down on the 7th of
August, AZ 4
how would the real, sincere, honest
State credit man feel who had failed
to vote for fifty and four, or had voted
with Savage, Wilson & Co., because
the proposition was not what he
wanted ?"
Who are Savage, Wilson 81 Co. +?
Are they not the low-tax Democrats
of Middle and West Tennessee? Does
not the editor of the Republican know
that they are Democrats, and that
they are opposed to the adoption of
the compromise, and has he not known
it ever since the Governor issued his
proclamation ordering an election on
the It'll of August?
We forbear to characterize such
patent, wilful misrepresentation, APP
pealed to the prejudices of Republic
can voters for partisan purposes only
But the language of our neighbor, the
editor of the Maryville Index, a high.
toned Republican, writing upon this
subject last week, comes fresh to oul
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mind, as eminently appropriate JIG
saws: ''He who, to make party capital
will loose sight of the real question
involved, and sacrifice the State fol-
the sake Of his party, is a dog thai
should be drummed out of the society
of honorable men,"
But the real question of wonder Il
us is, do these Republican papers
which are said to be the organs o
Judge Houk, in the Second Congress
sional District, fairly represent III
sentiments, in advising non-inter
ference by Republicans at the coming
August election?
1t is certainly evident that they dc
or Judge Houk would have found
way and sought an opportunity befor
this time to correct the impression
being made by these, his known OF
rams unon this question of more tina