Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-05

will hinge upon e3pedienfs, OF THIS
mans popularity Or that mans un
popularity, misses the whole nasare Of
| 80. ssAsst tare 5aGad fteAs III oral f0r-
ces, prevail In a country such as ours.
II is the issus, not The candidale-un-
less the candidate be al issue In him
self-which wins or loses elections.
No party can survive, or ought to sur
vive that does not GO 10 the people ear
rying in it's hand sure guarant ees for
the public credit. No party can sur
| vive. or ought TO survive, which can be
suspected CT revolutionary des' gus.
| Stability is the. demand OF The Lime.
There are matters of material nome t
TO engage Us, and the party which ad-
| dresses itself TO these with the most
fidelity and intelligence will command
| the greatest confidence next year.
s'Let US have done with sectional
blather. Give US a rest as to tie
finances. The questions which orgi-
mated the extra session must not tie re
vived. On them We have been bsafeu,
and may as we'll accept our defeat with
good grace. Our business now is net
| TO destroy, bat to repair, to conslruc. f;
| to straighten and to shorten our line. "
= Wonder if it ever occurred to
editor Watterson how harshly such
talk, however honestly and kindly
intended, must CRATE upon the Dem
ocratic organ of hearing It is a
singing rsbuke, accompanied by
gratuitous advice. It is a laceration
of an old sore followed by sa
line application. 1t sounds like
the advice Of a disguised father to
his bad boys, after his patience has
been thoroughly exhausted by their
dire depraVity, which advice he has
good reason, based upon sad ex-
perience, to believe is casting pearls
before swine Says he: s'No party
can survive, or ought to survive,
that does not go to the people cars
rying in its hands sure guarantees
for the public credit A impor,
tant truth well stated. But no one
knows better than Mr.. Watterson
that the Democratic party can give
no such guarantees. To ask it to
do so would be like saying to the
abandoned prostitute, You must
give guarantees of your chas=
tity or you will go to the Devil and
ought to go to the Devil. The his
tory of the Democratic party in this
country for the last fifteen years,
is the history Of all opposition that
has been manifested against the
public credit. r~
Again, he says No party can
survive or ought to survive which
can be suspected Of revolu--
tionary Designs a stronger
anathema could not be 4 uttered
against the Democratic party. It
is now and has been suspected
of revolutionary designs for q
quarter of a century, and the logic
of events has demonstrated that
this suspicion was well grounded.
The Democratic party has been SO
prone to revolution, that, in a
strictly political sense, revolution
and democracy have come to be
synonymous terms. The Demo.
cratic party without Revolutionary
designs" would be Ike the play Of
Hamlet with Hamlet omitted. 1ts
substance would be gone and only
the shadow left. Considered alto
gether, the entire editorial is an
approximately correct revelation
developed through the agency o.
rear vision, but it must be a bitter
pill to his Democratic readers, anC
not sugar-coated enough to make i
palatable. stal9 '28ibsI