The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-29
poLIrIoAL RETRTBUTTON.

the overthrow of the Democratic
party in Ohio is an additional proof.
If any were needed, of the fact that
there is such thing as political re-
tribution, and that no party can de-
sert its colors and throw away it's
principles in the elusive pursuit Of
imagined temporary advantages with
out being punished for such recrean-
cy, speaks as follows: The Dem
ocratic party in Ohio has broken its
neck in trying to get away from
Democratic principles. The leaders
who have attempted to lead it astray
have persisted in the common wreck,
and it must be confessed their fate
excites but little sympathy. They
have learned a lesson which will
probbaly last them their life time.
and other leaders and managers
ought to be in condition to profit by
it. The principle Of honest finance,
no currency but what rests upon and
is interchangeable with coin, was one
of the distinctive articles of the
creed of the Democratic party from
its beginning. Hard money is part
of its history and pervades all its
traditions, from the days when Jack
son fought the bank and Old Bull
lion made war upon all paper mon
ey up to its overthrow in 1860. And
vet when, after the civil war, the
Republican party began to take
measurers to repair the evil caused
by the legal tender act by reducing
the food of irredeemable currency
preliminary to resuming specie pay
ments, they jumped upon the back
of the hobby horse the Republicans
had just dismounted from and set
out to ride their alleged party to
death upon the course of Initiation.
There was never a worse case Of
political prostitution, nor one which
has been more severely, more con
dignly punished. The Democrats
who hold the "Ohio idea" in fact
simply change places with those
advance" Republicans who, like
Gen. Logan, for instance, preached
the fame of the "blood-consecrated
greenback." Mr.. Pendleton and
those who follow him out of the old
Democratic lines into the opposite |
camp have alleged no better reason |
for UNFOLDING the legal tender char
acter of the greenback than desire
to perpetuate professed evil because
it was adopted by the Republicans
ON the plea of war necessity, but as
a measure to be abandoned as soon
As possible. Thus it has happened
the perverse and almost I'M
folly of a faction,
hat the hard money party of the
country, par excellence, has been
lriven from its position, aud all its
traditions and Inheritance usurped
~ it's rival. There is but one thing
ar party in this situation to do.
t must cast off it's spurious leaders
md return at once TO its first prihci-
les, from which it should have {
ever permitted any man or set of
zen to ALLEVIATE it. The result may
ot be victory, indeed, for the
hances Of that have been well-nigh J
quandered, but it will at least Sc |
ure to the Democratic party the
respect Of defeat with honor. Let ]
% one venture to discount the full
leanlng of the Ohio election. The
erdict of the people there is I'M .
against shams Of all sorts
sham leaders, sham money, sham .
1etbods of finance, sham payments d
f debt, and sham resumption. These
hams have never made much head b
'ay in this section of the country, G
nd now that the west has discard. h
d them finally, they will be permit +
ID to die out quietly, and good for r
H."