Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-08
NOV. 8, 1879.
"ANYBODY, GOOD LORD!"

"The CHRONICLE came out yester-
day morning with a glowing endorse.
ment of Blaine as its Presidential can
didate. AS he had previously declared
for Sherman and then again for Grant,
our friend, the Captain, seems deter
mined to swing on to that po~stofice,
if he has to nominate every fellow
spoken OF for the Presidency. A
Radical editor ia said TO be wiser in his
generation than other peopIe.-7Tj-
buRe.
For q similar offence to that of
the Tribune in this instance the
Lord did for Ananias and Sapphire
what the American people have just
done for the Democratic party
struck them dead. The CHRONICLE
has not come out in a "glowing en-
dorsement" of Blaine, Grant, Sher-
man o. any other man as its Presi>
Dental candidate. 1t has spoken
of the merits Of all these men, and
should either of them be nominated,
the CHRONICLE expects to yield him
a cordial support. And we can do
this without having to crawl on our
a~ll-fours or eating u own words, as
the Tribune must do if it supports
the man who now appears to be its
choice for the Presidency, we mean
Senator Bayard, of Delaware.
Twelve months ago the Tribune
"a unsparing in its denunciations
Of the "money power" by which it
meant every person who was in
favor Of resumption. Here are a
few specimens selected at random.
They might be multiplied 0d IN
fnitum. On the 9th day of Octo-
Der, 1878, the Tribune said:
''It is evidently the purpose Of the
money power to attempt at no very
distant day to c0nsummate by indl'
r~ectiOn, the purpose in which it has
signally failed, of demonetizing the
silver dollar. The next dodge will be
to limit the coinage OF the dollar as
is now done with our subsidiary
coin"
And Mr.. Bayard is one o.
the men who in the interes
Of this terrible "money power" a
which the Tribune and its people
were so much alarmed, favored {
limitation Of the coinage of silver
But times have changed, and tn
Tribune has changed its politica
complexion on the currency ques
ton.
A few days afterwards, discuss
ing the Presidential chances, tn
Tribune said:
Mr.. Hendricks chances are far 81
perior to MI. Bayard's, for, with tn
tendency of the Western Democrat
to soft money, Mr.. Hendricks hs
avoided rushing to financial extreme
and holds the moderate Greenbac
views which a majority of the citizen
of the United States would record s
theirs if they voted on that issue tt
day.n
Now the tendency Of the West
ern Democracy to soft money
does not appear so great as tn
/"
Tribune then thought it was, an
the rush to financial extremes
is to Bayard's extreme, an
our contemporary thinks LEI
of Hendricks and more of Ba,
ard. 1t has made the discovery TIL
the people of the United States wi
not record their votes for even Il
moderate Greenback views held
Hendricks.
Again, on the 10Th day of Oct,
Der, 1878, it said:
"The Democratic party has taken
stand upon the silver dollar and in I
vor of Government legal tender pap
money, and upon this line we propo
10. fight it out until victory, fin'
complete and triumphant shall insu.
to the industrial interests, as again
the money power and bank monop
lies.n
And the following day, Octob
Goth, 1878:
1.-THE Republican party. those rath
who dictate its policy, demand til
gold shall be the standard of all futu
1ayments. The issue is fairly ma
~ and with n other will form Il
eliminating issue of the next Pre-.
Dental election so far as the curren
question ia considered, and that 9th
IL: Shall the Government in the int,
est of the whole people issue whatey
paper money may be foated at :
with silver, or shall we transfer tt
vast power and profit to banks Z"
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