The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-10-27
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Nashrille Herald. Indenenden.

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Gratis small lecture. Maybe in
the presence of defeat in Indiana
and Ohio. and dreading defeat in
November for the National ticket,
they will listen and consider. They
have shown very eager desire to
obtain control of the government
since the war; possibly that very
eagerness has been the cause Of re-
peated failures. Certainly Repub-
licanism has deserved rebuke. That
has been admitted by Republicans
themselves, but they ,professed the
ability to reform within the party.
In 1872 the better element of the
party, thinking that of the question,
undertook by an Independent move,
called liberal Republicanism, to sc
complish that end. The Democrats
fastened to kill that move by sup
porting Horace Greeley, the candi-
date of the liberal Republicans for
President. In 1868. the Democrats
in their national platform declared
in favor of speedy resumption Of
specie payments. but as soon as the
Republican party enacted legislation
for that purpose, it was vigorously
opposed by Democrats as means
of succeeding to power. Resump-
ton resumed and Democrats were
forced to response the old and
sound doctrine of hard money, after
coquetting a time with the green
back or rag baby craze. They have
been too much disposed 10 advo,
cate anything for success. It is be-
lieyed that one great cause Of defeat
in Indiana was taking up the half
Greenbacker Landers for Governor.
Ia Tennessee the party has been
temporizing with the debt question.
The ingenuity Of leaders has been
expended in making a platform that
would embrace every shade of opin-
ion on the subject and hold every
body. The sentiment against pay.
ing the debt has all this time been
growing because it was not met
boldly at once and crushed out. The
demagogue has all this time been
getting in his work. We have the
fruits Of this policy now when Ma.
tionaI success would otherwise be
assured, in divided party that is
! dispiriting the party abroad. At
last the party declared boldly for
State credit and State honor, when
a large slab has split of, which de-
clares that Democracy is not Democ
racy, but that the two faced policy
is the true stuff of which Democracy
is made. Men who never knew any
other name than Democrat and
whose fathers before them would
have died for Jackson and Polk,
have strangely enough had the be-
lief instilled into them that the old
party has proven untrue to itself,
and gone off after this new sod.
Some of them would not believe
otherwise if Andrew jackson were
to come back and tell them SO. all
this comes of being all things to
everybody for votes. They have
learned it from Democratic teach
ing. First, the party was opposed
to reputation, but considing the
Impoverished condition Of the couu-
try, ETC., opposed greater tax than.
forty cents On the hundred dollars.
Finally, in 1873, this policy Cui-
minated in Submission to the
people" as if the whole matter had
ever been elsewhere Than with the
people. Now. when the party takes
the stand it should have taken
years ago, it finds its success greatly
jeopardized by the very means it has
adopted all along to insure success.
A manly, straightforward course is
what the Democracy ought to have
pursued all these long years. And
it has not done it. This is the un-
pleasant truth we have to tell the
Democracy.