The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-11-10
THE TRUTH APTLY SPOKEN

Gov. Hendricks is one of the few
public men who. like Senator Bay
ard and Gov. Seymour, do not speak
in public unless they have some
thing to say. His speeches and his
published interviews are always
worth reading. The Cincinnati En-
quirer reports an interview with the
Observation-Disclosures Of 1876, in
which he expresses himself as fol-
lows:
"The wealth of the Northern States,
the Republican States, is nearly all in
the hands Of the Republicans. This
may be said of the country generally,
The circumstances, the legislation and
the opportunities of the past twenty
years have been in their favor. Before
the war Indiana was peopled by small
farmers and business men. Now we
haze vast landed estates, vast railroad
combinations and numerous banking in
situations In the Democratic States of
the South the great plantations are be-
ing divided into small farms and a pure
democracy is springing up. We have
no titles of nobility, but men of wealth
can bug official station. It takes long
purse to manage political nomination
and election. No one man, however
wealthy, in the Democratic party can
meet the influence Of the combined
wealth of the Republicans. The wealth
will combine, and as the rich becomes
richer the combination will be closer.
The result is an aristocracy, and then
the distance to empire is very short.
We have that aristocracy now. The
wealth Of the country is able to take
care of itself without official power. In
republic the working classes are suppos-
ed to have some right beyond tOiling and
sentation in the Government they have
but little show for their rights. Be
cause l am opposed to an arist0cracy,
am Democrat"
Commenting on this expression
IS to the socisl features of sections,
the World says that the contrast
here drawn between the social ten
denotes Of the South and of the
North is striking, and in the main
represents not unfairly the facts of
the. case. Careless and ignorant
people are still in the way of talk.
ing as if an aristocracy still existed |
in the South corresponding to the
aristocracy of landholders and slave.
holders which existed there undoubt. |
eddy before the war. No doubt
there are members Of that once
powerful class who still retain much
of the influence in their several COM
munities which they then enjoyed;
but this is due not to their wealth,
for the wealth of the South has been
entirsly redistributed, but to the
local esteem Ia which they are per-
sonally aud individually held. This
esteem is honorable alike to the men
who feel it and the men who are the
objects OF it. Even where it is a
survival from the old order of things. |
40 rational man will say that there
s or can be in it any element of
langer to the peace of the country.
People seem to have some difficulty
n practically understanding that
lalf generation has passed since
he war ended, and that the plant,
ng aristocracy of the South is al
eady almost as strictly historical to
g, and that in fifteen years more 1t {
ill be quite as historical to us, as
} the feudal nobility Of the Middle |
Ages to the England or the France 5
( today. |
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