Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-27
THE CHRONICLES ISSUE WITH
THE HON. G. a. HENRY.

VIII certainty receive IL III tine
CHRoNICLE. Accordingly, having
found ourselves the subject of severe
structures at the hands of that gen.
tleman in consequence of an article
of ours relating to Mr.. Tilden's can
didacy, we have considered it our
duty to reperuse that article with
care, that we might correct and
modify anything which, in the
light Of that gentleman's comments,
might seem to need revision. Hav-
ing so reperused it, we are con-
strained to say we see nothing to
retraet.
We will, however, go over some
of the points on which the MAJOR
makes issue with us, but must pre-
mise that from the first he misap-
prehends our position. He assumes
that we are a Bayard man in the
same sense as he is a Tilden man.
This is a great mistake. We be-
lieve indeed that Mr.. Bayard is the
best out Of many candidates whom
we could honestly support, includ-
ing not only Bayard, Hancock,
and Hendricks, but even Mr.. Tilden
himself, but the article in question
was not written in his interest, ex-
cept defensively; his name would
never have come into the article
except as being the last of series
of possible Democratic candidates
who have been made the objects of
virulent attacks in the Tilden pa
pers. If he will give himself the
trouble, therefore, to reperuse our
article, he will find that he has
made a point quite gratuitously
when he says:
1t is rather hard on Mr.. Tilden
that he should be held responsible
for the imputed indiscretion of his
friends. Doubtless Mr.. Bayard-
the cheUdlier BGydrd-would feel
that great injustice would be done
him If he were to be held response
BILE for the indiscretions of the
CHRONICLE, and would be forced to
cry out, "Save me from the indis-
cretiOns of my friendsw
The CHRONICLE has never come
forward as a Bayard paper, and Mr..
Bayard is not probably aware of its
existence. Can the same be said of
Mr.. Tilden and the New York Sun,
which has for some time been the
director of the Tilden tactics, and
which was made the medium of the
attack on Mr.. Bayard which was
the occasion of our article? The
Sun has for long time had more
to say against possible Democratic
candidates than against anyone in
the Republican party, and all in the
interest of Mr.. Tilden. The Sun is
published in the city of Mr.. Tilden's
residence, the city in which his
political influence is mainly exer-
cised, and Mr.. Tilden is known to
have been recent purchaser of a
very large amount of stock i'm that
paper, and If he does not directly
inspire its strategy, it will be very
difficult to persuade people that he
of its methods.
This is, however, practically of
but little moment. If the Tilden
interest is to be prosecuted on this
it little matters whether
Mr.. Tilden personally directs it; if
perpetual disparagement of every
possible Democratic candidate is to
be the mode in which Mr.. Tilden's
claims are to be advanced, that
must be denounced by true
journals, whoever is re-
sponsible for ii, and it was for the
purpose of so denouncing it that the
article criticized by Major Henry
was written. That this has been
the method with the Tildenian
journals no one who habitually
reads papers such as the New York
Sun and the Louisville Courier
Journal can fail to see. The object
i've point of both these journals is
to establish the theory that there is
only one man in the Democratic
party who can hold the banner with |
credit; and, believing that theory |
to be most injurious to the party, |
that there are better men
better able to hold that banner, we |
have deemed it our duty to de-
nounce il as undemOcratic, and ex-
pect to adhere to that position. If
the article bears the appearance of
an attack on Mr.. Tilden, those are
who in his interest have
assailed all other Democratic states
men.
Thus much we have said to clear
our position. If we have attacked
Mr.. Tilden, it is only so far as he is
the assailant of all other possible
candidates. And here
our paper might terminate, but we
will say little in reference to the
passage in Major Henry's
letter:
So bitter has the CHRONICLE
grown of late that it reviews and
endorses the stale SANDER against
Tilden that, through his nephew
Pelton), ne offered to bride a Pres
dental ElectOr. This would have
been expected of rabid Radical
sheet, but il is scandalOuS to see it
'Oiling the columns of the old and
conservative Democratic
the leading Democratic
newspaper, north of Nashville, in
Tennessee.
Now, Major Henry i'm the latter
part of his letter contends that the
main issue to be made in the APP
IrOaching campaign is the fraud of
$40. AS certainly as we do so, this
oelton affair will be brought up in
ejOinder, and where we assume the
we shall be promptly put
IN the defensive; and what will be
,ur defense? 1t is well to talk of
'rabid Radical Sheets" but as prac-
ical politicians we are bound to
what those sheets are going
o say and how we are going to
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