Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-02

branches, should be controlled by the
democratic party for -FOUR years'
You do, eh? Wbv not give us rea 4
son for your belief?
For several weeks past we have
been engaged in a labor of love
with our neighbor, but his natural
infrmities appear to be such that
we can not teach him all that even
the editor of q democratic newss
paper ought to know But if he
| will make an honest effort to open
the windows of his dark unders
standing, we will again endeavor to
throw some light into his dark
soul.
We take up the points in the
above extract in the order in which
they are presented. And first, the
fact in Mr.. Bayard's history, the
only one that we care now to speak
| Of which shows that he is some
times controlled by his party against
his own honest convictions, is the
| part he took in the extra session Of
congress last year. When the
| democratic leaders conceived the
insane and unpatriotic idea of
starving the government and BY
that means to bulldoze the presis
dent into approving legislation
which he could not approve, Mr.
Bayard, so far as we remember,
voted with the revolutionists every
time. He may have opposed the
schemes of the impraeticable major
ity in caucus, but when the, time
came to vote he was cheek-by-jowl
with the widest lunatic among
them. I q sRE'Sg3 &AF
The Tribune lodges the main
point in our edit orial of Saturday
morning, but admits that "Mr.
Bayard is practically out of the
race for the presidency" Why
out? What has Mr.. Bayard done
that places him practically out Of
the race for the presidency" ? Is
il the discovery Of his secession
speech made in 1861? Does thu
Tribune throw up the sponge be
cause its chosen leader made Sc
cession speech Call you thi'
backing your friends? A frank
reply from our neighbor would be
relished. And if he does op
pose Bayard because he wal
a secessionist, we submit that it ii
time for him to stop lecturing III
and calling US "enemies to the south
for thereason that we do not recog'
nize leading secessionists as the
proper men to control this govern
ment.
We said that the public interests,
in our opinion, would suffer under
four years of democratic rule, and
the editor of the Tribune asks for 6
reason for our belief, But time ant
space would fail as to give all of thu
reasons for such belief. The his
tory of the democratic party for thu
last twenty years and more is full o
reasons why it ought not to b.
trusted. The fact that it en-
deayored to break up the government
when it could not control it, in 1861
is good one. When the war wal
over, that party did all in its powel
to keep the colored people of thil
country ina state of slavery, by de-
priVing them of the right to vots
and testify in the courts of justice
For years the leaders of the demo
cratic party did everything in theil
4 power to destroy the credit of thu
nation. Only two years ago, ma
jority Of those who are now recog'
nized as leaders in the party
were bowling about the coun'
| try in favor of unlimited
greenbacks and swearing that
specie resumption would bring ruin
upon the nation. The more intel
ligent among them knew this to be
false, but they thought they could
deceive the people, arouse then
prejudices and by that means attain
to power.
In a majority of the states o.
the union that are now reliably
democratic, the states debts have
been repudiated in whole or in
part, or the public finances have
been SO managed that the bonds Of
| snch stataa are worth nnlv from