New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-07

! TROUBLE AMONG IENAESSEE DEhOC ia TO-
The old-fashlonrd Tennessee Democrat is
singulaIly earnest person. He quotes Caesar
III Che original Latin. considerably translatlng
il for the benefit of the unlcarned; he Is
fluent rhetorical and intense, and he believes, or
did until recently, that a Democrat can do no
wrong. There's an uncommOnly fine specimen
in the present State Legislature by The name
of Thompson. The Legislature is 50 divided
between two kinds of Democrats aud the Re-
publIclns that no party has majority There
wa> long deadlock on the election OF United
States Senator, winch, having been broken, was
followed by another on State officers Alter
eighteen ballots for Secretary OF STATE TWO
or three Democrats vOteu for the R"pubcan
candidate and elected him. This 80 moved
the old gentleman that he broke ont III the
following burst of elOquencc, pathos, poetry
dcnunciat ION and Lain:
NJ. President. | AN old man and have climbed
bill time. crossed IT. apex. aud AN fastening down
the western slope. But nave never SCI ami never cH
pcctcd presented here to-day. | have
heard of Traitors but dreamed that there could he
Democratic traCr. Behold The slckening scene before
W. Iur genius 81 Democracy weep- At the sick ming
sight. The Il 'publcaus applaud the drscrtcr know
these Re- ubcan- They hgistrulE aLd hiSlrtoned
H. and While tn, pit the they Will urn
urOn tho traitor Cesar dd III the Gallo war upon tho
drsrrtrr that camp nnl exposed the posi-
tIor OF the opposing army. and lay to them AudiO
qi4Jd dcis cpHiHUiO deSr lDrtm e. near what you
Roy. dcspsr The trltor.j The finger OF &C rn Is
point g ~ tac nnw. They VIII hc LAID down in Iniany
80 deep that II WI. aint thcir ood AMI nccolc rpro
sy III their fauiiic- y0te for Mr. Suodgras4. whose
democracy Is pure the umpd streams that leap
from crig 10 era among his native MOUNTAIN.
Nothing could be finer than tins. II is not
strange that his audience, sprllbound in awcd
anl r,vcrcnt silence at the vIgorous denuncia
ton OF the traitors, whose tiffany" is to
"taint their blood and become a leproSy in
"thcir iamilic,,' broke into Wild applause at
the concluding tribuic to the llmpld stream
of Sn1d=rasfs Democracy.
Nor is Thompson the only indignant Ten
n,s>cc Democrat. Nj. John j. Llttlctun, jr.,
who j. vouchcd for as responsible man
10y Scnai0r-rlrct ,JIrkSon, publishes Il card, in
which he dcnounccs the PERSONS by name as
">hamrlcss traitors aud says: "In these
&" act, Of treason they have covered them
"scvrs with black infamy for which the
honest people will accept nothing rs an
ntoncmcut. The iron heel Of eternal Ostra-
"cism should 1T once he placed upon the
"ncrks of these unprinriplrd scamps who
"plitancc OF 800 each, 40 that 'hcr mia-
" NOUS names may never more Disgrace the
Legislative rolls" 70 this robust criticism,
in accordancr with the custom of the conn-
Try, hc apprrds his address " for week yct.'
Thereto the correspondent of lie L0uMyWc
Courir-,JOHrndl, commenting upon the frlvO-
loils excuse of the traitors that they had voted
for Democrat eighteen tincs, adds his own
definition of the duty of Democrats. He says
why. there are thou sands of Dem Gratis hy-
" ing who have voted for Democrats nearly
eighteen hundred times, ard viii continue 10
Z" yot, for them until HI freezes Oycr, and
they will slide down on the ice and vote
"again, and yOu can count me in on that
"slidc." Ii is hardly necessary to say that
when it comes to that his party will be in
such IN overwhelming majority that it won't
make much difference whether he votes or
not.
But it is all very sad. No wonder the
"grnius of Democracy wceps at the sick
"ening sight"