Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-03
OUT OF TIE DuLEsEmA.


Our esteemed contemporary, the
Nashville World, has become a lit.
tie irate, and complains that we dc
not understand its position on the
State debt. Well, your position has
changed so often that it is hard tc
put our hand on you where we found
you last. However, in friendly
way, we intend to give short out.
line OF your career, from your origin
up to the last position you have as
summed; and, we candidly say, we
believe yo1 will stick to.
The World at its organization, a
few months ago, called to its edito-
rial chair, a young gentleman from
this city who was known by the
reading public, throughout the
state, as q staunch advocate of the
maintenance Of the honor and cred
II OF the State, and who had endors-
ed the provisions of the 1908 act.
both before and after its adoption
by the Legislature. This, coupled
with the fact that in its opening ed
Itorials, it pledged itself to sustain
the credit of the State and support
the State credit Democracy, afforded
reason for the generalsurprise, when
a few weeks afterwards, it declared
itself an Independent paper" but
still State credit.
For second act in this grand and
thrilling Hopping drama, it sprang
before the foot-lights one morning
few weeks after, as the self-consti-
tuted and heroic harmonizer of the
democracy, in opposition to 1908,
advocating COL as the basis of set
tlement, but still declaring the 100
was preferable to the reputation
OF any portion of the debt. And
now comes the third, and last act,
In this marvellous exhibition, of
ground and lofty tumbling," when
it states that Sat great expense" it
obtained by special envoy the full
particulars of the popular gathering
at Winchester last Monday, where
Savage, Wilson, Snodgrass and
Beasley, swOre undying opposition
to the 1908 and implicitly to the
5O-4, and reiterated, most positive
ly that their estate debt proper"
business was their ultimatum. Com
menting on all'Of which the World |
editorially announces "The World |
Is with Them"
This last grand act in this serio-
comic drama was by no means as
great a surprise or so startling as the
Others. 1t was the inevitable de-
movement, and was expected by all
who had watched the run OF the
play.
Once loose from the moorings of
State credit upon the restless sea of
renewed agitation and so-caIIed in
even the bleak and
barren shores of reputation afford
ed haven not to be dispised. 1t
IS the old story over again. indie (
pendent journalism is rarely success
ful. In politics, partisanship is re-
1uisIte to force and influence.
Stronger organizations and ADLER s
than the Worlds, trying
10 trim, have gone to wreck on the
ocean or landed upon an unwel- {
'ome coast. In every day politics
argument must of necessity be pro-
ected for or against one of two d
great sides to make its logic keenly
Ielt. '
The World is now in a position c
10 longer to be a Iuild and timid adj q
Iocate Of reputation, afraid almost e
f its own shadow, but can stand r
ut boldly and advocate the doc T
rines of reputation. We respect t
more for an honest statement of a
IS real position, however dire and p
its end in view, than t
he lodging and squirming and con- p
and sophistries, it here e
0fore has been guilty of. We do Il
OF write this in any spirit of I'M p
or uxultation, far be it a
'Om us, but rather with sor- "
DIV and regret. We had hoped Il
etter things of the World. Had le
opes that no paper would arise up g
the capital city of proud old Ten 81
essee and daily strike traitorous Il
lows at her honor, her welfare W
nd her happiness. az