The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-09-07

being fought in Virginia. By per-
sisting in unfolding and strength
ening Malone and hisfoIIowers they
directly make themselvesresponsible
for inviting a calamity than which a
greater could scarcely be brought
upon the country the reputation
of its war debt, contracted in sub
iugating the South and freeing its
slaves without compensation. If
Northern Republican papers and
speakers can afford to encourage
such Reputation, and it is thus
brought about, the South will quiet
" submit. The North has more at
stake than the South has, and if she
can stand it we can. But we had
only intended to introduce, in few
lines, this admirable editorial on the
subject from the New York World !:
When the Malone movement in
Virginia gathered strength enough
to swallow the Republican party
with the enthusiastic consent Of its
leaders at Washington and the
North, the TForld pointed out the
danger that if the movement were
brilliantly successful it would assume
national proportions and make the
national credit its objectOf assault.
That this view of the case was not
unreasonable sensible people will
admit. We have the assurance of
one of the candidates whom the Re
publicans OF Virginia are supporting,
with the approval Of Republicans
elsewhere. that when they achieved
a great triumph in the State on
their view of the debt issue they
will flavor vigorous application of
'.the reimbursement principles to the
/" national debt" That when a pol
itician once sets out in the career of
a dishonest demagogue he infallibly
becomes more and more radical is
sufficiently indicated by the fact that
Malone in 1879 was for settling the
debt of Virginia on the basis Of $685.,
100000. We do not know what
Mahone's Ultimate views are. At
present he wishes to secure the Gov
ernor and highest court of his State
so as to make sure that no veto such
as Governor Holiday interpOsed
shall block his scheme for repudia-
ton, and that the creditors shall find
no tribunal not already packed with
regulators. He also hopes in 1884
to be able to name at least one OF
the Republican candidates on the
national ticket His plans, there
fore, are confined to operating by
means of the Republican party But
one Malone begets many, and when
men shake off the restraints of party
obligation and compete with each
other for the favor of the ignorant
and dishonest, each new Malone
must outbid his predecessor, and
the natural consequence is strug
gle for existence resulting in the
of the unfittest, The Re
bulican party at the South, COM
posed of few whites eager for office
and mass Of negroes, the vast ma
jority of them ignorant and credul-
GUS, affords the nucleus Of a power
full national organization. There
are to be counted up as recruits the
silly and disconnected among the
Democrats, and the men with crazy
'views" on the subject of monopolies
and the currency At the North
there is powerful Greenback fac
ton in every Republican State pre-
pared to cooperate. The cry "Scale
down the national debt !" would
prove a popular one among the ig-
norant classes at the South, since few
bonds are held there and the coun-
try is comparatively poor, and if
with q demand for inter
nal improvement on a lavish scale
and an immense initiation of the cur
rency it might, under certain cir
easily to be comprehend
ed, acquire an irresistible volume.
When it is remembered that the Re
publican party packed the Supreme
Court to NEEDLE with the finances,
and that as soon as the silver crave
became formidable its leaders mani
tested their radiness to accept the
heresy they had at first denounced,
it must appear that nothing is less
unlikely than that the moment re-
pudiation presented itself as a popu
ar issue the Republican party will |
Jake it up. There is nothing in the |
Darfy's past to forbid such a hypo-
thesis, and nothing in the party's |
present. The danger is not remote |
lor small, and it is well that the res
for its origin and encour
lgement should be fixed now where
{ properly belongs.