Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-11-26

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The Nashville World still contin-
ues to harp on its pet theory of 50-4
and one day cajoIes and pleads with
its coveted low-tax Reputation
friends 10 join with it and let it
be their political Moses and lead
them out of the Reputation wilder
ness, and then again the next day,
when IL sees that these fellows are
welded to their idols and will have
none of its eounsels, it frets and
fumes and says it has never expect
ed these fellows to join with it, that
they are extremists, and that it has
never had desire to ally itself with
the extremists Of either wing OF the
party. The fact of the business is
just this. The World was young
and ambitious and had an Overrid-
ing and absorbing desire to succeed
both financially and politically
which was all right and legitimate,
and none wished it greater success
in both Of the spheres than We
but the World was aware of the fact
that there were already at the State
Capitol, two daily State credit jour
mails, and il feared that the field
would be rather too circumscrlbed
for third. 1t was also wise enough
to know that no paper which advO-
Gated outright population and dis
honest principles could long survive
and that the past record of its able
young editor and even of its stock
holders was directly opposed to
any such political course.
On the other hand it was aware
of the fact that there was a deluded
and misguided element of the DEM
ocratic party in Tennessee-the
masses, the majority of which we
are constrained TO believe are hon
est and sincere in their beliefof the
injustice of the State debt. having
been led into and educated up to
this nefarious heresy by lot of I'M
principled political agitators and
demagogues-which has long wish
ed for an organ and mouth-piece at
the Capital, and which would glad
ly patronize and uphold any journal
that would even lend timid sup
port to their unhealthy doctrine of
no settlement at any rate. Here
was dilemma for the World. What
must it do? 1t started out as
an independent journal, but soon
found out that that course would
not win for it either the love
or support of the element whose
friendship it desired. Some
thing must be done, whittier must
it turn. In its sore distress 1t writhes
and squirms and in an unhappy
moment alights on the neglected
and long forgotten grave of poor 90
4 and now seeks to revive corpse
that was made such, at the ballot
box, by the very people whom it
now PROPOSES to love so devotedly.
In order to galvanize this corpse, it
has begun TRADE against the 1908
settlement, the only honest effort
that has ever been made to compro-
mise the State debt on the princi-
piles set out in the platform of the
Democratic party, the best terms
Obtainable after negotiation with
the bondholders. Thus in reviving
the bugaboo of 504, the World
hopes to advance its own interests
and calls it harmonizing the disaf-
fected elements of the Democratic
party. This is the truth in a nut
shell. This is the full extent of its
heroic CD struggle for peace and har-
mouy. The joke of the thing is
though, that it has not only lost its
friends among the State credit men
by its mild support of reputation,
but has also lost the respect of the
regulators themselves. The World
is truly in dilemma, but the quick
est and best way out of its uncom-
Portable position. is for it to cease its
agitation of 504, and wait patiently
like all the other respectable jour
mails in Tennessee, for the decision
Of the Supreme court, pledging itself
to abide senSibly and peaceably by
that decision. In this way it will
gain and maintain the financial and !
political support of the people of
Tennessee