Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-07-08
TIE UTrERAHcEs or the PRESS.
Let Us Sustain 60-3-4-5 and s.
Murfreesboro News.

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Let Us Sustain 6O-3-4-5 and 8.
/ - Murfreesboro News.
The anomalous position in which
the Democratic party in Tennessee
has been placed by the Convention
which met in Nashville, last week
is without precedent in the history
of politics in this State. 1t is hard
to conceive how greater mistake
could have been made by the Con.
ventiOn, or how any one could have
imagined that Democratic unity
would be secured by the policy pro.
posed.
The Convention nominated a can
didate for Governor against whom
no serious personal objections are
raised, but it places him on a plat
form which pleaseS nobody, and
which is generally ridiculed and
condemned.
1t was ungenerous and cruel upon
the part of that body to take wor-
thy and gallant gentleman, who,
unfortunately, has become too IA
miliar with defeat, and, at this
critical period in his history and in
the history of the party, make him
the exponent of Il policy which no
man on Gods green earth can salts
factorily or successfully defend.
In protesting against the resolu-
tions adopted by the Convention we
are not alone. We have yet to find
the man who heartily and thorough
ly endorses that platform. 1t does
not meet with the approval OF State
Credit Democrats or Low Tax Dem
ocratS. ..5t.. ..t. ........ ......
There is VagueneSs, an indecis-
ion and unrestfulneSs noticeable,
which indicate anything Dut joy and
confidence. The lack of enthusiasm
in the party is as remarkable as it is
significant.
We find Democrats who readily
accept the nominee but who avoid
discussion of the platform. We
find others whosay they will support
the nominee, but who uncquivocal-
ly and bitterly denOunce and repu-
diate the platform. We find others
who cmphaticalIy declare that they
will support neither nominee or
platform. ...
This is strange and ominous
state of affairs. We simply give the
facts as we find them, and leave the
public to draw its own conclusions.
Erin Review.
The title of boilers, with the usu-
al candor and courtesy, is applied
by the Sdin1dgd0adi ptofgel'-gOU'd
organs to such men as feel con-
strained, from a sense of duty, to
dissent from the extraordinary pro-
ccedings of the late convention at
Nashville. But, inasmuch as this
was not Il regular Democratic con-
ventiOn, but joint or conference
convention, composed of both wings
of the party called expressly for the
purpose of making an honest effort
to harmonic the various conflict
ing sentiments in the party, and
failed to adopt platform on which
the State credit party could harmO-
nize, we do not see how the term
can be appropriately applied. 1t is
conceded that one of its objects was
to formulate Il platform, and NOM
mate a candidate, if such q platform
could be framed as ,0Ould secure the
united support of The party. But, no
one understood that a dominant
majority would be allowed to make
q platform subversive of every
Democratic principle and precedent,
a reputation platform, and there
fore SO diStasteful to considerable
wing of the party that they could
not consistently support it, and
force it down their throats, and if
they refused to perform such an act
of political deglutition, denounce
them as boilers and traitors The
truth is that the reputation wing
of the party, by series OF cunning
and well planned stratagical ma
noeuvers, succeeded in capturing
the convention, and, uniting with
the readjusters, are now directing
their efforts towards beating the
settlement, as they would to beat
any settlement they could that was
not in accord with their extreme
low-tax reputation views. The
convention blindly and recklessly
ignored and sat down upon men in
favor of the settlement and have
not hesitated to place a most esti-
lOA Va
party success on platform that
they know is at war with all the
antecedents and previous platforms
of the Democratic party, which
therefore cannot be sustained before
the people, and cannot even COM
mand the support of their own par
ty who think Democracy means
SODletiti,lg, and cannot sacrifice their
principles on platform that we
think involves n total abandonment
of fundamental Iime-honored
Democratic principle; opposition to
reputation in every shape and
form.
West Tennessee Wbig
We place at the head of our col
umns this week the name of Gen.
w. B. Bate, the Democratic nOmi-
nee for Governor. This we do after
mature deliberation, i'm which we
have considered every phase of the
question. General Bate was not
our choice for Governor, neither
would we have made a platform
for our man, such as was made.