The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-06
Hon. John r. BeaSIey.

man, llalllaS. lllS ihtcl!cCI 10 NV o"
fertile, subtle and capacious, nor is he so
eloauent as Halifax was His talents
are not 50 great and various, nor will he
20 down in history with the prestige
which attaches TO the name Of Halifax
But they are alike in not being constant
to any band of political allies, with this
diicrcnce-tha the great Halifax was
conservative and did not fly from cx.
IRENE TO extreme. lie was no rene
gade, nor is Mr.. BcasIey. The party
to which he at any moment belonged
was the party which, at that moment,
he liked least, because it was the party
Of which at that moment he had the
nearest view. 1t was his fashion,
therefore, to join himself to the weaker
side In this fashion Mr.. Beasley is
like Halifax But when Bcaslcy goes
off, in tangent az it were, he forgets all
favors shown by the party he leaves
and becomes ms bitter towards that par.
ty as gall. lie was elected twice to the
Legislature by the Democratic party of
this county, but now he has left the
party and says it is no better than the
Republican party-in fact, has call the
vices and none of the virtues Of that
party" He says that Wilson, Snod
grass, Savage, and other Low-Tax lead
ers, have betrayed the party. And yet,
Mr.. Bcasley is counting upon the votes
of 81 900 Wilson men, and 5000 low
tax Rcpublicans!! 1t appears to us
that his reason must be very faulty if
he can really expect the votes Of men
he so vchemently abuses.
Mr.. Beaslcy says the Grccnback par
ty has II glorious mission to perform
, But will he e stitch" to that party until
the work is accomplished which he says
= it must accomplish Will he not imi-
$ tate Halifax IA soon as it has grown
. great enough t. reward its advocates
l. He said, i'll accepting its nomination
: for Governor, in Il Convention where
y two or three were gathered together il
l. MS name, that he had been Green
} hacker for twelve years. 1t is well h,
If informed us of this, because il has beer
a only few years when he was elected t,
}, the Legislature as n Democrat, and TIN
1t people thought him one. There is on
If thing We certainly belicvc-that he i
l. sincere in his political tergiversations
d else he would not always 60 to the relic
s of the weak against the strong, as h,
G has done in leaving the Democratic fol
c the Greenback party, Personally he i
i such a clever, honest, upright citizen
rs that VIC wish he would not try to weak
ii en- Gen. Bate and the Democratic part
t. by RAINING for an office in party tina
H. has not the ghost of chance to sue
v coed. Besides, we do not believe Mr.
of Beasley can be corrupted. He can b.
al deceived, and he dccevcs himself
it What manner of man he is. is hard t
l. fathom. We admire the boldncss with
: which he combats public opinion in pol
: tiles and religion. He is no dcmagoguc,
! for demagogncs 80 with the current 1t
is somewhat amusing to scan his utter.
, ances in the past, and the suddenness of
= his views In 1870 he was editing the
Home journal. In the issue of Sept.
: LIST Of that year he had the name Of
IS Hon. A. $. Colyar as his choice 70,
d Governor, and in an article of NOR,
n than columns length tried to prov,
If that Gen. John G. Brown was no Dem
d ocrat; that he was u Republican, ant
Is that certain resolution introduced b,
= Gen Brown in the Convention of 'G}
= " Ought to damn him forever tina
). hon. a. S. Colyar chad not the glitter
S ing record of soldier with which I,
Y dazzle the eye of the people, but in sol
id ability had no superior in the State
and would do more for Tennessee in the
Gubernatorial chair than any other ma,,
in the commonwealth" September Sth
MIR, Colyar's name was still flying at the
masthead of the Journal. The very
next week it was hauled down and in
Its stead was the name of Gen. John G.
Brown, and no explanation given. Sep
lemoer I'D following, Mr.. Colyar was
denounced us Radical and Mr.. Bcas.
icy said he and Andrew johnson "were
practically at the head of the Radical
sluad."
IL Is II fact that Mr.. Beasley is the
greatest withdrawcr we ever knew
lie withdrew from the Tennessee
Press Association because sometime wo.
said or done he did not like.
lie withdrew from Masonry because
its ritual teaches the immortality of the
soul, and refused to drop sprig of &C.
dar into the grave Of VIM. Buchanan
because, said he; "The doctrine of the
Immortality of the soul we cannot en-.