The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-10-04
stand By the Entire Ticket.
From the Nashville American

From the Nashville Americana
Those persons who have felt >sufIi-
cient interest i'll political matters to keep
posted in regard to the strength of par
ties and factions in this State, under
stand very well that this race is simply
between Gov. Hawkins and Gen. Bate /;
that neither Mr.. RUSSELL nor Mr.. Beas-
ley will get enough votes to make their
candidacy respectable that the onlyI
anxiety felt by any Democrat in regard
to the race arises from the possibility |
that these two gentlemen may poll q
vote sufficiently strong to endangsss Gen.
Bates election but that either Of them
has following large enough to make
! his election possible under ary circuul-
stances, no0ne believes for a moment.
We have no fears that Gen. Bate will
be defeated, for many reasons. In the
first place, the Democratic party in this
State is better organized, more enthu
siastic and determined, and stronger
than it has been for several years past,
Notwithstanding the bolt. 1t will poll
i a larger vote than it ever did, in our
i Judgment. The Republican party is
much weaker than it was two years ago,
and is by no means solid on the State
Fl debt question. Having the Governor
for two years has left the impression
that this is not near SO great an unmix-
ed blessing as they had hoped it would
, be. Times have changed since Gov.
Brownlow's day Mr.. Hawkins is not
! exactly the ppan of their choice, and has
) failed to come up to the expectations of
I large and Influential element In the
|, party He is not popular with his par
r ty and arouses no enthusiasm. A new
man would have been stronger with
T them.
Il The vote that will be received by Mr..
[ Beasley viii, perhaps, hurt the Republi-
|, cans equally as much as it will the
t Democrats and it is quite likely, in
t any event, that the number of votes re-
D ceived by him will be somewhat less
I than the grasshoppers in Kansas
Il Mr.. FusselPs effort to elect Mr.. Haw-
, kins is demonstrating to his friends that
! his race is solidifying and harmonizing
!. the Democracy. The bolt had just lite
enough and strength enough in it to
+ make lukewarm Democrats fall into line
e with determination to defeat the COM
i mon enemy 1t just scared them
enough to wake them up and put them
to work Perhaps nine-tenths of the
, vote Mr.. Fussen will get would have
! gone to Mr. Hawkins had not Mr. Fus-
!. sell been in the field, so that his candi-
!, dacy is quite likely to damage Mr. Haw-
, kins' chances much more seriously than
it will Gen. Bates.
i Many persons who are very compe-
tent to judge, place his vote at almost
five thousand. We are inclined to
think that it will not be large enough
to hurt anybody very seriously except
Mr.. RUSSELL
], If the election were to come off to-day
Gen. Bates success would be assured,
and the probability is that his party
will grow stronger as the day approach
es, for this has been the case when par
ties were similarly divided in the past.
i There is danger ahead of US, however,
that Democrats should look to. 1t was
suggested in a letter from the Ameri-
cans correspondent now with Gen.
Bate in East Tennessee. He says that
Republicans. are now offering to give
votes to Bate IN exchange for votes for
/ their legislative ticket. IF Republicans
are making this offer, and it is probable
that they are, it is because they see that
Mr. Hawkins defeat is foregone con-
clusion, and they are endeavoring to
save something from the wreck Their
purpose in proposing to swap votes does
not grow out of their anxiety to main
tain the debt settlement, for this is a. lit
tie matter about which they are not
nearly so much concerned as their Ian
guage would lead one to believe. A
knowledge of the fact that they had a
majority in the Legislature and Uni
Tied States Senator, would be much
more gratifying to them than the assu-
rance that the State debt question had
assumed an attitude that would prevent
its making Democrats quarrel with each
other hereafter. While their PAL ty
lays great stress on sentiment and NOR
4 atty there is still some trace of human
nature and 'ststSing care-of number-one"
| yet discoverable in it. It's not necessa-
ry for Democrats to do any swapping
in order to elect Gen. Bate, and it. is
necessary and essential that they elect
/ a Legislature as well as a Governor.
This can easily be done by a firm re-
solve upon their part to stand by their
whole ticket and scratch no part of it.
The result of an election in which swap
ping and scratching have been carried
to eany. considerable extent, is usually
very unsatisfactory and very astonish-
| ing to those who considered 1t small
matter at the time. 1t will not take a
great deal of this kind of work to put
Mr.. Houk in the Senate, and give the
Republicans control of the State. For
! it will not be worth much to the De-
mocracy TO elect Governor, and have
Legislature with majority of Repub-
licans in it. A Republican Legislature
just at this time would be an expensive
and undesirable blessing to the State of
Tennessee, and it would give usea mass
of legislation in the interest of rings and /
nlOnopolies - in the interest of the |