Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-07-08
WHOLE NO. 2,43O.

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q majority. We are as far removed
J. from Radicalism as the North pole
n Is from the South, and reputation
is 80 revolving and nauseating that
we cordially despise H.; therefore,
. the only way out of oar difficulties
Is to vote for Bate, the regular
. nominee.
! Dresden Democrat.
: As for our part-and there are
= very MANY like us-we prefer any
State-credlt man for Office TO q man
t who is trying To pull down things
: already equitably established. You
E may label a dung hill EAU de Co.
logiie," but that will not remove
/, the stencil. You may hatch up
.. your political hereSies and call them
Q "JeiferSonian Democracy" but that
will not make them truths.
Another result of this hormony
heresy is, truth has grievously suf-
Tered, and State. credit Democracy
in other words, the true Democracy,
Z for we recognize no other-has been
q | ANN0SNN W IODClSco luAilOLllys
r This is why westrenuOusly opposed
the acceptance of that famous olive
J branch of peace. We knew it
meant a desertion of all preceding
Democratic platforms.
But let the game be played out.
Tennessee is destined to Republican
supremacy. Who caused it? The
first set of bolters when they will
: fully forsook the old landmarks of
credit and honor, and went off after
strange gods. The small remnant
OF true Democrats can pursue their
} course and rejoice, in the fact of de-
feat, that they bravely tried to
steer Alright the Democratic ship
, when she went to pieces on the
rock of repudiation. @
Paris Post. J
What citizen of Tennessee ever
expected to see men 50 determined
to rule Oh ruin that they would
agree to make proposition so OBJ
viously unjust to a portion of credit
Ors and yet make the people pay
three and e-half millions. more
than they are called on under the
recent honorable, just and fair set
tlement?
1t is shame. In fact we are in
clined to think nobody WAS in
earnest. Look ut it from one end
to the other, it appears as If it were
intended as piece of wit, a huge
joke-a regular burlesque. tA
1t starts off by declaring that the
party is the true custodian of the
honor and integrity of the State.
The next move it condemns a set
tlement made in strict conformity
with the party platform of 1880. 1t
then sugar-coats this position by
paying Mrs. Polk and all charitable
Institutions North and South and
the State debt proper i'm full, and
then, without assigning any reason
in the world and to keep up the
joke, it closes by regulating three
foUrths OF the interest and half the
principal of a debt, much of which
are the same bonds held by Mrs.
| Polk and the charitable institutions,
and all of which hove the same seal
and official endorsement of the State
''aS the State debt proper" Let us
in our charity say the boys were on
ok and in a big glee and got off
a big joke. ........
Athens Post. .-
A corrected copy of the platform
will be found in our columns this |
week. 1t is not exactly what we
expected, and that portion of IL |
which relates to the debt question
is susceptible of adverse and hurt |
| full criticism. 1t faVOrs the pay
ment of the Stale debt proper, as it |
is termed and variOusly estimated |
at from twa and n half to nine mill |
| lions, dollar for dollar, with 6 per |
cent. coupons, less war interest, and |
makes tender to the holders OF !
the balance of the bonds of one |
half the principal, with per cent,
and war interest included. We |
commend this platform to the atten-
ton of such of our readers as feel an
interest in the matter, and invite
them TO give it candid, impartial
peruSal, satisfied that their intelli-
gence and powers of analysis and
discrimination will enable them To
detect whatever errors and blum
ders it contains, if there be such,
without an attempt upon our part
to fUrestall and bias their minds in
making up IL Judgement. We re-
peat that the platform is not what
we expected and here we rest-for-
the present at least.
Columbia Herald.
This weeks issue contains the
platform adopted by the Joint
Democratic State Convention, that
met at Nashville on the 10Th OF
June. 1t also contains the address
of the committee of State Credit
Democrats who represent those who
failed to harIuunize with the Joint
Convention. The platform adopted
by the Joint Convention il subject
to serious objections. 1t is our great
desire TO see the Democratic party
united, and we hope something
may be done In the convention to
meet the llth Of July, that will yet
bring the party together. In this
hope we will wait until after the
1lth OF July. s.. ...i. H..
McMinnvilie New Era.
The platform is one on which we
cannot stand or give our support
without stultiiying ourselves, and
giving lIlC liC W VIC tiahG
said for the past five or six years on
the State debt question. This we
are unwilling to do, and we have
not come to the conclusion hastily.
If we are anything, politically, we
are Democrat, and to endorse a
platform that is so repugnant to our
Democratic ideas, and so in conflict
with all our teachings of the past,
is asking too much at our hands I;
when the objects of its
enactment are failure. II it had
succeeded in bringing peace and
harmony to our ranks, we could I
have afforded to have held our in
dividual views in allegiance, for at
least the present, and given a quasi
support and endorsement to the
platform, but having failed in this,
as low -taxer we do not feel bound
by its declarations or ITS policies.
The result of the convention is as
we predicted il would be- after look
ing over the probabilities the first !
day of its session. The G0-6 inen
were determined to dissent from
the action so soon as the G0-6 was
but would not leave the