The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-23
SCRATCHING TIE PA 7,FoRK.

Our readjuster friends are directing
an Intellectual fire upon the four mil
law plank in the Democratic platform
That plank is of sound timber. 1t will
bear the closest scrutiny and resist the
severest assaults 1t is founded upon
wise and improved law of the State, anC
it will be approved by the people. Ii
proper time the matter will be fully
presented in all its bearings, with the
| fac and circumstances which made il
necessary for Democracy to take bold
stand for the preservation Gf the law,
and for re isting an organize Il encroach.
ment upon it. Democracy proposes to
present this subject and show the real
issues at stake in every county in the
State. 1t invites & thorough investiga-
ton and a candid discussion.
The four-mile plank has been
scratched out" by the Bolter can
didate That plank was too narrow
for the enterprising young man that
stands upon the Bolter platform, and
he scratched it out and placed the
board plank of total prohibition in
its place. This places some of the
Boilers in an awkward fix, and pro-
duced some CONSERVATION.
y Eb. James is the only one of the
Bolter leaders yet heard from that
stands the raise. He plants him
self firmly with one foot upon the
four r-mile law and the other upon
prohibition, with his feet 60-6 inches
apart he declaims to the astonished
masses of the beauties of temper
ance. He lectured yesterday to the
people of West Tennessee, at Nc
Kenzie. We hope he will soon give
us lecture at Nashville.
While Brother James is thus en-
tightening the masses, where will
the rest of the holsters stand? None
Of them J ct have got more than four
miles on the way to reformation.
But they are so mad at Democracy
and so benz on destruction that, we
think. they will keep the trail, and
if there are not enough simon-pure
prohibitionists to make a beaten
track they will be found struggling
in the rear till the Ides
of November.
The extract which heads this
article is from the American. That
journal, before it bid a final farewell
to Democracy, suggested the idea
of scratching of the platform. 1t
needs the inculcation of the same
idea among its present associates.
The men who put Mr.. RUSSELL to
the front had no notion then of fol-
lowing to the extent to which he is
leading them. Old sinners need a
few days repentance before full pro-
fessiOn. Jackson will certainly ask
time before he will confess he did
wrong in giving thousand dollar
champagne banquet to Butler and
others for electing him to the Senate.
Bailey expressed some zeal for the
four mile law when the boilers first
it, but this prohibition
plank he will think rather a big
thing to take. Wright, Cooper,
Cheatham, Claiborne, Cowden,
White, Cardwell and others are yet
to hear from on the new departure.
The tour-mile plank is last
nest, and our restless neigh
Dor, tho Banner, never sits on an
old nest. He is a gentleman of great
and of fertile resources.
We will wait with some anxiety the
development of our neighbor on
this progressive idea. We think it
possible that he may yet be induced
to endure the idea of a sumptuary
law. But this depends upon what
position the american may occupy.
Those ambitions journals were never
while they remained
with the Democracy. They will
never stand harmonious on the
four mile plank unless they are
placed st opposite ends. Perhaps
the prohibition plank may be wide
enough for them both to practice
their gymnastics on without q col
lision.