Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-09-09
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THE HALF-BREEDS AND LOH-TAxERS.
The Half-breeds have been chuck
ling to themselves ever since the
10th of June Convention at their
what they believe-complete capt
ure OF the leaders of the Low
tax party. 1t may be true
that they have won ever, by the
hope of Office, the few unprincipled
leaders of that party, but they may
as we'll awaken to the fact that they
have not yet bound hand and foot
the consistent men of the party.
Those who bore the honest cOnvic-
lions of Iow-taxism are beginning
to see how they have been betrayed
| by their leaders; that they are
merely being used by them to fur
Their the cause of the Half breeds
and to uphold the miserable plat
/ form of that party. Seeing this
now as they do, we opine, they will
| pay little attention to the willy APP
| peals of these treacherous leaders,
who are going about stirring up
old prejudices against the State
Credit Democracy. No matter how
they attempt to excite the passions
and prejudices of these Low-tax
men, they can never convince those
of them who are sincere and hold
honest convictions, that the rotten
patchwork of the convention of the
10Th of Juueis the same as the plat
form upon which they stood in 1880.
No conscientious Low-taxer can
read the platform on which he then
stood, which says:
We favor the adjustment and
speedy payment of the State debt
proper.
We deny the validity against the
State of all that part of our alleged
Indebtedness represented by bonds
issued for or on account of railroads,
and declare they shall be left for
settlement where they properly be-
long in the judicial controversy be-
tween the bOndholders and the rail-
roads.
We deny the validity of bonds is
sued for war interest, and assert
that the demand for such interest
and its concession by men pretend
ing to represent the State at time
when We were DISTINGUISHED as a
crime against the rights of the peo-
pie, and no part of such alleged debt
shall be recognized in any settle
ment to be made.
We declare that in no event, up
on any settlement, shall the coupons |
be made receivable for taxes.
We recognize the sovereignty and |
supremacy of the people, and de-
clare that no settlement of any part |
of our alleged Indebtedness shall be |
made which is not first submitted |
to them for ratification or rejection
at the ballot-boX at a special cleo
ton TO be held for that purpose |
only,
and believe that it is synonymous
with that of June 2Oth, promulgated
by the ReadJuster Democracy. 1t is
really amusing to see how these men
try to trim to both sides; when
they talk to State Credit men, men
who stood with the regular DemOc-
racy of 1880, they abuse the Low
tax men, and when they wish to
placate these latter, they send out
some of the old leaders who try by
perversiOns and specious arguments
to pursuade their former followers
that the Bate and Wilson platforms
are the same. 1t Is too thin. 1t
will not work, and the LOW-taX
men are beginning to see through
the thin disguise. When LOwtaX
men reflect that the miserable mon
grel platform Of June Goth, recOg-
nizes the validity of the railroad
bonds, that it proposes to pay the
war interest on these bonds and
that it sets down upon the doctrine
Of submission to the people, they
are not slow to smell mouse
and to become suspicious of their
new found friends.
The latter day indications are
that all conservative, honest Low
tax men will flock to Beasley as the
only true representative of their
principles. They have been desert
ed by all other of their protested
leaders.
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