The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-07-19
The Situation.

We visited Nashville the 1lth inst,
intending to see and hear al we could,
in a modest, gcntlcmanly way, about
the present unhappy Democratic sltua-
ton in this State. If we had not been
so many years in the newspaper bust
ness we might divergc q little from
subject-matter in order to dignity with "
brief notice some little idle prattle and
unworthy suspicion in regard to cur OBJ
iect and intentions in going, as if we
never had right to 20 upon our own
private business in this free country,
regardless of the opinions of Others. To
them we merely say that our brain and
our pen alone guide these columns, how
ever much to their distaste. And
. "we are not
So Young AZ to regard mems irown or smile
As loss or guerdon Of glorious lot
We've stood and stand alone remembered OF
forgot"
In other words: We are the sole ed
itor, and while many things nnavoidably
slip into our columns which we regret,
vet, If yon do not like the paper you
need not take it. 1t would not be a
free prc@ unless we spoke our honest
views in it, without trimming to sui
the wbim, or caprice, or suggestion, OF
purpose, or pocket Of any man-excepI
omself.
We'll, we went to Nashville, to see
and hear, as before stated. We spent
about one hour at the Capitol at the
Boilers Convention. We call them
Boilers because they are, however much
we may sympathise with them in no
getting platform to suit them in thu
Convention which nominated Gen. Bate
And il did not suit us, either. Our oh
lection to its discriminating feature w
have heretofore boldly stated. W.
could not, did not, will not, " tors higl
cur cap in air" or even murmur praise
over platform that vas not in con
sonance with what we conceive to bC
good faith and what We know is our du
ty as a people constituting a State
Nevertheless, there is just as much Cane
more, according to what some Of then
say Of reputation in heir platform a
there is in the one which Gen. Bate ha
to carry. Even the discriminating
feature, eliminated from tic Better plat
form, only hurts little more on enc sd
and gives IL little more to tie Other
And for this tride they put thcmselvt
in the attitude Of Boilers, well awar
that their action will, if it should delei
Bate, most certainly elect IIawkin.
But these Boilers are " iirst-class me
men of sense. They are not a
gudgcons, nor arc those who support III
gallant Bate The whole trouble seen
to be about platforms, between whic
there is, virtually and practically, q
will be seen, very little difference
There is reputation in all the Demo
cratic platforms, and TO be guilty Of
part il, according to Scripture, to b
guilty of the whole.
We speak from the standpoint of
State credit man, for there is no on
who believes more sincerely than "
that the State owes, legally, the who
debt. But when these intelligent sor
heads hold Convention in oppositlo
to II Convention Of the regular Demo-
racy, and nominate another Democrat i
opposition to Gen. Bate, we conclud
that it is done in opposition to Bate am
not 10 Hauktw Therefore, and fol
many other more potent reasons, th'
Home Journal will ardently support
Gen. VIM. b. Bate, regardless of plat
forms present, past, in future, or NJ
platform at all.
Now, the Bolter Convention Of tn
18th was respectable in numbers, ant
splendid in shrewdness, intelligence an
general good looks. And they noniin'
ted noble man young, able, worthy
and all that. He has given every ind
cation of being a man like unto Ger
VIM. B. Bate. But the record of Ger
Bate is before us He is maturcd. ii
will do to trust. There can be no mi
hap in him. TO desert HIM now woul
be like giving up certainty fer an IN
certainty, and the Home Journal, fo
one, is willing to scratch all the plat
forms out and work for Gen. Bate and
true Democracy. We say tue Democ-
rncy because the Boilers have called us
Keadjusters and Repudiators, thereby
wounding the political feelings of thous
ands of just as good State credit Demo
Gratis as there were in the Boilers Con
vcntion--all Of whom, too, will vote fol
Gen Bate as most worthy Democrat
and, surely, the only chance whereby t.
defeat the Republican candidate. The