The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-10-10
THE MARPLOTS.
THEIR LATEST OUTBREAK
! ACATgST MR. RANDALL.

not in her strength. 80 spake the |
sage Ulysses in great Agamemnon's
council, in the seventh year of the
siegcOf Troy. The OldPhilOsophsr-
general was Disguised and disheart-
ened by the envies, jealousies, rival
ries and folIies of his associate COM
manders, through all of which had
been sacrificed 50 many thousand
lives of the "well-greaved Greeks"
Reversing positions, so too, to-day
might the reputed-sage Ulysses, OF
the Republican camp, sayto his par
tisan cohorts within their official in
trenchments: 1--WE hold not the gov
eminent in any worth or strength
of our own, but through the dam
phoolishness Of the Democratic lead
ers." For twenty-five years and
more, the Republican party has had
possession and control ofthe nation
al government. 1t has had exclu-
sive enjoyment of the offices and fat
tened upon the plumber. So pro-
longed has been its tenure, that 1t
has come to regard itself as proPrie-
tor of the realm, and all its opPo-
ncnts as mere subjects Of its domin-
ion,-permitted, by its grace, to en-
Joy the satisfaction of feeling that
they are paying freemen. And
vet there has not been a time, with
in the last nine years, when this
self-same Republican party has not
fairly been a minority party through
out the Union. There has not been
a time, within that period, when
by a prudent, patriotic and hearty
concentration of Democratic forces
on proper occasions, that party might
not have been hurled from power
and its hundred thousand Office
4 nO'uefs Deeu ISAhahuON ~
proper places among the toiling
millions on the outside. 1t would
be painful-however profitable as q
warning-to revert to the disheart-
ening failures that have attended
Democratic effort through the fol
lies-not to say crimes-ot Democrat
ic marplots. 1t is enough to deal
with the present and the near future
Another presidential election is ap
preaching and Democrats have
grounds for sanguine hopes OF vic
tory. They haye scarcely less thar
a million majority in the popular
vote and a corresponding ascend
ancy IN the electoral college now
we'll assured. United, they have
nothing to fear from the enemy
and united the great mass OF thu
Democracy, throughout the entire
Union, desire to be, and so, we verl
ly believe, they will be. Neverthe
less, there are malign influences a
work to prevent such Democrati
unity, of which Democrats can no
be too careful. There are self-style'
and self-constituted leaders, witt
selfish and unpatriOtic ends to &C
complish, whose labOrs it were wei
Cor Democrats, betimes, to under
stand. Their undisplayed motto If
"Rule or ruin" and since they haV
not the ability or consequence l
rule, only ruin can attend their to-
lowing. The first effort of thes
malcontepts was to press an ez
treme view of the tariff question an
dragon the party into the servic
, of the free-trade Golden Club
England. The rebuke which tn
r impudent attempt received at tn
hands of the Ohio and Virginia col
: venions, caused temporary quiz
! tus. Now, we have a fresh oGtbrea
< from the same sources. 1t come
e in the shape of renewed a
! tack upon Hon. Sam J. Randall,
3 candidate for the Speakership
; the next House of Representative
G 1t is falsely assumed and charg'
y that he is a protectionist per Sc
: that he is no Demoerat-that he
the candidate of the Republican
This of Hon. Sam Randall, who
chief claim to distinction is bas'
n upon his unfaltering, heroic servlc
in the cause of Democracy at q TIN
d when some of his present revile
. were playing the sycophant Mt &
e foot-stOol of Republicanism and o
: sequiously bending the hinges
e the knee where "thrift might Il
y low fawning." Foremost amol
b these is, of course, the COu''
o Journal. Utterly defeated in
G broader gamo of squaring Dem
o cratic opinion to its crazy idea
r. "tariff- for -revenue-only," it return
t with louder outcry, to the Purs'
= of Mr.. Randall, though we conft
r to some difficulty in deciding whet
: er the heavy man of the countin
l. room, or the editorial jumping-ja
d in the upper story, is to be held !
L sponsible for the latest antics OF u
D. "widely circulated Journal" Certa
3 10 is, the associated press accou
h has, Just now, been made to be
D. a.. hu~dar. Of the little game. VIII.