Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-06-23
THE DEMOCRAT AGAIN.

n anu llnpetuOuS 1ro-oater. The eX-
" element was intense but breathless.
ar The gallant Southerners gathered
n to the side of their confrere and a
d bloody rencOunter was expected.
.e When Seward had reached Toombs
= he Withdrew his hand from his
j. pocket and piece of bright and
n glittering steel came with it. 1t
n was snuff-box, which he quietly
n handed to his adversary with the
e remark: "Take pinch, sir; it will
, soothe your agitated feelings"
e Now, we are very anxious that
y the able editors of tie Democrat
# should calm the tumultuous raging
in their souls which effervesced and
Y boiled over in their last issue, but
q we can't prescribe snuff. Such a
v remedy was we'll enough for Bob
: Toombs but it is entirely too strong
g for their case. They require some
f thing mIlder, and we are inclined
, to think that Mrs. Winslow's well
o known compound would have the
[ desired effect; but sugar-teat
would be the simplest and decidedly
the cheapest prescription for them.
They get sugar cheaper than most
, folks. Try it, young gentlemen, and
we are certain you will feel better.
There is really very little in the
Democrats article concerning us,
that requires any answer. We were
of the opinion last week that the
editors closely resembled Dickens
character who "took to scorning |
everything and became a genius"
and the subsequent proceedings
have strengthened that impression.
We are at a loss to know why the
able editors should become irritated
and show bad temper. According
to their own statement they knew
that a little "progging in the right
place" would make the editor of
the CHRONICLE exhibit to q deluded
public the imbecility that the astute
editors of the Democrat had already
discovered in him. They say that
1.-THE progging was given" with the
| desired effect, and it seems that they
ought to have been happy over
their success instead of pouring out
such flood of Wrathful comment
on what they had worked to bring
about.
In noticing the many excellencies
of these young Journalists we have
failed tn state that they are think J
ers. They never speak in words,
Words" as Hamlet said, but their
utterances are characterized by a
profundity of reason and logic. The !:
casual reader may have failed to !
discover this fact in perusing the 9
Democrat but ii is true, because the
editors themselves have repeatedly
lntlmated as much and now they
complain about the CHRONICLE r
answering our reasoning with per-
1t was certainly not
our intention to be personal in the o
offareiyo oo,o,,t,,;,,, - 49, -. il
!
and we were not. We spoke only a a
OF the editors of the Democrat as -
editors, and never forgot to be po- r
lite. We will have no controversy IL
with journal that we can't treat 81
with courtesy. We Willnever handy u
nor disgust the public VI
by swapping abuse with Journals III
hat do. The CHRONICLE cmpties III
is Stops out of the back door, and W
lOt through the columns of the pa ="
per. w
One of the complaints of our es- III
eemed contemporary is that we 10
ion't "love" its darling editors. ~
Now that's very sad, and it is as 0''
TRANCE as it is distressing. The re
'ditors of the Democrat know so 1t
much ABOUT sugar that they certain WI
y must be sweet and it is cruel not wv
GLOVE such quintescences of sacch- HE
rlne. We must confess, however, III
hat we are not mashed" that we VI
aven't got IA bad case" as the IL
oys say, but we had no reason to pa
islike these young gentlemen and,
D the reverse, their courteous per- a."
lnal treatment of us since we have Hue
cen in GAINESVILLE had rather pre- pa
us in their favor. Another W.
rievance of our neIghbors is that ine
e think the city press superior to alii
lat of the country. We are free to LII
knowledge that we did entertain wa
Ich an opinion but we are forced 'he
qualify it now. We thought the iu'l
lilly city press was more able to CIR
~ for talent than the country
eeklies and in that way secured d &C
e best article We believed that 10
ana, Halstead, WattersOn and I'M
her newspaper men of national si''
putatiOn were superior to the av- non
age editor who presides over the ,ao.
lumns of a county paper. The nun
itOrs of the Democrat say they oeci
Mt agree with us there and their Deii
m stortIiur ooroor i, io,r,I; heaC
ces us to yield the point. Their ''"i
mos ,nuSt no o,r-I,oa ,,,- nOta
'se illustrious ones just mention II
We don't deny the right of the " ia
,ntrv Dress to discnSs on,, S,,bioot give
chooses, but we do think that ueii
ptrv editors oorI1 coo,;.~s front
to tbo;r rorrto,io,, ~, - the
ming judicious silence on sub "hei
=, tbo,, l-,,,,, ,o.t,i, .,.. ion.
gar, for instance. iice
he offended dignity of the DEM anu VI,
1t because the CHRONICLES quoted Oei,o
snatch from comic opera" is
since the poet of that l"t.S
err has been trying his canny on
d on parody of Il much more
kneyed snatch from an older si"O
lie opera by the same authors. - az
ne last and most astonishing of ,'n 80.
r complaints is that the editor "''''i
ne CHRONICLE supported Gen. NM,
for Governor during the last or.', :,
paign. The charge is true. and