The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-28


ment wo have felt constrained to pro-
vide for the hayward NeWs. We feel so
kindly toward that paper as we write,
that we are almost tempted to invite
il to return to the grand old Democrat
ic party in whose service it spent its
better days, but we fear the invitation
would be spurned we have no "re-
forms" to offer and "roforms" are what
the NeWS has sought,
We not only theoretically assert, but
positively declare that no man has the
right to change his opinions, or policy
or party alignment without good,
valid and subsisting reason. For fifteen
years the Ne,cs lauded the Democratic
party to the skies, and denounced the
Republican party as monster of cor
ruption and misrule. Now, strange to
say, it is extravigantly praising that
which it has hitherto more than ex-
travigantly denounced, and denoun-
cling that which it had hitherto prais-
ed! The profound depth of principle
thus exhibited leads US to inquire,
"Why this thusness?" If the editor of
the News chopped" because he differed
from the Democracy on the tariff, we
want to know chow long he's been
that way" How long did he stihe his
convictions of right, and weekly advo-
cate that which he now loudly pro-
claims to be wrong? Now that he has
renowned the principles he cherished
and advocated for life time, will he
ask the people to believe what he has
heretofore said or what he now says?
Once he denounced the Republican
party as corrupt and unworthy OF
confidence, now he proclaims it the
only party that can be trusted. Which
is true, which will he have us believe?
The Democratic tariff he supported
twents years, why did hedo so? These
are pertinent questions which appeal
to the good sense of thinking men
They are not vain They are not juve-
nile. They cannot be obscured by eva.
sions or by such counter questions as
"Why did not THE COMET start TWEEN
ty years sooner?" "Why did not Til,
den decline twenty years soonerY
"Why did not God change His man.
agement from the Jewish to the
Christian system twenty years soonerT
These questians can only bring ridi
Guile upon their author. They are
silly. Does the editor of the NeW,
assert that he knows no more about
his own motives, his own reasons fol
joining the Republican party, than he
does about Gods reason for not chang
ing the Jewish system? a3 .A
We decline to be satisfied with s
scattering answer about everything
conceivable but the true question
We are not to he appeasod with the
argument that because other mer
have changed under entirely differen
circumstances, the NeWs will be iusti
fable in its change. Ought not tn,
most convincing proof be offered t
Justify an editor who holds one set O
convictions for years, and then sud
; denly admits that he has been as blint
as a bat all his life and leaps to tn,
most extreme opposite set ofopinions
If the tariff caused the "fop," we hop
{ the NeeS will say so. Give us "mor
, light and less DUST
| The NeUs wants to know why
{ should not be for Blaine. We SAT-
. before that Blaine has had a suprem
: contempt for the Mahonites, but W
, suppose that will make no difference
That crow eating crowd is too hmgr
for "reforms" to refuse anything tina
! that is set before them. There max
inns are; Zone to-day is worth two tc
morrows;" "Every man bends +
{ the bush he gets shelter Off We eai
!, not take time to deny in in detail tn
mere assertions the Ne,ps makes O
the tariff question. The protectiv
!, tariff did not make the johnson Cit
:, tannery. 1t is its worst enemy.
!, did not make the Narrow Gauge r. I
Under Democratic low tariff laborwa
> not low and goods high. The opposit
? is true. The Republican party is nc
the author of the present prosperity {
! the country. Rather has itatteIapte
to keep the people down by war take
and high tariffs. That~party sent II
:, locomotives booming into Mexico, BIT
it sent the agents and hirelings of tn
Star route thieves in every direetio
Throughout the country The Repul
lican party has crippled commerce
, fostered monopolies, killed the Mex
can pension bill, oppressed the peopl
with taxation and bought the Mahol
ties. The Republican party must g
PettibOne and the Spirits. (,
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the ear
: Unseen, both when We wake and when we slice
+. Milton.
Il Notwithstanding Milton's lines abo,