The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-09

.rfSr- JoarRaLaeools off on its friends
at Washington in the following
style
"There is an updoubted iack of
confidence and activity among party
leaders at Washington. Much as
we deplore it, we shall not deny it.
The more reason therefore for the
people at home to supply the need.
The missing Ingredient is courage
rather than conviction. The Demo-
cratic masses have plenty of both,
and they have only to apply these
10 the situation in time to make
them felt at Chicago. We have three
mSnths to work in. Let us improve
them. The outlook Is certainly not
very bright Let us improve that.
Many brand has been snatched
from the burning at the very last
moment I"
Mr.. Wattsrssn is evidently not
pleased with the course taken by
Mr.. Morrison He, no doubt, was
in earnest about moving Mr.. Ran
dali and all others who differed with
him and Mr.. Morrison on the tariff,
out of the party with hot poker.
This enterprise, if it was seriously
entertained, was abandoned at the
caucus. The moment a Democrat,
like Mr.. Morrison or Mr.. Carlisle,
becomes conservative and refuses to
use the hot pslker,tha moment Mr..
Watterson takes charge of him. And
he proclaims, even if reference to
such Democrats as Morrison and
Carlisle, because they begin to show
signs of prudence, that they lack
courage. "The missing ingredient
is courage rather than conviction. "
But the pith of this attack on the
Democracy at Washington for cow
ardice is found in the following ex-
tracts ...
"If the Democratic party be not
the party of revenue reform and re-
I duced taxation, what is it? fit be
1 merely a society for the absorption
of offices, why not couple il with the
sleeping car of the party in power,
and call it the Repu bliean Party ,Jr?
There are hundreds Of thousands of
Dem ocrats who neither hold nor
seek office. They are men of char
acter, who have convictions and
who can give reasons for the faith
that is in them. TO them party or
ganization is simply a vehicle. To
them the Democratic party is either
something or nothing; If it is the
embodiment of a group of organized
ideas and moral forces, openly,
plainly and boldly antagonizing the
Republican party, it is everything
to them, and they will rally with
enthusiasm; if it is only a weak
place hunter, playing second fiddle
TO the Republicans, and afraid of its
own shadow, it is nothing, or worse
than nothing.
Undoubtedly this class of Demo
Gratis will csntIel the next National
Convention. The members of that
body will come fresh from the peo-
pie. Their nostrils will net be fill
ed with the fetid atmosphere of the
National Capital. Their blood will
not be tainted by the poison which
seems to be inevitable to official ex-
perienee. All that Congress fails
to do, or does amiss, will be righted
there, and in the end, a revenue re-
form nominee will be put before the
country, but if there be a confusion
of tongues and a discrepancy of
time and a emergency of footsteps
between Washington and Chicago,
how shall we give the policy and
the ticket thus named their due
prOportion2
Far better have the fight out now.
Somebody has to give way. Who
shall it be, Mr.. Randall and hand
full of protectionists, manly from
Pennsylvania, or the record and
traditions of the party, sustained by
three fOurths of the voting rank
and fileE 1922 20 sEt
Tho time has come when the Dem
scraric party will be compelled to
deal plainly with Mr.. Watterson.
His hectoring is becoming offensive.
The truth is, if Mr.. Watterson had
taken a contract to run the Demo
cratic party into free trade for a
valuable consideration, and a failure
to accomplish the purpose was driv-
ing him to despair, he could not be
more dogmatic and insulting.
Mr.. Watterson has long since
ceased to argue the question ON the
the facts He declares he is right
and commands obedience. Men
who differ with him are assailed and
their Democracy challenged. Even
such a Democrat as Sam Randall,
whose defense of Democratic prin-
ciples and courageous and manly
fight for the down trodden South
when we were almost friendless,
have endeared him to all admirers
Of noble deeds, is read cut Of the
party with a sneer. The trouble
with Mr. Watterson is that, with
him, his whims make Democracy
We do net expect Mr.. Watterson
% be tolerant or to respect other
peoples opinions; he writes as if he
lid not know that other people were
entitled to opinions. To disagree
With him Il to Give him mortal of.