Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-11-29
A SENSIBLE REPUBLICAN VIEW.

Under the head OF %Unwarranted
Utterances" the Chattanooga CONNER
,eial (RepuAlican), has a remarkably
sensible editorial 1t was evidently
intended to express the papers dis
approval OF the incendiaTy harangue
Iot ex-candidate Blaine, though it al
ludes only to the incorporate talk OF
the Northern Republican press. Such
opinions As a-e expressed in this edito-
rial should bring the Commercial into
the Democratic party-the only truly
National party the country has known
for twenty-five years, and who's coming
into power promises to put an end to
sectional issues The Commercial
says:
Grover Cleveland is elected Presi-
dent OF the United States, and although
his election brings into power party
that has not held the reins OF govern
ment for the past twenty-four years,
yet conservative people-men of cool
heads and big hearts belonging to the
defeated party are willing to wait pa
6ently to see what will be done. The
majority 0! business men, no matter
what may be their politics, believe
that Mr. Cleveland viii make q careful,
conservative President. It is unpatri-
otto on the one hand and unfair on
the other to prejudice an admInistra-
ton and prejudice the people against
it before anything has been done what
ever to indicate it's policy.
Like all patriotic citizens, we be-
lieye that the majority should rule in
the country When q President is
elected, everybody is not supposed to
agree with him in his political viewa
Although elected by one or the other
OF tn powerful political parties, he is
not chosen TO be President of q party
but OF the whole p5opie. 1t 10 70 be
expected that he will favor his own
party members in the distribution of
patronage This is only natural.
1t ID these wild assertions from news
papers-these extfavagant expressions
are calculated TO stir up bad blood
and work great injury. 1t is twenty
years since the close of the late civil
war and the people of the North and
South ara just beginning TO get &C
qusinted.
1t is only very few years since a
North and South railroad was opened
up, which has enabled the people OF
the two sections to intermingle more
with each other. Every year travel
over this line has been increased.
Northern people are seeking homes
in the South. Right here, in Chatta-
nooga, there are thousands of North
ern people who have come here TO aid
in making this great city. They have
received q cordial welcome, and be-
cause of their coming, many others
will follow. =
Many of the insane declarations OF
these sectional newspapers are made
without full knowledge Of the facts.
Rather than be encouraged, sectional
ism should he put down. Republi-
canism and Democracy will grow and
spread in different localities just in
proportion to the popular belief in
the correctness of the principles OF
principles of the other But section
alism is based upon prejudice, and is
foStered and kept alive by injudicious
words and inf1ammable uttersnces.
This country cannot afford TO en-
prejudice and hatred between
the sections. We only have one cOun-
try and one flag. Because there is to
be change in the politics of the adj
it is no reason for in
sayings which are calcutta
ted to appeal to the brutal part of
mems natures and incite them to deeds |
OF violence. --.f 5.-
Conservative men will deplore the |
statements Of some of the |
partiEan sheets, both North and South. |
They will also condemn the objects |
which these papers have in view,
As strong as we are in the belief of |
Republican principles, laying aside |
politics altogether. there are times |
when conservative newspapers should |
condemn the use of Incorporate Ian
guage, and that time 10 now at hand.