Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-02-02
Stop Your Q0arrehng.
Jackson Tribune and Sun.

Jackson Tribune and Sun.
Since the editors of the Cour err
Journal and Nashville AMERICAS
have taken each other by the ears
over the tariff question, there is
much apprehension among Demn-
Gratis AS to what will be the result.
There is equally as much joy among
Republicans over the unseemlY
spectacle. Quarrelling over the adj
ministration of the Republican e5-
tate before the funeral. The fact Of
the business is that we will have To
furnish the corpse befure we can
have funeral. The Republican
party is not dead, and until it Is
dead and the Democratic party is
called to the administration of the
estate by the people, quarrelling is
premature. Individual pride over
the reputed parentage of question
able phrase, should not be permit
ted to wreck the party in Kentucky,
and individual interest and narrow
seli<hness will not be permitted 10
VIZ. ok il in Tennessee. The issue IF
pride as self which seems to be ps.nd
Ing between the editors q. ihr,e
y .r.uI journals, will ,rar.riy
truuoie the political walters IN loo4.
They can create a ripple now, but
When the the storm which has been
gathering against the Republican
party for Il quarter of ii century,
breaks upon the country, the man
with the jug and the man with pig
iron will disappear together. Mr..
WittrrsOn may be willing to stake
the Presidency and all that demo-
cratic success means on the shape of
the phrase IA tariff for revenue
only" but the form must yield to
the spirit when the issues OF battle
are joined.
MIR. CIlyar it would seem wants
the world to know that in his Opin-
ion, there can he no success for The
democracy unless the convict Labor
which is employed in the coal aud
iron mines in Tennessee, is project
ell against 1.-The pauper Labor ot Eu-
rope 1t issOme satisfaction to know
that Mr.. COlyar, as political pro-
phet, is not much more reliable
than Vennor AS weather prophet.
Tariff and Revenue reform must
and will come. Perhaps it will not
be so violent and radical as the en-
eunies of Mr.. Watterson say he
would have it, and it certainly " i'll
not be as tardy and as gentle as Mr.
Colyar would have it. 1t will be
both steady and safe, and ii will not
stop short of "equal and exact JUS
tice to all men with exclusive priv
ileges TO none"
American interets will not be made
subservient to English interests,
and equal protection will be afford
ed American labor, whether it be
employed in forest or field, work
shop or mine. The Democratic n
ty will manifest equally as much
sOlicitude about cheap neceS-arieS
as the American does about cheap
whiskey. The Ohio plank ON the
tariff question, which both these
doughty champions of democracy
claim to be willing to accept, will
probably be substantially incurpor-
ted in the national platform. This
would virtually relegate the whole
question to the congressional dis
tricts where it belongs, and they
ends of the plank and play see-saw
between prohibitOry tariff aud free
trade, while the Democracy pro-
ceeds to elect president.
The American Enthusiastically in
dictates desire to see the DemOcra-
cy defeated unless its advice is fol-
lowed. The Courier-Journal man
very great Willingness
to sacrifice the party rather than
the fatal word "Only."
Democrats whose apprehensions are
excited by these windmill knights,
should remember how impotent a
is when it turns against |
the tide of public opinion. Ably |
edited as the American is, and ably |
as il was conducted then, the adj |
verse tide of public opinion very
nearly wrecked it two years ago. !
When the Democratic party has
spoken, the editors of both these
ournrls will make haste To lay aside
the stuffed clubs with which they
have been giving AN exhibition for
the benefit of the Republican party,
ana draw their swords against the
common enemy.
We will then have an end of the
tariff robber" and the "Cobden
Club" The "free trader" under
he fatal spell of English gold, will
lie down with the "protection Bar
IN" who rob5 the tOiling millions,
md white winged peace will again
lover over the Democratic camp.
die threats and loud Boosting viii
lot swerve the Democratic party
rom its purpose to purify The AZ
OF the government, re,
Orn its abuses and retrench its eX-
Our metropolitan breth-
Pn when they are as tired. of advel-
sing each other as their readers
re IF seeing it, will perhaps adj
r(ss II ore Gf their attention 10 the
good OF the Democratic pa
!, which iii the eyes of all ID, mo
rats is Identical with the good Of
ne country. Temperate and fair
is proper and right, but
adicalism is not the demand of
re hour