The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-27
How is Defeat to be Ayerted9

of us and feeling of genuine, SO
licitous love for the grand old dem
ocratic party crowding out all side
issues. Democracy with a clear
majority of 10000 is threatened
with defeat, and it will surely come
if matters are not mended.
Brethren, we must have peace!
Relinquishing naught of our
opinions upon certain important
questions, we yet can afford to
waive them. Let's not fight our
factional battles in the general fight
with the common enemy. Let's
whip the enemy and then settle our
inside matters.
At the last convention a large
faction waived opposition to a com
mission and decided to fight il after
the enemy was whipped. The par
ty was triumphant but the com
mission was beaten. Let's waive
that matter again in convention and
make the fight for and against q
commission in the legislature. If
we fight it in the canvass and put
it IN the platform, the sure chance
is defeat.
The silliest thing we quarrel
over is the tariff. The Tennessee
democracy in its state organization
has not the slightest to do with
this question. 1t is a national issue
to be determined In congress. Let.us
therefore steer clear of it at Nash
vile, going no further than to re-en-
dorse the Chicago platform, and
then each man can interpret it to
suit himself.
We deprecate the negro question.
Why raise it now? The negro has
appointed another party his guar
dian. His fate is not our funeral.
Let him go if he cannot come in on
the common footing. He is no
more entitled to special laws in his
favor than white people are. He
has waived US for twenty years.
Let's waive him this once lest we
lose the general battle.
"The rule of. the bosses" is a
myth, or we can make it myth if
we waive all the crazes which they
advocate, fight the common enemy
with undivided forces, and then
throw all our grievances into hotch-
potch and have them settled inside
the party. We must waive the
bosses also.
Neither are there"indepe ndents."
The same angry and abusive dis
cussions that aggravate the bosses
also aggravates the bossed and be-
gets a spirit of rebellion natural in
freeman's mind when he mag
ines his rights infringed. We must
waive these men also, or rather,
waive the intolerant way some OF
US have of speaking of him.
The republican vote in Tennessee
has been on the steady increase.
In1SSG, 98,566;
In 1880, 10Y, 677;
In 1884, 124,070l
The democratic majority has de-
creased in even larger proportion.
Every year brings in an increased
per centum of young men who do
do not remember the war nor
Brownlow times and do not form
their political opinions by the same
process ours were formed. Some of
these boys are inclined to be repub-
licans and our quarrelings and
chickering's and commissions and re-
quotations are helping to run them
over into that party. We must dis
count these facts. We must waive
our chickering's. We must array
ourselves in the decent, attractive,
old time principles of democracy
and throw aside these late innova
tions that disgrace and separate us,
and seek to WOO these young men
into the paths their fathers trod and
honOred.
The CITIZEN raises the olive
branch!
Brethren of the state democracy, !
will you relinquish your pet schemes
and personal likes for the uonce
and fall in line to beat tde radicals |
with an old-time beating that we
used TO love to lay on SO well?