Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-12
Colyar and Harrison.

President Harrison. 1t seems that
they have overlooked Mr.. Colyar's
letter to the Herald which was pub
lished last week and which fully eX-
plains itself and drops few timely
hints which some newspaper men
might do well to heed. Col. Colyar
says:
A few days in Washington and
New York, talking with public men,
and taking i'll the situation, gives me
a clearer idea than j had had of the
crisis which is upon us. In using the
word crisis, only emphasize what Is
in the air at Washington. When a
Tennessee member said to me, The
calamity came upon us when we lost
the house of representatives" he
strongly put what all Democrats in
Washington feel. He meant to say
that until the house was lost there
was a check on the supremacy OF the
Republican party, which it is now
believed is sought to be accomplished
by the forms OF law. What the Re
publicans say is, that the suppression
of the Republican vote in some OF
the Southern States makes the super
vision OF federal elections necessity,
and that the attempt to retire Repub-
lican Congressman, as they say is now
being done in Ohio, by gerrymander-
ing the districts, makes federal re-
strictions on this power imperative.
The Republican leaders claim, and
will attempt to exercise, the right to
regulate the districts-superviSe the
elections and count the votes, and in
this, if they pass the laws, the SUI
preme court will probably sustain
them:
When | said to Mr.. Cleveland, 81
suppose you don't say much about
the election of 1892" of course in.
tending it as personal hint, he sug
gestively evaded by saying, II don't
see how they can beat us except in
the count" and when ! said to Mr..
Voorhees,, "What does the aggressive
and compact line of action in the
House mean?" he said, cit is the
beginning of the end"
1t requires but little time in Wash
ington to see that the extremists Of
the Republican party mean to make
the issue upon the South they mean
to say that the Democratic party
means the South, and the Republi-
can party means the north, and they
are seeking to impress upon the pe0
pie that it will not do to let the South
rule, and this really is going to be
the issue. We have two causes of
hope. One is the large amount of
capital invested in the South by the
North; the other is the conservative
element in the North made up of the
business men, bankers, merchants
and men of other business interests,
but the danger is that extremists in a
revolution will override and overrun
the conservative element.
Everything done and said in the
South which makes capital for the
extremist of the Republican party is
to our hurt. Passing, it will not be
out of place to quote the following
from the American of yesterday;
ga. S. Colyar called at the White
House to day under the escort of III.
Clay Evans. Col. Colyar and the
President had a long and agreeable
talk on the subject of the tariff, and
it is said that their views were very
similar"
| give this quotation to emphasize
the practice OF certain newspapers Of
publishing fiction as news. Thisdis-
patch emanated from one of the edit
Ors of the American, who is in Wash
ington representing the paper, and
hence is the authoritative publication
of fiction for fact. With Congress
man Evans | visited the President
as | usually visited him when at
Washington-and had a few words
with him in the presence Of a num-
Der Of the Senators and Representa-
tives, who had called to see him.
Not one word was said about the
tariff or any kindred subject, and yet
this correspondent not only gives the
subject discussed, but is emphatic
about the result-an agreement of
sentiment between the President and
myself.
The fact that this was a deliberate
attempt to put me in a false attitude
before the public, superinduced by
HVloVlIoi lNOiAlS7s OlllS bSSl hNAtNb
the reckless manner of giving news.
Such Il palpable and vicious state
ment as this, if asCertained, would
cost Il correspondent of any English
paper his place on the staff; and |
am happy to say there are not many
papers in the United States that
would ALLOW it.
The degradation of the press is
emphasized, and citizenship humili-
ated by the fact that the press, or
even a small part of it, Gas many of
the reporters at Washington are do
ing,) is making efforts to so COM
pletely separate the sections and the
parties, that personal or public cour-
tesies between men on opposite sides
cannot be permitted. If this policy
does the South any good it is difficult
to see how.
In giving the facts which / have
given of the feeling and belief of
Democrats at Washington, | wish to
say that | am more hopeful than
many of the public men | saw, for |
feel that the good sense of the whole
people will not involve the country
in such revolutionary upEeaval as
the total change Of election laws will
bring-especiaIly when the purpose
is party supremacy. a. $. c.
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