Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-11-01
that 81 am in doubt,o and that al

to Ostenslbly support a man and
secretly stab him. Allow me now to
substitute word and say it is possi>
BILE to ostensibly support and TEACHER
0,tSly stab. see at the STANDARDS
mast head, under the caption of
democratic Ticket" "For Govern
or, j. P. Buchanan"
l remember to have read of man
who, conforming to the ancient Gus.
tom of salutation, met a friend and
put up his lips for a kiss, and while
imprintlng that kiss on those unsus-
pecting lips, plunged his dagger un>
der the fifth rib" Who would not
call such man a traitor?(i)
The STANDARD is "glad to note"
that Buchanan is "coming up to the
mark" The paragraph that the
STANDARD cites in proof Of this state
ment was given in substance if not
verbatim the day after Buchanan was
nominated, and reported according
ly in the American.
One other item of information and
l close for the present. was not in
that called meeting at Verona at
which was passed that meaningless
resolution in regard to the illegal
treasury notes." But l remember
seeing correction of that paragraph
in the succeeding issue of the paper
from which, l presume, the STAN
DARD CAPPED. f. B. E.
NOTES.
GAY And yet our correspondent says
he is a democrat with big d, and
views and reviews these questions
from democratic standpoint. Cleve-
land, Harris, and the innumerable
host of democratic statesmen who
have chung to the party for its glori-
Gus achievements, our correspondent
sweeps into ignominy by the broad
assertion that "the democratic party
has done nothing that has been of
any benefit to the people"
(6) We never heard of it either I'M
til the alliance men started ii in this
campaign. Mr.. Buchanan travelled
all over the state and instructed the
alliance men just how to pursue this
'incongruous line of policy and they
have applied it to every man who
has offered for congress, but where
the same questions are put to Mr..
Buchanan they become irrelevant"
(c) Our correspondent has profited
by the example of his champion, Mr.
Buchanan, and puts up flimsy eva
sion for an answer.
GAY This is equivalent to an admis.
sion that our correspondent was in
the secret meeting, that said secret
meeting did "fix things" for the
democratic convention, and that the
whole proceeding was undemocratic
(e) The STANDARD has a right tc
know and to publish anything rela
tive to party conventions. When 6
faction of the party undertake meas
ures calculated to injure the party, il
is the imperative duty of every news
paper to thoroughly ventilate these
measures.
() There it is again. Our CORES
pendent butts right up against Mr.
Buchanan's declaration that the ALI
ance is a non-partisan, nOn-politica
order like the Masons, the Odd Eel
lows, and the Cumberland Presbyte
rian Church.
(g) The alliance began the business
of fixing things" for democratic con
ventions in secret meetings where re
publicans could enter but democrat
could not.
ON We are afraid our correspond
! ent's views are compressed into
! channel too narrow to fiji any plat
form. One plank cannot make plat
form, and one idea cannot make
: political party.
(i) The nomination Of man 70
Q office does not elevate him abov
: criticism from the members of hi
!. own party. We support Mr.. Buchar
D an as the accredited representative {
e the democratic" party, but it is on
+ privilege to criticize him for his short
i comings. If it be treason to hold a
t unfavOrable opinion of a man, an
b boldly express that opinion, eve
= though he be the democratic candi
s date for governor, then we are trail
8 or, but there is consolation in know
It ing that majority of the democrat
e in the state are in the same boat wit
e us.
s Before another issue of the Stan