Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-10-25
QUESTIONS. ANSWERS. AND
MORE QUESTIONS.

Irving College, Oct. 81, 1890.
To the STANDARDS
To use the STANDARDS not alto
gether very elegant or chaste express
sion, the "Irving College alliance cor.
respondent has labored and brought
forth" again, and in bringing forth
again it is far from my purpose to
cast any reflections upon the STAN
DARD's intelligence by asserting that
it takes the STANDARD 1.-TWO weeks"
of "hard labor" to bring forth its re-
ply. Nor is it my purpose to engage
in mud-slinging contest, but to
view and review the democratic stu.
alton in this state is my object and
purpose. But before beginning that,
allow me to remind the STANDARD
that have not hitherto posed
as the defender of the alliance, but of
the democracy, Though it seems none
have dared take their stand with
me-" Such observations as 1 have
made were made from q democratic
standpoint, and the STANDARD was
no more justifiable in denominating
me the "alIiance correspondent" than
would be were / to call the STAN
DARD the miniOn of monopoly, and
that would be foolish in me, hence l
will not do it. The STANDARD as.
serts that 80 man cannot be a thor
ough alliancer and a sound democrat
at the same time" A short time
since Mr.. Cleveland (and he is good
democratic authority set forth the
idea that in adhering to the princi-
Piles Of the alliance a man must Of ne
cesSity be democrat. Again Senator
Harris, the nestor of Tennessee poll
tics, uses this language: "But it is
said that he (Buchanan) belongs to
the Alliance; suppose he does, that
fact does not, in any degree, detract
from his democracy. There are many
thousands of democrats, good, true,
and reliable, who belong to the ALI
ance, but you had as well prescribe a
democrat who belongs to a church
other than your own as to prescribe
him because he belongs to the alli-
ance." Elk President Cleveland,
Senator Harris, and Editor Reams,
these three, but the greatest OF these
is-well that goes without saying.
And the STANDARD found much
"animuS" in my "serious paragraph"
not only "aaina,tS" but the paragraph
was "all horren" with threats Of
: knitting SnOdgrass, etc.
/ To IA man who wears green glasses
everything is green. There is moth
: ing strange in the STANDARDS find
ing "animus" in an article written
t by one whom it supposes to be {
member of an order which it declares
it will fight until that order is "dead
dead, deadw / assert that l made NJ
"Mredt," nor is there anything tina
can be properly construed as such
and the STANDARD does violence t
its own intelligence or spirit of justice
in making any such assertion. will
> again present the same things, only il
!, the form of questions, which tn,
STANDARD will please answer:
/. Does the STANDARD believe tina
, the Democracy of the state can afforC
to sulk in their tents while the enc
: my is in the field?
.. Can the Democracy afford t,
5 compass the defeat of Mr.. Buchanan
3. Can the Democracy afford t
elect him by reduced majority il
= order to humiliate him or the ALI
ance?
= 3. Does the STANDARD believ
q that the press can Ostensibly supper
h Mr.. Buchanan, but secretly stab hin
at every opportunity without endan
gering the election of Mr.. SnOdgrass
There is no "animus," no threats,
I no "rule or ruin" policy about thes
matters. In fact the "rule or ruiz
= policy" is the one thing ] have bee
!, combating above all others. l wen
to the state convention personall
e favoring the nomination of Jere BaX
e ter, but | came back buchanan
= man, am one yet, and shall be one 5
:. long as he continues to be the nomi
nee of the democracy.
=, The STANDARD thinks Buchanan