Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-03-07

preparations for exhibits at the
Worlds Fair until after the 4th of
March" because you feared the Force
Bill was not buried beyond hope Of
resurrection. Inthis you were right,
and to my own memory came the
Latin proverb, Latet angus IN herbd.
Editorial item third, suggesting
that if the penitentiary must be re-
moved, it should be divided and a
prison built in each grand division of
, the State, as the convicts could be
handled to better advantage in three
separate prisons than in one, and in
case of an attempt to work convicts
on public roads, the three prisons
would facilitate the plan. This is a
good idea.
Editorial item fourth, in regard TO
the maudlin sympathy for Judge
Warder, of Chattanooga, was well ex-
pressed when you said:
He has been guilty of the double
crime of drunkenness and murder,
and deserves no more consideration
than the poorest man in the state
would have under similar circum-
stances. There are scores of Grimm
ais in our state prisons who are faring
no better than Judge Warder, many
of them probably not as WELL"
Editorial item fifth, in regard to es.
tablishing the lease system as to con.
victs so that their labor may not
conflict with honest labor. You say
that the management of fifteen hun
dred convicts is 'great big prob
lem" Yes, and until the lease sys
tenn was adopted the State of Tennes
see was taxed terribly for their sup
port, whereas, under the lease system
the State has made money whereby
and Wherewith to reduce taxes upor
honest labor. And yet, politica
office-seekerS still inveigh agains
convict labor under the lease plan
But, as you say, let them first devise
some better plan.
But the best Of all your late senten
tious Observation-Disclosures even thar
your opposition to that monstrou
farce called sub-treasury bills thi
craze for which there are many rul
mad. 1t is called
} THE SILVER BILL,
1t is a fortunate thing, as you say
for the Democratic party and for tn
country that they are finding on
7 what it means, in time to prevent
l calamity. You have told. in your pa
: per what it means, and / earnestl
e pray that all Democratic newspaper
s will take a wise view, as you hav
done. In fact, the words of Congress
r man Harter, of Ohio, ought to b
r printed on silk and sent galore
e over the country, for l tell you, as a
S humble private Democrat, that if tn
o Democratic party espouses the unrt
1 stricted coinage of silver in its mex
o platform it will be the death-knell {
h the party. Already the party ha
r forsaken its old issues and absorbe
the Wing ideas of Internal Improve
r ments by the General Government
:, and Banking, and aid to many thing
y which the old Democrats nevt
i would countenance, and nO,C, to en-
IS brace greenbackism in disguise;
If unsettle the currency by making fl
i money Of 80 cts for one dollar, in 0
e der to please the silver miners of Il
e West-it would be political suicid
l. And it inks me to see that brillian
/. that splendid editor, Carmack, of Il
70 American, who writes like one wi
If had lived in the days of Washingto
y Jefferson, ct id, etc.,-it iris me to S
Of this, his only, mistake-in that
X sees success for Democracy by d
s. agreeing with Cleveland upon t
Or Silver Bill. l tell you now, tn
le when the Silver Bill is passed y
|! may hang Grape upon the Treasu
S, Building in Washington and bid fal
ne well to Democracy-that is, if sucf
to bill should be endorsed in the ne
tie National Democratic platform. E
a. it surely will not be. 1t is no test
of Democracy, and grand mind mi
IT. stop aghast at the marvellous a
ir, quick audacity, born of ignoran
IS which would essay to read Gro
hit Cleveland ont Of the Democratic par
he There is no grander Democrat in
de United States this day than Gro
,se Cleveland. His only fault-if ia
We it be-is, that he foresees for his par
lot and rather than commit his party
rs, an error would sacrifice himself, al
'ut like the celebrated patriot of Irelal
dt- leave his history to coming gene