Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-02
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Hard Questions to Answer.


Now that the Peoples party has
been organized, making the st.
Louis, Ocala and Omaha Alliance
demands its ground floor platform,
the sub Treasury plan is no longer an
Alliance measure, but a new political
party platform. 1t is antagonistic to
Democrat principles in sym
pathy with Republican ideas of cen
tralizatiOn, protection and special
privileges for the favored few, not in
accord with the Alliance motto ::
equal rights to all, special privi-
leges for none" The new party pro-
claims sub-Treasury its battle cry,
and its purpose to put Presidential
ticket in the field and overthrow the
Democracy, the party and principles
of Jefferson and Jackson, if it can.
Now, under this change of crcum,
stances and conditions, how can the
sub.Treasury advocates in Tennessee
expect TO transact their business Of
getting Office through the Democratic
party on the sub-Treasury plank?
Is sub Treasury advocate any
longer Democrat, or will he have
any more rights in a Democratic
convention, called by Democratic au
thority and for Democrats only, than
Prohibitionist or Republican ?
Will some one better posted than we
are answer this question?
This from the GAINESVILLE TOBACCO
LEAF.CHRoNICLE contains several
questions that it will puzzle the sub
Treasury people to answer. Indeed,
we do not believe they can be an
swered by them in any but one way.
The sub-Treasury scheme is the one
particular distinctive plank in the
platform of the Peoples party, and
it is not "A plank in the platform of
the Democratic party, nor is it ever
likely to be. For, so far as it has
been discussed by public men and
newspapers, the Democrats have al
most uniformly been in opposition
to it. No Democrat who keeps in
view the fundamental principles of
the Democratic party as they were
formulated by Thomas Jefferson,
can consistently say that he is for the
sub-Treasury scheme. 1t is in the
nature of protection and to that
Democracy is opposed. 1t is in the
nature Of class legislation and to that
Democracy is opposed. 1t would in
crease the public expenses and con-
sequently public taxation and to
that, being pledged to economy, the
Democratic party is opposed. 1t
would multiply the number of
office. holders, and to that the Demo.
cratic party is opposed. 1t would
open way to communism and so
cialism, and to that, being pledged to
indiVidualism, the Democratic party
is opposed. 1t would break up the
admirable system Of banking by
which the country is prospecting, and
to that the Democratic party is OPP
posed. 1t would carry ruin to thous-
ands Of honest, enterprising mer-
chants, and to that the Democratic
party is opposed. Ii would disor-
ganize business generally and SOW
the seeds of widespread ruin, and to
that the Democratic party is opposed.
And, finally, ii wonld call down up
on all classt the heavy hand ofan OPP
pressive patcrnalism, and that every
sound, healthy Democrat is opposed
to. Our esteemed contemporary, the
TOBACCO LEAF-CHRoNICLE, has
done well in putting the questions
which we have thus endcavored 10
answer. They are timely, and we
trust we have answered them at
beast in n way that will show how
far the sub Treasuryite is from the
Democracy which Jefferson formu-
lated and Jackson illustrated by a
vigorous, rigorous and eXacting CON
formity, which made him one of the
most superb examples Of Democratic
integrity of which American politi-
cal history can boast Mcmphis
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