The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-07-17

ike INC recall OF Mucous nlgnJmafos
The people of the Southern States,
black and white, owe an everlasting
debt of gratitude to those Western
Senators who stood between them and
civil war. If our people had not been
for the free coinage of silver as mat.
ter of principle and the natural allies Of
the West in interest, they ought to be
henceforth their steadfast friends. The
spirit of
THE FORCE BILL
is not dead, and will not die while an
arrogant plHtocracy seeks the means OF
completing the enslavement of the peo-
pie by the destruction of the ballot. II
only awaits the opportunity. Reed,
Lodge, Mckinley, Cannon and their
satellites have appealed from the over
whelming verdict of the people against
them last November, and boastfully
proclaim their determination 10 stand
by the crimes of the Fifty-frst Congress
and TO repeat them whenever their
party returns to power. They only wait
for the people to relax their vigilance.
Do they wait in vain? Let us turn back
few pages OF recent history and sec.
When the Republican party committed
that stupendous crime against the peo-
pie in 1S79-the demonstration OF sill
ver--the people overwhelmed them with
defeat at the next election. After wait-
| ing six years for that storm to pass they
returned to power in the House in the
FortyrseYenth Congress, ever since stig.
mstized % the Keller Congress Is en-
ioyed the distinction for ten years Of
having been the most dishonest, cor
rupt and extravagant Congress in our
history. The people we're again stirred
with Indignation, and they again ban
ished the Republican party from power
in the House, and many then believed IL
would never return again. The storm
of popular wrath spent its fury In ten
years, and the Reed Congress was born.
1t made Keller respectable in comparf-
son with Reed. and in its brief reign Of
two years IL exhibited such colossal dis
honesty, such unparalleled corruption,
such wild and reckless extravaganza,
that the Keller Congress in comparison
appears honest and parsimonious even
miserly. 1t appropriated $l,0OS, 900, 600
in two years, a sum so vast that the
| imagination cannot conceive it.
1T were collected in one day it would
take nearly two-thirds of all the money
in the United States to pay 1t, and it
would wreck every merchant, every
bank and every financial institution in
the country. A rate of taxation which
would meet such expenditures would
absorb every dollar Of money in circula-
ton in the United States in fraction
over three years. In the face of these
facts it Is not surprising that the last
election resulted in the most over
whelming defeat for the Republican
party ever recorded against any political
party, but 1t is surprising to And the
army of the people threatened with dis
Indignation In the face of such a power
full, INSCRIPTIONS, we'll disciplined and
dangerous foe.
What is the cause of these dissen-
sions? 1t is quarrel over the financial
policy which shall be adopted when the
forces of reform get complete control Of
the government. That is about as wise
as it would be for the prospective heirs
of q strong and vigorous man to quarrel
and fight over the division of his estate
before his death and in his presence.
What would have been the fate of the
Prussian army If it had quarreled over
the division OF the spoils in front of
Paris, divided into two factions, and
} those two factions had turned their guns
against each other? Napoleon routed
the allied armies in detail and made the
crowns of kings his playthings until he
educated all Europe in the art of war.
| but when they concentrated their forces
at Waterloo the star OF his destiny set
: to rise no more. That is lesson from
d history for US. The Republican party
+ was born minority party, it has lived q
g minority party and it will die minoritz
l party, but for thirty years it has beateH
the great army of reform whenever it
Y found it divided. II still holds the Pres
! idency and the Senate 1t is organized
! and disciplined as thoroughly as Napo-
@ Icons army ever was. 1t is led by bold
i and brilliant mon, thoroughly schooled
r in the arts of political warfare, and is
# backed by millions of money, which w
have seen, to the shame of the Ameri
: can people, is a mighty power in politics
q as we'll as in war.
\ WHY Is IT
that every time the Democratic part,
Il makes the issues for the people an
$ the Republicans are certain of de
, feat, why is it that some new issue
G some new scheme, some apple o
d discord. is brought forward to dis
a. tract, mislead and divide our people