Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-10-10
MEANWHILE TENNESSEE SATURDAY. OCT 1884,
NO. aeNZ
THE STATE COMMITTEE.

The State Democratic Executive
Committee held n meeting at the
Maxwell House in Nashville last
Friday. There was a general dis
cussion of party interests, and the
following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, that the county Demo-
cratic executive committees be re.
quested TO take such steps as they
think necessary to organize the
Democratic party in the respective
counties before the opening of the
campaign in 1892.
Be it resolved, that the present
Democratic members of Congress,
both Senators and Representatives,
and all eX-members now resident
within the State be, and they are
hereby requested to make a list of
appointments, and forward the same
to this committee, naming the times
and places when it will be convenient
for them to address the people of
Tennessee upon current political is
sues; that when such lists are furnish
ed, the Chairman and Secretary of
this committee are directed to pub.
lish the appointments through the
Democratic press of the State over
their official signatures; and
Whereas, the past experience of the
party has demonstrated that joint
discussions between members of the
same political faith upon issues con-
corning which the party is more or
less divided only tends to ALLEVIATE
and fix preconceived opinions, rather
than to convince or reconcile existing
differences; therefore, be it
Resolved, that no appointments be
made or accepted by the Chairman
and Secretary for joint debates be-
tween Democrats, and that such
practice is hereby disapproved and
intended to be discouraged, so far as
it is in the power of the committee to
do so.
1t is plain to be seen from the last
resolution above that the State Com
mite wants to continue the cowardly
clam policy of last year. Had John
III. Mcdowell been allowed to die
tate the action of the Committee, he
could have written nothing better
suited to his notion than that last
resolution. The spirit of Mcdowell
certainly must have lowered in every
space of the committee room during
the deliberations of the body. Nc
DOwell and the horde of little AL
lance lecturers who label themselves
Democrats, yet 60 over the State de-
flaming the party and its leaders, and
who are doing everything in their
power to disrupt Democratic organi-
cation, could not ask a greater favor
of the committee than TO be shielded
from open discussions with Demo-
Gratis.
The Democratic party has nothing
to fear from joint discussions. 1t
matters not what men label them
selves, if they go about preaching
doctrines inimical to the best interests
of the Democratic party, and this
means the best interests of the whole
people, they should be met on the
stump by men whose Democracy is
unquestioned, and the heresies re.
futed before they have time to find
Judgment in the minds of the people
This recommendation of the com
mittee will doubtless give Mcdowell
and his coterie of supporters much
comfort, but their joy will be brief
for the majority of the Democrats O
the State will not endorse such {
cringing, Sinking, cowardly policy
and there are enough bold, manly
Democrats like Henry Snodgrass t.
make trouble for them every time
one pokes up his head, and they will
do it.