The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-08
THE SITUATION.


Tue situation in Tennessee is en-
couraging. There is not the slight
est doubt Of Peter Turney's election.
He will be elected with votes to spare.
There is no telling what the cOmhi-
nation cand dates may do. Either
may resign in the interest OF the 9TH
er; they may mauage their little
nefarious game to suit themselves,
but Old Pete-rugged, honest, brainy,
bravo aud viCtOriOus-will walk oVec
these Lilliputians and 'take his seat
in de gubernatoriaI chair"
OF another thing we are quite posi-
tive. The next legislature will be
Democratic, and the next Senator
from Tennessee will he Democrat.
Whether it will be Bate or Taylor
or some other straight Demo
crat we cannot fOretel. But he
will be a Observation-Disclosures Aight-
gooCis-D I'm rcrat. 1t will not be Mr..
Buchanan or Mcdowell. TO-mor-
rows sun sets upon their dissipated
hopes and the pail of night will not
/
by lisappOintmrnts without number,
pricked by conscience, plagued by re-
grets, harrassed by remnr-e, they
will sink at once and forever into
Oblivion, uuwept, uuhOnored and
uu5ung. A worse future than theirs
their bitterest enemy could not wish
| them.
The Democrats will gain one Con-
! gresham. A Democrat will occupy
Rice Pierce's chair; the politics COM
plexion of the other districts will re-
main the same. Your Uncle Nicho-
las n. Cox will represent the Seventh,
and YOU needn't be afraid to put your
money that way. Coal Oil Billy, the
combine candidate, is nobin it. For
that matter, he never was in it; and
further still, he never will be In It..
Billy's checkered career is done.
Politically, for all time and eternity,
be will be as dead as a herring.
When Mcdowell and Buchanan are
resurrected from the grave of ObliN-
ion, Billy may then pop up his head
again; but not until then, and then"
will never come. Rsquiescat in pace,
Billy.
The outlook for Democracy in the
National election Is not so cheerful.
r. the solid South is broken, West
Virginia will be the ungrateful child
TO disgrace itself aud stao its mother.
TIE Third-party-Repub com
bine will contest for Alabama, but
the Democrats will win. With the
execution of West Virginia we have
no fears of the South, and New York
belongs to the Democrats almost
without a struggle. New York, we
believe, has practically Deen aban-
doned by the Republicans.
In our opinion the fight will be
made IN Indiana. Connecticut and
West Virginia. These states are all
naturally Democratic, and left tc
Themselves, without the use of money
or other unfair influence, would &C
Democratic. But we fear that thell
small maiOrities will be plastereC
, over with Doodle aud the honest eX'
| preston of the people be corrupted
and defeated. And, unless some sur
prises are in store, these three States
are necessary to Democratic success
Still, the chances are in favor o.
Cleveland. Because, in the hrs
place, the people are with him; they
must be bought from him to defea
| him, while all he has to do is to hole
his own. In the second place, IL thu
2 mongrel Third party carry any State
which God forbid-then the elec
ton will be thrown into the Hous'
and Cleveland will be chosen.
= On the whole. in National affair
no man can tell. All we can do is t.
work aud hope that the God o
Nations, the God of Justice and
: Right, will defend the South from tn
Force bill party of the North and al
L it's miserable allies.
THE South is in more danger to