The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-04-08
GENERAL JACKSoN's LETTER
THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE
The Distinguished Farmer Democrat 30
His Fellow Party Men.

man Of the Central Turney Com
mittee, headquarters at Nashville,
who is a farmer and a distinguished
Democrat, has issued the following
forceful and able address:
TO the Democratic voters of Tennessee
AS Chairman Of. the State Central
'Turney Committee, which seeks to
maintain true Democratic princi-
piles, / beg to submit for your con-
.sideration some Of the many rea-
sons why tits important that you
should nominate and elect Judge
Peter Turney as the next governor
of our Commonwealth.
AS is well-known throughout the
State, my voice has always been
heard advocating the cause Of the
agricultural classes, Of whom | am
one, and with whom all my inter-
,ests are solely identified. [ have
'labored In the interest Of the far
mers for the past quarter of a CEN
fury without the thought or hope
sof reward or political preferment,
having always declined such hon
,ors when they were rendered me.
Although thus closely identified
in interest with the farming classes,
and fully alive to their best inter
lest, I have never united with the
organization known as the Farm
,ers' Alliance.
No one appreciates the import
:ance, or even the necessity, Of or
3ganization among farmers for the
promotion Of their welfare more
than j do, but such organizations
TO be useful should always be con-
fined to such objects and purposes
AS are connected with the proper
pursuit of their business, such as
Improvements i'll the methods Of ag-
.riculture, the diffusion of informa-
stion, their better situation and So
cial intercourse, and should never
.be political as a secret order.
With such objects in view, or
:ganized and for many years WAS
president of the national agricult.
sural congress, from which many Of
sthe farmers organizations have
their origin
The reasons why l have never
sunited myself with the Farmers
Alliance is that [ saw very clearly
that its tendencies we're hurtful tC
the agricultural classes themselves
It is a secret political organiza
4tion, dominated and controlled by
a few shrewd and designing men
sand devoted to the PRONUNCIATION
and propagation Of ideas and prin
.ciples at war with the faith anC
creed Of the Democratic party.
Democracy, when rightly under
stood, is and means equal and ex
act justice to all men with specia
;grants or privileges to none; tn
supremacy Of the civil over the mil
itary authority; the freedom of re
ligion and the press; the encourage
ament Of agriculture; the diffusio.
yof information and the arraignmen
eof all abuses at the bar of publ
reason; economy in the public e1
]pense, that labor may belightly bul
sdened; and the preservation Of tn
rights of the States in their vigo.
sand the restraint of the federal pow
er within safe and constitutions
limits. The Democratic party nov
as it has always done, adopts thel
AS the creed Of its faith.
The doctrines held and promu
gated by the Farmers Alliance al
tsubversive Of these justand enligh
sened principles Of government an
tend to the destruction Of our inst
buttons as they were builded by IL
lpatriots of the revolution.
The Alliance seeks to discrin