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Several times lately in our columns
we have quoted from the Toiler, pub
lished at Nashville. We have done
so because IN the contest we are now
waging in Tennessee the utteranees
of that paper are of special impor-
lance. 1t is still the official organ OF
the Alliance. A short time ago at a
conference of all the Alliance leaders
at Nashville it was unanimously en-
dorsed and its course approved. This
action was taken at the State capital,
where Governor Buchanan has his
office, ii was taken by his close and
intimate friend and we assume, there
fore, that it met with his approval
and that the ToiIer in this canvass Is
in close association with him and pub
fishes nothing which would be OBJ
jectionable to him.
From its issue of last week we
clip the following:
We are asked repeatedly where
President Mcdowell stands in the
reform movement, and whether he
will go with the Peoples party in
support of our demands since the
Democratic party has put in plank
opposing our most essential demand
for more money issued to the people
at low rate of interest on good Sc
curity? We say to all, in justice to
a., hnf
Mr.. Buchanan, fearing to injure his
chances for nomination, are sufficient
grounds for his silence as to the Peo-
ples' party; but his well known de
votion to our principles is sufficient
guarantee that he will be found in
the thickest of the fight leading the
reform movement as soon as lie can
consistently do so. And now that
Governor Buchanan Gas admitted by
many of his warmest supporters) has
no possible chance TO secuie even a
majority of the convention, we
predict that President Mcdowell
will not much longer refrain
from speaking out. We stake
our reputation as prophet that he
will be in our State convention June
28th.
Here is a statement that in few
days Mcdowell will be in n Peoples
party convention affiliating with that
organizations. Here is q statement
that Governor Buchanan's friends
have now no hope of his getting a
majority, much less two-thirds of the
Democratic convention which meets
on the 9th of August. On last Satur-
day, Hamilton county spoke and
added forty-two votes to the Turney
column, SO that If Buchanan 8
chances were bad before they must
be absolutely hopeless now. Why
then is the fight for Buchanan longer
kept up in the Democratic ranks? 1t
Is embittering Democrats. 1t is
dividing Democrats. 1t is certainly
threatening TO disrupt and ruin the
party in the State. Why is the fight
kept up?
TO this there can be but one an
swer. 1t is kept up with the hope OF
disrupting the Democratic party. Last
Saturday Mr.. Roberts, the Alliance
lecturer here, declared that Mr..
Buchanan would accept the nomina-
ton of the Peoples party this year.
The same statement is being made
elsewhere, and Governor Buchanan,
on being interviewed on the subject
u few days since, refused to deny 1t.
He is manifestly and openly Peo-
ples' party man, and the fight for
him in the Democratic ranks can
only be kept up for the purpose oil
inflaming the passions of men and
inducing more of them to leave the
Democratic party when he goes.
There are many men in this coun-
ty who have all along declared they
were Buchanan men, but Democrats
Has not tho time come for these men
to pause and thiukf They are at the
parting of the ways. Will they
leave the Democratic party forever
or will they stand by it aud fight fol
their principles, AS heretofore, in its
ranks?