The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-07-28
DEMOCRATS MUST HUSTLE.
The Financial StrlnEency Falslfied by the
Lip TOilers.

"Blue Wing" a Nashville CORE
,spondent of the Memphis CONNER
,cial, has something to say in last
Sundays paper that will be Of in
terest to Democrats in this section
of the State. The following will
open the eyes of Democrats who
are not posted ON the situation:
"The Democrats of Tennessee
had just as well wake up to the fact
that they are going to have rocky
road to travel in next years cam
paign, and unless the signs Of the
times are amiss they will not realize
the dangers which threaten them
until it is too late. The Republi-
cans are laying low and doing very
little talking, while their Populite
allies are as wide-swake as the owl
with one eye open.
"The present hard times is hav-
ing its effect all over the State, and
the discontented element are pre-
pairing to take every possible 3ad-
vantage of it. The fight that some
Democrats are making to put this
country alongside Of England as a
champion of the creditor class and
their equally bitter opposition to
the repeal of the 10per cent. tax on
State bank issues is causing num-
ber of farmers and wOrkingmen to
look with distrust upon the Demo-
cratic party.
"They can not understand how a
party favoring in its last national
platform a bi-metalic currency and
"a repeal of the obnoxious prohibi-
tory tax can be led by any man or
set Of men to repudiate its own SOL
eemn pledges. The great mass Of
the people believe in gold and sill
wer and the States being allowed to
do as they please. They want q
soand financial system, of course
but they. want money enough tc
transact the business of the coun.
try without being forever at the
anercy OF the money kings of Lon,
don and Wall street. 1t is also al
established fact that great major
ity Of the people Of Tennessee anC
the South lbelieve q State bank sys
tenn can be devised that will be al
safe as national banks. It prom
ises them more money for the need
rof commerce, at any rate, and jus
now that is what tLey are cryingfor
Much depends, of course, upoi
the action of Congress. Few peo
pie, I take it, are solicitous abou
the fate Of the Shermanact. Afev
do not care whether it is repealed
or not. A majority want it repeal
ed, and that at an early day. Blu
there is a vast majority of peopl
who do not want it repealed uncon
sditionally. Without some substi
.tute, Il nothing more than the re
peal of the bank tax, they feel tina
they are willing to try it. So fa
they are willing to go and no far
ther. They are unalterably oppos
ed to the repeal of the law if tn
effect is going to be the virtual de
monetization of the white meta.
There is not a leading politician i
the State, of either party, that Wi
deny thatthis is the practical statu
of the situation at this time.
The Populites expect the Demo
cratic majority in Congress to fla
no satisfactory way out of the diff
Guilty, and in all the old Allianc
strongholds they are sowing tn
seeds of unrest. Meetings are be
ing held, and the old cry of Wa
street domination is being used fo
all it is worth. The Popuites poir
to the,f fact that they said last yea
the monetary question overshadov
ed all others before the America