Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-11-23
A POLITICAL SERMON.

Correspondence to the DEMOCRAT:
Now that the election is over aud
the excitement has in some degree
died away, SO that one may pause
long enough to pull himself togeth-
er and think, it seems to me not
improper that ! take the opportu-
nifty ofmy first weekly letter to de-
liver myself of agood sound lecture
to the Democracy of Tennessee. I
say it doesn't seem out of place to
me, and beside that, it is in me and
is just bound to come out. Like the
old lady who thought she had dis
covered beauty in Abraham Lin
coins face, II have got to have my
say" while the sore is fresh, pro.
pose to rub the ointment in. The
election is over now, the battle has
been fought and lost, and good
straight talk can lo no harm at
this late hour. If a few such talks
as ! desire to make in this column
had been made some time ago, it
might have been better for us. So ]
will preach my sermon this week.
a nd in the future will content my
self with giving the political news
at the Capital, or, if,pinions are to
be given, ! will try TO give the cpin
ions of other and wiser men.
The disasters with which we
came in contact recently, were no
very wonderful surprise to any one
Except. per haps. Chairman Carroll
and one are two other choice and
sanguyne spirits. 1t ispracticaly an
easy matter to figure on an ap-
preaching storm when you see the
angry clouds rising and hear the
distant thunder roar. For weeks,
and even months: before the cleo
ton the vengeful mutterings of the
spirit of unrest and discomfort
were threateningly audible, and
tie warning sound Of vox populi
Yves echoed andre-cchocd in no un.
meaning manner. The reasons for
this were as apparent as the fact
itself was indisputable. Many caus-
es conspired to bring about this
most unhappy effect. Some of these
causes were Of Republican origin,
but many of them originated
within our own bailiwick' and i
propose to recite these causes as
they are-or at least as they appear
to me. A sick man doesen't like to
take medicine, but it is sometimes
necessary, and if ! can succeed in
this letter IN calling attention to
some very potent trouble, those
wise men Of the East. on whose toes
l tread, are at liberty to abuse me
all they please. The Billion Dollar
Congress had placed the dynamite
and touched the fuse, and made its
exit from the stage just in time to
escape the odium of the terrible ruin
it had wrought. The poor old ship
of legislation was crippled in her
rigging and rotten in her hull. She
had been patched on top of patch
until unable to retain futhcr men,
ding.lt mattered not by what crew
she might have been manned, "the
wreck of the Hesperus" was abso-
lutely inevitable. 1t was the hapless
fate of the Democratic scamen to
take the helm at this critical period.
We assembled the fair and flower
dotted hill of victory, whose slopes
were resonant with laughing winds
and singing birds and GROWING
roosters, only to find at its crest the
volcanoes deadly crater, ready to
belch forth eternal obstruction on
the head of its flushed and jubi-
Iant eonquerors, Well, the crash
was, at hand and we were in charge.
1t came. aud we felt it-Oh, how We
felt it?
Of course the injustice of holding
the Democratic administration to
account for the sins ofits predeces-
sor will not be practicrd hy people