Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-08

Pio oehOi peopOo huoe uhueiotuuu
that the Democracy of Tennessee has
been misrepresented in this matter and
their wishes utterly disregarded.
Memphis Scimiter: That the means
employed proved successful is sufficient
commentary on the calibre and char
acter of those who yielded to them.
Said a lifelong Democrat on his return
from a trip to Nashville the day after
the defeat Of the fee bill: ut is the
most brazen Legislature l have wei
SEEM" The consummation of the gu
be~rnatorial steal is accounted for in
these ten words. From first to last
the bosses in the Legislature have fol,
lowed the example of the Louisiana
Returning Board of m~alodorous mem
DRY and they are entitled to the dis
graceful distinction of having fully
equaled their examplars. Now as to
the effect of this business the coal oil
inspectors and other officials who gather
fat fees by the graces of the Turney
regime will continue TO reap their har-
vest u%ndisturbed for the next twenty
months, but they and the others who
have been instrumental in fixing this
stain upon the Democracy of the State,
honest, this is their last chance. I'm
less the Republicans act the fool as dis
tinctly as the Democratic machine has
acted the robber they will carry the
State next year and thereafter when
the Democrats return to power as they
probably will it will'be under a differ
EN- leadership and as the result,'of q fair
election fairly carried to its legitimate
conclusion.
Chattanooga Times: The Times was
not disappointed by the news that the
convention had seated Peter Turney in
the chair that same body had enabled
him to unconstitutionally usurp, since
the 10Th of January, last. We expected
what has come to pass; though we did
believe there were more than nine
Democrats in the two houses, who
would show they were able to defy the
machine bosses, rise above machine
dictation, and vote their honest senti-
ments like patriots.
The body that got it's consent to be-
gin by trampling the constitution in
the mire, and passing a flagrantly un-
constitutional contest law, would not,
Of course, allow the evil fruit of such
acts to remain unripened.
And therefore, while we are humili
ated and troubled, we have not been
expecting anything else than this we
have got.
We have not a syllable of apology to
offer for the course we have taken, in
this case. If it were to do. over we
should do as we have done; except we
would try to make our opposition to
organized lawlessness and licensed
theft more effective, by putting into it
more force, completer intelligence,
more conclusive augmentation, more
powerful pleadings for the right against
the wrong.
Our inspiration was our affection for
the honor and interests of Tennessee,
first; and for the honor and usefulness
of the Democratic party, second. We
long ago discounted the enmity of the
machine, in all such cases, and we
knew we should have down upon us
the whole pack, Blanche, Tray and
Sweetheart. Nor is this the first losing
fight for us, that was deliberately en-
tered on with Interpretation of defeat;
nor do we believe it will be the last.
Losing" did we say? That isn't quite
right. A battle for honesty, justice,
the right of the majority, may tempo
rarily fail, it a never be lost. Moral
law hasn't conquered the world; but
the law has not lost. Right may be
overborne, but the right is as eternal as
the God of whom it is an attribute.
Men may go with the multitude to do
evil, but they learn, soon or late, that
the subdivision of wrong makes it no
less wrong.
TT hnI hnnn nootar For fhn friaV11 ~
the law, the constitution, the lovers of
the States fair fame, and the party,
to have stifed conviction and gone
with the tide set flowing by the ma
chine; but their forfeiture of manhood
would have been more to them than
ease and the approval Of the hayward
and t%houghtless.
The deed has been done. The defeat.
ed has been declared the elected. The
State has been wounded, the Democ.
racy has been stabbed in the house of
false friends; and still we are by no
means discouraged, for State, the par
ty, or in doubt as to the final triumph
of both. The people may be implicitly
trusted to put under their feet the
crimes committed in their name.
And now, reminding those respohsi-
BILE for the outrage on the ballot that
has been perpetrated, that they can
charge us with no jot of responsibility
for whatever may come of the fearful
b%lunder-to put it mildly-we take
leave of the subject, for the present,
and turn our attention to p~leasanter
themes.
Bristol Courier: IT'S done, the most
arch deed of piteous massacre that
ever yet the Democracy of Tennessee
was guilty of, and Peter Turney, de-