Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-08
COL. W. p. BROWNLOW FOR CON.
GRESS.

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done to cleanse our own State from the
pollutions of the bad politics for which
one Peter Turney and his corrupt crew
of subservient marplots are responsible
to bring our discredited commonwealth
back to its ancient moorings of honor
and fair fame, and to purge our statute
books of crimes clothed in the sacred
vesture of law, surely the task should
be an agreeable one and evoke the en-.
thusiasm and determined courage of
the Republican party.
The present humiliation of Tennessee
and its rescue from
THE HANDS OF H DEsPoILER
are matters of serious moment and
should not be underestimated or wei
looked in the strugglefo an all around
victory.
Tennessee Republicans broke the
central joint in the back bone Of the
solid South and should follow up the
vantage gained with a still greater
surprise by sending to the mex Con,
gress a large delegation of their most
DESERVING REPRESENTATIVE MEN
in order that it may be made manifest
that the central State of the South
has statesmen of no mean order and
that as soon as she cleans herself and
makes other necessary preparations to
be admitted into decent society she
will permanently align herself with
the Republican party.
Tennessee is practically d"ismantled
her name is a hiss and a byword from
one end OF the country to the other;
decent Democrats, as well as Repub.
licans, hang their heads in shame over
the reproaches cast upon her; law and
liberty are in thrall to remorseles s and
defiant usurpation, her present admin.
istration is not a whit more respectable
nor a whit less vicious than the licensed
BRIGANDGE OF MEXICAN GOVERNMENT.
But Tennessee, placing herself under
a Republican regime, can do much to.
ward her rehabilitation, and the sweep.
ing Republican victory in the National
contest pending, with the uplifting of
the now trailing standards of political
honor and moral recitude, will COM
plete the grand work so nobly begun.
To win a victory fraught with positive
and permanent good to each section
and the country at large, there must
be a harmony of feeling and concert
OF effort-an entire suboIdinotion of
personal preference and ambition to
the one purpose of utterly destroying
H WHOLE BATTLE LINE OF THE ENEMY.
Considering the unprecedented dis
q%uietude, fear and distress prevailing
in all parts of the Union, the causes
that produced them, the utter helpless.
ness of the masses as long as the causes
exist, and the necessity of their speedy
removal if the country escapes more
serious misfortunes and perils now
Fastening on, the Congressional cleo.
ton will be
THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATUBE
OF the general contest in '96. The only
hope of rescue, the only surety of de.
liverance is a radical change in the
agencies and methods of government
and a return to the sound economic
principles of the Republican party,
with no golden harvests for the few
at the expense of all the rest, and
under whose beneficent operation this
country attained that marvellous power
and development that made her
THE LADY OF H NATIONS.
Relief, If it comes at all, must come
from the law making power and to be
sufficient and timely must come from
next Congress. Nothing short of super
natural Intervention can turn the drift
that set in against the Democracy in
"a and has been. increasing in volume
and movement ever since. We know
the Establishments of the Nation will
cease when the people abandon their
idolatry of false gods, as they are now
doing with all the rapidly possible,
and humble themselves, as they are
now doing as fast as circumstances
will permit.
Next year a President trimming with
bigotry and intolerance of American
ideas and interests will be shorn of the
opportunity and power to harm and
destroy, and a Congress will be chosen
whose chief work will be to rebuild the
ruined industries of the country and
restore content, aspiration and pros
perity to the people. 1t behooves the
Republican party, as it will have the
power to do, to fill that body with its
ABLEsT AND lost DESERVING MEN.
Each Congressional division should
be headed by a leader, whose faith in
the moral virtue and strength of his
party never fails him in the presence
of difficulty and peril, who commands
the confidence and is able to arouse
the enthusiasm of the masses, with the
tact to concentrate and hold, and, above
and beyond all, with the experience
that educates and prepares for the
prompt andintelligent discharge of the
delicate and intricate duties which
await the next Congress.
We voice a fact. as freely conceded