Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-08-05

dispisc and execrate themselves, rs they
may he sure their fellow citizens icspise
and execrate them.
From the beginning TO the end of this
ghastly performance not one of these
men has given utterance 20 whimper
OF self respect and much less to a manly
Democratic sentiment
nishoncring themselves they have
contributed 10 the dishonor of their
party and their country. Victims Of an
ignoble passion, their unregulated am
hition has assisted in the undoing of an
organization that they were in honor
bound 20 defend.
lIumbled and disgraced by interiors
momentarily possessed of power, they
may sometime be pitied, while they are
now condemned and loathed.
The Democratic party, for the instant
scattered, Is the only American party
that ever was big enough and broad
enough TO cover the entire republic.
Other parties have had a big existence
i'm places and sections and have been
practically unknown elsewhere, but tile
Democratic party has been maintained
in its integrity from the first in every
State, county, township and school dis
trict
When the great national party went
| to pieces i'm 1850 the very fabric of the
union was shaken. A united Democracy
could have prevented the war of seces-
sion. The war OF secession and disunion
followed logically and naturally the
disruption OF the party whose ramitica-
tions reached every cross roads and al
most every hearthstone on the conti-
nent.
The breach in the Democratic party in
Chicago, while not so spectacular, Is not
less pronounced than that which took
place I'm Charleston in 1860. As the diff
ferences leading up to the separation
then was sectional and as they were en-
bittered by extremists whose madness
could not he controlled, so now the party
goes to pieces rs n result of the devilish
teachings of the irreconcilables, whose
gospel OF avarice and sectional hate has
found new favor with the unthinking
masses OF the south and west.
| No slave driver stands ready today
with blazing torch to light the flame OF
war: no Sumpter awaits in silence and
anxiety the opening gun of civil strife
but sectionalism, now and forever ram
pant when Democracy's ranks are
broken, holds within its accursed grasp
every woe and every alarm that has al
any time menaced the American re-
public.
TO this dread spirit the despicablt
|
cago convention have appealed, recking
nothing of the consequences. The
mightier spirits of liberty and humanity
must again be invoked for Its overthrow
Democracy has been humiliated, butt
has not been destroyed. 1t still lives, Q
prodigious force for good terror tC
evil. Rising again in all the ma ajesty o
the power of the ever living truth, il
will smite with n mailed hand the trai
tors and mercenaries who, in its honoret
name, have raised the somber flag o.
financial shame and the blacker flag o.
disunion and hate.
The New Orleans Picayune Dem.)
Such plain and authoritative an
nouncement made by the great Demo
cratic convention at Chicago, that thu
object OF the American people, as repre-
sented In the Democratic party, IL to re
pudiate large portion of thoir debts
public and private, IL startling In th'
extreme, and 1t can not fail TO exert
most depressing effect upon business o
every sort. Without doubt n policy o
debt reputation would be very popula
with certain classes of people; but II Il
most dangerous doctrine upon whicl
to base the very existence of a grea
political party, particularly one that ha'
been known from the beginning for u
| utNOtiOli w ihOHtN w
and private honesty.
In reference to tho rejection Of the
mild Endorsement OF Cleveland the Plea
yune says:
Possibly there never was such an ex
hibition Of boorish, churlish cruelty be
fore made by any public assemblage
except when the French assembly die
to death King Louis XVI., and the Brit
,, ish parliament condemned and executed
King Charles /. But in the two cases
there were mobs of the common peopl,
making war upon the kings who wer'
not Of their own choosing, but had beer
forced upon them by the arbitrary de
cree Of n pretended divine right and by
the accidental circumstances of heredi
tary descent; while in the present cas-,
here was the Democratic party Of TIL,
republic consenting to and acquiescinl
in the insults and ISLANDERS perpe petratet
upon them and upon the chief magis
trates Of the country whom they them
selves had chosen.
1t was truly Infamous, and will prov,
to be the one and only great blot upoi
the escutcheon of great party whicl
has heretofore alwaysstood for honesty
fairness and justice. 1t is an outrag
that is hard for decent people to forgive