Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-10-21

D.
ant Of the vital and tremendous issues
before the American people. These
unimpassioned appeals to the reason,
judgment, pride and honor Of those
who must settle the conflict at the ballot
box, are as high above the plane Of
the demagogue and Office holder as the
summit of the Matterhorn is above the
sea level, and will rally to his standard
q sufficient electorate to insure him an
unprecedented majority in the Elec-
toral College.
On the other hand the harangues of
Bryan, though he may be brilliant and
eloquent, are demagogical and revolu-
tionary in sentiment and purpose, APP
pealing to passion and ignorance, and
arraigning class against class and Sec
ton against section, that the best and
wisest systems of free governmentmay
be overturned to make room for IN
archy, reputation and national dis
honor. These %utterances, repeated
daily with that utter recklessness char
acteristic of a man who delights only
in ruin, have alarmed the cautious,
conservative, order loving and pros.
perity seeking element OF the American
people, regardless of party, and they
are banding themselves together to de-
feat the wicked schemes of Bryan and
his hackers and advisers. The opposi-
ton to the candidate of Altgeld and
Tillman grows stronger, compact
and more determined every day, and
when the people register their verdict
on the first Tuesday of next month the
advocates of rotten currency and the
forces of anarchy and reputation will
be swept away by the tornado of a free
and honest peoples indignation.
In our own State the Republicans
have much TO encourage the hope of
success. Thirty years of Democratic
rule are utterly barren of any good re-
suits, whilst they have brought the
State to disgrace and the verge of
bankruptcy. The Democratic record
is so abominably bad and defenceless
that the popular and magnetic cham
pion of the party did not dare to meet
either of his three opponents in joint
debate and discuss the pregnant causes
that have made Tennessee, in the Ian
guage of Hon. W. H. Carroll, II of
her most prominent Democrats, "the
worst governed State in the Union. T"
This refusal set the people to thinking,
and when Mr.. Tillman began to un.
cover the nest of rascals and their ras-
calities the people began to think that
they didn' t iced a fiddler and q yarn
spinner in the Gubernatorial chair half
as much as they needed a capable
man and a reformer.
Bob Taylor's method of campaign.
ing, his refusal to meet Mr.. Tillman in
joint debate, his ignoring of State is
sues, and his advocacy OF rotten money
will cost him many a vote. The cities,
towns and communities where the
money question has been thoroughly
discussed will give him a general roast
His jokes and pathetic %eloquence will
cut no figure where the s'weightier
matters" of the canvass are duly con-
sidered. Bob says he will be elected
by 100000, but if his prediction is yeri-
fled il any degree, there will have to
be a revolution between the present
writing and polling day. 1t is quite
likely-it is very likoly-that the ''un-
expected" will happen in his case. If
another steal is not successfully organ
lied, Mr.. Tillman will be the next
Governor of Tennessee.
In this Congressional District, the
situation is practically unchanged.
Mr.. Brownlow was honorably and
honestly nominated and against as
fierce an opposition as any man ever
encountered. But when he was pro
claimed the choice of the primary, the
factions, save a few who intended to
m~onopolize the fruits of the victory
had their favorite been chosen, have
consolidated upon him. He will be
elected by a majority run ming up into
the thousands. Dastardly towards,
whose repeated immoralities drove
them out of decent society years ago,
shooting at him from ambush and
open villification and SANDER can no,
drive away the Republican party from
his support, much less can it influence
that large number of the opposition
who want a man In Congress who al
ready understands the business of {
Congressman and is familiar with thu
details of official life at Washington
The many and varied schemes to de-
feat Mr.. Brownlow need excite NJ
alarm upon the part of his friends
They do not eminate from any sourc,
of respectability and influence, ant
instead of endangering Mr.. Brownlow'