Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-29
TIE KINsHIp OF VICES.

ioui II WIG DsoeSf 0aJoht ehS Dcno
cratic Presidential nominee, represents
Altgeldean anarchy and Tillmanic ia
naticism in the nation. This harmoni-
GUS coalition of kindred vices-a coali-
ton that does not hesitate to purloin
the chief Office of the State, disfran-
chises its ~unoffending citizens, over
ride its expressed sovereign will and
glory in the reproach of tia coalition
that defies reason, mocks law, and
would open a Pandora box of fresh dis
aster upon a people already stricken
with fear, despair and Impeachment
yea, it shows to what debasement and
imfamy a great party can be brought
by a corrupt and incompetent leader
ship. There was a purer and better
epoch in the history of eve the Demo-
cratic party when it would not tolerate
for one moment such a vile, unclean
thing as Peterbusterism -when it would
not surrender itself to the frcnziest ty-
ranny of such a gang of buccaneers
as dominated the Chicago convention
and made its platform and ticket.
Even Cleveland, who was repudiated
and cast out as a loathsome pariah by
these organized anarchists and free
hooters, in all the wreck and ruin he
has brought upon the country, is too
honest a statesman and too soulful q
patriot to steep himself in such crimes
that thrift and power may follow such
dishonor and vagaries of wickedness.
Sewall is an unknown animal dis
covered and captured in the wild haunts
of the Maine pineries, but it is strongly
suspected that he is a mere CIPHER and
was selected through the artifice of the
gold standard men to add a fatal de-.
feet to an already weak ticket. 1.-THE
Whirlwind Boy Orator of the Platte"
like the Bald Eagle of the Watauga,
may have magnetic e~loquence and a
personality Of resistless fascination,
but, the similitude of the two charac.
ters continuing to the last, he is the
creature of the most reckless and vi
cious elements in the latter day poll
tics.
We do not question the personal in
tegrity of these two distinguished Dem
ocratic candidates, who have mastered
the subtitle art of magic weaving with
such surprising and suspicious sudden.
ness and who have only to rufle the
lip in one direction and glance the eye
in another to evoke the thunders and
~lightnings Of a popular storm, any
more than we doubt the probity of the
many who will support them for party
sake. Yet the ground will not slip from
under US, when we assert that the imme.
date environment of these gentlemen
could not be worse-the party machin-
cry being under its absolute control and
direction-and the platforms on which
they plead for support are wholly re-
pugnant to those who stand for honest
methods and free government and to
those who demand a revenue system
that will be equal to the needs of the
nation, and sound money, redemption
money, worth its face at home and
abroad.
Without even waiting for an invita-.
ton, everybody has rushed to the from
and conceded the defeat of the Chicago
nominees. The party of anarchy, ia
naticism, free trade, free silver and
free hell headed by the Altgelds, Till.
mans and the addle pated statesmen oil
the sage brush and mining camp il
hardly in the fight. The kinship of vi
ces is likely to become a kinship of mis-.
fortunes, also.
The prospect before the Tennessee
section of the family group is not as
roseate as it might be. The infamies
and scandals of Peterbusterism en- wrap
the body of the Democracy as the
writhing serpents embrace the body OF
the Indian snake charmer. The sight
of the one is just about as repulsive as
that of the other. Hundreds of Demo.
Gratis a not condone Turneyism.
They can not endure the dictation and
tyranny of the marplots. They know
that Bob is completely in their tolls,
must do their bidding and faithfully
carry out his part of the plan to KEEP
the machine IN power. Though en-
amoured Of the man he has not theil
sympathy and support in HIS presen,
alignment. The platform clarifying
bribery, larceny and the disfranchise
ment of Republicans sufficient to main
tain Turney's fraudulent claim is ranl
"pizen" to this honest aud decent con
tingent. There was not the shadow O
a ghost OF o chance for any man imme
diately connected with the open thief
of the G%overnorship and in the extrem
tiles of the novel situation Bob becam
an indispensable necessity. Otherwise
he would never have been thought OF
And again. The friends of Comptrolle
Harris n not forget the assurance
and pledges passed from Bob to jim
mic; they can not forget and are or
not to forgive the righteousness O
Bob's memory and they are more ap
not to forget nor to forgive the barba
rous b~utchery of Jimmie between th
horns of the altar and the happy smile
and royal welcome of Robert as he me
the Greeks bearing on a silver platte
the gifts Of an unanimous nominatio
and the CORY head of their favorite