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

The Editorial rrn,cs uf the onls Morning
RcmccNtie rapcr at Chicaro Agaiss,
BRYAN aud Scuall.
The Daily Chronicle, the Democratic
organ of this city, in fact the only Dcmo-
cratic morning daily in Chicago, has
the following scathing editorial on the
bryan and Sewall ticket;
Dominated hy men who are strangers
TO the Democracy and by ideas even
more grotesquc in their novelty the Chi
cagO convention has named leader
who Is not Democrat and adopted u
platform which Is not Democratic.
by It's revolutionary and sectional
fury, by it's shameful Endorsement Of
the Republican aud populistic heresies
OF cheap silver and greenbackism, by
its cowardly abandonment OF tariff re-
form and by its amazing demand for the
restoration OF the barbarous spoi.s sys.
TEN, no less than by the nomination OF
a man wholly unfit, the Chicago conven-
ton absolvcs all Democrats from alle-
glance TO its candidates and Its princi-
pies.
That the affairs OF men and nations
are guided aud determined by an ON
nipotent power, which in subllmely
mysterious ways makes for righteous
ness, is n solemn belief Of great section
of the American people which will find
tial confirmation in the
events Of the past week in Chicago.
If.vcr men were reserved for destruc-
tion--if from the days of Belshazzar and
Sennacherib to those Of George III and
Jefferson Davis supreme power has
at any time visited with madness and
blindness the creatures OF evil whose
overthrow was necessary TO human
progress, the gibbering marvellous, Till.
man and Altgeld, and all who have fol.
lowed them in their new crusade OF
sectionalism, disunion, repudintlon and
ruin, have been under the shadow OF
that awful will.
The Chicago convention has not
spoken for the Democrats Of the United
States. 1t has voiced the ignorance and
the immortality, the coyetousness and
the dishonesty Of the least enlightened
elements of our population. No center
of intelligence and progress and justice
is represented in its pronouncements.
The Chicago convention has been con
trolled by and has spoken for the moon
shining lazzaroni OF the mountain dis
tricts of the south, and for the whooping
desperadoes and silver monopolists ant
debt shirkers Of the far west, who never
voted u Democratic ticket and never
intend to.
The Chicago convention, made up FOL
the greater part Of interlopers from thu
various populistic organizations of thu
south and west, and by few score o
unconscionable scalawags from tn,
north, wearing the collars of bosses lik'
Altgeld, has not only spoken falsely fol
the Democracy; 1t has degraded and dis
graced the American name before thu
world in manner that no similar gath
ering ever equalled and which every
patriot may fervently hope no succeed
ing aggregation Of moral and intellect
ual degenerates ever will initiate.
Impudently and falsely assuming /,
represent the most intelligent, mos
energetic, most self relantpeople on til,
globe, the Chicago convention humbly
asks for the American republic plac,
in finance and commerce ut the feet o
Costa Rica, China and Mexico.
With an impulse born Of bigotry ant
fanaticism, IL flies In the face OF tn,
great commercial nations, closes III
eyes to all the pages Of history, and
intent upon winning the approval o
are soon to meet In st. Louis, and VIII,
have directed its acts in Chicago, 1t ar
rayed itself upon the side Of debaset
currency and the reputation of publ,
and private debts.
Platform and candidate stand fol
retrogression and ultimate barbarism.
Platform and candidate, decided upor
after much travail, have been set up no
so much with the expectation of winning
Democratic approval rs they have beer
In the hope OF gaining the support o
the rag, tag and bobtail Of the repudi
ators, dollar clippers and calamityites o
Bloody Gulch and Yazoo.
1t Is not Democracy that has thu
greedily seized and donned the discard
ed rags of Mcl<inleyism.
II Is not Democracy, after suffering
two crushing and undescrved defeats q
the hands OF calamity shrieking Repub
licans, now claims pre.eminent monpo
ly Of all calamity.
II Is not Democracy that, having vail
antly resisted for generation the al
lied trusts and tariff protected combine
OF the country, now sets up one OF th
most obnoxious OF these trusts-the sill
yer mining bonanZa--as the corner ston
Of the party's faith.
II IL not Democracy that prescribe
and insults the tried and true Democrat
of the eastern and middle States.
II is not Democracy that occupies tn
abandoned camps OF the Republican fre
trade and hucksters and hugs to II
bosom the discarded gewgaws Of n pc
litical strumpot who IL now posing IN
away ~ n pattern OF virtue. la,
II Is not Democracy that makes on
dishonest Republican, idea the sole tes
OF party memberships.
4 tits populism. IT. is socialism. 1t 1
| uHulCHy
Tillman and Altgeld typify and Illus
trate In their own offensive vepersonalitie
the violence and recklcssness Of thi
latest departure from Democratic faitl
Both OF them able and adroit, both re
sourceful, both brutal In method, bot
coarse in speech, both malignant, bot
revcngeful, both insane with evil an
btion, both filled with sleepless zea
I to destroy the Democratic party, whic
they know to be conservative and pi
4 triotic force not to be enlisted In SUI
port OF their revolu utionary frenzies--tb
| one stands for all that Is abhorrent pt
litically at the south rs the other stand
for all that Is politically dangerous 0
the north.
Aiding and abetting these miserabl
! counterfcits OF Democratic leaders, thes
I base limitations OF Democratic statesmen
are great host Of renegade Republ
4 cans, the Tellers and Waites, the Bland
and Bryans, the Pennoyers and Stew
J arta tha Tnuhnacka and Jonaapa n