Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-29
Partisans, Consistent and Other
wise.

Many of the so-called Democrats
who are now clamoring for party reg
ularity at any price have been known
to wear their party robes loosely, and,
in some instances. to discard them for
the time being altogether
In the campaigns of 1896 aud 1900.
when William ]. Bryan was the stand
ard bearer of the national Democracy
there were notable and numerous in
stances of Democrats refusing to vote
the Democratic ticket Many of them
not only withheld their support from
Bryan but they voted for his Republi-
can opponent. When they had
chance to elect Democratic President
they went over to the Republicans.
and in the face of their opposition to
the Democratic nominee for President
they now clamOr in frenzied tones for
Democratic party regularity. They
revert to time far beyond their dis
loyalty to the Democratic party, going
back to the days of reconstruction to
revive the hatred and prejudice eman-
mating from reconstruction days. They
forget their own records when they
listened to the charge that Bryan was
"the wild ass of the Nebraska plains,
and when they voted for Mckinley
and thus aided in the defeat of Bryan.
They forget that they revolted, not
against Bryan as an individual, for
his enemies admit him to be an honest
man, but against what Bryan stood
for. They defeated Bryan by voting
for Mckinley. and now, in the face of
this fact, these self-same patriots de-
nounce the independent Democrats of
Tennessee as traitors, irreconcilables
and vile Republicans who are endeav-
oring to Republicanize the state.
A prominent Democratic patriot who
views with alarm the attitude of the
independent Democrats, was asked this
question:
Colonel, did you not vote against
Bryan? And have you not always been
against him, and are you not against
him nowH"
Yes, yes. 1 voted for Mckinley.
Bryan won't do-that is, his policies
won't do"
So it is with those Mckinley Demo-
Gratis who are now communicating
every Democrat who refuses to indorse
domination and control of the
public affairs.
There are humorous as we'll as seri
Gus phases in connection with the
cross firing that is being INDUCED in
by the political adversaries, one
against the other, fair example of
which is fervent editorial in the
Scanty Creek News as follows:
The bettle-scarred. corkscrewed,
ing headedt ung-starter who edits
that booze soaked sheet, the Hog
Camp Grape Vine, lows he's goin' to
smoke us out of our hole and make
u declare for somebody for Govern
Or" We want to say to that old
speak easy" soft drink bloated- blind
tiger, and to the other Mckinley Taft
Democrats of Tennessee, that the
News is for Ben Hooper, the brilliant
Young sang digger from Cooke, and in
The language of P. Henry, the origin
Il insurgent, IF that be treason, then
nut your patchin'. =
Another Democratic insurgent, look
ng back at the records Of his critics
md discovering them insurging in
many nard fought battles for Demo
ratio supremacy, quotes from THE
Merchant of Venice" and tantalizing-
y hurls at his detractors these words:
''The vi llainy you teach me I will
xecute;; and it shall go hard but
will better the instruction.
This is day of independence and an
pooh of insurgency. The spirit of un-
est is no stronger in one party than
n another. The independent Ameri
an manhood is in revolt against nsur-
alton and despoilation, and nothing
an stem the tide that is sweeping to
estruction the blind, brutal and cor
upt partisanship which has become
menace to our free institutions Ten :
esseean.