The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-31
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) Oct 40 lsis
The democratic party in TENNESSEE is well organized
and Is becoming enthusiastic and determined Our pTesi
Dental electors are constantly the stump while sub
electors IN every county aousng and en-
deavorng to secure general attendance at the polls
the 7th proxmo This all that necessary TO secure
tennessee TO the Baltimore nominees. You recolect
that in 1874 Mr. Polk lost the State by only ll3 votes
eneal Taylor cannot get the vote of MIR Clay by from
hve to ten per cent Whatever may be said OF Mr. C's
political heresies it must be admitted that he possessed
IN an eminent degree the faculty of inspiring his
friends with his own lofty enthusiasm, and of exciting
the latent energies OF his party wherever his banner
spread over IT, He had too, system and creed to the
propagation and support of which his adherents were
ldoatroasly devoted Their zeal de propaganda de
maed Them IN the contest and sustained them under de-
1eat III is Tar otherwise with General Taylor His
friends are not only apathetc, but the wing party has dis
sessions that even success cannot remove reconcile.
Apostate JAG kson meneleventh-h hour whigs-have
tremendously obtruded themselves upon the partyhave
excluded its founder from the house-have rude
" driven out the old patriarch from his own domcil-
have renounced his prlnclpes-hesitated avow his
creedgven stern rebuke to of his oldest friends
are dispensing the Inequalities of the old mansion to
sangers-wasting the estate, defamlng his ancestry,
and appropiang to themselves his honor and his name
Hence the diminished zeal of the present wing party
hence its discussions, and hence its eventual disember
ment The democratic party, the other hand in Ten
nessee is unit-scarcely boiler from our ranks While
here and there there is wing convert to democracy,
there are to be found many who declare that in
event will they vote for Taylor. In evidence of the
wing apathy and dssenson, it may be mentioned that at
the recent Beams Station meeting to which Ten
nessee Kentucky Virginia. and North Carolina TAYLOR
wings invited, informed less than 1000 OF all
ages, coors, and attended; and instead of being
protracted three days, intended broke up before
o'clock on the first day. 1t perfect failure. The
same has been the all summer and fall.
hear from other Staes-especially from Georgia and
Louisiana-that friends are sanguine and confident
Taylor will scarcely get North Carolina, and am I'M
willing to concede TO him any slave State but Kentucky
Ohio has done noby, and the moral effect of the recent
election there will, must have decided influence in
all the other States in November
Extract of letter TO the Editor, dated
RoGERsvILLE, UENN. y Oct. 20, 1915
Some days ago speech was sent here by -,
of the Commissary Quarermaser's Department to his
father purportng to be delivered by Col John A. Rogers
of Pennsylvania This man Rogers is man of no
character. ! know him well, and by the next mail
you will have statement, signed by number of
our citizens, showing him up in his true light regret
that il is too late to do much good astonished that
any man. set of men, should put up such man as
Rogers to make speech against any candidate. His
charges, where he is known will have no other effect
than to rebound toithe advantage of Gen. Cass
Indiana.
VINcENNEs, October 20, 1s4s.
have just been out at several large gatherings of the
people the stump. You may set down Indiana as one
of the banner States the Cass and Butler ticket Our
majority will be from to ten thousand | speak
advsedly