Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-17
RADICAL DIsTRUsT OF sENrEI


We presume Gov. Senter is salts
fed by this time of the fact ofwhich
this paper notified him several
days ago, that there is a movement
among the members of his o IN
party to head him off, if he has any
aspirations to an election by the
people to the Office he now holds.
The Radical State Central Com
mittee is called together nominal
ing a Radical ticket for Supreme
Judges, but there is reason to sus-
pect that the gubernatorial cues
ton will be thoroughly discussed
by the committee, and it will be no
great surprise to the community if
the committee determine to
call the State Convention to
meet at an earlier day than was
originally intended, so as to nomi-
nate candidate for Governor at
the same time that candidates for
Judges shall be nominated. It. is
well known that this proposition
has been discussed in the Loyal
or Union Leagues, and has
been almost universally APP
proved, The extreme Radicals who
want Stokes nominated for Gov
ernor, are afraid of Senter, and
they have been maneuvring to get
the advantage of him upon a very
important point. Efforts have been
made to get Gov. Senter to call the
Legislature together in extraordi~
nary session for the ostensible pur-
pose of passing a bill for the benefit
of some East Tennessee railroads,
and perhaps the friends of the pro
posed fifteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States
have desired meeting of the lie
gislature to ratify that amendment.
These are the ostensible purposes
for which an extraordinary session
of the Legislature is desired, but
the real purpose is to get law
passed taking from the Governor
the power of removing commission
ers of registration without the con
sent of the Senate. If the Legisla-
ture could be got together there is
reason to believe that the enact
ment of such a law would be
attempted, although the Governor
al interim might not refer to it in
his message as one Of the subjects on
which the Legislature has been
called together to act The truth
is, and it must now be apparent to
Gov. Senter, that the leaders of his
own party in the interest of Stokes
are afraid that he will order a fair
and honest registration of every
man in the State who is entitled
under the franchise law to vote. 1t
has been the practice of registrars
in nearly all the counties of the
State to register only such as they
knew would vote the Radical ticket.
There are hundreds of men in
Davidson county to-day who have
been denied registration simply
because they are not Radicals. The
same is true to greater or less ex-
tent throughout the State. There
was no appeal from the action
of these registrars except to Gov.
Brownlow, and it was too well
known that their course gave entire
satisfaction TO him. Whenever one
of these officers complied with the
law and registered every man le-
gally entitled to vote, he was at
once removed, his work declared
null and void, and a more plant
tool set to work to reregister the
The Stokes Radicals fear
that Gov. Senter will not tolerate
this partisan work. They fear he
is an honest man and will hold the |
registrars in the various counties
to a strict compliance with the re-
quirements Of the law. Fearing |
that he will decapitate every regis
trar who refuses TO register clti-
zen justly entitled under the fran
chise law TO vote, they desire TO
take this power out Of his hands, or
at least to place a check upon him
so that he will be powerless to act