Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-23
AsPiRTNG GEErEEMEN LEFT QUE
IN, TsfE CoLD.

IN. TsIE CoLfs.
There are several gentlemen of
tho Radical party who are gricv-
ously disappointed at the turn af-
fairs took in the convention which
their party attempted to hold en-
the Goth inst. They had expected
trouble in the convention, but not
of the character that occurred.
These men had built up hopes of
nomination themselves, in the pos
sible contingency ef failure to
nominate either Stokes or Senter.
The reason they wanted the nomi-
nation is found in the belief among
Radicals that has grown up with the
reconstruction Of the State govern
ment, that the path to the Senate
Of the United States lies through
the Governors Office. This idea is
elaborated by the Radical Tonnes
see correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial. In his letter from
Nashville, dated the 10Th inst, he
says:
1.-THE contest is SO fiery and vigorous
between Stokes and Senter that several
smaller fry, who would like to have a
finger in the pie, are entirely squeezed
out, with very little hope indeed OF being
Governors, and, after that, Senator'S
There is Thomas A. Hamilton, Of Mem
phis, who was elected to an Office some
time ago that does not exist so far as any
body knows, who would not mind being
| Governor, inasmuch as it is sure step
| to the Senate, there being nothing surer
unless it is the position which Ashley
holds in the far West. Thomas will
probably get complimentary vote at
| the first ballot, and then he will be
crushed between those two mammoth
] grinders, Stokes and Senter, and never
| heard Of more. H.t13la
Horace Maynard has occupied the
/ congressional round in the ladder Of
4 fame for long season, and it is time he
went up higher, or his allotted days as q
mortal here below will end before he has
completed the giddy round. He has
friends here, but they are powerless, for
who can stand against the wind that
blows nothing bat Stokes and Senter?
"Wisener is here with few counties to
back him, bat he and his counties might
as we'll be in Central Africa, for all the
good they can do him, unless the war
between the two big SIS should result in
the selection of neither, but necessitate
the picking up Of a compromise candi-
date.
THAT everything hangs upon a hair,
is truism so long established and so
universally acceded to, by the human
family, that it cannot be well set aside
at this late day, even in Tennessee, and
the contestants for the gubernatorial
prize know full well that their future
destiny is now trembling in the balance,
According to the old parchment called
the constitution, Fowler will ere long
have to retire to his district school, and
; turn his attention from the making o.
laws TO the enforcement of school dis
cipline, by the aid Of tho rule and rod
for he is an old school teacher, and toe
aged now to change the habits of his
| youth and middle age. There will be a
vacancy, and the man that is Governor
of the State when Fowler steps from the
Capitol to the schoel-house, will be his
successor, and go down to posterity as
Senator of the Great Republic.
| But there is still another string to
this desirable bow, and the golden op-
/ portuniLy for the man nominated to NOR.
rom to walk into posterity through the
Senate, may be nearer than the day thai
the constitution disrobes Prof. Fowler o
his high office. 1t is thought here that
Brownlow can not last long, and the de-
drops, is great. The certainty of Fow-
lers going out within the ensuing two
years, and the probability Of Brownlow''
going out even sooner, of course throw.
an additional halo of interest around the
great contest to morrow. To be Gov
ernor does not amount to much, for the
salary is small and the duties great, bul
1T is per Sc, the door that leads to thu
Senate, which is the greatest and bes
place the earth affords for the making 0
character and the building up of an en-
during reputation. -.r-
'Aud yet another thing that makes
the blood tingle with the liveliest interes
in the veins Of many, as they read thei
: fate in the decision of to- morrow.
) Stokes carries the day, and the nigh
finds him with the laurels of success upoI
his brow, the Sd District seat in the Con
gress Of the United States will be vacant
and a ripe, delicious apple Ito those VIII
! have not tastedit,) ready to fall into som
lucky mans lap. Already aspirants ar
looming up in the distance, and with tn
: success of the present incumbent in hi
laudable undertaking to get higher, the
will no longer be far in the distance, no
few in number. And so it is, as sal
before that a great number of thing
hang upon hair ..
Here we have the plot of tn
1 game that was to be played on tn
goth, inst. There were half
i, dozen political gamblers playin!
: for position to get into the Unite'
q States Senate. Mr.. Maynard wa
: SO eager upon the subject that h
got up movement in Washington
to operate upon the convention il
his favor, but the failure of tn
convention to organise nipped thi
, nice little arrangement in the bud