Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-27
RADICAL TESTIMONY ABOUT RADI
GALS.

The Radicals know each other,
and they are just now in the mood
to tell who and what each other
are. We propose to assist them in
their laudable enterprise of enlight-
ening the people of Tennessee upon
this important subject, to the
widest possible circulation that can
be given to their views. The Knox
vile Hhig of the 25th inst. says:
ave share in the regret of all good
Republicans that the late Convention
was so divided, boisterous, disrupted.
All that we could do personally, without
dishonor, was done to prevent the scenes
which transpired. We are not there
fore, responsible in any sense for the
belligerent, discordant scenes and temper
of the Convention. Deeply do we de-
plore the sad aspect which the Union
Republican party presents. We have
attended many conventions, national and
State. We never attended one in which
so much injustice, violence and fraud
were attempted to be practiced as were
svinced by some Of the Stokes party.
We say some of them, because, for many
of them, We chsritably believe they
were not cognizant Of, nor participators
in, the frauds and wrongs which were
attempted. A full and detailed account
of the whole affair viii be given to the
public tomorrow, or in q day or two
thereafter, and we will not forestall that
by details at present The rupture was
inevitable, unless the Republicans were
willing to surrender the political control
of the State TO unprincipled conspirators
and thimble-riggers.
This thing openly began in the Senate
Of Tennessee last winter, by the attempt
to strike down Gov. Senter-one Of the
truest men that Tennessee boasts. The
machinery was arranged in secret con-
clave nearly year before that Il was
the same element, and by similar, if not
equal unfairness, that attempted, through
a packed, fraudulent convention, 10 po-
litically assassinate Gov Senter and put
itself in control Of the State That pur-
pose was thwarted through the firmness
OF members Of the convention. But the
guilt and responsibility of those who have
thus disgraced the State by causing the
scenes and struggles Of the late eOnven.
ton, are none the less that they were
unsuccessful They intended 10 succeed
They would have succeeded but for the
reason assigned Upon them, therefIre,
and upon them alone, Justly rests the
censure Of an indignant public And
when that intention of the cOnspiratOrs
is fully revealed, as we mean it shall be-
to the people Of Tennessee, their indig-
nation at such deep and damning villainy
will express itself in a vote which will
consign the guilty to political oblivion
and TO public scorn and contempt"
We are promised some interest
ing disclosures by the Wing, and
we trust its editor will keep his
word In the chapter already
given be charges much that is
basely corrupt on leading Radicals.
If that which is behind is worse,
the people should know it by all
means.
On the other baud, the Press and
Times is giving the reasons why it
opposes Gov. Senter, and here are
some Of them:
ave oppose him because has friends |
threaten to manipulate the ballot box to |
carry him through. We oppose him |
because he is supported by the school |
iunders to man. We oppose him be-
cause all the railroad rings in the State |
have formed one great treasury junta to |
help him into the governorship. We |
oppose him because he has all those men |
who were formerly the most disreputable |
members of the Republican party as his
supporters. We oppose him because he
is made 70 shoulder, and is tacitly Shout
dering, all the financial and monetary
iniquities which ARE laid to our charge /
by the enemy. We oppose him in fine
because he is the standard-bearer of
Democrats, disruptionists, railroad rings,
school funders and boilers, and because
his course is bringing odium on the party
and NAV eventually be It's rain"
These are very serious charges
to be preferred against members of
the Radical party, but they are
made by Radical who has oppor-
tunities of learning the secrets Of
the party, and who ought to know
whereof he speaks If the leaders
of the Radical party be as corrupt
and unreliable as these organs of
that party represent them to be
and certainly we have no right to
question their testimony in this
matter-can the honest men of the
party tell where the State will land
f these men continue to control its
affairs?