The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-22
ANDERSON s. c. THURSDAY JULY g. 1885,
The Struggle in Tennessee.

The Tennessee election takes place Au-
gust 5th, and it is well that the day is so
near ut hand, for the relations of the
gubernatorial candidates have now got to
the fighting point. tits evident that they
will have TO stop stumping the State. 1t
was hard enough for each of them to
tolerate the verbal onslaughts of the other;
but when they fall to with fists and bowie
knives, it will be impossible for the peo-
pie to refrain from joining in. The Knox
vile Press and Herald gives the following
account Of recent 'joint discussion" be-
tween the rival candidates on the stump,
and their behavior towards each other:
During Gov. Senter's closing remarks
at Clinton, he was "circumstance" more
severe and scathing in bis denunciation of
Stokes than in any previous speech. The
Generals military record was used
pretty much in the way that boys use q
bladder, which is puffed out and swelled
by the wind it confines within itself
Governor Senter used it as football,
threw it around among the bystanders,
and finally took it between his hands, and
bringing them sharply together, burst it.
When the "bald eagle" rose to reply,
he fairly trembled with anger and shame.
Raising his long finger and pointing it
towards Governor Senter he said:
"Fellow Citiizens-I have a wife and
children whom I should greatly dislike to
part from. Yet tell Governor Senter 1
will hold him personally responsible, after
the election, for what he has said to-day.
If he considers himself a gentleman, I
challenge him to meet me after the elec-
tion, as gentleman, and we will then see
who is the coward and who the man. l
denounce Senter as liar, and lam ready
to meet him any time after the election" !"
Governor Senter, who was sitting i'm
mediately in the rear of Stokes, coolly
arose and informed Stokes that he was
ready to meet him now, or at any time
agreeable to him (Stokcs) previous to the
election, but would prefer to settle the
difficulty without delay. He, therefore,
invited Stokes to step out on the field in
the rear of the stand and obtain satistac-
| ton.
Stokes replied that he would settle the
affair after the election.
Both speakers then intimated that the
discussion was closed for the day. Senter
slapped Stokes on the shoulder and re-
marked, quietly, that he preferred to give
him satisfaction without delay.
Stokes then replied that he did not
mean anything serious, but desired Sen
ter to understand his desire for q fight as
expressed in Pickwickian sense.
The affair would doubtless have result
ted seriously if Stokes had not been desti
tute OF courage.
A correspondent thus describes the two
candidates for Governor of Tennessee:
The contrast between the two is very
marked. Scnter is young, between thirty,
five and six, little above medium height
broad, and rather inclined 10 be portly;
black hair and beard, and full and forid
face which tells of a love for the good
things of the world. No anchorite, evi.
IDENTIFY Though comparatively q young
man, he has had much political experience,
having been in public life almost con.
stantly since he was twenty-one years OF
age. Stokes, on the contrary, is thin and
spare, slight figure, little stopped, bald
crown, smooth and colorless face; Eeak.
like nose, and general contour both of face
and figure, which at times seems decided
ly bird-like, and recalls forcibly the famil-
lar soubriquet (he "bald eagle of the
mountains'') by which he has been so
widely known in this canvass.