Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-31
HARD ON STOKES
A Senter Organ Accuses
Stokes of incorporating
the Condition of
Tennessee. os
About the Removal of Fed
eral Office Holders.
From the Knoxville whis. Aug. Is.

eral Ofhce-Holders.
| From the Knoxville Whis. Aug q.
| In another column will be found Dol
lions of Stokes, conversation with The Ne,
York HeralFs reporter, We call atler
ton to some Of his psrverstions Of facts
| He declares that he did not want 10 g
to Washington on the business that carrie,
him there, and also that he did not wan
to be q candidate for Governor. Now
when it is remembered that he was il
midnight conclaye with Senter's sworl
enemies year before the election, to pre-
vent Senter from being candidate fo
Governor, and 10 pave the way for his owl
success; that he and Butler and other
we're manipulating county conventions ant
the country press for that purpose; that
| according TO bis own admissions, he woult
1 not draw off in favor of Senter after III,
| convention, and that be and his friend
lefs no stone unturned TO secure, first, III.
Nomination and then the election, we say
when all this is remembered, Gen, Stokes
declaration of reluctance and disinclinatior
to be candidate, must be taken cum grant
sails. EsI HIEll EGE a. .I.a -.
As to the non-diyision of the Republi.
can party, and his getting 10000 votes, he
is 1t fault and wide of the facts. Grant
received 56,756. Stokes vote is less than
$4,000. He says Seymour's vote was 3d.
GOO. 1t was 26, 81. In the convention,
throwing out double and treble packed
delegations, ssnter had majority of the
counties and The delegstes. / a '-1aEs .
Gen. S,okes representation of the per-
seculions of loyal men by guerrilla bands,
consisting Of ex-Rebel soldiers, is not true;
nor, if true as far as it goes, is it fair. We
have learned Of two or three instances in
West Tennessee where persons (coloredl
have been molested or killed; but we have
heard of more where Senter men, white
and eolored, have been killed, intimida-
ted or injured by Stokes men. ....
In Stokes own county, and as il were, at
his own door, Frazier, Senter man, was
shot down in cold blood, by Hathaway,
while the Sheriff held the victim 90 that
the murder might be done more surely.
Mr.. Scott, editor of the Maryville Repub-
lican, was prevented from voting. In
Union or Claiborne county, a Senler man
vas killed for exercising his rightq, while
the Registrar Of Union county was threat
ened by Stokes nen with violence.
The case General Stokes cites, of Hill,
was not to the purposs a. all. Budd Carter,
the man who extorted $4,000 from HIPS
friends, did il by way of reprisal Of that
amount of costs and loss of money he had
suffered from Hills prosecutions. Politics
had nothing TO do with it. The truth is,
General Stokes mispresents the facts when
he represents Tennessee as being more I'M
quiet and unsafe since than before the cleo.
tioE. The hue and cry he speaks of about
men fleeing from the State to get away from
the Rebels is sensational. We regard Gen.
Stokes defense of his action as being ex-
ceedingly impotent. If Congress or the,
President &C. upon such ex parte and OBJ
viously unfair statements as those of Stokes
they will be weaker than they ought to be.
They should not move in the matter until
they have some better grounds than Stokes
has shown or can show; and when the other
side comes to be heard, Stokes will be found
to have distorted, magni6ed and misrepre-
scented the facts.
From the Knoxville Wing, Aug. g. .
The following is from the Washington
Chronicle, OF F.iday;
"rhe statement in .he Democratic pa
pers that Hon. W. B. Stokes, i,ste Republi-
can candidate for Governor !of Tennessee, is
now in Washington for the purpose of pro.
curing the removal of certain ofice-hold-
ers who supported Senter in the recent
election, is untrue and unjust. Gen. Stokes
is here ior no such purpose. He has made
no appeal TO the administration in
the interest of any aspirant for Office,
however worthy. He is in Washing
ton to take counsel with his friends
in regard to the alarming condition of
Tennessee, soon to revert, by system of
frauds, into the control of the
Rebel Democracy, and especially 10 regard
to the new perils surrounding the Union
men of the State. But while Gen. Stokes
has not deemed it his duty to interfere in
the distribution of Office in Tennessee,
since the communication of the frauds, il
would seem to be a measure of manifest
Justice that the men who hold national
Offices in that State, and who used these
Offices for the purpose of giving power to
the Rebel Democracy, should be oonstrain-
ed to make way for known and tried Re-
publicans."
Between the Chronicle, Gen. Stokes and
the correspondent of the New York Herr
aid, there is lie out in reference TO the
removal of federal office holders who
Senter. In the New York
Hsralds report Of the conversation, Gen.
Stokes says they will be removed, that he
sought it, and that Grant at Long Branch
promised it. The Chronicle says he is
moi in Washington for that purpose. One
of the three tells an untruth. Which one
is il? But it will be seen from the Chroni-
Gle that that paper desires their removal.
SPEAKER OF THE RENATR-HnN