The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-15
TENNESSEE.
The. Political Situation.
The conservatives Likely 10 Proht
by Radical DIssensIOns.
Telegram to the Cincinnati Commercial. 3"

The CONSERVATIVES Likely 10 PFOht
by Radical DIssensIOns.
Telegram to the Cincinnati Commercial. >.
NASHVILLE, JulY13.
The widest dreamer could hardly
have imagined two months ago, that
such an extraordinary change in pub
lie sentiment and the political situation
in Tennessee would have occurred as
has taken place since then. This has
fierce and violent dissension in the
Radical party here, by the pressure of
the increasing liberation and liberal:ty
which prevail Throughout the country.
Before the party strife can be healed up
Radicalism will have lost its power in
Tennessee, and this bids fair to be an
accomplished fact before many months.
A few weeks ago the friends of i'm
mediate franchise were satisfied, and
had tacitly agreed to support, for the
Legislature, Republicans who were
committed to the early removal of po-
litical disabilities. Since then, how
ever, the swift current Of public events,
involving the decentralization of the ex-
treme Radicals and the liberal system
of registration, have so shaped the
course of opposition, that fullhedged
Conservatives are likely to be nom1-
mated for the Legislature, in most of the
counties, with a reasonable show of
The fact that in some counties there are
half dozen Radical candidates, with
contention and an Incorporating
spirit, renders it the easiest thing % the
world to slip in Conservatives, which
will undoubtedly be done. 1t is not at
all improbable that a majority OF the
next Legislature will be Conservative,
and this implies the election OF Andy
johnson to the United States Senate.
Matters have now gone SO far in the
suffrage extension direction, and the
impetus is still so strong, that retro.
gression is something In the nature OF
an impossibllity, atfact which will still
further embolden the Conservatives in
the programme they have marked out.
This Is how things look at present,
but, even with the election OF Con-
servative Legislature, it Is reasonably
certain that no legislative action would
be attempted to deprive the blacks of
any civil or political rig hts they now
enjoy.
Debnte between Senter and Stokes ut
JOhnsOnVllIe.
Telegram to the Gin. Gazette.
NASHVILLE, TENN, July 13.
The Gubernatorial candidates spoke
at Huntington, Carroll county, to-day,
to q moderate sized crowd and with the
usual results.
The debate at Johnsonville yesterday
excited much interest, being the first
in West Tennessee. Quite a crowd was
assembled-a number OF them ladies.
Governor Senter took the same ground
upon the franchise question that he has
all along occupied, namely, the re-
moval Of all political disabilities
as soon as it can be accomplished
by legal modes. Stokes, on the other
hand, forgetting what he had said at
TulIahoma only q few days before, pro.
nounced for a convention aiming to re-
move restrictions, and said he was a
better suffrage man than Senter. The
crowd became very impatient at this,
and the earnest appeals Of Gov. Senter
himself could induce but few to remain
and hear the General to the end. But
few personalities were INDUCED in by
the candidates. The friends of Gov.
Senter very much regret the unwilling.
ness of the crowd to listen to General
Stokes.