Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-31

man a ''fraud?' Why, sir. all tn
charges of fraud in the world canno
change the actual result of the eIec
ton. In the Calfkiller district, wher
Stokes fought his only battle durini
the war, and got whipped at that, h
didn't get single vote. He wa
beaten i'm his own county, in his owl
Senatorial district, in his own Con
! gressiOnal district, in fact, beaten il
/ every Congressional district. In hi
own district Brooks, the 'restrictive'
candidate, got $50 votes less thai
Thornberg, the Radical candidate. il
1867. Can Stokes charge that to tn,
1 registration decision which admitted
50 many additional votes?
HE DEFENDS BRow'NLow AS A
STRAIGHT OUT REPUBLICAN AMI
THE YOUNGEST MAN OF HIS AGE.
RepOrter-What do you think. Gov.
ern0r, about what the restrictive u
party say concerning GOV. Brownlow,
about his having made political
SOmersault?
Political sOmersault? l tell
you Mr.. BrOwnlow is to-day as strong.
as ardent and as unflinching Repub-
lican as he ever was. In what has he
changed? He is an enthusiastic Grant
and Administration man, and that's
just what / am myself. Somersault,
indeed! Why BrOwnlow is the young
est man of his age-if / may be per-
mitted a seeming paradOX--in the
United States. He is true progress
i've Republican. Probably you re-
member the tact that he intimated in
his message 10 the Legislature in 1867
that the time wOuld come when the
franchise would to have to be extend
ed--tlat is, when it would be cOnsid-
cred safe to trust the State in the
hands Of men who had been connected
with the rebelliOn-when, in fact, they
had become loyal. At the late elec-
ton he felt that that time had come,
and he advocated the extension OF the
franchise. WIS that making a polit-
ical somersault? Stokes alleges that
one OF BrOwnlow's reasons for "going
over to our side was that he had
three sons in State positions, well sal
aried, and he didn't want them to lose
their places. The fact Is, he has only
one son in the said service of the State
and that sou was given his position at
my urgent demands, simply because
he had worked so hard for the ReDuh-
lican party in the State without re-
ward that l thought he ought to get
He DEFENDS TliEWHITE PEOPLE AND
SAYS THEY WILL DO WHAT Is
RIGHT.
Reporter-DO you think that the
new Legislature will disfranchise the |
negroes?
Senter-It will not even touch upon |
that subject. 1t will do nothing that |
The Republican party can call revolu-
-i0nary; nor viii ii DO a6eht that will |
njure the vital interests of the State |
A. they at present exist. The white |
people feel kindly toward the negroes,
md Stokes did not speak truly when |
ne said that they were beginning to |
prosecute the blacks as Of old. AS for /
his talking about having the election
luilitied by the Federal Government,
hat Is all buncOmbe. The election is
| fixed fact. IT was as fair one as
.Ver was held in any State, and the
general government would have no
more right to nullify it than it would
o nullity an election in Massachusetts,.
The restrictiVeSQ charge that since
he election outfages and murders by
rebels" have become frequent, which
5 another falsehOOd. But two men
lave been killed in the State since the
lection, and they We're men who Vot-
'd for me, and they were killed while
about politics by Stokes
men, one of the murdererS having
'een at one time an officer in his regi-
nent.
'HE SENATORIAL AND FINANCIAL
QUESTIONS.
RepOrter-What about the Senate
ial question? DO you think Andrew
OhnsOn will Wino
Senter-That question is rather mix
d, 50 cannot say anything positive
bout il.
Reporter-And that question of the
repudiation of the new
tate bonds?
Senter-All ! can say about that is.
hat that bond question isyet unsettled. |
he question of Reputation never
anne up in the election campaign and
'as never brOached by either partyi
ut | knoW that there are men in va
ous parts ofthe State who WELD very
reat influence among the people and
Tho are advocating the repudiation of
ne new bonds,
Our reporter al this point felt salts
ed that he had sufficiently taxed the (
overnOr's patience, at the same time
lat he had exhausted his stock of
Ieries, and so bid the party good
ight.