Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-05-11
THE ELECTION FOR COUNTY TRUSTEE

THE ELECTION FOR COUNTY TRUSTEE
If we have said but little concerning the
election for County Trustee, ON Saturday
next ii is not because we think it of little
Importance. On the contrary, we regard
1t as a very important election, and urge
our friends, one and ALL in city and coun-
try, to do all they can to secure a full vote.
If our friends will but turn out we haveno
fears as to the results.
The election we deem important, not so
much because of the character of the office
as because the Democracy are quietly, but
efficiently, making great efforts to elect
their candidate. Just after the March
election, they effected what they were
pleased to call reorganization of their
party, and have ever since been perfecting
that organization, and are now working
determinedly through it. They are making
this race test of the strength of their par
ty in the county, and if they succeed in
electing Mr.. Boyd as Trustee, we shall not
soon hear the last of it. This election,
coming, as it does, close upon the Judicial
election of the 4th of August, will have
some effect upon it, and we therefore feel
deep interest in the result We cannot af-
ford now to give up without a struggle tho
prestige of our splendid triumph last
March. We now hold the county by a
certain majority, and we must not, by apa-
thy or carelessness, allow the majority to
pass to the Democracy.
To the Union men of Knox county,
who have heretofore acted with the Con-
servative party, we have word to say.
We stood together through the dark days
of the war, when the bulk of the present De-
mocratic party,of this county prosecuted us
and our families. We ought to be together
again now, fighting shoulder to shoulder
in the same cause. If there have been
honest differences between us for the past
two years, there need be none now. We
have the same spirit of bitter hostility to
the Union people of East Tennessee, and
the cause for which they battled, to fight
now that we fought in 1861. We do not
mean to say that our enemies have the
same object in view now that they had
then, but we do mean to say that they
have no more love now for the brave Union
people of Knox county than they had in
1861. They have nothing in common with
you now. They have not forgotten your
heroic devotion to your government when
they were battling against it, and they
have not forgotten either that it was in "A
great measure because of your devotion to
the Union that they were defeated and hui
INFLATED. They have no use for you but
to secure your aid in selecting their friends
to Office The result of the last March
election shows it. Who supported the
Union men who were candidates for office
in that election? Where did the vote for
David Nelson for Trustee come from?
Was not Squire Nelson as competent and
worthy man for the place az could have
been found in the county? Where did
the vote for ]. J. Crawford for Circuit Court
Clerk come from? Was not he likewise a
good and efficient man for the position he
sought? Where did the votes for Collier
or Summers come from? We invite the
attention of our Union friends to these
things, and ask them why there should
any longer be a division among the true
Union men of our county.
II. l.. w. Mynatt, our candidate for
Trustee, is an honest, capable, good man,
and we earnestly urge our friends to see
that he gets every Republican vote in the
county. He has filled the Office for the
past two years to the satisfaction of the
public, and not word can be said against
him. The Democratic press ask the people
of Knox county to "rebuke the author of
the forged letter" by defeating Mynatt
Now, If there is a man in the county who
pretends that Mr.. Mynatt wrote any letter,
or resorted to any tricks to defeat any one,
let him make the charge. We say he did
not. We have only to add to our Repub-
lican friends-tocrk, and We wW succeed!
ORGANIZE