Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-07-13
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The Late Democratic Convention.

TINS city, with these words i'm large letters
a NoN-PARTISAN JUDICIARY WISE
ACTION OF THE CONSERVATIVES En-
DoRSEMENT OF EMINENT LAWYERS WITH
OUT REGARD TO POLITICS ~
In the editorial endorsing the nominees
OF the nOn-pdrtiSdn y convention, the
same paper says "RadicaIism has made
the very name of partisan nomination for
Judicial offices stink iii the nostrils of all
honest men,
An Is that the reason your nominees
Tor Judges smell so badly? Again: "The
gentlemen representing the various coun-
Ties, IN refusing TO nominate a party ticket,
nave acted wisely Let us see if they did
refuse.
Who called that convention? The En-
ecutive Committee of the Democratic par
ty. Who presided over the convention
and were active i'm it? Captain James =
Boyd, late successful Democratic candidate
Tor County Trustee, and an open rebel du-
ring the whole war, was chairman. Be
sides him, among the names of the rebels
who figured actively in the convention, we
find Gen. Vaughn, c. w. Charlton, Major
W. =. Elliott, of Gen. Morgan's staff, p.
Il. Rogers, w. ID. Mckinley, Capt. Jno NJ
Brooks and James II. Cooke. OF Conserv-
ative-Democrats, it is only necessary, to
show the character of the meeting to men
ton the names of Col. John Williams,
Col. Byrd, DIR. Frazier, w. G. Julian, and
others like unto them.
Now, how did these HOR-pdFfiSuRS talk
Mr.. Charlton said according to our report
"he thought delegates had come panoplied
all over for the fight. The proposition of
Col. Byrd meant surrender. He said
fight-fght it out. We challenge our en-
emies to the contest. Let it Gomez
Brave words All know what he meant.
Again w. ID. Mckinley, who wants to
dress Judge Brown up in Chancellor Will
linn1S al tn 10 Il los,
we suppose said, "every man in the Con-
SSe'Udtioe party would support Brown and
Young.u
Again when it was found out i'm the
convention that two of the delegates an
pointed by the honest people of Morgan
county favored Judge Temple for Chancel-
Tor, the uproar i'll the convention swelled
almost into mob violence "Non-pdrti-
san" ha!
But If really non-partisan, why did YOU
not give one of the Judges to the Republi-
can party? Why, Oh! why? Why did
you select two candidates for Judges from
the same party? Why did you not give
one of the positions to either Temple or
Hall? Gentlemen of the late Convention,
do you suppose you can deceive single
man, woman or child in all the country by
this kind of stuff about non-partisan Jul
dietary? We advise you to read the fable
of the partnership between the lion and GER
tain beasts of the field to hunt together.
But who are those ROR-DdrtiSdnS any,
way, that have such holy regard for con-
situations? a part of them, as we have
seen, are the same men who, in 1861, had
such regard for the Constitution of the
United States. All of them are men who,
in the last few months, aided in calling a
Constitutional (so-called) Convention, the
main object of which, as was everywhere
proclaimed, both in and out of the Conven-
tons was to get the control Of the judiciaL
Offices Of the State. Turn them out turn
them out! was the cry from johnson to
Shelby. Make room for the faithful Now,
do those non-partisans propose to divide
with us the Supreme Judges? No, not at
all. On the contrary, they are selecting
party candidates exclusively for the SUI
preme Bench. So of Chancellors and Cir
cult Judges everywhere else. And so here,
if they had the honesty to say so.
This is Il trick, a snare and Il deception.
What is the motive? They know they are
in the minority both in the Chancery Di-
vision and in the Circuit They hope by
the false pretense of non-party candidates
to triumph, by securing Republican votes
1t won't do, gentlemen. You are perfect
ly understood. But they only recommend
don't nominate! Wonderful!
You assemble in convention, organize,
appoint committees, select your men, name
the men for whom to vote for the several
then turn around to your Republican
friends and coolly say: "You have made
the very name of Il partisan nomination
stink in the nOstrils of all honest men,"
Here we do not recommend but name
Brown and Young for the Judicial Offices
now held by Temple and Hall that is to
say, we recommend them we put them
forward we go for them; and as we don't
nominate them, you must 20 for them too.n
How bright this conception Wonderful
genius of whom il was born!
But, say those nOH-DdTiiS0HS did we not
nominate Col. ThOrnburgh, Republican?
Certainly, and you did it first, because you
knew you could not with any material
you had, come within gun-shot of beating
him. All! there's the rub. Secondly, you
We're actuated by sense OF policy, ms well
as a consciousness of weakness. You made
lrCtCHdCd ShOtO of liberalIty, in naming
Col. Thornburg for an office you could not
get any way, hoping that in return for
this wonderful liberality ca, the Republic
cans would aid you i'm electing Brown and
Young for Chancellor and Circuit Judge.
This snare won't do. Republicans under
stand you too well for that. They have
seen the cat i'm the meal tub before.
But, let Mr.. Charlton of the Win, be
heard. Siencel He says at will not
do to claim that the Convention was, real
ly, acting in n pOp-Dor'is09 'eusc. II was
a partisan gdtherbig, and To attempt to
dodge that issue would be pusillanimOus