Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-10-12
THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Col. CARROTS Platform and Principles
The Resolution Programme.
McMINNvILLE, TENN Oct. 4,

MCMINNvILLE, Tenn, Oct. -
Editors Chronicle:
GENTLEMEN-Col Garrett, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congrass. was to-day
delivered of one of his rice wdter dis
charges in this town. He had not exceed
ing two hundred hearers, many of whom
were Republicansthere, IA Dickens would
say, TO "laugh and grow fat" There was
no Observation-Disclosures thoroughly
Disguised with their candidate. The great
er portion of his speech was in reference
to his acts in the Legislature in 1865 Poor
man-says he was forced into the Lcgisla-
ture against his will by his friends of all
parties, when the truth is, he was in the
Convention and had his name put on the
general ticket for fear that his old soldiers
with whom he was very unpopular) would
vote for some one else That is the way
Garrett got into the Legislature.
He says the public debt is S25, GOO 600,
but can show that SIS, 900 600 of II Is fraud
ulent, and should not be paid in other
words, that he would repudiate that
amount of the debt.
presume he knows his position on IL
nancial matters, but | am sure that not
one of his hearers does. After labored eff
fort on his part to make it known, I don't
know that he should be held responsible
for his failure. If he were furnished with
| a statement of the debt in round numbers,
he could not enumcrate 1t.
He stated there had been twenty-five
million, one hundred billion dollars issued
! in bonds. The sentence is his own, and
he made no ottempt to correct it. He read
| the sovereignty clause of the Democratic
! platform, and said if there was any seces-
! sion in that, that he was IA secessionists,
! which only proves Capt. Duftey'S state
ment, "that Garrett wore the blue on the
outside and the grey in his heart Said the
| States were independent and sovereign.
| He promised his hearers that if elected he
would exert his entire influence to restore
the Constitution and make il just what il
was before the war; or in other words, the
| 18th 14th and 18th Amendments are TO bo
obliterated.
He acknowledged his INABILITY to credi-
tdbly fill seat in Congress, but promised
to ferret out all stealings, and said lac could
do il more successfully than any man in
the United States. No doubt he believes
the old adage, that it takes rogue tc
catch rogue"
REVOLUTION.
He would up by saying that the Demo
cracywerc tired of being refused their seat,
in Congress, and if they should be refused
their seats in the Forty-Second Congress
that reuoiutiop would surely follow. H,
proclaimed that in such n contingency tn,
Democrats, North and South, would unit
and hurl the Republican party from pow
! CT. 10 SUM IL up III Il nut smell, lue Demo
cracy are again determined TO Idle in thu
last ditch or get control of the govern
ment.
/ predict they will die in the last ditcl
two or three times yet before they gail
their desires.
Carrot pretended that he could not dt
the cause justice unless he had an oppo
nent, and said he was sorry his opponen
was not with him, when, in truth, he wa
continually looking out of the window OF
the North side of the Courthouse, n
though he saw land no doubt he imagined
he did see) the Bald Eagle soaring aloft
and was fearful he would pounce upoI
him and his followers.
We have Convention on Thursday anC
will, undoubtedly, nominate Gen. Stokes
who as soon as able, will not leave
creased spot of Garrett.
If your East Tennessee Conservative
and old Wings could hear CARROTS propo
sitions to rebel under certain circumstan
ces, they would more fully understand tn,
meaning of the Democratic platform adopt
ed at Nashville, and why the Greenevill
resolutions were ignored MORE ANON.