Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-07-20

| WAS properly MltllOub lLtil
These people have gone to their homes,
and will be for awhile with those that
elected them. We do not envy any OF
them the Joyous, hearty welcome they will
receive. If they can stand ii we can, nor
shall we find fault with the taste that can
place much value on the service they have
done the State. OF this we are certain,
that at the next election, if Republicans
| will do their duty, the wheels of Rebel
| Democratic legislation can be locked. The
requirements of the Constitution are such
/ that a few more Republicans in the House
than was had last term will effectually
prevent the passage of measures not pala-
table TO those who love decency and lib
erty.
Let us hope these facts may induce the
people of the State To save us from another
body like that which will try again in De-
cember to inflict upon them more of their
peculiar talent for legislation DAMON,
NASHVILLE, TENN, July II, 1870.
The thing is done. The great Democrat
ic ticket is made. The future Supreme
Judges of the State have been selected, and
we may now conclude that the State is
safe, for at least the term of the nominees
under the ncU Constitution. The long
agony that for months past has agitated
the ambitious legal minds of the State is
now over, and the successful candidates
breathe easy, while those who didn't get
nominated can take breath, spit on their
hands and get ready for a new deal.
The Convention was numerous and re-
spectacle. How could it be otherwise,
when nearly the whole bar of the state
was present, with their best clothes, and
smaTtest speeches best conned. The or
ganiZation of the Convention was compile
ted without much trouble. Colyar, of
Nashville, being temporary chairman, who
being possessed of a small voice, managed
to get a committee on credentials, organi-
cation, &C., which, after a short interval,
come back and presented plan for the
Convention, which insured the success of
one side and the defeat of the other. We
shall not attempt to specify what particu-
lar interest was thus summarily disposed
of, for it is not pertinent to this report suf-
flee to say, that East Tennessee came into
the Convention with but three candidates,
and two of them were strongly in advance
of everybody. AS for Middle Tennessee,
there was a variety of candidates, all about
equal in strength prior TO the ballot. Ew-
ing was the strongest man and would have
been nominated had he refrained from go
ing into the papers, denouncing conven-
tions and especially packed bodies. Then
in very bad taste and worse sense, he per-
mitted his name TO go before the Conven-
ton, pledged to abide its action, and as a
consequence, ne Is SlduRnItItu Oul vi tic
race with no chance to get in. 1t is no
credit to this gentleman as a shrewd
manager, to permit himself to be thus
shelved, after putting himself in direct
antagonism to Conventions. The Ewing
clique were pretty strong at the opening of
the business, but when Davidson conferred
with the Southern counties of the middle
division, it was found that Ewing must be
dropped for man of more availability,
tn-xuit ptlrnaNr xyhn thnnnh mot
ing one-half the legal ability of Cooper or
Ewi ing, was the first man to raise u regi-
ment in Tennessee for the Confederate
cause, and who in his anxiety to get out
of the United States and into the Confede-
racy, wanted to set off several counties and
attach them to Alabama.
Ewing was sacrificed to the spirit that
will not lose sight of the lost cause.o
There were several other candidates from
Middle Tennessee, but only Nicholson had
the slightest chance. He, it was conceded,
was certain TO be nominated, though it was
gravely limited that the l4th Amendment
might give him serious trouble, or prevent
him from serving at all.
We must not fail to notice the presiding
officer, (Whitthorne, IA gentleman fully up
to his work and trif1e more. The way he
managed the thing was admirable. If a
| resolution was offered that did not suit him,
it was "out of order" but when one was
offered that was up TO his notion, it was
simply "a division of the main question,
and would be entertained by the chair "
| We admired that man we did more-we
mentally resolved to watch him and make
him our model, for we can't tell how soon
we may be presiding where it will perhaps
be to our interest to keep out one resolution
and let another in. The ingenuity and
experience displayed by this model chair
man was, to US, treat that we enjoyed
| much.
An attempt was made by very young
man from Shelby to put through a resolu-
ton providing for Democratic State Gen.
trail Committee who were to insure concert
of action, and look after things generally
in all elections for several years to come. II
proposed TO let the chair appoint five from
each of the State divisions, and gave the
committee, when appointed, full powers
as conventions, and all that sort of thing
1t was pushed in just before adjournment
in the hope that, in the confusion, it would
get safely through, but it met an ignomini
ou5 death. A sharp young lawyer from
| East Tennessee saw the point in the thing
that it put the whole party in the hands
of the chairman of that convention. He
moved to lay the "weak invention of the
enemy" on the table, and it went out o
sight instanter. They made short work o
it.
The convention, as a whole, was intelli
gent and able. We do not remember L
have seen in the State more capable body
of men congregated. They We're a credit
to those who sent them, and when we re