Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-03
POLITICAL LOVE FEAST.
Enthusiastic AssembIage of KNOX county
Republicans.
Rejoicing over the yietory-speeches.! dc,

received by the friends of the Republican TICK
ct that the only Office which was. considered at
all doubtful-that of Attorney General-had
been carried by the Republicans of our gallant
old county, electing Mr.. Ray by twenty-iour
votes. This was as gratifying to his irienuS AZ
it was source of chagrin to the supporters OF
his opponent who thought and not unreasona-
bly,, that they had elected one man on their
ticket.
But it was not to he-the wrong column OF
ioures had been added to Williams column,
.rd bo,oo tho result. Early in the morning the
neorIe from the country. began to arrive in
town. anxious to hear the news, and by noon
fbev had swelled till they numbered hundreds
and it was determed to have
GRAND JoLLIFICATIoN.
1T tbe court house at 3 P. NJ. Accordingly at
the appointed hour that building was crowded
In its utmost capacity, all intent on hearing the
latest news and addresses from their favorite
speakers
speaker. After brief allusion to the election
lust closed, he urged upon Republicans to or,
ranize for the November campaign: 1t had
been said by the opposition that the !" little Or
ran y under the management OF the little
mogul," VIM. Rule, had gotten the party INTO
II squabble and they were urged to repudiate
the counsels of those blind guides As for HIM
saIf he was satisfied with the result, and if we
had gained such q majority by bad manage
ment the Democrats would be so badIy dehlor-
allied by the Presidential election as 10 pc
scarcely able to recover.
twas always safe to go contrary to the ad
vice of an enemy and it would be hard to MAKE
the Republicans of Knox county douoI INC
Judgment of their sentinels on the. watchtoWeT,
with the result of the present glorious triumph
now before us In the dark days OF the past
when misfortune and defeat shrouded the BAN
ncrs of the armies of the Union and confidence
in our leaders was sorely shaken, Gen. Grant
was taken from obscrity and placed over our
forces in the West. He was as yet, unknown 70
fame and untried in chief command. lie had
served as a subordinate officer in the war with
Mexico, but that was ALL Tracing his vlctorl-
Gus course from his first assumption OF supreme
command ard the glorious memories connected
with Fort DOnelsOn, Plttsburg Landing ana
Nicksburg to the battle above the clouds, where
the cohorts of the rebellion made their most de.
termined resistance and thence to the com
mand-in-chief of all the armies TO the glorious
contamination Of our hopes under the apple tree
of AppOmattox he said that Gen. Grant fitness
for leadership had been demonstrated by each
successive step in the round OF promotion until
he had been chosen Chief Magistrate of the ma
ton. He had been in Office four years and had
proven himself the best fitted for the position
and in November next and then weEIll say to
him for the second time, well done. good and
faithful servant"
SPEECH OF MR.. RAY.
Mr. Ray, the newly elected Attorney Gener-
a. was called for. His course had been like
Jordan's highway hard road to travel -
every imaginable epithet of opprobrium bad been
cast upon him-he was charged with desertion
from the army and with having been dishonor-
ably discharged. When he heard these asper-
sions he felt SMALL but now, since the result had
demonstrated that he had beaten the aristocracy
and the money of the Democracy he felt rather
larger. On yesterday his opponents had ar
ranged a programme for the trip OF defeated
Republicans up the briny stream. BLANC,
Bearden and himself were TO be oarsmOn and
Capt Harris was to command, but while they
were fixing this he had taken boat to the quar-
~, brought down forty-siX freemen and they
had voted the straight ticket, which was sutfl-
Gent to elect him. (The speaker was interrupt
ed by Democrat in the crowd, who growled
with an oath, You were not elected by white
meus votes.'D After thanking the audience
for the compliment rendered him, he took his
seat.
SHERIFF GoSSETT
Appeared in response to loud calls, and return.
ed thanks for confidence in his course, as dem
Onstrated in his reelection. In regard to the
race for County Court Clerk, be attributed Mr..
Bang's heavy majority to the fact that his OPP
ponent Mr.. Yarnell, had also been Union
soldier, as we'll as BLANC, and between two of
the same uniform, they they had rather vote for
n straight out Republican, He believed that If
an ex-rebel soldier had run, Mr.. Blangs major
ity would not have been half so great. 1t was
time that these who had been Union men were
learning who were their best friends.
HoUK ON NEPoTIsM.
Judge Houk opened by abiding to Sumner s
letter. which the Democrats paraded as a proof
Cf his and their fondness for the colored people.
But they couldn't be misled. The love of the
opposition for the negro was well known.and
they had just witnessed an illustration of it in
The slurring remark of Democrat present who
charged that one of the Republican candidates
had not been elected by white votes" The
sneaker then exposed the duplicity of the
Democrats in their charge of nepotism against
the President.
He had often said that the Democracy do
not oppose President Grant because Of diff
fsrences in political principles. The Democratic
marty has not only adopted what they tell US
themselves is q Republican platform, but have
uIaccd on that platform Presidential eandi-
dato whom they assert to have been a genuine
Republican. and still such. He admitted that Mr..
Greeley was an original aboltiOnist That par
tv has swallowed our platform: and stolen
candidate from our party, thus acknowledging
that their opposition to Gen. Grant does rot
grow out of principles, What, then, causes their
opposition, bitter and malignant as 1t and has
been? Do the Democrats complain or dare
charge Gen. Grant with malfeasance, or MIS-
feasance? Do they complain at his hnancal
polcy? Not all Do they grumble because
debt forced on the country by the Democratic
party? Not word oft. Do they charge him
with higher taxation than before he came in
No they can't do that. Can they successfully
assail his foreign polity They can not. What
then, are their accusations againsthim They
say he goes to his cottage by the sea, but fail
+, show who it hurts, if anybody.
They charge him with taking presents Well
is it not better to take them, as he is charged
with doing, than to take things like the Demo-
crats took the school fund, and the railroads of
the Statistical them, that is take them by main
free? What else do they charge him with
Why it is said that he appoints his kinsfolk to
Office. To hear Democrats talk one would be
tions were like the locusts of Egypt. Gen'l.
Grant has 81, 200 offices at hisldisposal Now,
how many out Of all this number, do you sup
pose are filled by the relations of Gen'l Grant
WHY. the large number of nine positions under
this Administration have been held by persons
related to the President, or to somebody some
how related TO him or his wife, either by consan-
,,;,+,, ar affinity and two of these he found