Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-08-14
AN ISSUE FOR rENNEssEEANs.

We trust our friends throughout the
State will remember that we have in issue
before the people in this canvass not only
the record of the National Democratic or
ganization, but also that of Governor
Browns State Administration. We trust
they will remember that in November we
not only choose members of Congress, but
also members of our State Legislature. We
want to make the issue between Brown
and his Legislature and the people, as
sharp and plain as possible. We know
very well that most of the Democratic press
ofthe State have been so mixed up with the
frauds and infamies of the state admins
tration that they will as far as possible
sink State issues in the great National con-
test engrossing public attention. We will
meet them fairly upon the issues present
cd in the latter and we are determined
they shall not dodge the former.
VIII the people overlook the gross cor
ruptions and Vindictive legislation of the
Brown administration Going back to
the organization of the last Assembly will
the Union people of East Tennessee forget
how, when Vaughn and Sewer contested
for the Speakership of the Senate,
the latter though in every respect
the best qualified for the position, was de-
feated by Gen. Vaughn, solely because Sc
vier had been a Union man? Following
up the record of the Legislature the peo-
pie well remember how, when Baxter as
sailed the Nashville papers for defrauding
the public treasury in the public printing
contracts, and 21TOred it concIatSjUely upon
them, they were Whitewashed by a parti-
san Assembly. The people will also re-
member how Thornburg, the most vigor-
Gus and faithful Attorney General Knox
county ever had, was legislated out
of office without an excuse or
reason, at the demand of the
Knoxville ring to make a place for the
editor of the Greeley organ of this city. An
honest public well remember that parti-
san Legislature, to crafty the hatred
and ambition of disappointed politicians
so gerrymandered our Congressional dis
trict as to make it two hundred and fifty
miles long and some fifteen thousand
more population than the quota the law de-
manded, 40 as to legislate out of office an
able, faithful Representative whom they
ddredhot meet on his merits. The fair
minded, non-partisan citizens know
that the legislation by which a partisan
majority in the assembly deliberately in
vaded the courts of justice to outrage every
principle of equity and of morals, by legis-
lating in favor of a corrupt libelous ring OF
newspapers and against private citizen
pursuing his legal remedies in the form and
manner prescribed by law, was a most un-
just, infamous and unconstitutional pro-
proceeding, subversive of the
rights of honest citizens and
most demoralizing and dangerous in its
tendencies. The people of Tennessee,
interested more in the growth of the State
and in a just and honest administration OF
public affairs, than in the success of cor
rupt and intolerant political organization,
viii see that in the coming elections the
mark of their condemnation of this unwor-
thy State Administration is in some way
expressed. We-trust honest citizens will
find some way to unite and wage
war upon this miserable combination. We
trust the people, by judicious nominations
for the Legislature, will see that Tennes-
see is not again cursed with such an in
capable and dishonest Assembly as lastyear
ruled over them, and above all, that they
shall have Chief Executive at Nashville
capable of rising above the dictation of a
clique and of being the.guardian of the in
terests of the whole people rather than the
tool of newspaper and railroad ring.