Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-01
GRANT AND WILSON RALLY4 ON
.4 MARKET SQUARE. t--
A Fine Crowd, I'm Good Spirits, with
Good Speeches.
" Grant and Wilson the Peoples Choice .
The Heroes of Emancipation


Tie city was more than usually excited yes
to-day by the rival friends of the two parties
over the proposed meetings for Grant and Will
son and Greeley and Brown
The supporters of Grant and Wilson held a
meeting on Market Square, which was attended
by large number of voters all in good spirits
and anticipating confidently the election of to-
day.
About eight o'clock, the Mechanics Cornet
Band made their appearance upon the Square.
They began the evenings programme by play
ing " Hail Columbia" which was received with
a round of applause. Fire works and bontires
about the same time greeted the arrival of Il
large delegation of colored voters headed by
the coored band. Several patriotic airs were
played By the Mechanics Band under Mr.. NJ
A Williams, the leader, from the stand which
was appropriately decorated with American
| flags On each side of the stand was trans
parancy one "Grant and Wilson, the Heroes of
Emancipation" the other Grant and Will
son, the Peoples Choice"
| THE ORGANIZATION.
The meeting was organized about eight
| o'clock, by Mr.. VIM. Rule. Chairman Of the
County Executive Committee, who nominated
David Richards, Esq, as Chairman. Mr..
Richards was enthusiastically received, and in
his usual happy style addressed the meeting in
a few appropriate words. He said it had been
| reported that he was Greeley man. lie said
he was for Greeley so long as Greeley was
right, but he was not for Greeley now that he
was wrong. He believed the Government
would be better administered under Republ-
can administration than under such a condition
as that now proposed by Greeley and his as
sociates. He did not propose to take an active
part in politics. He came to Tennessee to help
build it up, but he believed this was an occas-
ion when all good citizens should take their
stand and let their position be known. He
honestly held his views of the political situation
and believed others honestly differed with him.
He then introduced to the audience
HON HORACE MAYNARD.
When Mr.. Maynard's familiar countenance
was seen he was greeted with cheers and cries of
that's the man." lets hear from Maynard"
His speech was imprisoned, able and addressed
to the reason and intelligence of his audience.
He entered into brief history of the causes
that brought about the war, and of the legisla-
ton of Congress comforting political rights upon
the colored race and giving them protection
against the violence of the kuklux. He refer
red to the record of the Republican party as
friends of the coored race He said Horace
Greeley had had but little experience in public
life and he did not believe him fitted for the
high position he aspred to.
After Mr.. Maynard concluded, the Mechan-
les Cornet Band performed piece of music.
HON. L. G.. HoUK.
As soon as the music ended, loud call were
made for 'Houlr,v "Houk." The Judge re-
sponded in his usual effective style, Ho re-
marked that we were there assembled for the
purpose of preparing for giving the Democracy
decent burial on tomorrow He said the
good people of Knox county proposed to-mor-
row to give the Democracy decent burial. it
had been dead for some time, and now. we pro,
pose to bury it face down, knowing full we'll
that it would dig itself down into deeper
grave. Our present city government said
Judge Houk, was a pure Democratic machine.
The streets had been flooded with circulars
in the shape of an extra issued from the office
of the Greeley organ. This circular was in the
interest," professedly, of the Colored man. Now, |
the question occurs is this sympathy genu
inc? The cOlOred man ought to remember how
this city government treated the colored race
in the matter of the charges preferred against
policeman Badgett, who was charged with cru
ely beating a crazy colored man, for which he |
now stands indicted in the Criminal Court of
this county. What did the Democratic city |
government do? Instead of Furnishing Bad |
gett they promoted him. Are these the
profess sympathy for the colored race? He |
then referred to the murder of Leach, in Ander- |
son county, where he was shot down almost in |
the presence of a Democratic Sheriff, who had |
yet failed to arrest him.
He then commented on the efforts to impose |
upon the colored men by putting into their |
hands regular Democratic tickets representing |
them to be Republican tickets. He also referred |
to the views or the Greeley organ on the color |
ed vote after the November election in 1870 and |
given in another column.
At this point heavy rain came up which |
caused tire crowd to dispense.
THE TWO MEETINGS.
As far as we were able to judge, there was not |
much difference in the size of the two meetings.
There were unqueStionably larger number of
rioters about the Grant and Wilson stand on
Market Square listening to the speeches There
were quite number of persons looking on at
the Greeley meeting from the sidewalk on Gay
street. but not so many about the stand as at the
Grant meeting. When We were there our friend
Will Henderson was begging the crowd to come
down from the sidewalk and hear him talk:
He said he wouldn't hurt their feelings any if
they would come down. he just wanted to tell
them q few stories. He tried to draw some of
the Republicans down by congratulating all
hands on the accession to the Greeley column of
the BALD Eagle of the Mountains" Ger. w. I
B. Stokes.
Henderson was put forward to tell Jokes, get
up a veil and draw.a big crowd. When we saw
him he had told him last storyand still hadn'
succeeded in making any impression on the
Grant crowd.
There are about sixteen hundred voters in
Knoxville. Most of them were out at some
time in the evening and were pretty equally di-
vided between the two crowds. At the last
Greeley meeting the organ had the
crowd estimated at toar thousand, That
would have included erery Uoter IN Kiaor-
riLIe, and tcenty.tou, hundred from the coun-
try. The meeting last night, according to our
judgment, was larger than the one at the Court
House, but did not number over half the voters
of the city. This thing of estimating political
seems to be business with them.
They always manage to get at their. meetings
more voters than ever vote their ticket.
Their object in holding a meeting last night
was unquestionably to break up if possible the
Grant meeting. To do this they invested largely
in fire works, boniires and ''enthusasm," but so.
Tar as their object went they certainly failed at
ter extraordinary exertionS. We propose to
snow tomorrow morning how badly they failed
county.
LE,L tJIE
The Opposition
held counter meeting at the base ball grounds,
ana SO Lar as sky-rockets fire balls and music
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