The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-10
SANDY AMONG The ANNALS
The Ex-President's Congressional
Campaign. and the Big Row it Has
Raised--A Radical Chance Lost.
From the Courter-Journal.l
NASHVILLE, September

All interest here is centered in the
Johnson -Cheatham campaign. Little
else in political way is thought of or
talked about or speculated upon or
made the subject OF bets. Grant and
Greeley are lost sight Of in the uproar
about Johnson's candidacy against the
regular nominee" and the Greeley
party is 30 split open about it and in
each wing SO violently for or against
Andy that they would sink the venera-
BILE Horace and
| GIVE THE STATE TO GRANT
in order to land their favorite ia Con-
gress from the State at large. This will
not surprise those who understand the
political situation here. As between
Greely and Grant, to Tennessee there is
no occasion for violent feelings either
way. The Democrats will vote for
Greeley because he is the Baltimore
nominee and a better man than Grant,
and the Radicals will vote tor Grant
because he is the party candidate.
There is no great amount Of enthusiasm
upon either side. The Grant men con-
cede the State to Greeley, and the Gree
ley men know they will get it: 80 there
is not much to make fuss about. In.
deed. the Presidential campaign in
Tennessee has been
DULL FROM THE FIRST.
The meetings Of the respective parties
have not been miracles in size and en-
thusiasm. 1t could not be otherwise,
when the November result is to be read
in everybody's lace. Such was the
condition OF the Presidential campaign
when Andrew johnson came down
from his mountain home and began
stirring up the animals. 1t was known
that he aspired to a seat in Congress
from the State at large, and when Mr..
Cheatham convention nominated Mr..
Cheatham, and johnson announced
himself as an independent candidate,
there was a commotion broader and
deeper than anything the ridiculously
one.sided Presidential contest had
brought out. Since the mammoth
demonstration on the public square in
favor of A. j., and his announcement
of his intention to stump the State,
there has been no more dullness in
Tennessee politics. The campaign has
become
| so DECIDEDLY LIVELY
that our old friends Greeley and Grant
hardly have a passing notice. There
are now three parties in the State, the
johnson party, the Cheatham party and
the Radical party. The fight will be q
three-cornered one, with the chances
very much in Johnson's favor. The ac-
ton of the Radical State Convention
last Wednesday has not been as oil on
the troubled waters. Rather has 1t
been as fierce northeaster upon sea
already lashed to fury and foam by con.
trary winds. The Radicals had
GREAT OPPORTUNITY
to have made something TO themselves
out OF the split in the enemys ranks,
but, with their usual stupidity and stub
bornness, thev neglected to take advan-
tage of it. Had they possessed as much
craftsmanship in their councils as is
ordinarily found in board Of common
school directors or bench OF justices
OF the peace, they would have made no
nominations, but left the enemy free to
tear themselves to pieces at will. By
doing this they could have gained at
least a dozen members of the Legisla>
ture, three or four Congressman and re-
duced Greeley's majority to less than
twenty thousand. They would have
been in condition to have "swapped
votes" with the two wings OF the dis
trsc,ed Democrats, and thus secured
large advantages. In some sections OF
the State the johnson campaign is a.
ready 50 hot that his friends and the
friends OF Cheatham will agree to bar
gain awav two Greeley votes 10 get one
for their favorites. But the Radicals
were too stupid to take advantage OF
this by keeping out of the field, and
have nominated full ticket 80 as to
make clustering fight and have the
satisfaction OF being defeated by
FIFTY THOUSAND VOTES
in November. No doubt they will feel
better when they contemplate .helr folly
from November standpoint. The
ticket they put in the field is, in some
respects, q strong one. But by no pos
sibility could they have selected ticket
that will be beaten by less than forty
thousand votes. They have from that
number up to seventy thousand to play
upon. That is their margin.
THE RADICAL TICKET
A. A. Freeman for Governor, Horace
MAYNARD for Congressman-at-large, and
Alvin Hawkins for State Elector, is .
strong ticket in the abstract, but over
whelming defeat awaits 1t, strong as II
is. 1t ought to sustain crushing de-
feat: indeed, it would be better Tor the
Radicals themselves that it should. for
in no other way can they learn any
thing. And now, the enemies johnson
upon the right and upon the left, en-
bracipg the Cheathsm party and the
Radical party, will turn loose upon that
man
yoLLEYs OF CAMPAIGN AMMUNITION
never before witnessed in Tennessee.
He is making the battle against power
full odds-agaiust two nominees OF two
conventions-but he is equal to the
task. When informed OF Maynard
nomination be did not seem in the least
cast down, but said, Very we'll; now
shall 90 to work. l will speak ever!
day possible between now and the
election; let them
BRING ON THEIR TRAINED PACKS.
Tomorrow he speaks at Columbia
1t ia not likely that MAYNARD viii
"come to time 80 soon. Cheathan
and his friends are taking field notes.
WArsoy.