Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-10-30
THE RArTERING Ram DISTRICT.
The Little Attorney General'' Afte,
Caldwell.
Garrett Makes IA Proposition that CaId.
well Rejects.

well Rejects,
Special Correspondence oftho Chronicle,
CooKvILLE, PUTNAM COUNTY,
Oct 81, 1872.
The candidates for Congress in the Bat
tering Ram District arrived here yester-
day evening and spoke ut II A, NJ, to-day,
to quite a respectable sized and very intel
ligent crowd.
CALDWELL
opened the discussion. His style was that
of aSophmore speaking and attempting to
decaim his little memorized piece it was
the same / heard him make at Livingston,
Gainesboro', Carthage and elsewhere the
same "old tune the COW dedIon."
He arraigns the Republican party for the
internal revenue laws taxing whisky
makes broad charges of fraud in the finan-
cial management of the government and
has but one remedy for all the evils that he
complains of, viz One term. He is de-
cidedly in favor of taking the duty off of
pig iron, which morsel will, of course, be
n delicate dose for your iron manufacturers
to swallow in East Tennessee.
COL. THoRNBURGH
followed and made complete dissection
of Caldwell, and his remarks. He eXplod-
ed the revenue laws bubble by showing
that in the House "a Democrats voted for
the bill and only II against it, while IS
Republicans voted for and A against it..
In the Senate every Democrat voted for it
and 3, all Republicans, voted against it.
(This was a clincher.) Mr.. Caldwell's
countenance showed much surprise in its
peculiar by blaEd and boyish expression.
He eulogized Grant and in defending his
administration, proved beyond doubt or
peradventure that it had been q brilliant
success.
He then enlightened the people on Mr.
Caldwell's record Charged and proved
that he shirked the war and not six
months since tried to break up the party
whose standard he now claims to bear.
He handled him without gloves and in a
scientific style.
He showed the Democrats to their very
great disgust, the causes and effect of the
Democratic split, etc. When he told
them the effect that the two hundred thou
sand Huntington speeches, which were
printed in Philadelphia and sent all over
Pennsylvania to show the present feeling
of the Tennessee Democracy had, | heard
some prominent Democratic lawyers who
had come from Gainesboro' to hear the
speaking, send curses to heaven that they
had such a set of fools in their ranks who
were leading the people by the nose, and
such plain and undeniable statement
of facts that his remarks were attentively
heard and he was loudly applauded.
Col. Thornburgh, by courteous manners
| and truthful frankness and statements of
facts only, has made host of friends on
this side of the mountains. / have heard
prominent Democrats here and at other
points in the canvass say they intended to
cast their votes for Thornburgh, because
what he has been he is now, while Mr.
CaldwelPs checquered career is too well
| known to all.
GARRETT
spoke last He alluded to conventions
touching on the one at Sparta in particu.
Unclaimed that they praticed a fraud on
the Democracy and people in nominating
Caldwell. He has tried to get Caldwell tC
take the vote in every crowd where they
speak, making the proposition that the
'oedkeSt man shall withdrawlfrom the race
but Az can't see IL.
He claims to have performed great won
ders for the people.
He, too has the same brainless charges
against the Administration, and thinks
all our country's woes would be healed by
his election. LUD.