Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-03
THE GIANTS AT TULLAHOMA.
Maynard Makes a Mastery Effsrt.
Andy Makes a Vigorous Defense of
Himself.
Chcathamitcs Noisy anu UncivlI.
Glorious Prospects for RcpublicanEsm In
Tennessee.

Glorious Prospects for RcpublicanIsm In
Tennessee.
TULLAHOMA, Nov. |, 1872.
After spending few days in the rural
districts, beyond the reach of railroads and
| telegraph, the ''giants" made their appear
ance here to-day. sent this evening by
| telegraph, short sketch of the discussion,
| but as the canvass is one of more than or
binary importance, 1 presume the readers
of the CHRONICLE will be interested in a
more extended notice. The audience was
not large, owing, perhaps, to the fact that
speaking had been announced three days
previous and postponed too late to give gen.
eral notice. This county is Gen. Cheat
hams home and he was not present to take
part in the discussion, though, in my judg-
ment, a majority of the voters present,
numbering two hundred perhaps, were his
personal and political friends.
MIR. MAYNARD's SPEECH.
At Il little past twelve, Mr. Maynard
opened the discussion andspoke two hours
His speech was a model for force, high
tone and point, being intersrersed with
sallies of wit which kept the audience in
good humor, and occasional Outbursts of
eloquence which drew his hearers in a
knot around him as close as they could
stand. While defending Grants Admin
istTation and the principles Of the Repub-
lican party with all the vigor of his vigor-
Gus nature, not a word or syllable escaped
his lips calculated to give Offense to the
most fastid ouS He was listened to very
attentively, not being interrupted except
in single instance by Democrat who
comes right up to Mr.. Greeley's standard
of Democracy-tha is "tO love rum and
hate niggers.n He showed his love for
rum in every lineament of his filthy coun-
| tenance and INDUCED in horrid oaths
against the niggers. 1 would bet my bot
tom dollar on him being faithful and eff
| ficient member of the kukluX khan. Mr..
Maynard started out by drawing
A STRIKING PARALLEL
between the policy of the grand old Wing
| party and the Republican party, which
! part OF his speech made the eyes of old
Henry Clay Wings beam with delight
The Wing party had favored tariff,
which the Republican party has put i'll
! force. The currency Of the present day is
the currency advocated by old Wing lead
er5 Democracy had tried to render Clay's
name Odious because he favored bank
luDO lCl y JdSSCo
the law and it was approved by his honor
able and distinguished competitor, ex-
| President Johnson. Now, no one
seriously objected TO it. The policy
which now prevails in connection
with the public lands was favorite Wing
policy. Mr.. johnson had labored long for
a Homestead act, having succeeded in
passing it once, when it was vetoed by
Buchanan and never became a law until
| IO0cca1 law q Rnnn hli00n COnnracc
NOBLE DEFENSE.
His defense of Republican principles
calls forth encomlums, even from extreme
| Democrats. He said it had once been
thought impossible for "Radicaln to be
| honest or "even good looking" and in
vited attention to the person of the speaker
as evidence that the latter proposition at
| least is incorrect. Many mean things had
| been charged against Radicals. 1t was
said that they had set the "niggers" free,
and theh let them vote. The war had
made some men mighty mad and they
were slow to recover good feelings The
time once was, when to be good Radical,
one had to make up his mind to
Smile at Satans rage
And face frowning world"
But there is an Improvement. After
awhile Democrats condescended to shake
hands with him, and now they even go so
far as to say, "hOw's your wife and chill
dren." This political millennium began at
Baltimore on the 18th of July. He here
read flom the Baltimore platform where it
| recognizes the equality of all men before
the law The rum-loving and negro
hating individual above referred to re
sponded, "that means the id negron
The speaker responded, that man had not
heard of the platform before. (Laughter.)
He then alluded briefly to the
81. DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
If every man, woman, and child had
| been given sheet of paper twelve months
ago and told to write the names of all the
possible Democratic candidates for the
| Presidency, not one of them would have
thought of writing Horace Greeley. He
imagined he could see one of the leaders of
the party breaking the news of Greeley's
nomination to some unsophisticated, hon.
est old Democrat, who always voted the
straight ticket, and whose religion con-
sisted in his hatred for abolitionism and
who for convenience he would call "Uncle
Billy. The leader would ride up
well, Uncle Billy, have you heard the
mo, what is it ~
"Oh we had the biggest convention up
here at Baltimore"
y
swell 1 tell you uncle Billy, it was a
grand affair.
"Well, who did they nominate?r
"Doolittle presided and all the big DEM
ocrats were there from all over the coun-
try, and the bands played, and we had a
big time"
ayes, but who is the nOminee?"
"Well-I believe, ah-his name is Gree
ley"
t'What! not Horace Greeley?n
eyes, / believe that is his name"
mot that old abolition newspaper
mans
Ives, [ believe he did once edit an abo-
lition newspaper, but he has got over that
now; besides, you know, anything to beat
Grant"
GRANT AND THE REBELS.
He showed Grants magnaminity to-
wards the rebels-how he paroied them at
NickSbur0 and allowed them tn pO to their