The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-09-19
The Grepnyille Sentinel.

cutting mt us appeared in the last week
Issue of the Greemyillr .S.niipel:
Tie Swsetwatsr E1!rrpriy: says It Eas taken
its hearing" and is fer Ghcatns.n. Il then
boasts that sons Of the Fast Tsnnc8, &c = prrs
have raised the T. ne OF Johnson but tha Syn
TiSEL aEd the tirC"n7tilc Reporter IT thu sc
tvo Journals had acted upon tn, majority rim
cipic NJ did the Enterprise, they would not have
been ~fayoring NJ. johnson. But they dare
have opinions Of tiieir own, and dare maintain
III m, lut the Enterprise waits to BEE how Il
majority 81 its contemporaries 20, then takes its
bf6riny accordingly. Why did nSC the FHEr-
prise cRdor.o ChcaihHm Immediately after lis
- called nols ~instioa If Il majority OF the "a
pcrT ii the State had declared ioI Nlr. Johnson,
l!c o~'ort,gT Of the Enterprise would have heen
in shat direction.
We are pleud 10 cay that Fsch is not the
principle on which VIC conduct . paper.
We have bcen, for nearly funr years.
editing and publishing u Conservative
Democratic paper, and have, al the time,
acted IN good falth, and supported the
regular nominees OF the party, whether
our choice had, i'll nj cases been put
forward OF not. This is one of, and the
vain reason Why we support Gen.
Chsathnm against johnson.
Il ssaid by sone Of ar. Johnson's
friends that the convention was not u
fair ono, and did not reflect the will OF
She people Of Tennessee. That arg,I-
ment amounts to nothing, VIXEN We take
into consideration the fact of the regu-
lcrity OF the convention. We admit
thnt 1t vas not as largo Q State Conyeu-
ton MS Ia common, hut there was several
cnuseS why it was not. 1t is enough to
say that the convention waslarge enough
tolndlcate the preference ofthe people as
between Choatham and johnson. Our
first choice for Congressman at Large.
was Andy Johnson; but when the Con
vention met and placed in nomination
Gon. b. f. Cheatham--the same beinp
done according to the usages and regu.
iatlons OF the party, we gave our adhe
Sion to the nominee. In this We ar
satisfied shat weaone what is right. Our
aim ID to defeat the Indian Chief, and
whan we support Gen. Cheatbam VI,
believe we are helping to accomplish 1t
On the other hand We think every con.
servatlYO that sup ortS JoLuson in,,i.
Itctly hupl orts the 'ILdiap Chief. IL
tact il il doubtful in our mind if IT,.
Sentinel does not prefer tile Indian I,
Gen. Che atham. His conduct in sun
port Of Andy, is quite an argument il
that bt half We know what ais Br,
Reeves. He WAS Of the opinion befor,
the Convention met that Johnson vould
be its regular nominee. In that he wa,
deceiv d., and has been sorcly affected
ever since He cries aloud and tells t,.
people that the Convention was hacked
III favor OF Cheatham Such an idea j.
o than ridiculous. Who ever hear,
OK a convention being parked agnins,
Andy johnson. Every position he ever
held in his life is due to conventions
The secret 10 not yet. When the editor
OF the Sfnttnet and Andy'made their ap-
pearance at the convention, and, having
mad o calculations, found that they
were going to be desperately defeated.
re8ol"ed not TO go into it, but determin-
ed to enter tho field against the world
the flesh aud the devil.
We feel eoiTv for the Senttne, man.
and bopo he will, before the 9Th OF.
November, hoist at the mast head of hi.
paper the name of Gen. Benjamin Frank.
lin Cheathan. Should he cling to old
Andy until Noyomber, le will DO wors,
deceived by the people than he WA b,
the convention. The race is between
Cheatham and the Indian, and in SO far
Sd this part OF Tennessee is concerned,
Gen. Cheatham will get almost the full
conservative vote. Mark this downin ad-
vance Bro. Reeves
The Sentinel tries to leave the impress
sion upon the minds of the people that
the Es-x.ps,sx. in .~upnort;no cho..h.m