Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-16
NASHVILLE CONVENTION.
Tennessee Instructed for Grant and
Maynard.
DELEGATES TO PHILADELPHIA con-
VENTION.
Trimble and HOuk Electors at Large
BROWNLOW and MAYNARD SPEAK OUT
Special TO the Daily Chronicle. ]

| harmonious assemblage.
Hon. J. B. Ferguson, of Maury, wa
! chosen permanent Chairman of the Con
vention. A Vice President was choseT
| from each Congressional District.
The platform briefly recites the past rec
ord of the Republican party with it
achievements in civil service reform; the
success with which the finances of the
country have been managed; endorses the
enforcement law of Congress-; regards the
restoration of peace as the best pledge o.
its future policy.
The resolutions endorse very emphati-
calIy the Administration of President
Grant and instructs the delegate to Phila-
delphia to vote for his denomination fol
President and for the nomination of Hor-
ace Maynard for Vice President
DELEGATES TO PHILADELPHIA.
The Delegates for the State at Large are
Hon. o. ?. Temple, of Knox.
Hon. A. D. Num-, of Haywood
Hon. n. G. Smith, of Shelby.
Hon. w. Y. Elliott, of Rutherford
Delegates for the First Congressional
Distribution. r. r. Butler, of Johnson,
and Max L. Mayer, of Washington.
Delegates for the Second Congressional
District-A. J. Kicks. Esq, of Knox, and
L. NJ. Schleier, of Knox.
Delegates for the Third Congressional
District-E. Wilhoite, of Bradley, and
Henry Deutch, of Hamilton.
ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
Hon. John TrimDIe, of Davidson, and
L. c. HOuk, Esq, of Knox.
A resolution was adopted declining to
make nomination for Governor at pres
ent. .
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEES.
The following East Tennesseeans were
as members of the State Cen
trail Committee Chas. J. Mckinney, of
William Rule and w. +. Yard
ley, of Knox, S. Marshall and others.
a letter was read from Senator Brown
ow and received with applause, for which
the thanks of the Convention were re-
turned
Hon. Horace Maynard made two hours
speech this evening with unusual effect
The Exposition is grand success, it be-
sons are present. The hotels are crowd
ed.
The following is the full text of that adj
mirable letter read in the convention from
SaDo tOr RrOUDl low
SENATOR BROWNLOW'S LETTER.
KNOXVILLE, May 14th, 1872
To the chairman and members of the State
Republican Convention of Tennessee, in
Convention assembled:
FELLOW REPUBLICANS: / hail you as
the hOnOred representatives of noble par
ty, whose deeds alike in Tennessee and
the Union, have made the his
tory of our country so illustrious, beyond
embOdying the principles of
the Declaration of Independence into the
National Constitution, and throwing the
protection of equal laws over all classes of
our citizens.
Notably in Tennessee has the record of
the Republican party been proud and dis
in re-erecting and re-establish-
ing the fabric of the State Government,
which had been laid in ruins by disloyal
hands; in resuscitating and putting into
operation the railroads which had been
worn out in the service of the rebellion,
and at length seized by the United States
Army; in maintaining the credit of Ten
nessee by paying the interest which had
Occrued upon her bonds during the war;
in inaugurating the best system of
public Schools which the State has
ever had; and all this under the
most formidable obstacles and difficulties.
Nor has the sphere of your political
influence been confined alone to Tennes
see. Eight years since the electoral vote
OF Tennessee was cast for the martyr Pres
ldent, the noble, lamented Lincoln, -Four
years ago 1t was cast for the distinguished
General whose armies stamped out the re-
beliloh and who has so hOnOrably, uSefully
and acceptably occupied the Presidential
chair, that the true men of all classes and
partleS are not only willing to give him a
new lease of office for four wears. but are
determined to do so. That they will suc-
coed is as morally certain as that the
American people are capable of recogniz-
ing honest merit and rewarding unfiinch-
ing integrity.
This honorable record of the State Re-
nubIican party should be but the incen-
tive to continued fidelity to its principles.
Tt should inspire with zeal all its members
to seek to recover at the earliest possible
moment that political ascendency, wrung
from il in a moment of discord and divis-
ion, by the late self-disfranchised rebels of
Tennessee. The sad experience of kukluX-
Democratic rule shows how difficult it is
for many of those who have been mimi
cal to the National Government to forget
their old animus, and how necessary it is
for the State Republican party of Tennes-,
see to maintain its organization intact and
to push its effort until Tennessee is again
rescued from the control of the lawless
and reasonable Democratic party.
l do not make these illusions to the d.
visions of the party with any desire to re-
open old sores, In the spirit of generous
magnanimitY, all hands may well con-