Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-22
NASHVILLE CONVENTION.
Tennessee Instructed for Grant and
Maynard.
DELEGATES TO PHILADELPHIA con-
-VENTI0N.
Trimble aud Houk Electors at Large.
BROwNLoW and MAYNARD SPEAK OUT
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harmonious assemblage.
Hon. J. Il. Ferguson, of Maury, was
chosen permanent Chairman of the Con-
vention. A Vice President was chosen
from each Congressional District.
The platform briefly recites the past rec
ord of the Republican party with its
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 of
its future policy.
The resolutions endorse very emphati-
cally the Administration of President
Grant and instructs the delegate to Phila-
delphia to vote for his denomination for
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. P. Temple, of Knox.
Hon. A. ID. Num-, of Haywood
Hon. N. G. Smith, of Shelby.
Hon.W. Y. Elliott, of Rutherford.
Delegates for the First Congr essional
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
II. M. 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 Trimble, of Davidson, and
l.. G. Houk, Esq, of Knox.
A resolution was adopted declining to
make nomination for Governor at pres
ent.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The following East Tennesseeans were
appointed as members of the State Cen
trail Committee: Chas. J. Mckinney, of
Hawkins; William Rule and w. f. 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 a two hours
speech this evening with unusual effect
The Exposition is a grand success, it be-
ing estimated that over ten thousand per-
sons are present. The hotels are crowd
ed.
The following is the full text of that adj
mirable letter read in the convention from
Senator Brownlow:
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 a noble par
ty, whose deeds alike in Tennessee and
throughout the Union, have made the his
tory of our country so illustrious, beyond
precedent, 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
tinguished, 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.
ident, the noble, lamented Lincoln, -Four
years ago it was cast for the distinguished
General whose armies stamped out the re-
bellion and who has so honorably, usefully
and acceptably occupied the Presidential
chair, that the true men of all classes and
parties are not only willing TO give him g
new lease of Office for four years, but are
determined to do so. That they will sue
coed is as morally certain as that the
American people are capable of recogniz
ing honest merit and rewarding unflinch
ing integrity.
This honorable record of the State Re
publican party should be but the incen
tive To continued fidelity to its principles
1t should inspire with zeal all its members
to seek 70 recover at the earliest possibl,
moment that political aseendency, wrunl
from Ii In moment of discord and divis
ion, by the late self-disfranchised rebels o
Tennessee. The sad experience of Kuklux
Democratic rule shows how difficult 1t i
for many of those who have been mimi
cal to the National Government to forge
their old animus, and how necessary IL 4
for the State Republican party of Tennes
see to maintain its organization intact an,
to push Its effort until Tennessee 10 agar
rescued from the control of the lawles!
and reasonable Democratic marty