Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-26
THE GATHERING RAM DISTRICT.
The Little Attorney Generap' After
Caldwell.
Garrett Makes Proposition That Caid-
well Rejects,

well Re1ectss
Special Correspondence of the Chronicle.I
CoOKvILLE, PUTNAM COUNTY,
--t-E Oct. q, 1872
The candidates for Congress in the Bat
tering Ram District arrived here yester-
day evening and spoke at IL A. NJ, to-day,
to quite a respectable sized and very intel
ligent crowd. -ei
CALDWELL .f-
opened the discussion. His style was that
of aSophmore speaking and attempting TO
decIaim his little memorized piece 1T was
the same heard him make at Livingston,
Gainesboro', Carthage and elsewhere; the
same cold tune the COW diedion."
He arraigns the Republican party for the
internal revenue laws taxing whisky
makes broad charges of fraud in the finan-
ciaI 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
a 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 Al against it.
In the Senate every Democrat voted for it
and 5, all Republicans, voted against it,
This was a clincher) Mr.. CaldwelFs
countenance showed much surprise in its
peculiar by blard and boyish expression.
He eulogized Grant and in defending his
administration, proved beyond doubt or
peradventure that it had been a brilliant
success.
He then enlightened the Teople on Mr.
CaldwelFs 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 set of fools in their ranks who
were leading the people by the nose, and
say that they ought to be beaten. He made
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 a host of friends OH
this side of the mountains. I 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..
Caldwell's checquered career is too well
known to all.
spoke last. He alluded to conventions,
touching on the one at Sparta in particu-
Unclaimed that they praticed fraud on
the Democracy ndpeople in nominating
Caldwell, He has tried to get Caldwell to
take the vote in every crowd where they
speak, making the proposition that the
1CedkeSt man shall withdrawIfrom the race,
but AT can't see it.
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.