Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-03
REJ0ICINGS OVER THE COUNTY
ELECTIONS.
The Country People Aroused and En-
thuSiaStiC.

The Country People Aroused and En-
tIluSiastiC.
Market Square Wild With Excitement and
r Fun. C.
A JolliticatiOn at the Court House Speeches
and a Good Time.
Early yesterday morning the people
from the country flocked into the town by
the score to hear the result of the county
elections. There have been few elections
in Knox county that provoked greater in
terest than that of Thursday. There has
never been time, when the Republican
organization did such quiet but effective
work, and never has there been more strik-
ing proof of the value ofsystematic, honor
able canvassing than it afforded in the
splendid triumph the CHRONICLE record
ed yesterday, aUsl e. afHE- fsE-l
AS soon as the news of the grand tri-
umph spread i'll the ranks of the country
people the enthusiasmincreaseda eviden-
ces of unusual qualification were given in a
thousand ways. There was at one time as
many as five hundred persons OH the
Square all yelling at the tops of their voic-
es. The CHRONICLE office was decorated
with flags over the glorious result and was
thronged from an early hour with crowds
reading the morning issue and exchanging
congratulations over the victory. Old men
and young from every part of the county
were busy exchanging notes and compar-
ing votes to see which district had done
the best. 1t was encouraging to hear of
the great interest taken i'll the contest and
of the work done by some of the very best
men in Knox county. Ifthe Sc big organ"
ever gets tuned up enough to grind out
any thing on Knox county politics the
"little organ" can give it some points on
how the frantic appeals to vote the
straight ticket" was spread abroad and how
it rallied the clansmen to the polls.
What Fleming knows about managing
county canvass would be as interesting as
Horace Greeley's forthcoming Salt river
treatise on what he knows about a big
beat. How the Press aud HerULd'S war
cry on election morning aided the little
mOgul's" plans to consolidate, strengthen,
and draw out the Republican vote, may
some day be known. In the mean time
we commend to the big organ and the
4" Knoxville cliquen the suggestion of an
old Democrat y in another column.
NEWS OF RAYS ELECTION. .E
The only ray of hope to the chop-falIen
and terribly Inundated Democracy yes
terday morning was the probable success
r r.. 4 f,r
trict Attorney. His election was claimed
by a majority, and they were very jubi-
liant ovor it, Republicans felt the victory
was glorious enough, but they were sorry
to lose even one. When, therefore,
after compiling the official re-
turns it was found mistake
of fifty against Ray had been made in the
report of the vote of the 10Th dis
trict the news of Rays election spread
rapidly and caused intense excitement and
This was increased from the
fact that though Williams vote was plain
ly not a party vote, many of his friends
were SO boastingly claiming it. This UNI
expected news was the last straw that
broke the back of the Democracy. 1t STIR
red up the very dregs of the bitter cup and
they swallowed it worse than they did the
bitter Greeley pill some weeks ago. Rays
election makes the victOrya sweeping one
and the defeat utterly overwhelming.
Never in local election has such utter and
humiliating defeat overtaken boastful
and over-contident party.
CONTESTED ELECTION PROBABLE.
We understand the friends of Williams
Dropose contesting the election. We
hardly suppose it is probable as we do
not suppose there was ever q fair
er election in this county. 1t is intimated
hat there was repeating. The charge is
too contemplate to need notice. Knox
county is growing every day. The cen
Gus reports show $500 voters in the coun-
". The highest vote polled was 5,420.
There was no repeating, and the candi-
Oy a contest, unless positive fraud can be
shown. will find if he ever again goes be-
fore the people that they will remember
him for it.
THE OFFICIAL MAJORITIES.
We give in another column the official
vote of the county. The majorities are as
follows: Mcfarland ,563, Gossett, 73S,
BLANC, 500, Harris, 2,166, Ray, "a, Bear
len. ia. Each of the candidates deserve
praise for the zeal and efficiency of their
canvass. Sheriff Gossett, in view of the
combination to defeat him, deserves spec
al credit for the energy and success attend
mo- his efforts. Few more quiet but effect
We workers are to be found than B. L.
who has defeated the most popu-
ar and active workers in the Democratic
party in Knox county by very large ma
ority Boyd's vote was 2,26S, Bearden's
,,Ol3. These represent as fairly as any
he vote of the two parties. Impartial
md non-partisan judges yesterday con
;eded that the election showed a Republic
IAN majority of from 80 to 1000 in Knox
and this we believe to be the sit
nation.
Tammany i'm North Carolina.