The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-27
sandy JOhnsOn's" Campaign In Ten
nessee-Tho Old War Horse In All His


the curiosities of the triangular contest in
that State for the Office of her Congressman
at Large, between our inextinguishable and
irrepressible ex-President, Familiarity known
as candy Johnson" and General Frank
Cheatham and Horace Maynard. Cheatham,
democratic nominee, Maynard is the republican
candidate and johnson the independent John
sonian democratic and liberal candidate, who,
as between a choice Of evils, is down on Grant
and goes for Greeley, and is particularly
strong for Johnson and the constitution all the
time. These three candidates for the distinc-
ton of Congressman at Large ore stamping the
State together. If we had here ex-President
Fillmore running con his own hook against
both Cox and Tremain, and all three, from
place to place, speaking at the same meetings,
we would have Congressional canvass like
this of which "Handy Andy is the lion of
the tribe of jackson, and we are half inclined
to regret, for the life and the fun of the
arrangement, that ex-President Fillmore in
New York is not playing the same role as that
Tennessee.
Next to o circus our correspondent attend
ing this Johnsonian campaign afirms that
nothing draws out the uo@ popuH in Tennessee
equal to q joint stock political discussion on
the stump and that any discussion in which
Andy johnson is concerned is sure to draw
like circus. So it was the other day at the
little border town of Bristol, which is partly
in Tennessee and portion in Old Virginia.
Arrangements were made in forest near by
over in Virginia for the Tennessee meeting,
and five thousand people, an immense gather
ing for that thinly populated region, assem-
bled to hear the wisdom expected from
johnson, Cheatham and Maynard And the
sovereign people had their fill of it, in two
hours harangue from each of these orators,
fright straight along" Cheatham opened the
ball in presenting himself as the regular demo-
cractic candidate. He was no outsider; but
he was backed up by the democracy in the
regular way. aud he was going to be elected
and he was going to Congress as q working
man, and he had no axes to grind, no friends
on to the end of his two hours He concluded
amid cheers, and cry of 'Hurrah for Chicka-
Then followed the inextinguishable
Johnson
Whose march is DER those mountain Wales,
Whose home is on the stump.
And right and left he opened fire upon
rings and cliques, and to set the people free.
And he was down upon packed conventions
and down upon the candidate who carried the
official label pasted upon his back-'I am
the Convention candidate And in the
illustrations of his case he drew upon Rome
and Caesar, and Gaul and Pompey, and
Naples and Croesus, and boxed the compass
all round, including jeff Davis, the rebellion,
the everlasting niggers and universal amnesty.
And he made the dry bones Of the radicals
rattle again. He had done ten times as much
for the blacks as any noisy radical in the State,
and Horace Greeley had done more for them
than hundred Grants And then, with a
graceful compliment to the hundreds of beau
tiful women who graced the scene with their
presence, the gallant ex-P President triumphantly
closed his stirring address.
Horace Maynard is a good speaker, and
when his turn came he made q strong, lively
and vigorous speech against Cheatham, John
son, Greeley, the democratic party and boiling
republicans, and zealously proclaimed the vir-
tues of General Grants administration. Then
Cheatham came forward again, with o few
closing remarks, then johnson and then May
nard, known as the Narragansett Indian.
Then the proceedings were closed and the
crowd dispersed, with shouts for Cheatham,
johnson and Maynard, the band meantime
playing the thrilling patriotic tune of ''The
Red, White and Blue" And such is the style
in which they conduct political fight in Ten
nessee and such is the spirit and high en-
joyment which the presence and the eloquence
of Andy Johnson give to those political joint
discussions in the backwoods of the Allegha-
MES. Cheatham, though not an orator, seemed
to have the most Of the crowd at this border
meeting; but Johnson is whole team on the
stump, and, though the outside candidate, he
may prove more than match in the election
for both of the regular party nominees.
On Wednesday the classically named city of
Jonesboro' re-echoed to the cries of the COM
batants, and if our readers want jolly laugh
to relieve the dulness of things, let them
peruse the jovial story of our able cores
pendent in to-day's HERALD, who is shaping
into On olo of oddities this odd old-fashoned
stumping trio of divided sentiments but COM
mon aim.
The Coal Question I'm England.
Cheap and abundant coal has had much to
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