Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-08-07

experimentation OF our hopes under the apple tree
Of AppomattoX, he said thai Gen Grant, fitness
for leadership had been demonstrated by each
successive step in the round Of promotion until
he had been chosen Chief Magistrate of the ma
ton. lie had been in ot6ce four years and had
proven himselfthe best fitted for the position
and in November next and then we will say to
him for tho second time We'll done, good and
faithful! servant
SPEECH or MR.. RAY.
Mr. Ray the newly elected Attorney Genor-
al, was called for. his course had been like
Jordan highway" hard road to travel ~
every imaginablee pithet Of opprobrium had been
cast upon hinl-he was charged with descrton
from the army and with having been dishonor-
ably discharged. When he heard these asper
siOns he felt small, but now since the result had
demonstrated that he had beaten thearistocracy
and the money of the Democracy he felt rather
larger. On yesterday his opponents had ar
ranged q programme for the trip of defeated
Republicans up the hrnv stream. BLANC
Beardon and himself were to be oarsmon and
Capt. Harris was to command, but while they
were fixing this he had taken u boat to the quar-
ry,. brought down forty-siN freemen and they
had voted the straight ticket which was sufi-
cient 20 elect him. The speaker was interrupt
ed by Democrat in the crowd, who growled
with an oath, You were not elected by white
mems votes After thanking tho audience
for the compliment tondered him, he took his
seat
SHERIFF oossETT
Appeared in response to loud calls, and return.
ed thanks for confidence in his course. as dem
onstrated in his reelection. In regard to the
race for County Court Clerk, he attributed Mr.
Blang's heavy majority to the fact that his OPP
ponent Mr.. Garnell, had also been Union
soldier, as well as Blang, and between two of
the same uniform, they they had rather vote for
an eX-rebe soldier had run, Mr.. blangs major
ty would not have been half so great 1t was
time that these who had been Union men were
learning who were their best friends.
uoUK ON NEPoTisN.
Judge Houl, opened by alluding to sumner
letter, which the Democrats paraded as o proof
Of his and their fondncsS for the colored people.
But they couldn't be mislod. The love of the
opposition for the negro was well knOwn--and
they had Just witnessed an illustration of it in
the slurring remark of Democrat present, who
charged that one of the Republican candidates
" had not been elected by white votes" The
speaker then exposed the duplicty of the
Democrat, in their charge of nopotim against
the President.
They charge him with taking presents Well,
is it not better TO take them us he il charged
with doing, than to take things like the Demo-
Gratis took the school fund, and the railroads of
the Statistical them, that is take them by main
force? What else do they charge him with
Why, it is said that he appoints his kinsfolk TO
Office. To hear Democrats talk one would be
lead to think that Grants otfice-hoding rela-
tions were like the locusts of Egypt. Gen'l.
Grant has $1,000 Offices ut hisIdisposal. Now,
how many out of all this number, do you sup
pose are filed by the relations of Gen'l Grant
Why, the large nun her AZ 'lilis ,n9sltone "ndol
related to the President, or to somebody some
how related to him his wife, either by consan-
guinty or affinity, and two of these he found
in office when he came into power-one of them
was his aged and honored father, the other a
brother-n-law, perhaps, both appointed by his
predecessor. But is it crime to appoint rela-
tivcs to office? If so, who is the greatest Grim
inal, Gen. Grant or the Democratic Supreme
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has sirty-1oHr thousand offices in his gift The
Supreme Court of Tennessee had four. We
had good clerk as any who has filed that
position in this Division of the State in the per-
son OF the gallant Col. PATTERSON; Had he made
good clerk ? Certainly. Were there any
charges against him? No, sir. For what, then,
was he removed by that Democratic Court?
Why, TO give place to q brother of one of the
Democratic Judges-Deaderick. And so it
was at Nashville. The Chief Justice, 4. o. p.
Nicholson, had a nephew who must have an
office, and so Jesse q. Frazier was unceremo-
niousy kicked out and that nephew put in as
clerk of that Division. The same process WAS
repeated in the Western part of the State. \
good man turned out to put in brother OF
Judge Freeman.
Here, then, the Democratic Supreme Court
appointed to office three knsmen, when they
had but four offices to bestow, and at the same
time every Democrat in the State is bounding
General Grant because, forsooth, he has APP
pointed nine kinsfolks to office, out of sixty
TOUR thousand, MS Is lttle not 10 say mean.
col. THoENBURGH
was loudly called, and in response made quite
a happy effort He congratulated the people on
the victory won in the election of the day be-
fore. lie said il was the first low muttering of
the political earthquake which was 10 shatter
the rotten Democracy-the base fabric of polt-
ical dishonesty, now holding this State, TO its
foundation. The people never sanctioned cor
ruptipn in the leaders of any party. He refer
ed to printing frauds, the gerrymandering" of
the change of Circuits and Chancery Divisions,
and the course Of Democracy in legislating
against both personal and political enemies.
There was one passage of Scripture he had new
err correctly understood until the recent change
of districts, which extended from the rivers
TO the ends of the earth" BY this gerryman-
dering %, 600 East Tennesseeans were practical
~ DISTINGUISHED.
He alluded TO proscrptive legislation which
had legislated him twice out of office, 10 which
he had been elected by tho people. In the
Presidential race SO close at hand he could not
divine how q mau who had served in
the United States army could vote with
the Democracy against their old COM
msnder. As for corruption among
officials they had been removed whenever dis
covered and he would like to know what Dem
ocratic administration had ever done 20. With
honest leaders and determined, united efforts on
the part of Republicans henceforward, victory
would perch on our banner. Col. ThoTnburghs
remarks were replete with rrefutAole argu-
ments and we're received with applause
JUDGE ANDREWS,
In response to repeated calls, said that too
many good speeches had been made for him TO
their tirna lonOar lint ha uJan al 10