Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-09-18
Total net income per year,.

Hero you see q net income coming tc
the State of over Sl05, 900 u year; and vet the
Penitentiary is leased for $50 900 gross, and the
lease is for fire years2
Besides the inspectors Of the Penitentiary in
their report TO tho Legislature show that the
Penitentiary cleared more than $4,000 wear
over and above all expenses. And vet the
Governor leased the Penitentiary for $4,000
per annum Tor five years, out of which the sala-
ries of four rs(amuuntng to at least So 600
arc TO be paid. This lease was made in secret
was n private affair between tho Governor and
two of his favortes. And thus you sec, gentle
men, that when railroads are to be sold, and
penitentiaries 10 be leased, the business is not
conducted openly and publicly on due notice
to the world rs though the people owned the
Government, but as though Governor Brown
and the Railroad Commissioners owned the
State and had deed for Il in their pockets In
short the rights of the public are disregarded.
and TammSny Ring rules Tennessee in its own
private interests.
IMMIGRATION.
A gentleman asked me "What about i'm
migrationH / have not time now fully to dis
cuss that question. But this will say that nc
Intelligent Immigrant will come TO this State as
long as the State keeps tho doors of the school
houses shut that no peaceful, law-abiding i'm
migrant will come to State where Judge
Lynch is Chief Justice, and the Kuklux are the
jurors; that no honest immigrant will settle in
State where The State tar is so high and yet
the State credit SO low, and reputation openly
prosper in Democratic State. You Democrats
who want Immigration must join the Republic
can party
DEMOCRATIC PROMISES.
And thus you see how these Democrats have
fulfilled their promises. Instead of reconcile
alton, instead of letting by.gones be by-gones.'
instead of "clasping hands across the bloody
chasm" these Democrats have trampled on
the rights Of every Union man. they have in eff
feet declared that no man ought TO hold Office
ln hla nate ir,N ul Id
the State offices with men who "wore the gray"
Instead of being economical with the peoples
money, instead of frewning down corruption, in
stead of furnishing the Bond Thieves" they
have been far moro wasteful than the Republi-
cans, they have offered premium for fraud,
they have hunted down the 'Bond Thieves"
but finding the Democratic mark in their ears
have failed and refused to punish them
Instead of selling the railroads to the highest
bidders, and thus reducing the State debt ms
much rs possible, they have privately and Sc
cretly sold the railroads at q minimum price.
and have almost given them away nj ruinous
sacrifice, and in utter disregard of the public
welfare.
Instead of making suffrage free to all, they
have amended the Constitution so as to equal
the prepayment of a poll-tax as q condition Of
voting. 1t is true they have dared not enforce
1t but putting it in the Constitution was an in
suit TO every freeman. Besides. they enforced
il in Georgia Instead of improving free schools
they have LITERALLY abolished them, and have
oostinateIy refused to take any steps TO re-estab
fish them, although the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction says that the number of
ilterate persons in Tennessee ten years old and
over is S64, GGS' and that while the white pop
ulation has increased but 10 Per cent, the in
crease in the number of white iliterates has
been 80 per cent "
REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS.
Under the.o circumstances it behoovos every
honest man TO go to the polls and vote this
Democratic party out of power. We have
everything to encourage us. If we fail we
know that a Republican President and Re-
publican Congress will be at Washington to
protect u.s. But we will not fail There is vic
tory on every breeze that blows. From Con-
necticut and Oregon we long ago had cheering
words. North Carolina, our mother State has
given us glorious example. Vermont has
just sent us word that the Green Mountain
Boys are still true as in the days of Benning-
ton. And now, while j speak, the news comes
trickling down the wires, dropping glOry.spots
as il runs, that Maine is still true IT, the great
party of the nation. And while these words of
cheer resound on every hand, thrilling every
heart arousing every energy and calling us to
action, shall we prove false and unworthy2 No,
gentlemen we are still true We are march,
ing on, marching on gloiiously. Our banner is
blazing with hundred triumphs. Five million
loyal hearts bid us "God-speed." On TO victo-
ryl The fates are with US. The clock of des-
tiny has struck; and the angel of history is
writing down Grant, President; Freeman, Gov-
ernor; Maynard, Congressman.