Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-09-18
RESPECTFULLY SUGGESTED. 81

EX-President Johnson processes to be |
the peoples champion in running as an
Independent candidate for Congress from
The State at large. He says there is a
military ring" being gotten up to con-
troll the offices of the State. We do not
propose, in what we now have to say, to
dispute his claim or TO controvert his state
ments as to n military ring. For present
purposes let him be considered the cham
pion of the tax payers of Tennessee. The
people certainly have need for n cham
pion who will declare their rights and
stand up for their interests, and
if he is willing engage in the
contest he certainly will find vulnerable
points for making attacks. The people
who listen with interest to anything he
has to say would like to hear his opinion
on the present State Government of Ten
nessee, run in the interest of military
rings" railroad rings" &c. They would
like an expression from him, as to whether
it was good policy to dispose of railroads
which cost the State little less than sCU-
rRtcen millions of dollars for little more
than SiC millions, when it is per-
fectly clear that they could have been
disposed of for at least few mill
ions more. Would he favor the people
whose ''championn he is, with his opinion
as to the honesty of that transaction? He
could make q most interesting speech on
that subject, and we have no doubt it
would be listened to by men of all parties.
Tfthe military ring" which he pursues so
effectively embraces also the railroad
ring, which has made such q good thing
out of the sale of the delinquent roads, let
him expose them both together, and it will
not detract from his reputation in the least.
And as he is the worllingman's friend, will
he favor the workingmen with his views
as to the policy of the Democratic State
administration, in placing the labor of the
penitentiary convict in competition with
the labor of honest mechanics and laboring
men. With his well-known disposition to
dive down into the depths of intricate
questions, he might make some interest
ing disclosures and might soon make
Rome how'll Without intending to in
terfere with his plans in the campaign, we
respectfully suggest these questions for his
consideration, believing that the people
are interested in them, and that they
would be pleased to hear him discuss
them.
North Carolina View of Tennessee DemOc.
racy,
The Asheville Pioneer says: "There is
the same schism in the Democratic party
in Tennessee, which is likely to exist in
North Carolina. The men with "icGr rec
,OrClsn usurp every office and drive out the
Liberal Republicans and the Union men of
their party as they are disposed to do in
this State. In this unscrupulous warfare
they have at least encountered man who
has been given to have his own way-ex
President Andrew Johnson--he hAlts the
regular nomination, and, is q candidate
on his own hook for Congressman for thC
State at large, and promises to speak in
every county in the State. He will doubt
less be elected, as he will probably take
ground for the Democratic nominee al
Louisville.
The Wilmington Star is the instance o
the most thorough conversion to Greeley
Radicalism which we have encountered
II says of Andy johnson, of Tennessee, ,bu
while ago the idol of the Democratic par
ty:
"We think il would be "a calamity, sup
posing such thing possible, for Andrew
Johnson to be elected to Congress. Hi
mule-headedness and unpopularity woulC
do great damage 70 the SOuth.n