Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-30
]. M. THORNBURGH.
SPEAKING AT JACKSBORO'.
Large Turnout TO Hear the Working
mems Candidate.

At en- early hour on Monday the Court House
Square began to be we'll filled with farmers and
laboring men generally who came to Jacksboro'
on that day especially, as it would seem from
the sequel, to hear the workingmen's champion,
Col. j. NJ, Thornburgh. Eleven o'clock, pre-
cisely was the hour agreed upon to commence
speaking, but neither of his opponents being
present, the Colonel, with his usual magnanim-
! ity, wanted full hour. But twelve o'clock
| having arrived without either Of his opponents
being present and the crowd becoming restless
and eager he addressed them in his usual
forcible manner. We regret that
want of space and time prevents US
giving it in full for every one present
said that it was one of his best efforts, and was
listened to with marked attention by large
number of citizens.
In his speech he made some excellent points,
a few of which we give.
He opened by saying he was not the
candidate of caucus or clique, who had given
him the right TO rum but that, the workingmen
of the district the hard-handed, honest hearted
sons of toll, who are their cOuntry'S stay in war
and peace, who do not engage in political intri-
CUES but devote their time and labor to support
and educate their families, had called him out to
bear their standard, and if elected, to represent
their interest in the 43d Congress
political Office seekers who endeavor to alarm
the country by wildly depicting terrible brea-
kers in the political ocean on which were to be
wrecked the hopes of AZ, 600, 600 people But did
present picture of this glorious government,
at peace with all nations, honored and feared by
all mankind, home and free refuge for op-
pressed laboring classes Of the old world when
universal liberty and exact justice is needed out
toall.
He showed how the government was making
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ternity; that the fires of discord engerdered by
the late war had nearly burned Out. He here
referred to the war, and character of the war
that Isham Harris, burlington ct al were MAX
ing on Johnson. He showed that one wing of
the Democracy had ostracised every Union
Democrat in the State He showed how Biz
zard and James, in the third district, how Gar
rett, Williams, Fleming and Nelson were
decapitated by the Confederate ring and Sock
Quarter Master Caldwell and Col d. NJ Key,
was put on as the representatives of that wing
of the Democracy. He read from Harris and
Huntington speeches. and said, if he was not
engaged in this canvass and no one else
would meet Isham q. Harris on the
stump, and reply to the kind and
quality of red hot bolts forged in malice and
hurled by envy at the head of Union men,
because they had patriotism enough to stand by
their country flag in the day and hour of dan
ger, he would go, like David of old and select
the five smooth stones from the brook, and arm
ed WITH MS sing, ne would attack THIS proud
Goliath who invaded tbesoil of East Tennessee,
made sacred by the blood of its best and purest
citizens, murdered when he was Governor,
without even protest from the Chief Execu-
tive, whose duty 1T was to protect his people.
He discussed the coal and iron interests of
East Tennessee, and showed how Caldwelrs
policy of taking the tariff off of our iron would
strike down our coal and iron interests and ruin
the workingmen. He fully ventilated the rev.
enue laws, and showed who was responsible for
Al. n l.
voted for them. He showed how the people had
been disfranchised in laying the State off in
Congressional districts read and commented
on DuBose's speech, and asked if Harris ct al.
and DuBose, are not the extreme or radical
party in Tennessee. He glanced at his own and
his opponents record, drew picture of the fu-
ture of this great republic, and closed.
After Col. Thornburgh had concluded, Sena-
tor Gibson made telling Republican speech.
He fully ventilated the past record of both the
Presidential candidates showing how Grant had
been the best friend TO the South, while Gree
ley had always been the very worst of enemies
to the people ofthe South in general, but DEM
ocrats in particular He read numerous ex-
tracts from the pen of Greeley in regard to his
feeling towards the Southern people, the Dem
ocrats and the rebels, and concluded by ask
ing how it was possible that the Southern pee
pie had so far lost all self respect as to make a
man their standard bearer who had so unmcr-
cifully abused them as Greeley had.
HON. A. E. GARRETT,
who had been unavoidably belated, on account
of the freight train only going as far as Coal
Creek, and having some trouble IN procuring
horse there, arrived in Jacksboro' during Sena-
to- Gibsons speech, and, at the conclusion of
which, he took the stand and addressed the
few that remained in the house in short speech,
regretting that he did not have time to fully
ventilate his opponents
The three aspirants for the lower seat in the
House of Representatives from Union, Camp
bell and Scott were present. and two of them,
Parkey and Kilburn, mountedthe stump, Those
who turned out came for the purpose to hear
the Peoples favorite, Col. Thornburgh, and
when he had finished they cared but little for
the rest. On our trip to Jacksboro' and return
we heard but one opinion expressed, and that
was, he would carry everything on this side of
the mountain like wild fire, and that if his
friends will do their duty, he will not only be
the laboring mems candidate but their repre-
sentative.