Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-08-07
REJOICINGS OVER THE COUNTY
ELECTIONS.
The Country People Aroused and En-
ihuSiaStic.
Market Square Wild With Excitement and
Fun.
A Notification at the Court House-SpceChes
and a Good Time.

Early on Friday morning the people
from the country flocked into the town by
the score to hear the result of the county
elections. There have been few elections
in Knox county that provoked greater in
terost than that of Thursday. There has
never been a time, when the Republican
organization did such quiet but effective
work, and never has there been more Strik-
ing proof of the value ofsystematic, honor
able canvassing than it afforded in the
splendid triumph the CHRONICLE record
ed yesterday,
AS soon as the news of the grand tri-
umph spread in the ranks of the country
people the enthusiasmincreaseda eviden-
oes of unusual qualification were given in a
thousand ways. There was at one time as
many as five hundred persons on the
Square all yelling ut the tops of their voic-
es. The CHRONICLE Office was decorated
with flags over the glorious result and was
thronged from an early hour with crowds
reading the morning issue and exchanging
congratulations over the victory. Old men
and young from every part of the county
were busy exchanging notes and compar-
ing votes to see which district had done
the best 1t was encouraging to hear of
the great interest taken in the contest and
Of the work done by some of the very best
men in Knox county. If the "big organ
ever gets tuned up enough to grind out
any thing on Knox county politics the
little organ can give it some points on
how the frantic appeals to vote the
straight ticket was spread abroad and how
il rallied the "clansmen y to the polls.
What Fleming knows about managing a
county canvass would be as interesting as
Horace Greeley's forthcoming Salt river
treatise on what he knows about big
beat. How the Press and Herdid's war
cry on election morning aided the d" little
mogul's" plans to consolidate strengthen,
and draw out the Republican vote, may
some day he known. Ia the mean time
we commend to the "big organ " and the
Knoxville clique y the suggestion of an
old Democrat in another column.
NEWS OF RAYS ELECTION.
The only ray of hope to the chop-fallen
and terribly Inundated Democracy yes
terday morning was the probable success
of our friend j. &. J. Williams, for Dis
trict Attorney. His election was claimed
by n majority, and they were very iubi-
liant ovOr it. Republicans felt the victory
was glorious enough, but they were sorry
-
after compiling the official re-
turns il was found mistake
of fifty against Ray had been made in the
unofficial report of the vote of the 18th dis
trict the news of Rays election spread
rapidly and caused intense excitement and
enthusiasm. This was increased from the
fact that though Williams vote was plain
ly not a party vote, many of his friends
were so boastingly claiming it. This UNI
expected news was the last straw that
broke the back of the Democracy. 1t stir
red up the very dregs of the bitter cup and
they swallowed it worse than they did the
bitter Greeley pill some weeks ago. Rays
election makes the victory sweeping one
aud the defeat utterly overwhelming
Never in a local election has such utter and
humiliating defeat overtaken a bOastful
and over confident party.
THE OFFICIAL MAJoRITIEs.
We give in another column the official
vote of the county. The majorities are as
follows Mcfarland, ,563, Gossett, 73S,
BLANC, 1900, Harris, 2,lGG, Ray, "A, Bear
den, IA. Each of the candidates deserve
praise for the zeal and efficiency of their
canvass. Sheriff GOssett, in view of the
combination to defeat him, deserves spec
ial credit for the energy and success attend
ing his efforts. Few more quiet but effect
i've workers are to be found than +. f.
Bearden, who has defeated the most popu-
lar and active workers in the Democratic
party in Knox county by very large ma
jority. l}oyd's vote was 2,2GS, Bearden's
3,0l2. These represent as fairly as any
the vote of the two parties. Impartial
and non-partisan judges yesterday con-
coded that the election showed Republi-
can majority of from 80 to 1000 in Knox
county, and this we believe to be the sit
uation.