Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-03
THE DOG FENNEL OF THE DOLLY VAR
DEN CONVENTION.
How the RefOrmers ~ Work Things 10
Beat Grant.

seem to indicate that beneath the boosted
banners of reform are marshalled many
of the most corrupt and inscriptions
scoundrels of the political arena.
The Cincinnati Commercial oATuesday
has an editorial denouncing Davis, based
upon the following dispatch:
BLOOMINGTON, Ills, April 29.-The
effort here in the interest of Judge Davis
is evidently labOred one, as his friends
and relatives are offering as inducements
to any one who attend the Cincinnati Con-
ventiOn in his interest, irrespective of par
ty, free tickets and expenses there and re-
turn. Free tickets are issued from the
Judges office to those who will accept. It
looks bad for reform. There will be two
or three hundred who will avail them
selves of free tickets to your city, and to
compensate for the same will advocate the
interests of Davis.
Is itnOt lowering the dignity of the Su-
preme Court of the United States for a
Judge on the bench to get so low down in
the pool of politics as to buy delegates to
attend the Convention in his behalf, when
the broad plank in the platform is reform?
While am sending this, delegations
are arriving from adjoining counties and
90 direct to Davis office, where they are
furnished free tickets. The Democrats
here are for free trade.
I have lust learned that the same game
is going on in Dewitt county.
The Louisville Comier-JomnaL special
o1Tuesday night says:
Al the meeting of the Illinois delegation
at Greenwood Hall to-day, some of the
Justices adherents were under the influ-
ence of liquor, and their tongues were
loOsed. They boosted openly of receiving
tickets, ha7ing their expenses paid, and
even Of receiving free liquor from this man
whom they weTe supporting.
1t is the candid judgment of every one
who witnessed the disgraceful scenes, that
the cause of Justice Davis has been ire
trievably ruined in the country at large by
these shameful exercises,
Mack" of the Missouri Democrat, in
terviewed Horace White. of the Chicago
Tribune and he says White will cook
Palmer's goose:
He said he thought Trumbull would be
nominated, or there was no hope for the
success of the movement. He damned all
the other candidates, and especially Davis
and Palmer, and said he would "coOk the
gOosen of the latter gentleman when he
came to run for Governor. He could not
explain how it was that Palmer ever
thought of running for President, especial
ly why he should be so bitterly opposed to
Trumbull, but for whose assistance he
would be "dead cock in the pit" for all
future time in Illinois. 1t is a fact, how
ever, as to the Illinois delegation, that it
is the most bitterly divided of any that has
come here.
Such remarks as the following seem
plenty:
One sorrowing sOrehead, greeting anOth-
er, said there were too many soreheads
here to suit him, to which his friend an
swered 1.-THE worst of it is, those who
amt scallawags are Democrats" These
persons gave vivid, but general view
of the character of the crowd in these few
words.
"Mack" telegraphs the account of GrOiO
IN the arkansas delegation.
They had lively time in the Arkansas
delegation to-day, which, at one time,
threatened the necessity for police inter-
ference. They attempted to organize and
elect chairman, when the fact became
apparent that several gentlemen wanted
that position, and that each was ready to
denounce his rivals. Champion seemed to
have the most friends, but before they
could elect him q number o. delegates be-
gan to denOunce each other as Democrats,
who had no business here at all. One gen.
tleman jumped up, and said he was q
Democrat and he did not care who knew
it. If the Republicans in this crowd
thought they could do without the Demo
Gratis, he would tell them they are miStall-
Ell. Then a Republican rose to remark
that, if such men as he saw here were
Liberal Republicans, it will do to call the
ct q
noisy demonstration, in which all seemed
to participate, and finally the presiding
officer declared the meeting adjourned.
A REFORMER'S SPINAL MARROW FREEZ-
ING.
The Cowicr-JouRdL reports this row in
the Indiana delegation
A motion, pledging the support of In
diana for Cassius Clay as permanent chair
man of the convention, was next put and
carried, after which an ardent Adamsite
created breeze, by offering a resolution
lacking the Indiana delegation to the
mainmast. to sink or swim. The reSOlu-
ton was finally withdrawn, but not till
Col. J, p. Gray, of Vincennes, had vOlun-
teered his opinion that he had never
dropped in among as disgraceful moo as
the delegation present. 1t was the nolslest
assemblage of Republicans he had ever
encountered, and he felt his spinal mar
row freezing with horror that such goings
on could be tolerated under the banner OF
reform.
Crounse, of the New York Times, after
reviewing the field, gives this as his opin-
ion Monday night:
The Convention must begin investigat-
ing as soon as organized, and first OF all
seek to learn what has become of all the
sOreheads who have been lost en- route.
Trains which have been announced as
leaving New York, New Orleans, Phila-
delphia and other cities with thousands,
reach here with only a score or so, and
great anxiety is being expressed as to the
whereabouts of those mysteriously miss
ing cohorts of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
army.
PENNSYLVANIA BARGAIN AND SALE.
The delay in McClure's arrival is assert
! ed to enable him to get the Pennsylvania
delegation well in hand. The inner pur-
nf fnd tn q