The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-10-07
PORTER AND MAYNARD AT
MORRISTOWN.
Maynard and Civil Rights to the
Front
THE GREAT CHAMPION OF
TENEESSEE-CIVIL RIGHTS
RADICALLSM COMPLETELY
"CHAWED r.

! would be a gOOdly crowd from this and
the surrounding counties to hear the
champions.
At few minutes before 10 o'clock, NJ,
the two candidates and the large con-
course of people present moved from the
streets and hotels into the spacious Cir
cult Court room, which, with the side
| offices and halls adjoining, was soon
densely packed
This was Maynard's day to lead Off
He came to the stand apparently in good
| trim, with his voice as clear as clarion
! He started out with a beautiful cOmpli-
ment to the ladies present; but soon
/ showed that he had other work before
him, and no time to waste. The first
/ hour of his time he devoted to an on
| slaught upon the administration Of Gov
ernor John G. Brown and the legislation
| Of the last few years. He dwelt at length
upon the management of the peniten-
tiary, the funding bill, the assessment
| law, the Hobbs-Burch cmbrogliO, &c,
arguing that because the Convention,
| which nominated Judge Porter, had
passed a resolution commencing Gov.
Browns administration, that Judge POr-
ter was committed to these measures and
must be held responsible for them. Mr.
Maynard devoted the rest of his time to
the discussion of his position on the Civ
| il Rights Bill, adroitly attempting first
to prove that it does not mean mixed
schools, and second, that he had not
committed himself in its favor. During
his address, he made few unfortunate
| filings, such as his reference to 1.-THE
| bloody month of August" and attempt
| ing to hold the Democratic party respOn-
! sibIe for outragcs committed during that
month in Tennessee. We say unfortun-
! ate filings, for the reason that the Demo
| Gratis and Republicans present were main
! ly intelligent men, and know that the
! crimes referred to were the acts Of wick
( ed men, Of-nobody knows what party
and are as much deprecated by Demo
/ Gratis as Republicans.
PORTER TAKES THE STAND.
| Mr. Maynard's hour and Il half having
expired, Judge Porter took the stand,
and, with not half minute devoted to
preliminaries. proceeded at once to bus
! mess.
! He referred briefly to Mr.. NIaynard's
attack upon Gov Browns administra-
ton, declining to shoulder responsibility
! for it, or to defend it, or condemn it.
! He showed that no money ever came in
to the Treasury of the State from the
penitcntiary during its history except
under Browns administration denied
that the funding bill and assessment
law were Democratic mcasurcs-shOw-
ing from the journals that if half the
! Republicans who voted for these meas
ures in the Tennessee Legislature had
voted against them they would have been
defeated.
He told his auditors that he was not
the clcctor for Brown or Burch or Hobbs,
but for himself and the Democratic par
ty-that these gentlemen were able to
defend their own official acts, and he
left that task for them to do. About
fifteen minutes OF his time having been
thus occupied, he turned his attention to
Mr. Maynard's political record.
1t is no misrepresentation, and docs nc
unfairness in such matters as these tc
tell the simple truth. We tell the sim
pie truth without exaggeratiOn or color
ing, when we say that the ordeal tC
which Porter subjected Maynard upOr
his record was most whitening and scath
ing. We lavo been accustomed to heal
= mems political records examined an(
criticised all our life, but we never hearC
a more unfortunate record presented; o.
a record criticised with so damaging al
effect in all our life. Judge Porter show
, the Sumner Civil Rights Bill, in an,
1 way, had been in favor Of its passage
5 mixed school feature and all. That OF
1 a motion in Congress to reject the bill
he voted "nO." That upon motion t.
lay it on the table, he voted mo" Tha
upon an amendment looking to the ex
empting of States which already had
system of separate common schools, from
its operation, he voted mo" That up
on motion to take it (the last bilD iron
e the table and put it upon it's passage, h
/ voted "aye." That he had actual.
l. made speech in Congress urging it
n (the original bilD passage, and endorsing
a the principles of the bill. These vote
: and this speech (Which Porter read
: were not denied by Maynard, and all hi
T shrcwdness at parrying did not set hin
c right with the thinking part of his owI
+ party.
s Judge Porter reviewed hastily the ez
{ travagance of the Congress of the Unite
C States, and showed that his Opponen
Y had voted for every eXtravagant apprc
4 priation made by Congress since the wa
t salary grab and ALL
n But the "unkindest cut of all'' was til
+. reading of the petition of Maynard, Al
/ nell, Prosser, Jerusalem Smith and Otl
o ers, to Beast F. Butler, chairman of til
l. Reconstruction Committee, prepared b
n MAYNARD and presented by his own han
l. p1irately to Butler, setting forth tina
(while Sentcr was Governof) the Cover
mcnt in Tennessee was not Republica
in form, and asking immediate action o
), the part of Congress to overturn Senter
administration in Tenn essee and recOr
struct the State Government. Languag
fails to describe the effect of these Will
ering exposures upon the audience
Round after round of dcafcning applaus
silenced Porter time after time, as hi
9 complete victory became more and NOR
; apparent.
Maynard's reply Of half an hour wa
an adroit but unavailing effort to diver
c the minds of the audience from his ow
: glaring record to that of Gov. Brown, i
c which he made 4 few very sharp bit: