The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-09
He is a Trimmer.

In late number of the appeal we
find the following scrap of history rela-
tive to Oily Horace, from which it will be
seen that the radical candidate for Gov
ernor of Tennessee is not only fisher
man but pretty good trimmer.
IN speech made at Nashville re-
Gently Maynard declared that he had no,
ordinations or denominations to engage
in" He seemed willing to let the dead
past alone, and to make the canvass upon
the living issues of the present. But
his partisans are not so thoughtful.
They EN- to think there is good deal
in past records We have often heard
of people getting more than they bar
gained for, and this departure from Mr.,
Maynards advice will not b. an exeep-
ton. 1t was very common remark OF
Union men during the war, that it East
Tennessee had been rebel, Mr.. Maynard
would have be as ultra rebel as could
have been found in the south And his
record justified this suspicion. A public
dinner was given to Hon. Battle PeytOn,
Of Tennessee, by citizens of Philadelphia,
on January II, 1860 at which were
| present as inyit guests Hon John j.
! Crittenden, of Kentucky, and Hon.
/ Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, the lat
| ter gentleman being the represen tative
in congress from the Knoxville district.
! of the part played by Mr.. Maynard on
that occasion, .ihe Philadelphia PennS
| SylUdniaH gave this account
Hon. Mr.. Maynard, of Tennessee,
was the rext speaker. Soon after the
commencement ofhis speech he took oc-
! casion to pitch into the Republican party
/ of the north In speaking of the Chica'
| 90 convention, he said that if a candI-
| date of that body Gin which fifteen States
would not be reprl sentsd) should be
| elected the business Of the Union would
not progress a week There would be
no revenue collected from the mouth of
the Delaware to the Rio Grande. The
utterance of this sentiment elected signs
of disapprObation, and the speaker was
freely Kissed. Others of the audience APP
plauded, and there was considerable
disorder for a time, and pr1mOnitory
! symptoms of Touchdown.
After Mr.. Maynard had concluded,
there were loud cheers and Kisses and
great excitement amid which Mr.. Me-
| Michael arose, and quiet was restored
MIR. McMichael said he agreed with all
! that had fallen from the lirs of Mr.. Pey
| ton, and with most that had been said by
other speakers. He reminded his hear
ers that he had been requested TO act as
chairman Of the meeting in the unavoid
able absence of the mayor He would
not leave the building cOntented unless
he publicly expressed his dissent from
the most that had been uttered by the
gentleman (Mr, Maynard), who had just
taken his seat Cheers and sseS II >
| yielded to no man IN devotion to the
| Union, and he did not believe it would
be destroyed because majority of th >
people should choose to elect certain
men to the Office Of President
1t will be seen that Mr.. Maynard was
so ultra southern that he was not only
Kissed by his audience, but the chair,
man of the meeting publicly rebuked
him for the utteran of disuniOn senliN
| ments. Such an act of discourtesy to an
| invited guest is unusual, and this fact
will explain how strongly tinctured with
disuniOn was the speech of Mr. Maynard
1t was the knowledge of his antecedent Is
that caused the Union men her about t.
| express 50 little confidence in his pros
| testations Of desotion to the Union
The Republican candidate for governor
is eminentlV trimmer, always on the
| lookout to advance the interests of Hor-
ace Maynard lie entertains no expecta~
ton or hope of being elected COVE, TOR
and hence we find him adjusting his
course for future Office BY taking posi-,
ton in favor Of the civil rights bill which
was passed by the senate during the late
session of congress, and which his
partisans in Tennessee dare not defend.
He is throwing this tub to the northern
whale in the hope that it will secure
him the nomination for Vice President
on the Republican ticket The civil
rights bill provides for mixed schools and
race equality in hotels, theaters, rail
way cars and public conveyances, and
Mr. Maynard supports this bill because
it is popular with the great body of tbs
northern Republicans. We see the
trimmer in this as We see it in his enun
citation of disunion sentiments in PbiIa-
delphia in 1860; his espousal of ultra
unionism during the war, and then of a
moderate policy, when such a course
could be made to sub-erve the ambition
of Horace Maynard"