The New York herald., 1874-11-02
The Ex-President Striving to
Reach the Senate.
Another Triangular Campaign In
Tennessee.
THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.
The Great UDiOniSt the Friend and Instructor
Of tho People.

ASHhOoCOSs
on the stump is to tell the people that he still
Wishes as he did four years ago. to be their United
States Senator in place OF poor, atlicred old Gov
ernor Brownlow. whose mental vieor is consum-
ing the remnant OF his bodily strength, and whose
prejudice Is so strong and partisanship so narrow
as to make 1t impossible Tor him to represent any
body outside OF the little fanatical band OF saints
and martyrs hat composes the Brownlow faction.
There are probably not many persons north
ward, eastward or westward OF Tennessee that
have as yet taken to thinking seriously OF the
probability and the effect Of Andrew Johnson's
temperance IN public liie Nevertheless, 1t Is a
sooer fact to-day that few things In politics are
more likely to happen in the next few months
than his election to the United States Senate by
the Tennessee Legislature, IN obedience to
A POPULAR DEMAND
OF the kind that Tennessee politicians are accus.
toned to obey, and which Johnson, with his strong
everyday sense and knowledge Of the people and
their politics, knows how TO call out 1t would
perhaps, be deathblow to the Senatorial hopes OF
an Eastern politician to mount the stump and
claim the coveted place from the people, who do
not elect, instead OF from the Legislature, that
docs; but, as first said, Mr. Johnson knows the To-
callty and the people and has shown real sagacity
In taking the field In the way that he has done.
And 1t is safe to say that he gets the voters on
his side this time it Will go hard with the ONCE
holders who may try at the State cap
ito next winter to defeat him by log
rolling pipe laying, buying ana selling or any
other kind Of political treachery.
The ex-President has an opponent in the field
who Is pursuing just the same course as himself
that is, going about the State and telling the peo.
pie tina. he wants their legislative delegates TO
elect him 70 the United States Senate by their
command. The manner Of this gentleman and his
treatment of his distinguished rival is we'll Illus
trated ny ms name, though tins Is not SAID IN
qualities OF mind and heart of Colonel Savage.
THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.
What the platform OF the two senatorial gladla.
tors may be II would be rather difficult to gather
from their public utterances. Tney are both
against the Civil Rights Dill, and would fight its
passage rs bitterly as though they aid not believe
namely that 1t Is unconstitutional and could not
survive the carrying OF the first case under 1t up
to the Supreme Court, and that 1t Is now kept
standing only as device to keep the colored
voters IN the republican traces little longer,
1t IL probable, too though he has said nothing OF
the kind as yet, that savage Is at heart quite as
wiling as Johnson to noid & rhat the national bord
ment to Justify the application OF future interest
to the wiping out OF the principal. But II they
tany G I 40 no Iurther ogstner The rea issue osS
between Johnson and hls opponent, or, rather.
ernor Jonn G. Brown may he said now to be fairly
before the people 1or the United States Senator
SNIP hs & eeea M fairly eogh 10 the sur
nessee as IL Is matter OF profound ignorance ut
the North: That issue, lamentabe as 1T IS to-day,
Is just this, whether the State Is to be ruled by
those who tried or desired TO destroy the Union or
those VINO tried and desired TO preserve 1t.
TRAITORS AND LOYAIISTS.
1t Is rather startling, Is 1t not, to see that, in
good old tennessee. winch was imperilled. saved,
reconstructed and redeemed, all within the space
OF ten or eleven years, the vital question to-day
before her people Is the same as IL was in the
spring OF 1861, namely-shan the Unionlsts or dis
meant to say that disunon itself the issue, as it
was nearly fourteen years ago. but the people are
divided into the same classes as them: those
DO ''l not love and have emu never GS' loved ;"ai
the surprising strength OF Johnson in Tennessee
lies for with all his laults blunders and vagares
as President, and despite his eocutlonary rant,
fustlan and bucKram III all his public rela tions,
Andrew Johnson Is and always mas been sincere
and hearty lover OF the Union, and every man,
woman and child in tennessee knows 1t, whether
friend or foe. The people have not ior-
gotten how an Incorporate and unprncipled
Governor, aided by gang OF the worst political
lie and power, parayzed Union majority OF
60. 900 votes in 1861 and carried Tennessee into
intensely suspicious and anxious to-day when the
Union majority Is quite as great and equally
ayerse to being betrayed By small band oil pollt-
ical adventurers. Blythe term Union majorities''
Is not meant party majority for the adminIstra-
ton at Washington, which, as matter OF TACT,
has now put a slender following OUTSIDE
OF East Tennessee and OF those in some
way dependent upon the government ior
living and is regarded by many
OF the Unionists as q burden instead OF q support
but the peOpe who love the Union for the Unions
sake ana VINO love our form Of government es
laid down In the constitution, with its attractive
democratic equality OF rank and privilege and Its
due preservation OF personal liberty and local In
dependence. This Is the Kind OF Unionst that
Johnson 49, and If the various democratic conserva-
tive tickets are successful in the approaching elec-
tion and the number OF MS enemies eleced upon
them exceed the number OF his friends VINO are
on the same tickets, they must beat Mr.. Johnson
with Union man lor the Senate or they Will not
beat him at ALL unless they betray their constitu-
encies. ii the radicals carry the state, they, Of
course, Will nave the most TO say about the Sena-
tor TO be elected in place OF Brownlow; but as
the radicals stand now, they are more hitting sub
jects for the thoughtful pen OF the speculative
philosopher than the hasty pencil OF the live jour-
nalist
CONFEDERATE sYMrATHIEs.
Colonel Savage, 1t should be said. is more open
The surface. In one OF his great speeches ne went
so far us TO make the honored name OF the great
Confederate soldier Lee, serve as medium
through Which to appeal to Whatever Confederate
synlpathies and memories might be latent In The
breasts OF his audience; but Johnson, so lar, has
been content to assume that the people and him.
sell understand each other on the point OF loyalty
to the Union, ana tnat the people know where his
opponents stand and what tney have IN their
minds, II not on their lips. He also thinks that
they see that savage Is simply put forward by the
estate House Gang" to make the way easier for
Both Johnson and Savage are now at the Max
well House. in TINS city, on their way TO fill sell
ma 4e appointments that VIII carry them to the
eve vi the election. johnson having declined
Savage's proposition to follow the example OF the
candidates Tor the Goyernorship and Congress, by
having Joint debates III the g0oG Old southwestern
fashion, and Savage having tired o.! interceptng
and iorestaling Johnson on his circuit IN a rude
and barbarous way wholly without excuse, the
proprieties are now preserved between them,
but Savage hangs close upon the flank
OF Johnson, and thus compels hotel and
railroad anu stage encounters, in which
personal bitterness and the nurtured hate OF
many years prevent even the exchange OF the
formal courtesies oil soca. life. savage Is from
McMtnnyile, IN the mountainous region oil Coffee
county, has served IL Congress, Is true child OF
nature and freedom as understood In the wilder
parts OF Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, Is all
lire anu lervor, and rs not weighted In the race
by any suspicion OF dignity or poisn. Johnson is
misIudgeu Dy those VINO forecast hts possible
Senatorial career at Washington upon his canvass
IN the mountains or Tennessee. Nobody admitted
to his society at nome, or among his personal
irienos. can deny to HIM rghtuy the possession Of
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