Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-10-28
WHO ARE THE "THIEVES AMI
BLACKGUARDS."
Tennessee Delegates 10 the Chnttn-
uoOga Convention.

the CINCINNATI commercial, very good
authority generally with Democratic
papers, referring to such assaults as
the Nashville Union and american
and bourbon Democratic organ of this
city made on the Chattanooga conven-
ton, refers to the Tennessee delega-
ton as follows:
The following were the Tennessee
delegates in the recent convention
A. S. Prosser, Jno. w. Ramsey, +. NJ.
Wright, a. G.. sharp H. NJ. Mitchell,
Parks Foster, T.. :. Jones, II. b. Bry-
ant, II. 5. Chamberlain, A. ID. Ottor~
son, w. IL. Stillwell, L. c. Camp, VIM.
Martin, j. G. Napier, w. Abbott, J.
T. Wilder, V. A. Gaskill, +. j. Fisher,
Geo. Hannings, w. S. Marshall, Jake
Brown and VIM. Wood.
The Nashville Union and american
of Thursday prints this list, and is
unfair enough to say this of the gen
tlemen named:
"There are very few men in the
State who can locate half dozen of
these representative Republicans.
With one or two exceptions they are
men of no position either in their own
party or in social life. The leaders of
the party appear to have let this out.
rage mill severely alone. 1t is well for
them to wash their hands of the dis
reputable affair"
Now, to use the mildest language,
this is mean. | know the most of
these men, and in "social position
they will compare favorably with
those who traduce them for going into
the convention.
f NJ. Wright know well. He is
physician in this city. He is a North
ern man, but has resided here six or
seven years. He is not an ot1ice-seek-
er, and / believe, has never held but
one-that of Mayor of Chattanooga.
He is useful citizen, and | doubt if
there are four physicians in East Ten
nessee who have larger practice than
he. His social position ~ is such as
to give him and his friends no con-
| Germ.
A. G.. Sharp is, believe, an Ohio
man. He is a politician. To say that
! he is a man of mo position y does
Mr.. Sharp Injustice, for he is Internal
| Revenue Collector for seventeen coun-
ties. That is considerable of a posi-
! ton. He is an uncompromising Re
publican, and his convictions on that
line are perhaps as decided as any man
who went into the convention.
Parks Foster is in no sense a poll
tician. He is a man of means from
Ohio, and has invested considerable in
the undeveloped resources of Tonnes
see, which resources he is trying to de-
velop. In Ohio his social position !"
was good, and it is certainly excellent
here. Also his credit in bank. don't
know but that he could draw his check
for enough to buy out the whole Union
and american establishment, and
move it to Chattanooga, where it's edi-
tors would learn something of the
beauties and advantages of a whole
some tolerance of sentiment-lessOns
they will never learn in Nashville
H. S. Chamberlain is Vice President
of the Rome Iron Company, by far the
largest industrial enterprise in the
South, and one of the largest iron es-
Establishments on the continent. 1t has
a larger cash capital invested than
would be required to buy every news
paper concern in Tennessee three
times over. 1t is the glory of this seci
ton of the State, and the life of large
circle. And when Northern men
hereabouts become discouraged at the
jeers and filings thrown at them be-
cause they choose to belong to a politi-
cal party, they look at the columns of
smoke ascending from the great chin
neys of the industries that they have
! founded, and take courage. Mr.. Cham
berlain's "social position is as good
as any mans in the State. He is a
most useful and respected citizen, and
so liberal in politics that man might
be with him six months and not know
to which party he belonged, unless the
/ question was asked.
| Willard Abbott is Secretary and
Treasurer of the same iron company.
! He is the sOn-in-law of Mr.. Young
| love, the well-known Cleveland iron
manufacturer and capitalist He
is a gentleman who has given his
whole energies to the work Of aiding
in the restoration of this PROSTATE sec
| ton from the establishment of manu-
! factories to the building of sidewalks
He has the esteem and respect Of the
! position beyond the reach Of ill-na-
tured filings from Nashville.
As for General John T. Wilder !
doubt if there is a man in this immc-
date section who will deny but that
he has done more for the material in
| terests Of Tennessee since the war
than any other one citizen. He was
the pioneer in locating and building
| the lockwood furnaces. lie has made
two trips to Europe this year to inter-
est English capitalists in the mineral
/ lands of Tennessee, and has been the
/ prime cause i'm getting q number Of
| them to invest and to visit this see
| ton and see for themselves. He is not
n politician, and has twice positively
/ declined to run for Congress from this
| district.
/ V. A. Gaskiil is "a lawyer and -0me-
thing Of a politician, and has am cN-
/ cellcnt social position. 1 believe me
/ was formerly a Democrat, and I know
/ that he is q very liberal man I'm DIS
/ views. He d. q better speaker than !
am writer, and can rise and explain ID
/ he feels sorrOWlul over the Union and
! AmCricaH's observation.
w. S. Marshall is the law partner OF
/ Nenophon Wheeler. He is q gentle.
man Of the highest pec,aLility, and
his "social position is Grst-cass
/ Formerly from Ohio. he has been q