Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-10-28
MAYNARD AND PORTER AT COLUM-
BIA.
Maynard Explains the $500 Special
Judge Fee.
Porter Getting Bitter as lie Gets
Scared.

scared.
COLUMBIA, MAURY Co., Tenn,
Oct. 10Th, 1874.
Special Correspondence of Knoxville Chronicle
The discussion to-day at thiSplace,
between the candidates for Governor,
was conducted in the grove near the
Female. College, where a stand had
been erected for the occasion. For the
first time since the canvass commenced
Judge Porter consented to speak out
doors. The crowd was large and the
day pleasant and the arrangement
proved to be a splendid one. Judge
Porter was introduced 10y Col. d. f,
Wade, Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee at this place, and
opened the debate in about his usual
style, but in his rejoinder, seemed to
speak with more luminosity aud bitter
feeling than we have ever noticed on
any former occasion. He said, holding
up paper in his hand, which he
claimed 10 be statement from the
Comptroller and which he failed to
read and refused to let Mr. Maynard
TGdu, llldl lut SlultllltllN llt MAJ llhiu J
had made to the effect that the public
debt, in two years of John G. Browns
administration, had increased five
millions % dollars, was utterly false,
and that lie CMayuardl knew it, He
read, what nurpOrted TO be, receipt
from Mr.. Maynard for $500, for SER
vices az Special Judge of the Supreme
Court, and charged that he was at the
same time drawing his pay as a Con-
gresham Said that he had voted
against coloren suffrage, in the last
Constitutional Convention, and that
mis- experience during this canvass led
him To believe that he was right in so
doing.
MAYNARD'S SPEECH.
He was introduced by the Hon.
Samuel ATnel, Of this place, as the
standard bearer uI the Republican
party, and commenced in his usual
eloquent and dignified way, Said the
only question his competitor had COM
mittCd himself TO was Keeping up the
Insane Asylum, which he thought was
very gOOd-so far as it went. That his
competitor had spoken in loud praises
of the convention that nominated him,
as most OF candidates nominated by a
convention DO. He said, i'm reference
to his statement that the state debt
had been increased five millions I'm two
years OF Browns administration, that
il was made from Browns own
figures, as published and that
he challenged comparison Of
the figures he had with what his
competitor claimed TO be statement
from the Comptroller, and suggested
that they each select a man To make
the comparison, 10 which Judge Porter
did not respond. He also referred Ia
the $500 pay Judge Porter charged he
had received while member of Con-
gress, and said at Nashville, Mr., POr-
ter had the concluding speech aud in
violation of the rules of debate intro
duced into bis concluding speech fGr
the first time in the debate and the
first time in the canvass copy Of a
receipt certified 10y the Comptroller fol
his services rs special Judge OF
the Supreme Court for the
month Of September 1867.
It was new to him then, and he had
time only 10 observe that the receipt
was executed by Mr.. JnO. r.. Henry,
and not himself After the speaking
he went TO the Comptroller's Office
and demanded to see the original pa
pers, He was told that they did not