Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
Judge Porter's ReiOisder at Jonesboro


said i:
Ny competitor has exhausted an
hour and thirty minutes, out of his
speech Of an hour and forty minutes,
| In endeavors to lead me back to queS-
tions discussed thread bare two years
ago from Bristol to Memphis. | do
not propose to waste my time about
questions that have no sort of vitality.
Concerning the penitentiary lease /
had nothing TO do. With the funding
bill had neitherageney nor sympathy.
Nineteen of the tweniy-four Republi-
cans voted for it. 1t was not Dem
ocratic measure. 1t was advocated on
the stump by both Brown and Free
man, and your Republican candidate
for Governor left his business, went
into the lobby, and as lobby member
worked for the passage of the funding
bill.
My competitor talks of money cor
ruption. Let him explain himself,
not deal in innuendoes. | am not the
champion of John c.. Brown. l am
the candidate of the Democratic party
for Governor. Gov. Brown is not
here to be able to answer for himself,
and / never like to hear an absent man
abused, whether he is a friend of mine
or not. When Brown and Maynard
meet they can discuss the matter, but
meanwhile | will read what Gov.
Brown says. wherein he expressly de-
MES all that in any wise reflects on his
personal integrity, and declares that
whoever gives currency to such un-
founded and unwarrantable insinua-
tl0ns, directly or Indirectly, Is a liar
and slanderer.
There is the issue plainly presented.
When my competitor goes to Pulaski
let him eat his words, or face Gov.
Brown like man, with his charges
and insinuations.
If there is aught wrong in the ad-
ministration of the State, the courts
are open the General Assembly will
soon convene. Come forward, then,
with your evidence, and we will con-
wet, it guilty, as we did Tweed. We |
will not do as the Republican Nation
al Administration, reward corrupt
men with offices as in the case of Bing-
ham and Richardson, the latter impli- !
Gated in the infamous Sanborn con-
tract, and yet appointed by Grant to |
the vacancy made by the death of Judge |
Milligan, an Office to which Horace I
Maynard aspired. Mr.. Maynard al !
ludes to violence in Tennessee. | [
honestly believe that violence has been |
brought about by the attempt to enact /
the Civil Rights bill into a law, and /
by the agitation OF its supporters. The !
bad men of the community have taken !
advantage of the agitation. These |
are the things that have led to riot.
| charge that Maynard would even
now endeavor to have the State under I
control. He refers to the /
Butler memorial, and endeavOrs to
avoid it BY reference to Senter's mes
sage. No man ever heard of the ar
rest of Ku-Klux in Tennessee under
the enforcement act. Peace did come
with Democratic government, and |
relgued until the agitation for the |
passage of the Civil Rights bill, in
famed by such appeals as Wisener's I
to the negroes IN the Chattanooga |
Convention. made in Maynar,is pres /
ence, and by Maynard, at Knoxville, |
produced trouble again.
Judge Porter read Senator Brown !
lows letter to Gov. Brown. 1t is the |
letter of man who has the nobleness |
of heart to recognize that Gov. Brown 1
has done his duty. | am not a champ |
ion of Gov. Brown. Every man may /
think of him as he may. But he did /
his duty nobly and fearlessly. May |
nard says the Federal military arrested 1
thirty men in Gibson county. |
Yes, and they discharged all but FIVE |
of them, and only hold them on the /
evidence of Gov. Browns grand jury |
of Gibson county. fr.
The Greeley candidacy was noted by
Judge Porter as the best means then |
available to restore good government.
The Democracy were not responsible |
for Greeley's previous ideas and life. |
If Senator BrownloH were in my place,
a competitor of Maynard, l would 4
cordially and unhesitatingly support |
Brownlow before | would Maynard. I
But would that compel me to endorse !
everything that Brownlow has done? 1
Thanking you for your attention, | |
repeat, intend to take Mr.. Maynard |
to the banks of the Mississippi, hold !
ing up his record all the way.-Press !
and Herald.