Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-30
SIXTY THOUSAND xAJORITY FOR
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Civil Rights issue has reyolutionized
East Tennessee. No matter how
adroitly the Chattanooga platform
lodges it, the man placed on that plat
form is so thoroughly identified with it
that he could not shake it off if he
would. Itsticks closer to him than the
shirt of Nessus. In Middle and West
Tennessee, where this same issue viii
be his trump card with the rank and
file of the Republican party, We have
no fears for the result. Maynard will
lose many white votes here, but his
heavy loss will be in East Tennessee.
Civil Rights is not the only thing
that works against him. The Western
furore against monopoies has struck
the mountains. The strength of the
Grange movement is indicated by the
support at Knoxville of journal spe-
cially devoted to that order. These
Changers have been talking over the
extortions of the Tariff, and the arrant
injustice of taxing the poorer sections
of the country for the benefit of rich
New England. All these things tell
against the Narragansett, who has
throughout his Congressional career
studied the interests of his native sec
ton as sedulously as though he direct
ly represented it.
For these reasons it is obvious that
we will have little excuse if we do not
roll mp for our Gubernatorial nominee
the heaviest majority ever cast by Ten
nessee. We shall be content with no
less. Less would disgrace US. When
Republicans are becoming disguised
with their party, and voting our ticket,
it is no time for us to manifest luke
warmness in the good cause The Re-
pubicans- could not have selected a
man more typical of Civil Rights than
Horace Maynard, and thecondemnation
of that "sum Of villainies" cannot be
better uttered than at the ballot box IN
his overwhelming and utter defeat.
Some tell us that he is really running
for the Vice-Presidency, and in case Of
Republican success in 1876, might pos
sibly become His Accidency, the Presi-
dent The surtst way to nip such un-
toward ambitions in the bud, is to show
in positive and emphatic manner,
how little support he commands IN his
own State. This is the more necessary
after the apparent endorsement given
him by Tennessee two years ago,
through our Iamentable divisions. May
nard should be "sot back" and placed
at his proper estimate among his fell
lows
Taking the other side of the picture,
James D. Porter deserves at our hands
the heartiest and most united support.
He Is IN every sense a representative
Tennesseean. lie is the nominee of
the largest, ablest and most patriotic
party convention of this generation.
He is the embodiment Of fraternal re-
fpeaceand security. He
bridges the ohasm of 1872, and invites
alto co-operatefor the preservation of
| self-government. He combines the
qualities to reunite the unhappy fac
tons of the past and restore the d.
vided household. As such, he deserves
the active support of all Democrats
and Conservatives. Every vote and
voice should Join to swell his majority.
These are not the times for any man to
depend on his neighbors to run the
machine of State. The times are out
Of Joint. States can no longer indulge
in close contests, when the Federal
Government seems ever ready to inter-
fere. Each Cay develops some new
claim Of power in the General Govern
ment, or some new excuse for interven-
ton in local affairs. Tennessee seems
safe enough to-day; and yet under At
torney General Williams proclamation,
Federal Marshals may at any moment
supersede officers of the peace as was
recently done in Gibson county. Who
dreamed, one month ago, of the Louisi-
ana upheaval? The times are big with
strange and unexpected events. Let
Tennessee, therefore, express its full
voice at the ballot-box in unmistakable
numbers. Everything warns us to do
our utmost. Such is the duty of the
hour Whatsoever thy hand fndeth TO
do, DO it with thy might. Porter must
have no less than fifty thousand ma