Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06
THE OHIO CANVASS.
What Gov. BrownIow said 10 Gazette
Reporter.


The proprietors of the Cincinnati
Gazette recently sought through a
special reporter to obtain Gov. Brown
lows views on the currency and other
questions. We find the following
among other things in the interview
as published in that paper:
regard this Democratic raid on the
National banks, and the demand for
Imitation, as bold and dangerous effort
to repudiate the whole National debt.
and it is for this reason that Dem oc-
racy in the South favor it. They wish
to initiate the currency with a view to
bringing into disrepute like that to
which our continental money and
their Confederate script was brought
our present circulation of National
currency, andlthe ultimate reputation
of the whole National debt.
Southern Democrats regard initiation
as but another name for reputation !:
| they believe it will lead to that, and to
relieving them of the taxes of pension
ing the Union soldiers, their widows
and orphans, which is to them bitter
pill. Only short time ago leading
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said with good deal of emphasis and
bitterness when,he saw the Union pen
siOners crowding the pension offices
and receiving their pensions, that he
hoped soon to see the day when that
thing would be stopped that he was
tired of being taxed to aid in the sup
port of class Of men who had fought
| the South"
| do not pretend to know what the
result of the election will be in Ohio,
but have no doubt that it would be
carried by the Republicans by $4,000
majority if the people Kof Ohio knew
the spirit which actuates Southern
Democracy, and could anticipate the
| baleful effects of the reelection of Gov.
/ Allen.
Correspondent-Gov. Browulow. |
/ believe you are well acquainted with
Sam. Cary, the candidate for Lieuten-
ant-Governor Of Ohio, of the De-
mocracy.
Gov. Brownlow-Oh, yes; / know
Cary well. When / made a tour of
many of the Northern States, in the
early part of the war, Cary travelled
and spoke with me. He desired TO ac-
company me, and volunteered TO do so,
/ Coriespondent-HoW did he inn
| press you?
Gov. Brownlow-He is a good talker.
| fluent in speech, and a man of some
brilliancy, but l do not regard him as
a well-balanced man, or a man Of real
ability, Until l met Cary / supposed
l said harder things about Democracy,
| and applied more epithets to the lead
ers Of that party than any man had
ever met, but Cary certainly equalled,
| " he did not surpass me. He said the
| " rebel Democracy of the South and
their copperhead allies of the North
would be pulling hemp without foot
hold II justice were meted out to
/ them" give his exact language. In
ms conversation in hotel parloIs, and
other public places, he was particular
ly severe on Nallandigham, ex-Sena-
tor Geo. Il. Pugh, and the present
Leaders OF the ONO Democracy gener-
ally. | discovered while / was with
Cary that he had political aspirations I;
that he wanted to be Lieutenant Gov
ernOr Of Ohio, end | attribute his sud
den somersault from an extreme Re-
publican 10 an extreme Democrat 10
this ambition. In a word. for the
empty honor of presiding over one
branch of the State Legislature. with
a possibility of old man Allen diving
and giving him few months of the
Goyernorship, Sam. Cary would glad
ly betray any party or principle. Sir,
he is a mountebank, political pirate
and prostitute.
Correspondent-At this point Gcv.
Brownlow called my attention to nu-
merous editorials which had appeared
during the past several weeks In the
Knoxville WING AND CHRONICLE, of