Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-01

day before the result was known and
our readers will doubtlessly gather
from them that they were indicated In
spirit Of hopeful anticipation not un-
mixed with grave apprehensions. We
knew well that an almost universal
conviction had been long growing in
all parts of the country, North, South,
East and West, that the cause of re-
form demanded Samuel J. Tilden as
its typical champion but we have
witnessed again and again the success
of political gamblers in thwarting and
traversing the will Of the people, we
knew that some men had gone to st.
Louis expressly to defeat the nomina-
ton of the peoples champion, men
few in numbers indeed, but deadly in
their determination, and foreboding
mixed itself with our hopes which we
could not quite shake off till the num-
bers of the successive ballots were in
rapid Succession flashed along the lines
and the grand result soor placed be-
yond all doubt. There is sufficient
evidence that the malcontents left no
stone unturned to effect their purpose.
The sore-heads of the Tammany ring
were in close confidence with the soft
moneyagitators of Ohio and Tennessee.
VOORHEES, demurred and Sunset Cox
damned with faint praise, but it was a
dead thing from the beginning +; the
Convention was eminently peoples
Convention and politicians with axes
to grind could no more resist the
steady rush of the peoples will than a
few chips scattered on the surface
could resist the mighty plunge of
Niagara. They could not even shape
their own course, but were carried
along with the mighty stream so that
at last all were Tilden men, and if a
corporal's guard of them persisted they
were contemptuousIy thrown ashore
and left disdainfully, their puny pro-
test being drowned in the mighty laugh
of the plunging torrents. Our first
impression was an intense feeling Of
relief as of a drowning man who gets
his head above water ; our more set.
: tied feeling a tranquil and unfalter
ing assurance of success. Our only
doubts were as to the nomination Of
the election of our candidate if nom
mated we never had any.
But now we have few words to say
as to the special responsibility of Ten
nessee in the struggle now to ensue
6 She has not only the ordinary interes
e in this bushes which every State il
, the Union possesses,-the interes
which every respectable communit!
and every honest man must feel in tn,
prevalence of right over wrong, purit.
and integrity in government over pub
, lie corruption and plumber she ha
. a special scandal to wipe off from he
own scutcheon: the State of Tennes
see was scandalously misrepresenteC
by the delegation which went from
our Nashville Convention to St. Louis
by the manipulation of wire-pullers
that convention was gagged and Grip
| pied, and bound hand and foot, il
/, such way that those who had con
cocted the scheme were enabled tt
pack the delegation with men instruct
ed to defeat the nomination of Tildel
Z at all hazards. The time has not We
come for publishing the history of th,
; Nashville Convention but the proc
! that that was a politicians delegation
and no exponent of the peoples will
. must be given loudly next November
? when Tennessee will poll another two
s thirds vote for Tilden.