The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-09-06
NUMBER 27.
The Poisoned Chalice Returned.
From the Knnxrilla .rrihrlne

ers TO revolt at the action Of their
recent state Convention, especially
in regard to the selection OF Henry
S. Foote to head their State Elec-
toral ticket. The loud and angry
murmurings of dissatisfaction that
salute their ears from every direc.
etion are fully justified by their own
teachings. When the Democratic
Convention saw fit to nominate Ex-
Governor Harris for State Elector
there was one universal howl raised
throughout the Republican camp and
then, for the first time in our States
history. we believe. we heard the
doctrine preached that. by his nomi-
nation for simple electoral trust.
the Democratic party had made it.
self responsible fer his personal re-
cord, and that whatever he NAV have
deaes in time pasts that was distaste-
fni to any portion of the people, was
the legitimate subject of Inquiry In
the progress of canvass Involving
only the respective claims OF TIlden
and Hayes to the Presidency of the
United States. In spite of Demo.
cratic protest TO the contrary. every
Radical journal in the State and ey.
cry speaker who appeared before the
people, seized upon the war record
OF ex. Governor Harris and burden.
ed the very air with fiercest denun.
Citations of the party that had put
him forward as one of their expo
nents. So universally had this style
of unprecedented political warfare
been adopted. that the Republican
party In Tennessee is now absolute
~ estopped from denying its legiti-
macy. Its leaders have sown the
wind, and they cannot justly COM
plain il now they must reap the
whlrlwind. They taught their 7own
people to believe that it was a ter
rible thing in the Democracy to
place upon their ticket the name of
man who, as Governor of Tennes-
see' had esponsed the Confederate
cause and aided in, the separation Of
the State from the Federal Union.
They must not complain that their
own people. being thus taught,
should now turn upon them with
just indignation and demand to know
how it comes that the name of Hen
ry S. Foote stands at the head of
the Republican ticket in Tennessee.
These people remember that, while
Governor Harris was organizing his
provisional force. this same Henry
S. Foote, in pursuance of his own
promptings and spolitical DESIRES"
was canyassing East Tennessee,
pouring out his bitter denunciations
OF President Lincoln and Secretary
/ Seward, indaming the passions of
the people, urging the enlistment of
the young and the old in the army
OF Governor Harris, and by all the
means in his power aiding in the
work of taking Tennessee into the
Southern Confederacy And re-
i membering all .his. these people
now turn upon the men. who but the
other day, were everywhere seeking
to revive all the revengefuT war-feel-
ing, not only against Governor Har-
ris, but against the Presidential can
| -didate in whose behalf he had been
nominated, and call upon them to
explain in what respect Henry S.
Foote is better to be trusted by
tsloyal men, than Ex-Governor Har-
Fis with whom he was a most senthu-
| siastic and volunteer co-laborer.
They call, but they call in vain, for
a satisfactory explanation.
! Again. With most touching rev.
erence for the memory of Andrew
| johnson, these same Republican
Headers grew eloquently indignant
lover the courageous insult" that
had been offered to every friend of
the late Ex-P.esident, by the nomi-
| nation of his 'smost deadly enemy,
| Isham G.. Harris" No possible ap-
peal, by which the feelings of the
friends of Andrew Johnson could be
moved and stirred in opposition TO
Gov. Harris and the Democratic par
| ty, was left unmade. Now, it was a
matter of public history that Andrew
Johnson and Isham @. Harris were,
for many years prior TO the former s
death, decided personal enemies.
Honorable men may bate each other,
aad the public does not often care
to investigate the merits Of their
quarels. But whatever may have
been the intensity of mutual person
/. al unfriendliness between .Messrs.
johnson and Harris, there was at
least one accusation that the latter
never preferred against the former
!, ItjWas reserved for Henry S. Foote,
! who now heads the Republican tick
ct in Tennessee. to deliberately write
: and print over his own signature, i'm
!. the Chronicle, the solemn and yet
/ startling charge that Aadrcso John
son suas a party to the conspiracy thai
resulted IN the assassination Of PfieSi
: dent A5,uham Lincoln. Less than
} three short years ago, did Henry S
! Foote, maintain, through a8labored
e marshafng of the evidence, that An
! drew Johnson was guilty. Of thil
= great crime. Now if, according tC
{ Tennessee Republican ethics, the
1 / personal aninosity that had existed
i between sEx-President johnson anC
! / Ex-Governor Harris, were q sUffi
e / eient reason. for the abandonment o
! the Democratic party By Mr.. John
: sons friends, with what show o
|, consistencysor honesty can the thou
e sands Of Republicans whorevete thl
: memory Of the dead Ex- President
lfI support q ticket that il headed b,
B Henry S. Foote who. after Andfev
i Jehnson had hanorably filled oHt hi
al Presidential term and had been fo
years living IN the retirement Of hi
home, cody launched forth the, a:
founding charge that the Ex-Pres
. dent had been accessory to the as
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