Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-14

cuiO W lusist On MS VOttug, telling HiIn
that no body else was running and
that it amounted to nothing any way,
aud many voted, as some say, from
idle curiosity, and others declaring at
the time that when the November
election came up they would vote fer
some one else. And second, why Mr..
Moody got no more, he gotup the con-
Germ; Re went all over the county
making speeches in the most populous
parts of the county, travelling over
mountain high and through valleys
low, spending his time, his talent aud
his money proclaiming at other places
Ct supposed as he did here, that Dunu
was not candidate, aud after all was
said and done, out ola voting popula-
ton of near 1900, and an actual vote
cast of 1852, only TO get 100 votes all
told, black, white, Democratic and
Republican, under all the eireumstan-
ces would not such as this convince
man Of ordinary aspirations that he
was not much of u choice. "Perspeeu-
ity" was Turner's word. Now, is not
this popularity with vengeance l
not only think it would require pref
ty strong nerve for an aspirant to have
submitted his claims TO an election
manipulated by his opponent, but also
think it requires pretty strong nerve
in Moody to stick to the track.
Mr.. Turner says l am ambiguous
when say there was no opposition,
yet speaks of an election being manip-
ulated by his opponent don't see
any ambiguity here. for as soon as one
became a candidate, would he and
Moody not be opponents. But the
ambiguity clearly comes in when he,
Mr.. Turner or some one else says, AN
election manipulated by his Ct, Mr..
Moody's) opponent" Now l ask who
is meant2 Why is Il, Mr.. Moody put
in brackets? Did Mr.. Turner do it,
was it slip of me pen of his friend
Moody himself? Turner may have
written this, but it looks very much
like somebody else whom he refers
to-, says Mr. Turner or some one else,
''as the manipulating opponent, I know
not unless himself Che being one of the
committee that ordered the primary
election for we all know his aspira-
tons and that he has long been like
Barkis." Well l will inform you that
r. II. Moody was the man referred to.
and am sorry that | did not make
myself understood. Mr.. Moody is
also a member of the same committee,
and the prime mover in the primary,
and the only candidate up to the first
Monday in September, 1876, and l
can't see how | was not understood.
What he means by being like "Barkis"
know not, never having heard the
name or seen it in print before.
If the gentlemen mean by saying
I'VE all know his aspirations" that [
desire legislative honors, he is simply
mistaken. This is the fourth election
of the kind since l have been in this
county, and each time l have been
solicited by as good and as representa-
tive men as there are in the county. |
| have declined, except the first election
my name was submitted to conven-
ton in Springfield, and | received
every vote of my county. And if L
should ever have money enough to be-
come a candidate for the Legislature
before a primary election got up by
myself, and travel all over the county,
soliciting votes, run by myself and get
only ago votes, will know that am
not the choice of the county, and will
at once retire from the field and leave
the track free to some representative
man.
Mr.. Turner says that Moody never
asked office at the hands Of the county
more than once, and then says two
years ago he was a candidate and was
defeated in convention. Is not that
once? And is he not candidate now ?
And if once and once don't make
twice, the arithmetic is wrong, and Mr..
Turner ought to correct it. Mr.. Turn
er denies that he has ever bothered the
people of Cheatham county. Well,
let's see about the bother. If being a
candidate for the Legislature twice in
two years, on a residence of three or
four years in the county, amt coming
it pretty steep, l am only mistaken
that is all. But further, two years age
it was understood around here that4i
Cheatham would unite upon man
and present him to the representative
convention, the nomination would be
accorded to her. When the Cheatham
county delegation got to Charlotte
they met for consultation, and it was
ascertained that Moody had five votes
and Dunn seventh the delegation. The
Dunn men seeing that if they went be.
fore the convention they would lose the
nomination, and proposed compro.
mise, and not present the name o.
either, but agree upon some other man
To this the Moody men would no
agree they went before the conven.
ton divided and lost the nomination
! Dunn receiving after the first ballo
9 and Moody / votes. After severa
ballots Moody withdrew, but not unit
it was too late Dickson and Houston
having agreed on Pollard, and so We
lost the nomination. He is again a
candidate, and as Dickson is numeri.
cally as strong as the other two coun.
ties, the possibilities are that she will
get the representative and Cheatham
will be left out again.
Turner says Mr.. Moody has always
paid his Just debts and retained money
enough to be this day in good cred.
it." | can't see what connection thi.
can have with Lis candidacy. On this
point, however, | have this to say, il
he has retained the amount OF money
indicated he must have it invested il
bonds. or some other non taxable com.