The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-11-13
OUR KNOXVILLE LETTER.
KNoxyILLB. Nov. Q, 1873


KNoxvLLB, Nov. Q, 1878.
To the Editor OF the Morristown Gazette:
RUMoRs OF NEW REPUBLICAN PAPER.
For a day or two past it has been ru-
mored on our streets that a new Repub-
lican paper would soon be started in this
city under the auspices of Messrs. Houk
& Gibson. The latter gentleman, you
know, is Houk's partner in law, and was
an active and vigilant supporter OF
Houk's election. [ have heard it said
that he furnished him with the ''sinews
of war;" and, in many ways, did him
effective service. If the newspaper is
inaugurated-and imagine it win be
Gibson will stand at the head Of it, will
be editor-in chief, furnish the brains
and the greenbacks to keep it afoat. II
is apparent that he and the late Con.
gresham elect propose to be the leaders
of the Republican party in this district
and to throw the ChrOnscLe and its editor,
Capt. Rule, into the shade, or rather
knock the concern into a cooked hat. ,
There is a terrible feud existing be-
tween the Houk -taction and the Rule
faction, but why the former should be
so embittered against the latter in view
of the notorious fact that the Chronicle
conducted itself so quietly and respect.
fully towards Houk in his contest fol
Congress, is something the common
herd" do not understand.
RTMORs OF A NEW T,En1oc,p ATTIC opcAr
In the meantime there are also actiyc
rumors to the effect that another Demo
cratic paper, daily and weekly, will,
more than likely, come to the surface.
1t is strongly talked of and urgently
demanded by a number of the truest
Democrats and most influential citizens
in our city and in the country. Two
prominent gentlemen near Strawberry
Plains informed the writer the other
day that there was, in the immediate
section, a universal clamor for the es.
Establishment of such journal. They
further remarked that large patronage
could be secured. Here in Knoxville
the feeling is irresistible to have pa
per 80 freed from private parties and
huge corporations as to make it the OF.
gan of independent thought and the ex-
ponent of sound Democratic principles.
How the matter will end, can't say,
but, judging from all have seen and
heard, it is quite probable that the pa
per in question will, some Of these days
before long, be given to the public.
THE GAZETTE ENDORSED.
You have made many friends by your
editorial course with reference to Hon.
A G. Watkins. You have scores and
scores of ''retainers" who will retain
you In the future to tell the truth and
to battle for the right. He was defeated
by the indifference and the actiUe 0ppOsi-
ton of some Democrats, the majority, if
not all, of whom we're in favor. of one
James Sewer, an acknowledged Repub-
lican and so pronounced to be by the
Knoxville Chronicle.
VICTORY IN THE EAST.
mean, my dear sir, in the upper dis
trict. I rejoice with you, as every true
Democrat will in all parts of the State.
While l did not and could not, without
sitting every instinct of my manhood,
endorse the idea of prosecuting Major
Pettibone on account of his nativity, at
the sametime could not be otherwise
than intensely favorable to the election
of Robt. L. Taylor. An opposite desire
would have been basely treacherous to
the Democratic party, despicable stab
at most worthy and talented young
gentleman; not only so, bu. blow at
two of his nearest kinsmen-his father
and uncle, Col Landen G. Haynes, de-
ceased, both of whom have always res
pected not only on account Of their per-
sonal worth; which was without stain,
but on account of their splendid abili-
ties. Young Taylor is "chip of the
old block" and has running in his veins
the blood of two of the most eloquent
and effective orators Tennessee has ever
produced.