Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-20

a d-n how it was to come about.
Hampton knew that the Radicals here
wouldn'G vote for Tilden and Hen
bricks, and at the same time they
hated Cha mberlain, the Republican
candidate for Governor. like the devil
It was understood that Cox and
Mackey said they would bolt the
Hampton State ticket ii Hampton
would withdraw the Tilden electors
and thus insure the State for The Rs.
publican National ticket. Hampton
virtually said to these men, if op)n
elect me Governor / don't care whom
you elect PresideRt1Tbatw as-wby
he came 10 me at Abbeville with the
proposition have mentioDed1
) This talk stirredup all Hampton S
old Adam, and he straightway
ordered Anew York Herald re>
porter. Very soon one was found,
for they are ubiquitous, and
Senator H. unbosomed itself to this
reporter thusly; A~'~
awhile L have never condesceBded
to notice the rumOrs, of which the
Herald speaks to-day, about Senator
Hamptoh's in6deiify to the Demo-
cratic electoral ticket in 1876, which
have been floating in the air ever
since; and whileI can not agree with
the Herald that they have, as it says,
now found . respectable sponsor IN
General Gary, still as some one is at
last found 10 father these slanders, 1
am induced to pronounce them ute rIy
and absolutely false. That they are
false" lie continued, can easily be
established by the following facts
Soon after the election in 1876 an
article appeared in an Augusta, Geor-
gia. paper, of course anonymously,
making the same charges and refer.
ring to General M'Gowan, as Gary
now does. He was behind them, as
he is now, and this article, if not
written by General Gary, was at least
inspired by him. The chairman of
the State Executive Committee, A. G.
Haskell, subsequently, elected to the
Supreme Bench OF the State, immedi-
atefy responded to it and denounced
it as untrue. General M'Gowan also
replied to it and took the sam eground."
So complete and oyeTwhelming were
these replies that the author OF the
SANDER made no response to them, and
l need only to refer you to their letters
for my full vindication and that of the
De mocratic party of south Carolina.
That party acted in perfect good faith
during the whole canvass, and the
TACT that Mr.. Hayes majority by Re-
pubheanA count was only about six
hundred notes over Mr.. Tilden sho VS.
how earnestly we worked for the lat
ter's election. That [ consulted with
General Gary on this matter or any
other during that canvass or before il,
or since, has entirely escaped my recol.
lectlon, IL this ever occurred 1t may
nave been my misfortune that [ have
not done SO, but as / have always re.
garded his views as narrow, unwise
ana dangerous, l have studiously
avoided asking bis advice or acting on
his suggestions.n
Anything like careful comparis
son of these two interviews will
show that there is lie out, some
where. There may be two or three,
but we will just consider it one.
Our position as Republican chron.
lcler renders it unnecessary for us
to express our opinion as to who
told it; it is enough that it is there
Good luck to them both in theil
fight. May they long live to act
the highly respectable part of Xii
kenny cats.