Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-14
THE DEMOCRATIC Senate
RIAL CONVENTION AT
ATHENS.
The RepudiatiOPists Have Things All
Their Own Way.
And q Portion of the state Cred t
Delegates Withdraw.

ATHENS. Sept. II.
MB. EDITOR: A democratic convention
to nominate candidate for the 9Th sera-
torirl distr ict composed of the counties of
McMinn, Monroe, Meigs. Loudon, T, TX |
and Bradley, was held at Athens to-day.
A respectable number Of delegates were
present.
Jerry Mckenzie. Of Meigs county, was
made tenn Dorary chairman, and w. l.
| Lane, secretary The usual commute
were appointed and the Convention I'D
i j0u ned for dinner
The convention met promptly at O'Clock.
An attempt was made to appoint state
credit man, for Nc, inn county, on the
| committee on resolutions, in place OF u
low tax delegate irreguIarly appolnie1;
This opened the fight in earnest, ana
must say Mr.. Mckenzie proved himself 10
be the most stupid, inefficient, Vacclliatibs
, ard helpless chairman, certainly, thaI ever
attempted to preside over u senatorial
2 convention. Sometimes some iouf 10 SIX
persons were on the floor at the same tlme'
2 aud all speaking at once, ana occa-
sionally some che swearing ike he was
| in bar room, while others were Missing SHd
= cheering alternate y. just here the assistant
| secretary Kissed the "cusslng member
e from McMinn who IN loud ana lLsuIt-
ing manner said: You had bet r get out
: of here ecu id radicals" whereup0n the
assistant scribe lit upon bis feet and re-
J tOrled, You had batter put me out" a
q number of persons cried put him cut,
and a rush was made from both 81 es to the
e center Of the court room, where the par
ties stood confronting each other, and I
= number were seen to place their nands OF
n their pistol pockets. FOR Ie" minute
!" ANARCHY reign supreme, and Their
e seemed to be u fine prospect for an old
fashioned row. but fortunate y no lick WI
a struck; and the ''cussing' member yer,
soon discovered that any attempt to for
cIbly eject the assistant scribe would be
:. hazardous business, and he backed dow
and apolcgized, and thus row, ana mos
lie likely blOodshed, avoided.
AS soon as order was restored perma
IS nent organization was effected. Very 500
the committee on resolutions made two re
'o ports-a majority and minority report
The mrjority report being substantial J.
the Wilson platform, opposing any SETTLE
ment of the state debt not fret su omiLtt
~ to the people at special election. Tn
y majority reported simply objected to tn
a portion of the minority report. X. Nc
Nplley. of the cleveland Banner, move
Ks the ad ption Of the maj 'rity TepO' t,
Mr.. Dement,, If McMinn, i"tr duced
AZ resolution as substitute and offered 1t
OF lieu of both reports, embody ing that POI
ton OF me national Ctt1oCi htlC ptotiOl
It. which declares in favor Of : sustaining /
public debt bogh national and state" Stror
ar nppeals we're then made bg w. f. Ian
, aud others, to the repudiationsts not
stultify themselves by placing themsels
Re in antagonism to the tenets, doctrines ar
traditions of The old democratic party :"
Is illustrated by long line Of distinguish
states men etc. af.er which the vote W
i0 taken by counties upon the re olution
TT lieu, and it was inconunently voted dow
by the decisive vote of 81 to 10, and GR
be Hancock, who endorses, and is the repT
sentative of that platform, was thCs viftu,
u" I ~ defeated ard repudiated by this dem
. cratic convention $50 called.
The majority report WAS then adopted
it. vote Of II to 10, whereupon the Sta
credit men, after stating that TIE conve
I'm ton having, by its action, placed its
without the pale of the mOcratic par
LoI they could no longer act with it, and wCu
rlv and did retire.
~ w. l. Welcker, CT Loudon county,
Is, II. Smith, of Meigs county, and John
TO in nomination by the convention. L
az two-third rule was adopted,
0J Mr. Welcker received some four
ATE FIVE votes on the first ballot and was th
dropped, and after some ten or twelve b
lots MI Smith withdrew his name, a
Mr.. J. G. Carter was declared the una
nous choice of the convention,
ers The Wilsonites captured the convent
,,,r and had things all their own Way. T
NY sonally, Mr.. Carter is a clever gentlem
ma but he is An original, intellig gent and C
scientious repudiator. He and his party hi
at become so thoroughly inculcAted with
IL poison cf reputation that they are ute
ole blind to all reason, law, public morals
vas public honor.