Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-15
SEWER COUNTY.
some Healthy Remarks About a
Democratic Journal.
Who are the Men Who Pay the
Taxes ia Sewer?
SEv1ERv LIE, Tenn, Oct. 8, 1890

SEvIERV LIE, Tenn, Oct. g. 1880.
Mr. EDITOR On Monday, October 4th
the republicans met in the court house at
Sevierville and organized a Garfield and
Arthur club. 7. D. Wynn, chairman of
the county court, was elected president, j.
II. Walker vice president j. +. Ford sec
rotary, and w. @. Chandler treasurer.
| When the opportunity was EXTENDED for
! memb rshfp, enc hundred and TWO came
| forward and joined, and among those JOIN
| ing were many of the best and most su b.
| stantial citiz MS OF the county. The meet
ing was large ana enthusiastic, and let me
add, Mr.. Editor, that Sewer county, in the
coming election, is going to be found just
where she was found III 1861, when Tom
Williams boss, Isham g. Harris, tried 10
| bulldOze her out of the union.
| On the same day of which / write, Mr.
! Duggan, the republican candidate for
state senator in this district, made 3
! speech here, and a though he don't
claim to be an exc llent pub ic speaker,
| yet his speech on this occasion may truth
! fully be said to have been an able one he
made powerful argument in favor Of the
! entire reDu bIcan ticket-state and national.
| There IS no longer any doubt OF ms eiec-
! ton. The effect of Mr.. StatfUrd's cnndi-
dacy has been TO harmonic the republican
|
| Duggan the support o the ent re party.
| Mr.. staff I'd fails to meet Mr.. Duggen in
debate and the indications are that still
| hunt is his programme. / deem it moth
ing m re than simpls justice to ask leave
to correct through the columns of your
paper, a gross lander perpetrated on the
good Peep of tue Fair Garden Commu-
nifty, in Sewer county, by little sap
| headed fello~ by the name OF Summers,
! WHO is following tLe congressional canvass
IN this district as cob carrier to Mr.. Will
liams. La his account Of the debate at
Fair Garden between Judge Houk and
Mr., Williams, he took occasion t3 say that
the people were an ignorant, poor class,
and that not more than four or five were
able to take paper-the remainde had to
be furnis b edwiLh pap rs free of charge
| Every oOdV who knows the people OF that
section knows this is emphaLlcaily unit ue.
The people Of that district q g among the
best educated, and rs Glass, are the best
livers il the county. They have the best
school houses, and employ the best teacs -
ers and pay them the best prices and to-
day, there are no less than a dozen ten
year old boys in the community that can
teach the little ign Tamus who thus mis-
represented them, for Two years. IL is
disgusting, and at The same time, little
amusing to see democrats who actual, y
spell the name of the Deity with a small
&, from pure ignorance, get together and
resolve that the demo, rauc Earty repre-
sents the educated and taX-paying class Of
the county. For instance take Ses Ter
county as an example. There is L OF a
more Intelligent, Wel.-to do class Of people
in any county IL the entire state. The
vot ng population is about 2,5u0 hundred
| republicans 10 about 4U, not all of whom
are democrats, but who vote the democrat
ic ticket. Among the Z 500 republicans
! are about l. 40 OF our most substantial,
best informed, and weaithlest cltizens,
and the remaInii l 300, as class, are
about the av rage Of good rather poor,
moderately well inform d people, who
read enough to know the republican party
saved the country IN It's hour of peril. and
gave TO them the free homes, free speech,
and free suffrage that they enjoy to-day.
Among the 4tU VINO vote the democratic
ticket are about upon quite liberal estI-
mate in their tayur) one hundred of our
best informed and wealthiest citIz ms, and
about one humid ed ana fifty poor men who
believe The publican party passed the
noted dog law" and about rs many more
who vote The democratic Lcket tor vAri1C S
reasons; some on acc unL OF the revenue
law; and Others who are work hands tor
leading democrats vote it bec ,use ia, y
tninK IL is tneIr duty 10 vote with their
employ ers, ana because hey have not the
courage 10 vote otherwise
NUW, LDbS6 bI6 Lilb lhCLS appUb bnS TG q
tive numb eTs, InLe llgence aud wealth Of
the tW parle i'll Sewer county, and YET
: when. MIR. William and the aioru,a aid
lntle Tribune man We're here a short time
tago, about half dozen OF The leading
sturs of DEM crazy here, and men who |
cAndidly confess are good Citjz-ns, called
on them at the CuLiett house ami passed q
EresGlutIou resolving Jaat the democrats oil
Sewer county, though few IN number, con-
| GIL I,asH 4, nf 40 In
and INTEL genCe OF the county, and paid
three aurtns OF The likes Now, | don
think these gentlemen would Wltiully and
deliberately IN ~ 9 suln Il mIsotatemenG but
when few democrats get together on such
an occasion rs This va, they soon get
themselves wrought up 10 degree Of en-
tnusl SIN that makes them actually, aud,
TOR the time being, honestly believe That all
democrats are very Intelligent and very
rich. 1ne little donkey. lie Tribune man,
made no allowance for tie owe estimate OF
the occAs on, and WrOte to his litlle paper
that three hundred d. mucTats in Sewer
county pay thIee-tOurths of the taxes OF
the county. The fact is, they don't pay
over one,tlird of them. We should hoI
nave d ed 1t necessary TO notice this
nus representation, but fJr The fact that il
would 40 the democratic party at large too
ouch good to have ii to throw into the lace
| of the Republican " no happens to speak OF
the grand old banner county that u hand
, tul of democrats constitute her "weal,h
] and intelligence.
Since that statement was published in the
' Tribune the democrats have never dared
to speak of 1t. the truth is, they feel ! ST
, now like the fellow VINO said ii he had felt
| that way all the tune he wouldn't have
! done it, for they know it will hurt their
+ party IN the county. 1t was amusing tc
t see them SURPRISING the papers that c n,
+, tanned the article in the vain hope that nj
s republican would say anything about it
J but we are determines to let the repuoli
cans of Sewer know what you have said
: gertlemen, and on tue Ind of NoVembe
. prepare TO stand from unaer.
q REPUBLICAN,.
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