Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-15

the people. He did this because he
wanted the place himself, and be-
cause he knew that he could not
control Maynard. Failing to get
the people to adopt his views, he
resolved to break up the party.
This being true, as the editor of
Republican newspaper, we have no
right to hold our peace. II is our
duty to expose the duplicity, malice
and weakness Of the ambitious little
demagogue. l
And when we speak of him as
little man we do not refer particu-
larly to his physical stature, which,
though small, is large-in compari-
son with his soul. We have said he
is vain. Edmund Burke spoke of
vanity as one Of the worst Of vices.
Said he: cit makes the whole man
false. 1t leaves nothing sincere or
Trustworthy about him. Who that
know Gibson will deny that he is
faithful living illustration Of the
truth of Mr.. Burke's proposition.
He entertains no principle, either
to influence his heart or to guide
his understanding, except vanity.
When he would appear dignifed, his
whole bearing is grotesque mock
cry of all true dignity. When he
would appear candid, every one
knows at the instant that it is a
hypocritical pretense, When he
would appear to speak the truth, he
is, as Shakespeare says: zone that
lies three-thirds and uses a known
truth to pass thousand nothings
with" Selfshness is so indelibly
stamped in every lineament of his
tell tale face that he cannot deceive
the most ordinary reader of human
physiognomy. .--. ---..
We care nothing for his abuse.
1t is the only way that he could pay
US compliment that we would ap-
preciate. We have made certain
charges and he has not denied them.
He cannot truthfully deny them.
He knows, as We have charged, that
he opposed Mr.. Maynard for weeks
before the Senatorial election came
off. He knows that he went to
Nashville to work in his peculiar
way against him. He knows that
while nearly all the Republicans in
Nashville at the time were en-
deavorlng to induce Judge Harri-
son to withdraw, and thus make the
election of a Republican Senator
possible, that he encouraged the
Democrats by saying to one of
them, in his grandiloquent Gibson
ian style, that he bad "dnsheathed
his sword and thrown away the
scabbard'' in his fight against May
nard, and that if he could he would
prevent the withdra wal of Harrison
and Muse. He knows that after
Maynard's defeat he told Demo-
crat, now that he was defeated in
| Tennessee, he would that night att
tend a conference that was to be
held for the purpose of killing him
off at Washington. He knows that
he told Democrat the night before
the election that he knew of four
Democrats who proposed to vote for
Maynard the next day, giving their
names, and that he was going to
prevent them from doing so if he
could. He knows that he attempt
ed to get certain gentlemen who
served on the Republican electoral
ticket in this State, at the last cleo.
ton, to sign paper intended tc
prejudice Mr.. Maynard at Wash
ington and with the incoming ad'
ministration, and that at least q
portion Of them refused to do So
These are some of the charge;
which we made against him, anc
which he does not deny. Now he
tries to dodge by getting up side is
sues of a personal nature. -Ont
thing at time, if you please
Henri. You will fail in drawing III
off in that way. We mean to hold
you up before the people in you
true light We will nothing extern
uate, nor aught set down in malice
, but we will tell the truth, the who'll
tr,tb and nothin0 hut tho truth