Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-22


ing before Mr.. Jackson was elected,
Gibson said that he had 'unsheathed
his sword and thrown away the
scabbard" in his fight against May
nard. He told a Democrat, the
same evening, that efforts were be-
ing made to induce Mr.. Harrison
and Judge Muse to withdraw, in
order that the Republican vote
might be concentrated on Maynard
the next morning, and, if he could,
he was going to prevent it. At the
same time he said that he had heard
of four Democrats who We're ex-
pected to vote for Mr.. Maynard the
next day, giving their names, and
that if he could be instrumental in
preventing them from doing so he
would, thus clearly showing that he
preferred the election of Democrat
rather than have Maynard succeed.
This We have repeatedly charged,
and he has not denied. We chaln
lenge denial. We have given the
name of the gentleman with whom
he held this conversation.
4. We have charged that Gibson
boasted to a Democrat that. having
assisted in the defeat of Mr.. May
nard in Tennessee, he was going to
attend and participate in a confer
ence to be held for the purpose Of
killing him off at Washington.
This he has neither denied, nor at
tempted to explain.
5. We have charged that he and
others drew up a paper, intended
for the signature of Republicans who
served on the electoral ticket in the
last Presidential campaign, for pur~
poses prejudicial to Mr.. Maynard at
Washington and with the incoming
Administration. This he has neither
denied, nor attempted to deny or ex-
plain.
6. Gibson assumes to be the
guardian Of East Tennessee Repub
licans. We have charged that be-
fore he came here he was vile, cop
perhead Democrat, and while a
large proportion of East Tennessee
Republicans were risking their lives
in defense of the Union, he sympa-
thlzed with that class of towards
who kept up fight in the rear. He
secured a position of safety as a
qnartermaster s clerk and drew pay
from the government he was willing
to see destroyed. We have charged
that soon after reaching East Ten
nessee he became chronic Office
seeker, and that he is one still. He
denies none of these things.
Now he comes, arrogantly pres
Stunning upon the ignorance of the
people, with an impudence that the
devil might envy, and hypocriti>
cally attempts to make the impress
sion that Mr.. Maynard's friends are
responsible for his defeat. Oh
hypocrisy, thy name is Henry
Gibson. Until he denies the charges
we have made, nothing else is re-
quired at our hands, and we prom
Use our readers not to further en-
cumber our columns at length with
so disgusting subject. We have
no taste for thowing stones at g
skunk, but it sometimes becomes
necessary for the best Of US to take
hold of objects repulsive and loathe
some. What he chooses to say
about US personally is matter tina
gives US little concern. If he turns
loose his foodgates of filth ant
falsehood upon as pure a man al
Hon. Horace Maynard, as he ha
done, We do not fear the invention
of his malicious little soul. He is
political mountebank, a literar,
buffoon, a professional charlatal
and a social excrescence. Hi
friendship is hollow, selfish an
hypoeritical. His enmity is COW
ardly and malicious, but far NOR
: desirable than his. friendship. III
complains that We are coarse. w
make no pretensions to high cul
) ture and refinement. Ia early lif
We never had the advantages of tn
collegiate education of which we un
. derstand he boasts. We receive