Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-03
From Rogersville,

RoaERsvnLE, Tenn, October 31st
Mr.. EDITOR: To-day Hon. A. A. Tay-
Tor made an able and telling speech in the
courthouse at this place. Notwithstanding
the fact that the report had gone out that
there would be no speaking here to-day,
and dodgers circulated withdrawing the APP
pointment of Hon. l. G.. Harris, Il goodly
number turned out to hear Col. Taylor, and
gave him their quiet and undivided atten-
ton. Mr.. Taylor spoke of the Democratic
party in gentlemanly, but firm and forci-
BILE manner, comparing its principles and
doctrines with those of the Republican par
ty, and showing wherein it fell short of the
grand and noble sentiments set apart by the
founders of our great republic. Then, in
his most eloquent and oratical sty lie, for
some length of time, he pictured the condi-
ton of public affairs, from 1865 up to the
present time, and showed how the empty
vaults of the United States Treasury had
been taken charge of by the Republican
party, at the close of the late bloody war,
and filed to overlooking by the wise man
agement of this party; how a mammoth
and crushing debt hanging over the country
had been gradually whitfield down, and
which, by the same process, in few years,
would be entirely wiped out; how all kinds
of business and public interests had grown,
doubled and multiplied under Republican
administration, and clearly demonstrated the
fact that we, indeed, could boast of ''the
best government the sun ever shone upon"
Colonel Taylor is one of the most able and
eloquent speakers it has ever been our pleas.
ure to listen to, and his efforts in this cam
paign will have telling effect.
Our interest still keeps up in the result of
your race between Right and Wrong, in the
Second district and, as the encouraging
news continues to reach us, our hopes daily
increase for the election of Capt. VIM.
Rule.
1t is something very strange to us of the
first district, how any man who has any
claims whatever upon morality and decency,
can afford to vote for Houk against as good
a man as Hon. VIM. Rule. Of course some
respectable and good citizens will, no
doubt vote for Houk, but where under the
heavens they can find satisfactory standing
ground upon which to commit such an act,
It is beyond our powers of conception to
see. Of course the denial by Houk and his
men of dirty work, of the many grave and
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simply ridiculous, and it is absolutely alb
surd for any one, who has in the leastwise
attempted to keep posted in regard to them,
to say that they believe him innocent of
single one of them. His explanations and
denials are altogether - too thin
to be gulped down by any one
seeking for the truth, and the
evidence and proof are too strong and con-
vincing in every particular to be overlooked
by even the most lenient and impartial
voter. We do not, like Mr.. Henderson,
propose to say to the people of the second
district who they shall or shall not vote for,
but If we were a voter of that district we
would take up the many traits of character
ali embodied in one man who had been a
lawyer, preacher, dram drinker, a temper
ance lecturer a beastly drunkard and pro-
fame man, then placed in the highest posi-
tioa of honor in the hands of the people of
his district, as a member of the Congress of
the United States, to disgrace them by
making of himself a drunken laughing
stock before the lawmakers of our country
Keeling under the effects of liquor to the
seat once, perhaps, occupied by the Illus
trious Hon. Horace Maynard drunk in his
committee Groom, vomiting and otherwise
soiling the carpet on the floor; on a public
and arrested and placed in a
filthy prison house for boisterous
and profane language on the Sabbath; then
forced to leave a respectable hotel for
taking to his room a lewd woman
all these traits, and manore of
like nature, we would take up and
and compare with those making up and be-
longing to the character of one, who, by
manly efforts and unyielding determination
had forced himself up from the humble po-
sition of farmer boy to the high and
worthy esteem now held for Captain Rule
in the hearts of the people of East Tennes-
see, and then we would form our determi-
nation as to who should receive our support
in the coming election.
In regard to matters in our district, suf-
fee it to say, Maj. Pettibone will make an
easy "walk over of it this time, and will
meet Captain Rule in Washington when
they are both elected members of the next
Congress of the 'Eughknightteds stat hts"
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