Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-14
The Fair Matter.

your paragraph IN Wnlcn you an
nounce that Mr.. Payne had requested
you to say that your correspondent,
:: Business Man" was mistaken in |
saying that he had not paid the |
premiums of the Eastern Division
Fair when president of it. The fact |
is, your carrier, from some cause, did
not deliver it. This will account for
my delay in noticing the matter.
Possibly did Mr.. Payne injus-
tice. do not claim to be infallible,
by anv means Could ] be convinced
that I did him a wrong, no one
knows better than yourself that l
would hasten to repair the injustice
I still. think that he was president of
/ the fair when there was such q hue
and cry, on the part OF exhibitors,
about not paying the premiums, and
when there was perfect storm OF
indignation on account OF it. Liti-
CATION was threatened on every side.
! If Mr.. Munson was secretary at that
time, that settles it, and I think he
was I very we'll remember of fire.
quently abiding to the heavy and
perilous expenditures that were made
on the grounds preceding the fair,
and of remarking that they would
possibly swamp the concern. That
is the fair [ allude to, when Mr.,
Munson was secretary. The ex-
penditures We're made in a reckless
manner, and, to my knowledge,
against the protestations of num-
Der of gentlemen, who saw the con
sequences that would likely follow
under such management. If the
premiums were paid at all, 1t was
sometime afterwards, when public
opinion was so scorching that it
forced the payment of them.
AS intimated, however, it is possible
for me to be mistaken, though not
probable. l have had no access to
the published proceedings of that
fair, and only write as my memory
serves me concerning the matter.
Opposed, as I unquestionably am, in
the present contest for mayor, to
Mr.. Payne, I would resort to no I'M
manly means to defeat him. That |
shall use all fair and legitimate means
to do 50, he and his friends may rest
satisfied.
His own record, as boiling Demo
crat, and his effort to defeat the regu-
lar nominee of the State credit Dem
clacy for Governor, and, finally, his
defiant vote for Wilson, is certainly
enough, and more than enough to
sink him in the estimation of those
Democrats who look upon the act OF
voting for Wilson as something akin
to sacrilege. To all intents and pur
poses, he is a miserable boiler, as
much so as Savage or Wilson ever
were, and surely no one will pretend
to deny that they were boilers. It
is pretty cheeky in Mr.. Payne, under
these circumstances, to assume the
leadership of the Democratic party
in this contest, and to present him
n self as the paragon OF Democratic
: Loyalty. When the party needed his
services and expected them, he was
running after strange gods and doing
d what he could to demoralize anc
2 break it down. His course was
notifying to his friends and certainly
blow at his party.
= His pitiful excuse for voting fol
!. Wilson is puerile. IL emssculates hif
manhood. Besides, if what hear b.
true he had often declared that he wal
o in favor of the platform of the low
Il tax boilers without any reference
y to the kindness of Mr.. Wilson t.
him on the bate field. In othe
N words, that thesentiments of the low
A. tax faction was his sentiments
There was other and more substan
tial ways by which he could hav
demonstrated his gratitude to hi
friend. For example, he might hay
endorsed 81 thousand dollar check t.
70 him and told him that, while h
: would like to vote for him and do al
mn he could to advance his political in
Il terests, yet, in view of the demand
y upon him by his party, he could nc
N conscientiously do so-lhat the par
s ty was making, as it were, dyin
ii struggle to maintain its existence, t
ID beat off boiling and desperate fac
u ton and to prevent the Republica
j party from getting into power. Tha
"a is just what Mr.. Payne should hay
a done This would have vindicate
81 him and established his supreme a
81 legiance to the Democratic part,
u who, abnegating self and all person
~ al claims aud considerations, woul
b have allied himself to the party in
"a way as to challenge the admiratio
81 of his friends and the respect of h
"a enemies.
d Having pursued the course he dix
~ he must now be covered with
u amount of brass somewhat extrao
= binary to ask State credit Dem
p Gratis to vote for him. He is pt
Ii forth as a stalwart of the stalwart
81 and that too by Democrats who, nj
~ a year ago, could not find epithe
IA sufficiently fierce and denunciatol
x to heap on the heads of every WI
son man. BUSINESS MAN.
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