The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-10-18
OUR NEXT CONGRESSMAN AT
NEWPORT.
Randolph Cannot Be Kissed
Down in Cooke County.
He Administers a Severe Casti-
CATION to the Major.
Newport sentinel.

| ming, and, at IL o clock, saturday
last, the multitude had left the
streets and assembled around the
stand in the grove east of Academy
Hall. IT was, perhaps, the largest
audience that has attended any APP
p0intment thus far in the canvass.
We heard the number present esti-
mated as high as 1900, but think
200 would be nearer the figure
Randolph claimed the right to be
heard and when he entered the
stand and began his speech. the
best of order prevailed and, in fact,
the crowd manifested deep anxiety
to hear what he had to say. lie de-
nounced Pettibone and his bench
men in a violent and fearless man
ner. Said that he did not permit
his name to go before the Green
vile Convention, because he was
cOncious that he nor no other as
pifant stood any chance in a cor
vention packed, cut and dried, =
in the interest of Pettibone. lie
said that money had been freely
used, and that the revenue ring, the
Majors pet hirelings, had trayersed
the different counties and resOrted
to all sorts of fraud and trickery to
override and defeat the claims Of
other aspirants and secure the nomi-
nation of their Boss. Bossism had
secured temporary triumph in the
nomination of Pettibone, but had
the will of a majority of the honest
Republicans of the District been
permitted expression, the result
would have been different. He pro
duced and read a letter written from
a Cooke county Republican to n
gentleman in Johnson county, the
object of which had been to impeach
the Judges veracity.
He read the letter aloud and APP
pealed to the audience to bear wit
ness as to whether the author had
spoken the truth or been guilty of
willful misrepresentation. At the
conclusion Of the letter, he gave the
first letters q of the writer's name,
&c. l.. Ogden, a man who makes
his meat and bread as Deputy Mar
shall, position | secured for him"
The Judge warmed up towards
the conclusion of his remarks, and
there was no installing the fact that
there many Randolph men present
and he drew forth their undivided
sympathies. lie said he believed
this was n free country, and freedom
of speech was one of the rights
guaranteed to every citizen. He
had made nine races before the peo
pie and been successful in Cooke
county every time. In all of his
public career he had never been
denied a hearing until recently at
Rogersville, when he had been
hoOted, howled at, cursed and black
guarded, until compelled to leave
the stand, by a drunken mob of
PettibOne's satellites acting under
the orders of their master and all
because as . freeman, he had dared
offer himself as aG independent Re-
publican candidate for Congress
against their boss. He said he had
heLd nuberous positions of honor
and trust from the hands of the |
people. lie had always when in !
office endeavored to conduct him
self honestly and coRscientiOusly |
He had lived long among the peo-
pie he was then addressing and had |
fiattered himself that his character
was fair in his native county.
The letter above referred to was
filled with abusive SANDER, stating |
among other things that he was a
member Of the Baptist church in
bad standing. He asked bis own
people who knew him best to say II
these charges were true. Hundreds
OF voices from the crowd answered,
no and the applause was loud and
long. He withdrew frohi tIe race
and left his friends to choose for
themselves between the candidates.
Pettibono covered under the
Judges seathing reeGiiS and felt
that it carried conviction home 10
the hearts Of the better class of Re
publicans present, He made no at
tempt u reply. Taylor followed in
a brilliant and unanswerable speech
of an hour and a quarter. lie was
given the closest attention and the
entire audience, forgetting all po-
liticai difference, was swayed by the
power of his irresistFble eloquence.
He referred to his own record whii5
In Congress and showed conclusively
that he had done more for the peo-
pie of the District than PettibQne
had even shown an inclination TO do.
All his boosted pension work con-
sists of nothing moro nor less than
the recommendation and prosecu-
ton of claims which had been filed
by Taylor himself Every measure
in Congress to relieve the
people of the burdens of taxation
has been opposed by Pettibone or
he was absent and failed to vote.
All that he has done has been III the
interest of capital and monopolies.
lie occupied his time not in answer
ng the charges made against him,
put in waving the bioGdy shirt,
up a lifeless, laborod har-
.angue which we do not misreprc
ent in pronouncing the weakest
peech we ever heard fall from the
Ups of Compression candidate.
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