Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-10-13
Pettibone VS.. Taylor at Newport.


Mr.. EDITOR: To-day Cooke turned out
en- masse to hear the two distinguished can
aidates for Congress. Not less than one
thousand voters were present, and gave
their earnest and respectful attention to the
Saiscussion. Cooke County can not be beat
on large crowd nor big Republican ma
iorities She is more enthusiastic for Maj.
Pettibone than ever before. His majority
will be about six hundred, and if Randolph
had stayed on the track, his majority would
not have fallen much short of one thousand
votes. The Republicans of Cooke are in
dead earnest. They are at white heat.
They realize that the policy of the Republi-
can party is for their interest; that Democ-
racy is the party of dead issues, of no prin-
ciples, and party of mere expediencies,
with longing desire for the control of the
nation, with no hope of ever obtaining it.
Mr.. Taylor made his same old speech on
bossism, asserting that if bosslsm was not
broken up it would finally destroy the Re-
publican party. But Mr.. Taylor, like many
other Democrats, does not seem to know
that the destruction of the Republican
party is the only salvation left for Democ-
racy Mr.. Taylor, like all Democrats, is
full of predictions To-day he predicted
that if bossism was not destroyed, in five
years no poor man could get an ofice-not
even the position of sheriff. Bob should
remember that there never was a Demo
cratic prediction that ever came true. He
says he is for education that he is for ap-
propriating ten millions for the
education of the people, according
to the illiteracy of the States.
Well, that is a good idea, and the States
that are Democratic would get most of the
money; for wherever Democracy has
reigned there is ignorance, gross ignorance,
and all because Democracy has reigneo,
has opposed education, and has devoted
itself to the repeating of school laws and
to the burning of school houses. But Bob
should have credit for having one idea
above his party, which might justly be de-
nominated as the anti educational party,
anti-debt paying party, the anti-temper-
ance party, the anti-progressive party.
Democracy is prominently the fogy
party.
MIR. Taylor asserted that niger did not
have sense enough to know who to vote
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would hollow for Pettibone if they were in
hell.
Major Pettibone followed in very able
and telling speech He said Democracy
had been for secession, and asked if it was
for secession now; that it had been for slav-
cry, and asked if it was for slavery now;
that it had been for Jefferson Davis, and is
it for Jefferson Davis now. Here one man
held up his hand and avowed that he was
for JEFF. Davis yet. His name is James
Thomas, the father of the editor of the
Newport Sentinel. Such is the sentiment
of many bourbons. Major Pettibone made
some whitening remarks on the policy of
Democracy, showing it had opposed the
creation of greenbacks; that it was now for
greenhacks; that it had opposed the 18th,
18th and 18th amendments Of the Constitu-
ton, and now it was for them. In fine,
that it had opposed every Repubi-
can measure, and in two years
thereafter it would adopt the same in the
Democratic platform as the cardinal doc
trnes of Democracy. He referred to their
platforms as evidence of his assertions.
Taylor is waning. He feels defeat in the
air, and reads it in the eyes of his aud
itors:
The following is Petitioners majorities,
by counties