Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1869 — The Tennessee Election. [ARTICLE]

The Tennessee Election.

The eltetloli held in TeWiwcc l;rtit Thursday resulted in the uiumjth of the eon*vrvntlvr reimMiean or fnaion ikkvt Skntkk, wjto \f ;I8 LkffiU'hntil Ijr.veriiur .HlwivT IttowlMVi waa clccUtT Uowrtior , dW of the Htate over fchouKs, Uy shout •>O,OOO majority. The canvass was a peculiar one. Boll* candidates claimed to have been regularly nominated l>v the 6tily Simon pure and lona Jide re* puhltuan organization of the State. ;utd each charged the other with working into the interests ol the old rebel element- Sextkk . was supported by ex-I’resident Johnson, Senator IlnoffM otv, the moderate republicans and what few democrat* there are in the State. Stokes received the support ol' the rest, and is said to have been lavored with the little assistance Secretary Boutwki.l and l’oslmastor General Chkskwkm. could render the last week of the campaign. The main plank of the Sknthii platform was unrestricted suffrage to whites and blacks, as advocated by llouace Greelv, while Stokes favored the disfranchisement of all those who aided the rebellion. The legislature elected last Thursday will choose an United States Senator to succeed Uowi.ek. it is understood that Axmkkw Johnson, Emerson Ktiikkihoi:, and llie successful Skntkk, and perhaps others, will he candidates, but as there will be an inllueutiul element in the legislature represented by such antiquated fossils a.-t 15.ui.ev I*eytc»», who, though remaining strictly neutral towards the Federal Doveriimeiit during the civil war, lost sous in the Confederate army, we need not expect them to elect a very progressive man, and need not be surprised if they tiling out some ono not yet spokcu of, whose political career has neither been so wirding or so prominent as that cither of the ex-President or of the ex-Clerk of the national House of Heprescntativcs. That Johnson will not bo elected without a struggle he received plain notice from Sentzr's organ, the Nashville Prut and Times, at least ten days before the State election came off. That party lines were quite coin* plicated in this campaign is strikinjHv manifested ill the cases ot Senator Brown-low's two sons, who were for tho State senate, running on the Sextei: Picket, lloth were defeated though the rest of the ticket received large majorities in both districts.