{"id":2467,"date":"2015-09-01T21:44:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:44:32","slug":"george-m-drake-nominated-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/george-m-drake-nominated-1876\/","title":{"rendered":"George M. Drake Nominated (1876)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span>The Republican Candidate for Congress<\/p>\n<p>The Convention that met in this city on Tuesday \u2013 as will be seen elsewhere \u2013 nominated <strong>Mr.\u00a0George M. DRAKE<\/strong> of Hamilton couty \/sic\/ for Congress. <strong>Mr. DRAKE<\/strong> is at present Editor of the\u00a0Chattanooga Commercial. He is no professional politician \u2013 but a man fresh from the people. Though no\u00a0regular politician, he is well posted as to the record of both parties. He is a good speaker, and will not be\u00a0afraid to throw the record of the Democratic party in <strong>General DIBRELL\u2019s<\/strong> face. As far as we have heard\u00a0Mr. DRAKE\u2019s nomination gives general satisfaction, and we pledge him a good majority in old Bradley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Weekly Herald (Cleveland, TN); 8 September\u00a01876. Available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\">Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Candidate for Congress The Convention that met in this city on Tuesday \u2013 as will be seen elsewhere \u2013 nominated Mr.\u00a0George M. DRAKE of Hamilton couty \/sic\/ for Congress. Mr. DRAKE is at present Editor of the\u00a0Chattanooga Commercial. He is no professional politician \u2013 but a man fresh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,236,772,2666],"tags":[2829],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamilton","category-newspapers","category-politics","category-weekly-herald-cleveland","tag-drake-geo-m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}