Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-05
TRENTON.
EFPeg1Iarity of the sEaiIs-EIeetiOBs
ia West Tennessee-Triumpls of the
COnscrvafiVaa.

ia West ennessee-Triumpls of the
Conservatives.
Correspondence of the Union and Dispatch
TRENTON, Jan. 28.-Rarely is il the case
that have received your paper, visitor
ever so welcome, within so short time as
one day from publication date How much
to be regretted is it that our mail facilities
are not better perfected, and mail matter
more promptly delivered Nor is il ont of
place to very frequently call the attention
of those having the power TO effect change
20 this great public concern.
must, Messrs Editors, in sincerity, be
allowed to approve your words of earnest
condemnation and burning truth, leveled
against the little Strafords" of the hour,
who strut in bigoted tyranny and short
lived glory before the public gaze. You
deserve, gentlemen, the hearty appreciation
of the whole country, aud doubt not will
receive the same from every patriot.
This point, of late, seems to be one Of
misfortune 10 the engines that traverse the
Mobile and Ohio railroad. On last night,
the up passenger train was checked by the
jumping off the track of the engine. No
injury to persons, further than a slight hurt
to the engineer.
In our little city here, we have Just passed
through two (rather tllree) elections; and
yet the great volume of intelligent, tax
paying citizens (don't criticise the giving
Of State news) approached not the ballot
box. One election was for Judge and At
toruey General, the other for municipal
officers for our town. / am happy to say,
as you have doubtless already learned, that
Col. John A. Rogers was elected Judge
over his two opponents. Judge Rogers is
so far ahead of either Of his opponents,
both as TO legal ability and elevated feel
ings, that we feel as if We had escaped
blight in missing the Judgeship of either
Sampson or Parks. As 10 the result for
Attorney General, il has hung very doubt.
ful till few days ago. Edwards and Hall
were the candidates Edwards was a
Union man in the incipiency of our polit-
ical troubles in 1861. Through all the
subsequent stages of the war, he was
Union man-a Conservative Union man.
He is to-day a Conservative Union man.
Mr. Hall went out in the commencement
of the war under the Dixie banner, (under
protest, he claims,) and soldiered three
months, tlsen returned home, neither COW
cred with scars nor giory--then went to
Paducah, or elsewhere, within the fold
of loyalty. During the last race for
Governor and members of the Legislature,
he at first professed TO be for univer-
sal suffrage, then voted for Eaton, Nor
man, etc He voted for Mr.. Etheridge
but explained it away on the grounds of
personal considerations" Thus has Mr.
Hall attempted TO pander to both sides.
Now he has the contempt of both sides. A
very good choice az man and, we hope,
as a lawyer, has been made for Attorney
| General in the election of Mr. Edwards.
The other elections (municipal) above
referred to had to occur twice before it
could be settled. In the first instance, the
Registrar failed to appoint persons to open
and hold the election so, under the pro-
visions of the Code as they have stood for
a number of years, an election was held.
! The result was not satisfactory, so Emperor
Bogee said he would set it aside, and so
those elected yielded to his mandate. This
was tame-the tamest submission. The
last election for the same officers has oc-
CURED, and while # has resulted in a diff
ferent choice IS TO Mayor, Conservative
has been elected. 1t seems that the Con-
servatives can beat the Radicals here voting
the negroes. Still, il is due the Radical
party TO say they had no candidate for
Mayor, and from this we take it, they re-
garded it as of no use. HAL.