Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-24
Andrew Johnson.
Gossip aheut His FatnFe-niS Financial Con-
ditioB, etc.,


There IS n good deal of interest mani-
Tested to know how Andrew johnson, late
President Of the United States, VIII busy
himself now, after the lapse of twenty
one years, he has been retired from pub
lie life. 1t becomes matter of no little
importance to know whether he proposes
TO take any part IN Tennessee politics,an
TO calculate what he could do were he to
set about Il Some sur1nising cores
pondent concludes that Johnson viii
plunge at once into the arena, and make
"a fight for the lso ernorship this fall. and
there is no reason 10 think otherwise
Lately a prominent, colored man IN Ten
nesse went to Washington. TO solicit of
Andy a pardon for an individual convict,
ID of having forged large amount Of
government vouchers Just at the close of
the war. johnson signed the pardon in
the afternoon OF the Sd, as one OF the last
of his official acts, and then waxing con-
fdent toward his colored friend who had
served him in more than one capacity be-
fore he sat in the Presidential chair. told
him that he had cone uded to retire 10
private life for two years Twenty-one
years in Office, be thought to merit short
vacaiion, and this he proposes TO take
then he would enter the lists as a candi>
date for Governor OF Tennessee, and thus
in the space of five or six years from the
present time, work his way into posi-
ton ready for getting back into the L.
: Senate.
Andrew Johnson was worth about 800
600 when the the war broke out, and lost
nothing by the struggle except nine
or ten negroes who were liberated by
Old Abe's proclamation. Those who
ought to know say that he has spent bat
little moneyin Washington, so that it may
be calculated that he has an ample pile
upon which to retire The family man.
sion at GreenviIle has been recently
placed in repair, and thither A j pro-
poses to retire and rest. Greenville is an
insignificant little village on the east Ten
nessee Railroad above Knoxville, and is
noted for model colored school which
has been hourishing there for about
a year. There IS no white public school
in the place. 1t is like most of the towns
in that portion of the State, intensely Rad
zeal, so that Andy viii hardly find con-
genial companions to solace him during
his solitude.
If Johnson should take the stump for
Governor this fall he would make
a tremendous stir, and win over
crowds of converts but he would not
be able to get over majority Of thirty
thousand, and he 5 not the man to work
for nothing. No man knows the people
Of Tennessee, colored and white, better
than he who, in 1864, standing in wag-
on in from Of the State Capitol, and sur
rounded by a crowd Of anxious colorcd
listeners, promised to be their Moses On
the whole, his idea Of resting a couple Of
years is not 4 bad one, when IL is known
that If he thought he had chance of
success, he would take the stump to NOR
row for next Governor OF Tennessee.
Johnson not meddling in the pi; Stokes
will come in and win the race with ease.
This may as well be mentioned, for it Is
settled Several Radical papers have al
ready hoisted his name, and Stokes him.
self has his finger upon the Radical pulse :
in Tennessee, and feels its every beat,
IF d. w. Senter, present Governor by
virtue OF Browniow's resignation, were
70 attempt the race he might make very
creditable run of it but however much
he would like the position, ne is sensible
enough Of the fact that ne combination
could defeat Stokes, and he does not
feel like working for nothing. The LOYAL
Leagues are working in behalf of Stokes,
and the convention viii probably be call,
ed in April