Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-07-27
AN IMPORTANT ELECTION.

AN IMPORTANT ELECTION.
We can not understand why people
should take such little interest in judicial
elections Returns show that very large
number of voters invariably fail to go to
the polls on such occasions. In Govern
ment such as we live in, the highest secu-
rity the citizen has from oppression and
corruption is in firm, faithful execution
of the laws. Bad men may gain control OF
our legislative halls, rs in the case of Ten
nessee to-day, but so long as we have hon
est high-minded men in our Judiciary, we
need not fear. We have now near Mt hand
an important election, in which every citi-
zen is deeply interested. We are to elect
for the coming eight years men who are to
have jurisdiction in the courts over our
rights of person and property. Men can
scarcely realize how important it Is to them
that this power should be confided to hon
est upright, able men, until they are UNI
fortunate enough to I've dragged into the
courts and made to feel that power partially
and corruptly exercised, or administered by
men who have not heart and soul enough
to discharge the duties fearlessly and faith
fully. We must have good men for Judges,
Chancellors, Attorneys General and Clerks.
1t is not to our interest more than it is to
the interests of the people that such men
should he elected, and we are therefore not
actuated by selfish motives in urging upon
them the importance of an intelligent eN-
ercise of their franchise in the premises.
Men who aspire to such high positions,
as partisans, or resort to trickery and demo-
goguery to reach them, are not worthy to
fill them, and the people should spurn
them. Do not he deceived by the cry of
non-partisan judiciary, now rung in your
ears by designing press. Men who show
ed themselves partisans of the bitterest
kind years ago when they were on the
bench, and who now stoop to the lowest
tricks to get back again, cannot deceive
thinking men by such pretenses.
This is the last appeal we shall be able to
make to many of our distant readers, be-
fore the day of election. We have only tC
urge them to go to the polls upon that day
and vote for the peoples candidates. II
is an important election. You should not
need drums and flies and speeches and eX-
element to induce you to do your duty
There are higher influences than any OF
these, and they should be needed. Ioul
property, your person. your liberties and
your lives, are to be confided for eight years
to the Judiciary you are now about tC
choose. Are such considerations not suffi
oil IA inHnsn ~ hn active anH N-ipi.
liant? We hope so. We trust to see full
and fair vote polled on the first Thursday
of August, for we know very well wha
the result of such vote will be. The De
mocracy are strong in this city. They
hope to poll their full vote here-as Hel
| 0i,rdys dO-and rely upon light vote il
| the country to give them the triumph
Reader, see to it, not only that you your
self vote, but that your neighbors anC
| friends vote. see that they all understand
| the importance of the election, and tina
| they know the character, record and quail
fications of the candidates, and then SCI
that they vote the Peoples Ticket.
One year ago the people elected, for eigh
years, o. p. Temple, Chancellor, +. T
Hall, Circuit Judge, and J. NJ. Thornburg
| Attorney General. These men have beef
elected from their office by the Democrat
party, not because they We're unfaithful
but to supplant them with partisans.
they are faithful, competent men, aS W
undertake to say they are, the people ow
it to them to re-nstate them-to put then
back and allow them to serve out the term
for which they were elected We say
therefore, that they are the peoples candi
dates and should be elected, and we heliev
they will be by maiorities the Democrac
| cannot mistake.