Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-18
DIR. A. v. war; for Floater.

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DR.. A. v. WAR; for FlOater.
EDITORS APPEAL-Shelby county
comedies to Fayette the candidate for
the Lower House to represent the float
ing district, composed of Fayette and
Shelby. All the gentlemen offering FOR
this nomination are from Fayette. The
friends of DR.. a. V. War; claim for him
a ripe experience as a business man,
scholarly attachments of the highest
order, and a thorough knOwl-
edge of the wants of the peo-
pie. His residence of many years
in the county results in an extended ac-
quaintance and high standing in the
community, while his associations have
brought him in contact with men from
all quarters of the State, giving him,
perhaps, more personal influence at
Nashville than would be the case other
wise. From a knowledge of his views
on the subject of legislation, 1 do not
hesitate to say that if elected his efforts
would be directed to the accomplish
ment of such measures as would re-
dOund to the interest of the mechanic
and labOrer as well as TO the farmer and
business man, and that Shelby county
would not regret hereafter having
yielded him its support in the coming
convention. SHELBY.
Hon. Emerson E~theridge-
One of the most learned and able
writers and thinkers of this district
writes as follows:
MEMPHIS, July L, 1872.
Hon. Emerson Etheridge, Memphis:
We, the undersigned. your friends and
fellow-citizens, approaching YOU hon
esty, capacity and patriotism, together
with your long devotion to the public
interest, would most respectfully request
you to become a candidate for Congress
at large to represent our State in the
next Congress of the United States.
Believing you eminently fitted to fill
this high station with honor, both to
yourself and the country, we earnestly
hope that it will meet your views of
public duty and private interest to ac-
cept this invitation, which | have to
address you in behalf of a great number
of my fellow-citizens.
VIII you be kind enough to advise
me of your conclusion in the premises,
through the columns of the APPEAL?
l have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your friend, MANY VOTERS.
Colonel J. B. Cook.
The gentleman whose name appears
above, is o in our city. He is a can
didate to fillth vacancy on the Supreme
Bench, occasioned by the resignation of
Hon. T. A. r. Nelson.
Colonel Cook stands at the head of his
profession in East Tennessee, where he
has practieed for more than twenty-five
wears. He comes to West Tennessee
Strongly Endorsed by the bar and the
people of his end of the State where he
is best known. He has had but little
opportunity to make the personal ae-
uuaintance either of the members ofthe
bar or citizens generally in this end of
the State, and consequently has to rely
upon the reputation he sustains, both as
a lawyer and a gentleman in that por-
ton Of the State which has been the
theater Of his labOrs during his whole
life. Without disparaging the claims of
Judge Mcfarland, we can say of a truth
to the voters of West Tennessee, that
should Colonel Cook be elected to the
position to which he aspires, an able,
efficient, labOrious and upright Judge
will fill the vacantseat of Judge Nelson.
COlOuHI LUX lives III C~ndllduOcSd
Judge Deaderick and Judge Mcfarland
both live in the same section Of East
Tennessee. The citizens of the western
portion of East Tennessee, where Colo
mel Cook resides, think hat one of the
Judges should justly come from that
section. Acard, signed by quite a num-
Der of the members of the bar of West
Tennessee, was published in u paper
some days since, speaking in deserving
terms of the capabilities of Judge Nc
Farland. Whilst the friends of Colonel
Cook are willing to accord to Judge Nc
Farland all that is said of him they at
the same time claim for Colonel Cook
no inferiority in any of those attributes
necessary to fill the highest judicial po-
sition in Tennessee, and the bar and the
people of East Tennessee would be far
from discriminating between Judge
Mcfarland and Colonel Cook, at least
to the prejudice of the latter.
The fact is, no man stands higher and
enjoys a more enviable reputation than
Colonel J.. Burch Cook. He stands and
has stood for a quarter of a century in
the very front rank of the profession.
Should he be elected, he would adOrn
the place once filed by a Reece, a Nc
Kenny, anda Nelson.