Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-05
card from Gen. J. J. Brooks.

To the Voters Of the Pictorial District, COM
posed OF the counties Of Haywood. Hair
deman and Madison.
AS may be known already to ma
ny of you, am a candidate for Floa-
ter i'm this District. During my
candidacy Il number of questions
have been propounded to me, and /
have invariably met them PROMPTLY
and without reserve. My answers,
however, were orally given, and in
order that l may not be misunder-
stood, and for the further reason
that can obtain a larger audience
through the instrumentality of the
press of the counties of the district,
than in any other way, l prefer to
place these answers on record.
Not long since, in the county of
Hardeman, in the presence of Col.
Lea, Mr.. Bond, Mr.. Bryan and Mr.
Barrett, and of an audience of two
hundred persons or more, was call
ed upon to define my position in the
race between Messrs. johnson and
Cheatham. Having no concealments
to make, running as a Democratic
candidate, recognizing Gen. Cheat
ham as the nominee of the party to
which belong, seeing in Mr.. john
son only a bolter and disorganizer.
and supposing moreover that the
other candidates for FlOater, would
answer the questions one way or
the other, I without hesitation de-
clared thatI was for Gen. Cheat
ham. My competitors stood mute,
but have nothing to say on this
II ie annnnb
that leaving entirely out of the ques-
ton the fact that there ever was a
war between the North and South.
am for Gen. Cheatham heartily
and earnestly.
Even if saying this shall prove "a
tai to me in this race, can have no
regrets at the result. Iwould rath- !
err be beaten than be compelled to |
avoid any proper question. Gen.
Cheatham stands on the same foot
ing before the party as Gov. Jno, g.
Brown. They are both the nomi- |
nees of the Democratic State con-
vention; and as candidate before |
the people, | could have no more |
hesitation in saying that l am for |
the former, than in saying that am
for the latter. There are other 1
questions at issue before candidates |
for State offices in the District. and |
to those l will be equally explicit
| am in favor of a wise and iudici- |
Gus system of free schools, a system
that will provide for the educational
interest of both races, upon terms
equitable to each, and that will ena-
bic us to avoid the vexations and
that must arise from
the question of mixed schools.
The schools, like the churches of
the two races, can thrive only when
the two races want them
aud the funds for their
should be SEPARATE
These conditions met, | am i'm favor
OF the establishment of system of
FREQ schools throughout the State.
There are number of intelligent,
Industrious men, who seek an ex-
tension of the law relative to gar
To speak plainly, the
of the towns of the Dis
.rict, ask that the amount of wages
10 be exempt from Garnishment
shall be increased. They ask that
.he sum of one hundred dollars
shall be left outside the reach of the
This am in favor Of
In addition to a homestead to the
value of one thousand dollars, the
.iller of the soil, is allowed, by way
If exemption, one thousand pounds !
If pork. twenty-five bushels of corn,
twenty bushels of wheat, one stack
If hay, with oats, fodder, ETC., in
and many other articles.
uch as wood, log chains, or carts,
wagons and various other articles
hat no mechanic is likely ever to