The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-07-03
From the Memphi. Avalanche.

from the Memphis Avalanche.
The Avalanche has taken the liberty
OF expressing with candor the opinion
that the candidate for Governor Ia the
approaching election will not be selected
from among the Judges oil Tennessee.
We may be mistaken In this, but the
conviction with the people Is. ss wo
understand IL, that political oliicc.
such as Governor, does not come with.
in The province OF Judges jurisdic.
tioE, because judicial training, duties
and aspirations are removed from the
weeds aud dirt of the political arena,
There has been personal oonstruc-
ton placed upon what this journal has
seen fit 10 say upon this subject, but ns
we have been misjudgod aud misrepre-
sented before by honorable gentlemen,
who read hastily, or read solely from
a personal standpoint, we arc not In.
clined TO do more than TO repeat in
more specific terms the views express
cd before. The Office of Judge should
be removed from political honors, or
positions, or aspirations; and, perhaps,
we may go so far as TO state that tho
people believe it to DO true that tho
Judge on the bench cannot, with dignI-
ty or propriety, entertain political as.
plraiions or engage In political eau"
vass. These views are not expressed
with reference 10 any individual. but
are general principles, aud the applica-
lion of thom does not affect the truth
or sourdness Of them.
Because Judge John LIT. Snoed had
been mentioned in connection with tho
Office of Governor, aud the County Con.
vention had recommended him as q
candidate, a personal application has
been made 10 him of what the Ava.
lanohe has said The gross disregard OF
judicial propriety and dignity or those
who have solicited him 10 run was au
ohense against sound public opin-
ion for which Judge Sneod cannot ba
held responsible; and 10 be more posi-
tive, We tako occasion TO state, In ius-
lice 10 him, that his position is that no Is
TO remain member Of tho Su.
preme Court, and Ia not candidate for
Governor, nor an aspraut giving no en-.
publicly nor privately
10 any political movement of this or
my other kind.
For good, sound, practical common
sense commoud us TO the editor Of tho
(Mo.) Enterprise and Monitor,
from which we have the following f.
nancisl doctrine;
Let's initiate the currency by gonN-'
al forward movement into tho corn
fields, the wheat and oats.ields, tho
the meadows, the tobacco potato, tur-
nip and cabbage patches, aud raise tho
biggest crops ever known,
TO the country. The great trouble VIII
this country Is, we havo nothing oseii
We import nearly everything w0 cat,
drink and wear, and money 10 contiu-
ually going out aud littke coming III.
We eau initiate by raising corn at so
cents bushG. 1t is worth nearly u
dollar now.
We can initiate on potatoes TT 80 cents.
The average piice in Moberly is 81, and
several hundred carloads arc shipped
to this point annually.
We can initiate on cabbage at 3 cents
q head. and they never sell hero for loss
than ten, and half the timo they arc
scarce as oranges even at tho latter
figures.
A man can make 100 pounds OF to.
bacco for every day no works In his
crop, and tobacco generally sells at an
average Of So per hundred This is as
good pay as any of our county officials
get. Tobacco always brings cash, too.
Shall we say any thing OF beet at 4
cents aud pork at ) TO D cents per
pound, when we hayo land that ouly
needs the sunlight TO make il rival tho
bluegrass regions OF kontucky for
pasturage.
TLesc are oil facts. Tho country has
not gone 10 destruction, by any means.
What we need is work, labor, TOLL and
.here Is no excellence without these
The season is opening ausplcionsly aud
the outlook for good crops was never
so promising, HE yo to the fields, thou,
and MD nature IN making you rich. Tho
towns are full Of men out OF employ
ment, and tho folds lilo sere and brown
under tho covor OF last years stubble.
- a l. a
enough idle men to raise provisions
sufficient TO feed the whole county.
Those men "toi not neither do they
spin" aud the loss OF thoir labor 10 in.
dustria necessities IL sufficient, If prop
orly worked'up oil over the country, to-
pay of tho national debt in n few years.