Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-27

certain that it is to the intereGt of ev-
cry class and of every party-in the
State TO keep the present Supreme
bench intact, and hence all efforts TO
scduco ono of its Judges into a scram-
bic for the governorship should be
discouraged. In certain quarters there
is movement on foot 10 induce
Judge Sneed to become n candidate,
and while we have never believed that
the Judge would either directly or in
directly encourage such n movement,
yet it gives us pleasure to reproduce
the following additional paragraph
from the Avalanche:
''We take occasion to state, in JUS
tice to Judge Sneed, that his position
is that he is content to remain a mem
Der of the Supreme Court, aud is not
candidate for Governor, nor an as
piTant. giving no encouragement pub
lIcly or privately TO auy political
movement of this or any other kind.
CHANCERY Court, AND CHANCEL-
LoR LIVINGSTON This Court has
been in special session during the
past week, and for the first time since
the war, the docket has been purged,
and every vestige of the old business,
thoroughly obliterated, and hereaf-
ter the delays incident to Chancery
viii only exist IN the imagination of
dreamers.
Judge Livingston is a candidate for
reelection, and unless all signs are
decePtious, he will be triumphantly
endorsed by a heavy popular major
ity. Livingstone fifty represents the
worth and intelligence Of the dis
trict, and that worth and that intel
ligence may confidently approach him
with the full assurance that their
complaints will be heard, their rights
protected, and their wrongs redress
ed. During the sitting of the pres
ent term, we heard distinguished
lawyer, not member of the Jackson
bar, and by the way political oppo-
nent, speak in warm praise, not only
of Livingstone's legal ability, but a
bove all his patience, energy and ju-
dicial calmness, qualities that belong
only to the real Judge, in fact as we'll
as In name. We conjure the people
to investigate LiVingstone's career
since he came upon the bench, the la
Dor he has done, the learning he has
displayed, the overhauling he has
given musty records, cobwcbbed with
the tangled meshes of all the intrica-
cies of the law, which. skilful law
yers so deftly weave, and there will
not be vote cast against him by an
intelligent voter, white or colored, in
Madison county. Let his friends,
however, be ON the alert in every part
Of the district, let his ballots be plac-
ed in he hands of competent and re-
liable friends, and his defeat will be
rendered almost impossible. Indeed
we will not allow ourselves to suggest
even so positive a calamity.
HoN. F. B. SNIPEs. This gentle
man, whose name has been promi-
nently and favorably mentioned in
connection with the candidacy for
Congress i'll this district, VIC arc aU-
thorized to state has withdrawn from
the canvass. Mr.. Snipes states that
his private business demands his at
tention to such an extent, that he
will be unable to prosecute the can
vass as vigorously as he would wish,
or the exactions of a political cam
paign might require. Mr.. Snipes has
rendered the State efficient service in
the capacity of a legislator, and de-
serves we'll at the hands of the pco-
pie. Had he continued in the can
vass, his popularity, integrity and a.
bility would have won him a hand
some following. In these days of po-
litical degeneracy, when everybody is
scrambling for place and power, this
example of patriotic abnegation on
the part of Mr.. Snipes can not be too
highly commended. The withdrawal
of Mr.. Snipes leaves but three COM
petitors for the democratic nomina-
ton, viz: Taylor, Atkins and Wis
dom, and it is not likely that there
will be others.