Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-10
To The voters of Madison county.

Having determined to be a candi-
date for Trustee of your county,
and expecting to be absent from
home, for month or more, in dis
tant States, deem it proper that |
publicly announce my name before
leaving.
In asking the people Of this county
for an office, am free ID state that
do so not from thirst after Office;
but from the crippled condition of
my financial affairs. The old citi-
Zens Of the county will remember,
that about p years ago, when L was
elected the second time to the Office
of Register, by very large majority,
l publicly announced that | would
not agin be candidate for the same
office. l had prospered in business
and felt that l could do without
that Office or any other; hence l have
not been candidate before the
people of the county since, until now.
1t is always unpleasant to me, TO
make public anything touching my
financial affairs, although l have
held a public position before the
people for long time.
As an editor and citizen | have
| endeavored to discharge my duty
faithfully. l feel that my labors in
| building up the material interests
of Madison county, have not been
l in vain, and whatever NAV befall
| me, my earnest desire is that the
people of this county may take still
| higher steps in prosperity. Whether
at home or abroad, on steamboats,,
l railroads, or in distar' tiles, have
written and talked tor jackson and
the good old county of Madison.
! Ii is well known to The citizens
of the county, that when the late
war commenced, I was very coIn-
| fortably of in this worlds goods,
/ but the losses sustained in that ter
riblc struggle, and advCrses since,
/ have wrought wonderful change
in my affairs. But am neither cast
/ down nor overcome. | am deter
/ mined 20 rise again, if energy and
I labor Will accomplish il.
The fees of the Office of Trustee
will help me now, and this office is
I the only one THAI l can. Iill-fo" | am
| incapacitated, from deafness, to fill
any other. If the voters OF
I the county think | am honest and
I capable, | will thank them for re-
cOgnition ofmy claims by Ulccting
me.
hope no man will vote for or
against me on account Of politics.
| For myself, l have never mixed up
politics with ministerial cleo
tions, and never will. / want to be
] jugded by my merit or demerit, as
citizens, asking 4 civil Office.
Ii elected, l shall keep in Bank
all the funds belonging TO the coun-
ty that may come into my hands, to
be paid out only on proper claims
against the country. Whilst q man
has a perfect right TO use his own
means, hold that All officer even
has no moral right 10 use the pub
lie money for his own u~c, or suffer
his friends to borrow ana use il. y
great many clever men have been
ruined by lOauing the public money
to their friends. | viii neither use
! myself, nor suffer any friends to
do it.
As l am perhaps the eldest editor
in the State, may l not ask my
brothers of the ''grey goose quilI''
to extend the courtesv of letting
their readers know that I am in the
field. and, If they feel so inclined, it
will be gratifying to me, if they
will pull Off their coats, roll up their
sleeves, and "pitch in" for me.
W. ". & ATES.
Jackson, Jan. l. 1874