The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-22
TADVERTIsEMENT,I
A Card from Mai. Bentley.

FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE 18TH SENA-
ToRIAL DISTRICT IL have had a card
published in the Lawrence Journal ever
since the meeting of the sO-called Law
renceburg Senatorial Convention to
nominate candidate for Senator, de-
nying the justice of said Convention,
and in which have proposed TO prove
that the convention was without good
feeling, unanimity or harmony-thata
part Of the convention bOlted and bold
ly asserted that they would not support
the nominee, and that some of its refer
ees said that it was with the utmost
difficulty that they prevented an entire
dissolution OF the convention without
making a nomination. And yet no one
has ever called upon me in the Law
renee journal or any other paper to
prove my assertions as l have proposed
to do. | stated in said article that Law
renee was justly entitled to the next
Senator, and this l think / can show you
without dragging any private citizen in
to public print. Two years ago the Sen
atOrial Convention met and our worthy
friend John L. Brandon was nominated.
You see the entire Senatorial District
endorsed Mr.. Brandon, and in Justice to
a departed friend and brother, | must
say more of a gentleman it has never
been my good fortune to have met, but
wise Providence saw fit to call brother
Brandon to that other and brighter
shore. And after Mr.. BTandOn's decease
Giles saw cause in another convention
to put out a nominee from Giles for the
position that the entire Senatorial Dis
trict had conceded to Lawrence. Now,
gentlemen, if we were entitled to the
Senator then and you had yielded and
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name of Justice, honor and fair dealing
are we not doubly so now? leave you
to make the decision, believing that al
though you be powerful, yet will you
deal justly with your weaker sister coun-
ty. In the article above alluded to ]
stated my position as a candidate. That
l was true COnservatiVo-One of the
people-a farmer uniniluenced by any
aristocratic ring, clique, combination OF
| monopoly, and l now further state that
l have been reared in this Senatorial
| District and in the democratic faith
| that my home, property, interest, family
and affections are inseparably connect
| ed with this people and | tlatter mysel
| that my name and and family are not
/ unknown to you; and in the Democratic
| Convention held at LawrenCeburg to APP
point delegates to the Gubernatorial anC
! Congressional Convention, Chancellor
] G.. II. Nixon, z. G.. Ashton and mysel
were appointed delegates from Law
rencebWg. So you perceive / ana en-
dorsed by the Democracy of Lawrence
county, and l am not to be read out o
the party simply because l object to N
| unfair convention. I was not in the
! Senatorial convention and took no par
| i'm it, but from all the information | car
! gather | could not nor would not cast ;
reflection upon the delegation from Gle:
| (Ihere 1CdS none here from any Othci
! cOuHty0 l am satisfied they came here
\ to concede to Lawrence the right Z
name the nominee, but we had local dis
! Sentions and contentious i'm which the
| wishes of the masses of our people wer,
not regarded, an unmistakable evidence
| of which you will have when the vot,
! is polled on the Bro of November.
| ANDREW w. BENTLEY.