Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-25
THE SENATORIAL PRIZE.
Wilson Pats I'm n Good word fer Bate
East Tennessee Views on the Ameni-
ties Of the Contest.

ties OF the Contest.
Lebanon Herald.
Who shall be SenatorP We think
we know the temper of the times and
of the people. We think we mistake
neither when we say that both demand
that the Legislature, in filing this i'm
portant position, shall, without regard
to personal preferences or personal an
imosities. elect that man who shall
therein best represent the people whom
he serves, and honor highest the noble
commonwealth which sends him to the
Senate. That man should be neither so
old as to be fossil, nor so young as to
be Hotspur. He should not be on the
one hand a veteran hack, moss. grown
and hoary, githout-of- date ideas and an
tiquated prejudices, nor, on the other, a
rash and unknown juvenile, destitute
alike of political sagacity and political
experience. He should be man whose
purity of life and rectitude of conduct
are known Of all men, of honor without
stain and integrity beyond the shadow
of suspicion. He should be a man of
commanding and cultivated intellect
and extended experience of public af-
fairs. He should be, finally, man
whose dignity of character has not
permitted him to Join In the wild
scramble for Office which too often dis
graees our politics, but who has calmly
pursued the paths of private life, be-
heving that whom the people want the
people CALL
There Is such man as we have de-
scribed. His integrity is unquestioned;
his ability is pre-eminent; his private
character is without stain. No longer
young. he Is not yet old; he has Just
reached the golden maturity of middle
age, where the mind IS at its brightest
and all the faculties are in vigorous
action. He has served his native State
in the forum and IN the field, and won
laurels IN both. His record as states
man is brilliant; his career as a soldier
was glorious, and all the pages of all
history contain no nobler sentence than
that which flashed along the wires in
response to a dispatch which reached
him in front of the enemy, in the dark
days of civil strife, asking him to &C
cept the Goyernorship Of his native
State: "No I had rather be Tennessee's
defender than her GoUefR0r!"
We believe that we represent the
sentiments of nine-tenths of the people
of Wilson county and Of upper Middle
Tennessee when we ask the Legislature
to send to the Senate of the United
States the man we have attempted to
describe, William B. Bate.
Morristown Gazette.
We are not less interested in the
election of the next Senator than our
contemporaries, but we have thought it
best to leave this matter to the mem
bers of the next Legislature to decide.
Among so many aspirants, we feel GER
tain that a judicious selection can be
made, and we believe this will be the
result. One line of argument has been
used, particularly by newspaper cor
respondents, that viii do the parties, IN
whose interest the articles were writ
ten, more harm than good; that is, that
men have special claims, because they
were identified with the Union or the
South in the late war; or that they were
Wings or Democrats before the war.
The press is free, and men have the
privilege of advocating the claims of
friends in any way 1t seems best to
them, but it viii befound that the peO-
pie are not going to be governed by old
prejudices. The key note of the late
canvass was: "Let the dead bury their
dead"