The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-01

EDITORS APPEAL AS your valuable |
columns are ever open for the discussion |
of all subjects touching the interests of |
our State, the writer, a. resident from |
his birth of West Tennessee, begs leave |
TO submit few impressions and observ- |
atoms concerning the approaching can
vass for the governorship. IT is an i'm
portant question that will soon engage |
the attention of our people, and one in |
which they viii feel deep interest. |
Gov. Porter has made good officer !;
all his public acts have been marked by |
a steady and honest desire to benefi. his |
State, and the next Democratic candi- |
date should be a man worthy to be his |
successor. Following the line of prece-
dents, and in obedience to a we1l-estab- /
lished and long-standing custom exist !
ing between the different sections of the |
State, there is most willing and decid-
ed disposition on the part of West Ten |
nessee to cOncede to East Tennessee the |
honor of having the next governor from |
that division. The writer's opportuni- |
ties for observation have been pretty |
extensive, and this sentiment and dispo- |
sition seem to prevail throughout the |
counties which his observation has ex-
tended. 1t is believed to be the univer- |
sal sentiment in this section, and in the |
middle division the same feeling is gain |
ng ground. This much said, the next
consideration, then, is the question OF
| the proper candidate for the position.
East Tennessee, through her press and
other ways, has signified, in no uncer
tain notes, the choice of that section i'll
the person of the leading spirit and
champion of her Democracy and pride
of her peeple-Hon. John NJ Fleming,
| of Knoxville And we believe the opin-
ion prevails Throughout all parts of the
State that the selection is a wise one,
one that will command the unqualified
satisfaction of the entire Democracy.
West Tennessee heartily indorses the
selection. Col. Fleming needs no intro
ductiOn to your readers. From Garter
tie Shelby, in days gone by, his eloquent
voice has inspired his party with energy
and hope, and won many brilliant vic
tory, while with his vigorous pen, in
the hour of Tennessee's gloem, when
Radicalism threatened every intest and
paralyzed every industry, he labored
increasingly in the defense aud vindica-
tion of his party Several times elected
to seat in the General Assembly, a
standard-bearer of his party as an clector
at large the Greeley and Brown tick
et superintendent of public schools
during the administration of Gov. John
c. Brown, he is well known throughout
the State, and his whole public career
has been such as to gain for him the
confidence of the people. In the pride
of vigorous manhood, with a mind
ripe with thought and trained by expe
rience, well versed in politics, familiar
with the interests of his State, under
standing the wants and demands of the
people, he is a most finished, analytical
and close debater and power upon the
stump, and woe be to the man who
vainly tries to cope with him in politi-
cal forensic combat. Knowing the in
terests and wants of the people as the
seaman knews the sea, his administra-
ton, in event of his election, would be
conducive to the highest possible good
of all classes in every section. Upon
the stump and in his editorial utterances
he has ever been found opposing, with
all his great powers, any and all meas
ures contemplating reputation, or in
the slightest degree rejecting upon the
credit and good name of Tennessee
Reared amid her old mountains, draw
ing his inspiration from her lovely val
leys and pure streams. any effort to cast
blot upon the history of his State re-
ceives his outspOken condemnation and
bitterest opposition. Col. Fleming has
made the financial condition of Tennes-
see a special subject of study, reviewing
the causes whereby such a condition
was produced, and investigating the pos
Sibilities and capabilities that lie in the
future, from purely practical and bust
ness standpoint, ard is able to render
valuable aid in unraveIing the tangled
skein of our financial complications.
Altogether, more available name rs
the Democratic candidate for governor,
can hardly be found, and it is a fortu-
mate coincidence for the party that all
eyes center upon the same man. To the
voice of the east, the west watts back
the echo: For governor, the gallant aud
gifted John NJ. Fleming.
WEST TENNESSEE.
Memphis, April %, 1878.