The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-09-25
PETTZBON-E AND TIE REVENUE
RING.
Jonesboro' Times. {RepublicanA

in this country, has had to submit
to the dictation aud bear the sins of
The Revenue Ring. This dictation
has been imperious. and these sins
have been many-especially in the
recent past. 1t has been a matter
akin to impossibility for any Repub-
lican to obtain a nomination for any
position of influence unless he was
in grace with the Ring and would
submit to be come its lick spittle.
This fact, together with the crimes
committed by its EN- isaries in their
pretended missions to execute the
laws, has filled all goo people with
disgust and made them hate the very
name of Revenue. It is combina-
tion-a compact, close ring-a polit-
ical machine, held together for the
purpose of enforcing Fed
eral law; but whose real object is to
rob the p eople and the Government,
and to so control the Republican
Party here as to monopolize the
offices and fotst its members and es-
pecial pets to power and place. We
are not writing this without delibera-
tion-we have measured every word.
and have withheld some appalling
truths bearing upon this subject
which we do not care now to write.
But. is Mr.. Pettibone. in any way
connected with this Ring?
Does he know anything about its
working?
He is part and parcel of it, in
fact he is its legal adviser and ruling
spirit. Its appointments. in this
District. have been for. some time
past, mainly Gontrolled by him. Who
ever thinks of securing a Revenue
in this county without
the endorsement of Pettibone?
Pettibone and Revenue are syno-
Minis all over TIA is District.
If one who already holds Reve-
nue. position conceives that he is in
danger ofremoval. to whom does he
fly for sqccor? We answer, Petit
bone. Why are those who have fat
offices in the Revenue, active supper
ters of Pettibone? We answer, be-
cause they are afraid of removal.
William McInturf, Esquire. as
good man as can be found, a
staunch Republican and one who is
not afraid to assert his rights as an
freeman, wrote q strong
letter which was pnblished in the
Times, endorsing and urging the
claims of Hon. A. A. Taylor for
Congress. In short time thereaf.
ter. he was removed as United States
Commissioner for Unicoi county and
his place given to Pettibone man.
Pettibone wanted the vote OF Han
cock county in the Jonesboro' Con-
veHtion. A revenue officer over
there was suddenly removed and an :
other man as suddenly stepped into
his shoes This newly made officer
was a delegate to the Jones boro'
Convention. Pettibone got the vote
Of Hancock county, by piece meals,
in the said Jonesboro' Convention.
We assert from knowledge we
have of the sentiment of the people
Of that county, previous to the Con-
vention, that if the voice of the peo-
pie had beer respected Major Petit
bone would have received no part OF
Hancock's vote. As to the truth OF
this declaration we take the liberty
of referring to the Campbel's, the
Levisey' ,Bray's. Tyler s
and Davis.
The sentiment in that county pre-
vious to the convention was for Tay-
lor and Randolph, Pettibonc had no
there scarcely, among the
But to return.
We repeat. A. II. Pettibone is the
ruling spirit of the abominable Ring,
be is it's candidate. and the issue in
this contest is: is the ring the Re-
publican party, or are the people the
party? This is the question among
honest Republicans, and to them we
soy let us send up a united answer
that the people are the party and
ought of right to be the party.
There are two ways we can do this.
One way is to vote for an honest
We have no advice to
give as TO which way you will select,
but as honest Republicans. having
in view, alone, the success hereafter
and perpetuity OF the Republican
party in this country. We urge that
you crush this Ring at all hazards,
and hereby make it possible hereaf-
Ter for the voice Of the people to be
heard, and for poor man, upon his
own merits, to rise in the world.
Mr.. Gladstone, in paper contributed
@ the last number of the North AmerI-
an ReUieso, thus speaks of the United
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