The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-08-07
MIKE BURNS FOR GOVERNOR.


We take pleasure in publishing the
following, from the Memphis Ledger.
We have known Mike Burns for many |
years, and we know him to be one of |
natures noblemen. He is an old me-
chanic, the architect of his OWE for
tune, a man of integrity and fine sense,
every way fitted for the Office of Cover
nor:
'sIn his speech on the bluff last night
Mr. R. w. Haywood, of Brownsville,
referred to Mr. Mike Burns, of Nash
vile, as a Democratic candidate for
Governor of Tennessee. Mr.. Haywood
was right in saving that Mr.. Burns,
would give satisfaction to the people of
Tennessee and produce the utmost har-
mony in the party. Mr.. Burns is by
birth an Irishman, and more upright
and honest man has never made his
home in this or any other State. We
understand that he is in favor of COM
promising the State debt, and this view
will meet with the approval of the peo-
pie of Shelby county and West Tennes-
see. The mental attribute, which Mr..
Burns possesses in the most distinguish
| ed degree, and to which his success is
largely owing, is judgment. To say
that he has excelled by this attribute is
to award, perhaps, the highest praise
that could be bestowed on any man.
The loftiest and rarest quality of the
mind is judgment. 1t is above inven-
ton it is beyond eloquence it is more
than logic. In every employment and
every condition of life, private and
public, deliberative and executive, the
ascendency of judgment over talent,
wit, Imagination, learning, is evinced
at once by the rarity of the endowment,
and by the superiority which it is GER
tain to confer upon its possessor. His
sagacity in financial matters has been
so often and ever so frankly displayed,
and so generally approved, that these Is
probably no man to-day in Tennessee
whose opinion on question OF State
obligations and taxation would have
greater influence with the judicious
minds of the country. In addition to
mental attributes of the best character
and the loftiest sentiments of heart, Mr..
Burns has moral qualities of the highest
excellence. From Partially, from pre-
iudice, from the bias of anger, his ma
ture seems to be wholly free. In all the
elements that go to make up the hOspit-
able man, the true friend and the hon
ored citizen there is not one lacking in
the character of Mike Burns. He is not
politician, but man, and his whole
life proves itself a model of excellent
utility to his people and type of great
worth and earnest commentator, es-
pically to the young. These are among
the characteristics of Mr.. Burns, and go
to illustrate the excellencies of a noble
nature and if they provoke the inn
pertinence of the canaille of scriblerS,
and develop the enmity of the prevail
ing and aspiring politician, they attract
and interest the symphathies of true
men, and will not fsil elicit the warm
admiration and command the sincere
respect of all who TRULY desire a good
and worthy person for governor of Ten
nessee. In Memphis Mr.. Burns will
make friends. In Tennessee he will
also attract to his support those who
prefer personal integrity and modest
worth to ranting patriotism and selfish
trickery that have promoted so many
! untrue men to office.