The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-22
LETTER ,. ON NASHVILLE.

NASHVILLE, MAY 10, '70.
To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette
I have never seen Nashville as
gay and full of strangers as for two
months past. We have had the
meeting Of the State Grand Com
mandry, Knights of Honor, for the
United States. the Baptist Conven-
ton FOR the South, the Spring Races,
and various other things Of greater
or less importance. These, follow
ing one upon another, have made
sober, quiet Nashville, put on her
gayest attire In and amid all this
festivity, we have the cheerful greet
inc of the thousand an / nine hun
dred candidates for Governor, for
all the judicial positions and county
offices, Congress and the Legisla-
ture. Every other man you meet is
a candidate for something. The ele.
ments, the very heavens, and all
else may look blue and solemn, but
never your average candidate. His
phiz is a perpetual aurora borealis
of smiles-night or day. There are
over one hundred candidates in this
count alone for judicial and county
offices. There have, up to the pres
ent writing, been six well-authenti
Gated cases of death by leckjaw'
caused by handshaking on part of
the candidates. A friend of mine
down on College, near Broad, with
a cork arm and hand. is the only
man who is happy. They can't mash
his paw-not a bit of it. I do not
think there will be any objection to
either Judge Mcfarland or Deader-
ick. Both will be. as they deserve
TO be, renominated, Middle Ten
nessee will doubtless get two of the
Judges, and West tennessee one,
and perhaps the Attorney General
and Reporter. East Tennessee will
not care, L presume, to take an &C
tive hand in the selection of candi.
dates for the other sections, provided
good men are presented, but will be
content to stand solidly by her emf
nent priests, Mcfarland and Dead
erick. Quietly and ably have they
performed their onerous and Eespon-
sible duties. They have had Seither
time nor inclination to solicit re-
election, but they must have it as
the spontaneous offering Of an appre-
ciative public.
1 see that you have many names
in East Tennessee for the office
of Governor. Surely from the sew
eral gentlemen named-Fleming,
Caldwell, BLIZZARD. Sam Twins, and Nc
Farland, a suitable selection can be
made, but il seems to me East Ten
nessee may run the risk of losing
her power by dividing up among
such a number of able and capable
gentlemen. If. however, the choice
OF the Convention should not fall
upon an East Tenneseean, then l
want to suggest for the considera-
ton OF your section-of all sections,
the name Of q mdp-whose braiu
and heart is big enough to embrace
the whole State, its wants, its re
sources, and present depressed con-
dition. He has always been ia
vorit0 with East TennesseaHs. as
indeed, with everybody who knows
him. And who does not know Mike
Burns? There you have his name.
From an humble son of toll he has
by his energy. liberality and good
sense, advanced to positions OF the
highest honor and trust in civil life.
He has never been an Office holder.
A business man OF great sagacity,
banker of great power, free from
even the suspicion of undue intiu-
ence from rings" of any kind, equal
to any and every emergency, it does
seem to me that the people of Ten
nessee might, for once, lay aside all
party predictions and confer this
high office of Governor on a man
who would restore the days of the
olden times, when we had such men
as Johnson, the Browns, Polk. and
others Of that kind, in the guberna.
torial chair. Who would not be
proud of Mike Burns as Governor
He would honor and grace the Office
far more than it would him. ..rs
l am not saying a word against
any East nessean-yourself in.
cluded-only this: ifyou cannot get
one of your own people. then for the
sake of our PROSTATE and bleeding
State, let US take the man who can
lead us out of our present financial
troubles.
There will be some nigh old times
this summer in the different Con-
gressional districts. Gen. Alexan-
der Campbell will lead Atkins a
happy bout--while Vaughn will con-
test with Caldwell. Whitthorne. the
invincible, will find formidable
competitor in the able speaker of
the late House-Taliaferro. The
knowing ones AREA dy predict
F" Whit s. defeat. but it is safe
never to count him out until the re-
turns are all in. House will have
his hands full TO get back-able and
clever as he is. The man who beats
viii Erwin 10 this district in Con-
vention will be the Congressman.
Riddle will have no walk over. aud
Dibbrell has a regiment in little Eb.
Inu,on II, handIn 'I,hnrn seams To hn q