The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

2 In upper East Tennessee where Dem
ocracy dare not hope for success when
the party lines are drawn, their card is
TO hoodwink the people with the dec
! trine of no politics in the judicial and
local elections. The MoRRIsTowE GA
zETTE is good Democratic authority. 1t
s says this week:
a "There is some talk occasionally
about the elections for Judges and Coun-
q ty officers next summer, but only in a
81 quiet way. Nearly everybody is oppos-
q ed to mixing up politics with our local
8. and Judicial elections, and every man We
"a speak to upon the subject objects to a
q party Convention to nominate a candi-
81 date for Judge and Attorney General.
n In this idea, we cordially agree with
a them and hope no such Convention will
z be held. Let all the lawyers who wish
81 to be Judges come out in gang and run
~ for it. The man that gets the most votes
81 will be elected, and the people viii be
z just as apt to choose an upright, able
man, as a partizan Convention could
q do"
Il "We cordially agree with them and
q hope no such conventions will be held "
81 And why? Simply because a Democra-
j tic nomination means defeat.
81 But if they had a majority in this dis
& trict, no power on earth could induce
Il them to put forth such sentiments as the
q above. For such opinions as the above
q the GAZETTE would be ''read out of the
q party IN many sections of this State In
B view of these hypocritical pretences to
lull Republicans to sleep over the judi
: ria 81 Of FL - !.
z ty to warn them against the reception of
this doctrine, coming as it does from
party who never tolerates such ideas in
i sections where they have working ma
& jorities. Times.
The Times is altogether too suspi-
cious. Men of honorable. upright
4 instincts are slow 10 suspect others
Of bad motives without good cause.
Some people are always on the out
look for evil. They are ready to cry
out "hypocriL'' on all occasions
These fellows judge others by the
promptings Of their own natures.
Some men are born crOss-eyed.
Some hump-backed. some club
footed, and occasionally a poor
wretch comes into the world with all
these deformities. He is a pitiful
object. Sometimes a man is born
morally cock eyed, hump-backed.
knock-kneed, bandy-shanked, reel
footed, and altogether ont OF gear.
II may be that the poor devil can
not any more help his moral defor-
nifty than the other one could his
bodily appearance but he ought
not to try to run newspaper.
Our record on the convention
question TO nominate candidates for
Judge is consistent all the way
through. We have always oppo 'ed
partisan Judges. When the Consti-
tuition was changed in 1852, aud
these elections were put before the
people, we urged that party politics
should be dropped. and that the best
and ablest men the county afforded
should be elected as Judges and
Chancellors, regardless oftbeir party
afinities. A great many patriotic
men in the country advocated the i
same thing, and in a great measure
the first judicial elections before tue +
people were independent Of politics.
The Honorable Seth J. w. Luckey I
was elected Chancellor. He was a :
Wing. Hon. David /. Patterson
was chosen Circuit Judge. He was
a Democrat. If partisan conven-
ton had any thing to do with the
election of either one OF these gem ;
tlemen we fail TO remember the oc- |
casion. They were good men and {
made upright Judges. Their names t
are historical now. and yet they were
not the creatures OF caucus. But :
this was before the bottom rail got I
on tops this was before "scala- }
wags" assumed 10 he statesmen and 9
leaders; it was before party got to be Z
something more sacred than country.
1t was when the people thought
for themselves and acted for the a
interest of the whole community, f
any hatred in their hearts or 4
any binding prejudices in their i
minds. 1t was before the bloody t
emblem of malice-hate a
was raised to lead crusade against =
the white people Of this section of S
country. T
In the approaching judicial cleo f
lion it is matter Of small Importance
to us which political party has a ma
ority in upper East Tennessee. 1--we
have any thing TO do with the cleo Fl
lion in any way, we shall appeal di- il
rectly to the people. We shall call
upon them to look to their own in -
.erests and to vote for men they can h
rust. This is no occasion to reward q
political jack.snappers for doing dir k
y partisan JED work. We new r
n d" hoodwinked a Radical in b
,ur life, and never intend TO try to 4
10 such a thing Il the Radical par a
y never gets that job done for it I'M :"
il we do it. it will remain un-"hood-
7inked - until time shall be no &c