The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-02
Our Next CONGRESSMAN.
From the Dyersburg Gazette.


With this issue of the State Gazette,
It is our pleasure to announce Hon.
VIM. w. Vaughn, of Haywood coun-
ty, as a candidate to represent this Dis
trict in the 46th Congress of the Uni
ted States. Personally. we have no
feeling in this matter. To suSserve the
best interest of the people should be
and is our highest ambition. We know
of no object more worthy-there Ger
tainly is none more dignified or neces-
sary IF accomplishment than to relieve
them of their burdens. And if you
will present any other man in our dis
trict that is better calculated to produce
this result, name him and we will CHAD
lysupport him. Weknow Col. Vaughn
as aself-made man; and there are those
in our county who knew him years ago
IN Wilson county, naming him only to
praise. He is the son of a Cumberland
Presbyterian minister. Raised up on
the farm, by dint of honest industry
and an energy that triumphed over
every obstacle, his own exertion has
made him what he is. He is honest,
faithful, competent and experienced.
He is man Impractical results. 1t was
remarked to us the other day that
through and by his public and private
labors, over one thousand men, women
and children haze been fed, clothed
and cared for through the two oppres-
sive years past and gone. Col. Vaughn
was the author of the Memphis Custom
House, now being erected, which will
bring from the United States Treasury
not les than enc half million ofdollars,
While representing the Memphis dis
trict with splendid ability in the 42d
Congress, he relieved judgments and
collected claims fer his constituents to
the amount of $4,000. We sent from
this town a petition to him, through
the Chamber of Commerce at Mems
phis, TO see if something could los be
done for the Forked-Deer river from
Dyersburg to the Mississippi river, and
although it was but few days before
Congress adjourned, he succeeded in
getting an appropriation of FIVE thou>
sand dollars, with which, our readers
will remember, the river was surveyed.
II elected to this Congress, as he surely
will be, he will succeed in having the
Forked-Deer cleaned out from Dyers-
burg to the mouth. Our Dyer county
people will see from the above that
they have already found an old friend
in Col. Vaughn. His bill, making it
a penal offence for Marshals or their
deputies to 60 out of their own counties
and make arrests, but forces all pre-
liminary trials for violations of the rev.
enue laws to come before a county
commissioner and if guilty then to be
bound over to the Federal court, is
greatly needed. But we haven't time
now to even sketch all the good he has
done. We can safely say there is no
faint of high taxes nor sympathy with
the bondholder about him. As the
field now stands, Col. Vaughn is the
decided choice of the great majority Of
the people Of Dyer county. His feal-
ty to the people is unimpeached. His
ability to fill the place of Congressman
from the 9th District has been amply
exemplifed during one term in Con-
gress. He now asks this district to re-
turn him to the place he has qualified
himself to fill. His record is spotless.
He is a brave and fearless gentleman,
a ready debater and a finished orator
and will always be at his place in Con
gress to fight for the best interests of
his home people.