Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-11-22
CoUNTRYmAN,s AmnIrIoN.
why ne Seeks the Berth OF estate
Lawyer"
An open Letter to Col. John III
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why He Seeks the Berth OF Estate
Lawyer"
An Open Letter to Col. John H.
Savage.
DEAR SIR: / would have written
/ you before but I knew you was
/ busy, attending to your "Torbet
issueo lawsuits, and had no time to
| be singing knowledge around, but
really need some help from you.
Beasley has been telling a whole
lot of fellows, confidentially, out in
franklin county, that you was GO
ing to be the next Governor. And
thought l would write to you and
find out wether or not it's so, be-
cause Beasley, you know, talks a
good deal with his mouth" Now
if you have made up your mind TO
take it-ErOUioIed ga majority of the
people are wiIling''-you can be of
great service to me. If you decide
to be Governor, of course you will
want to resign as estate lawyer
and want the place, You know /
amt much lawyer, but there amt
a man in our party that needs the
money incident to it" more than /
do. Besides, it don't take much
lawyer. The Supreme Court of the
United States has done decided that
the State owes the money and must
pay it, and has settled all the ques-
Estate lawyers has to do is to see
that Judgment is properly entered.
When it's all settled and prear-
ranged that a fellow is to lose a
lawsuit, why | can do that as well
as anybody. It's sorter like fell
low wrestling with the understand
ing that he is to be thrown, and all
he has got to do is to pick out a
"soft place" and s'fall easy" Well,
| am one of the best hands at that
you ever saw. | think the Governor
he always had streak of fun in
him recognized these facts
when he appointed you and Wilson.
But if you decide to be Governor,
will you pay back the part of the
fee you have already drawn? Be
cause if / get the Office of "Lawyer''
| want all tile money that belongs
to the Office. Now, some of these
dissatisfied fellows have been criti-
cising you and Wilson for creating
the Office of 'tlawyer," and it does
look to me like some men expect a
statesman just to live on statesman
ship. Don't it TO you? Now, if
they would try that awhile, they'd |
get hungry, wouldn't they? When
you decide to be Governor, don't |
you go to recomme ending the abol-
ishment of the ''Otfice of lawyer" on
grounds, There is moth |
ing we ought to "set our faces
against" as against this growing
to abolish Office. / don't /
know if would not "go agin" a
majority of our people on this prop
Our party has a good record now
on this "principle" and we must I
keep it up. You know when the
Governor said that he didn't want
any private secretary, didn't need
any, had no use for one, our folks
in the Legislature told him that ''he
was Mistaken" that he did need
one. That is the correct principle.
Never abolish an office; it has the
cohesive power of holding our peo-
pie together that is perfectly won
L y
you go to abolishing Office, you
strike at the root and foundation of
our party. (Ain't the Office of law
yers sort of easy place?)
/ was looking into the Constitu-
ion the other day about the right
Of the Legislature to appropriate
for lawyers fees, and
lidn't see that the Constitution said
that the Legislature
should have that power. | don't
want the "office of lawyer" if there
IS any doubt about the pay. But
you don't reckon that any serious
questions can be raised as to the
:onstitutionality of the power of the
Legislature to appropriate money
70 pay lawyers, do you? Because
you see it don't stand on exactly
he same footing with a bond, for
n the one case it's paid, in the
)ther it's Just a promise to pay, and
hat, you say, is ''bill Of credit"
md therefore unconstitutional. But
we have done settled that question,
in Tennessee, it can't do
my more demonstrations things of
hat sort, for even if it issued, the
bill" wouldn't have any "credit,"
would it?
In looking around and contein-
plating the success that has crowned
he efforts that you, Wilson, TOlley
md Beasley have put forth, 4have
made up my mind to become a
statesman. shall advertise it next
week. | have gotten up form,
like this:
CHE A COUNTRYMAN." )"