Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-01-29
DEmoCnACY TnIuMPHs.


AND THE HONOR AND CREDIT oFTHE
STATE OF TENNESSEE IS UPHELD BY
THE ELECTION OF HON. HOWELL f.
JACKSON, STATE CREDIT DEMOCRAT,
TO THE UNITED STATES SEN ATE.
While we regret most sincerely
the failure of the legislature TO re-
elect our honored townsman, the
Hon. James f. Bailey, yet we hail
with loudest VACCINATIONS the cleo
ton of a stanch and true democrat
of the pure school of state-credit
democracy in the person of the Hon.
Howell +. jackson, of Jackson,
Tenn. Col. Bailey was our first
choice, not because he was citizen
of Montgomery county, but because
he had faithfully, and with the
highest honor and ability, served
his state and the country at large in
her highest councils. No democrat
in Tennessee, or in the United
States, can point out time or place
where he has ever failed to faith
fully and ably discharge the high
trust which he has held for four
years. We wanted him reelected ;
he himself wanted to be reelected ;
but no man in all this broad land
more humbly and gracefully steps
down out of his high position than
Col. Bailey. 1t was not for himself,
but principles, for which he fought,
and ne has the glorious conscious
ness OF seeing his principles triumph
ia the election of Jackson. We
take him back in our midst and are
proud of him, while he himself has
the calm, eonsoling whisper of an
applauding conscience.
Col. Bailey says he is proud to be
succeeded by such a man as Howell
+. Jackson I; he has known him
long and well that he is an elegant,
high-toned, cultured, polished and
educated gentleman, and splendid
lawyer; that ne win fill the position
to which he is elected with honor,
credit and ability; that he will be
the peer of any man in the United
States senate.
We append a short biography Of
ot1r pavt sanafor.
Judge Howell Edmunds jackson,
member of the house from Madison
county. His parents were DIR. Alex.
jackson and Mary Hurt, both of
Halifax county, Va. Birthday, 8th
of April, 1882; birthplace, Paris,
Tenn. His parents removed to
jackson, Tenn, in 1910. He was
educated at OIdfield school as prep
aratiOn graduated at West Tennes-
see College in lS4S; went thence to
the University of Virginia for two
years; read law for two years in
Jackson, Tenn, Under his kinsmen,
Judges A. o. w. TOtten and Milton
Brown. In 1855 attended the Leba-
non Law School, graduating in 1856;
begun the practice of law in Jack
son, Tenn; moved to Memphis in
1859, and formed partnership with
David NJ. Curtin. The winter of
1878 he was sent to New York
by the Mississippi Central railroad
company, now the Chicago, st.
Louis and New Orleans railroad, to
negotiate the bonds of that railroad,
which he did to the entire satisfac-
ton of the directors of the company.
Married i'm 1859 the daughter of Mr..
ID. b. Malloy, of Memphis Sophia
Mallory, by which marriage he has
a daughter and three sons. He con-
tinued the practice of law in Mem
phis until the war, when he was
appointed to a civil position in the
confederate government; resumed
the practice of law in Memphis after
the war and formed a partnership
with b. NJ. Estes, and subsequently
the firm was Estes, Jackson Il Ellis.
His wife died in 1873, ana he again
married, "a pril 80, 1874, by which
marriage he has two daughters. In
1878 he was a prominent candidate
for the high Office of supreme judge
before the nominating convention.
In 1876 he removed back to Jack
son, Tenn, and continued the prac-
tiee of the law. He served on the
supreme bench of the state by APP
pointment on two occasions, was
elected to the house of representa-
tives on the state-credit platform,
and was appointed on the commit
tee on elections, and also member
of the judiciary committee.