The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-10-26
THoS. +. PERKINS JR.
The People of Williamson
County to the Seventh
- Congressional District.

|. We, who form a portion of the voting
population OF Williamson county, take
this method Of expressing our hearty
sympathy for and our determination to
support Capt. Thomas F. Perkins, jr.,
as candidate for congress from this
district; and deeming it right to give
our reasons for this course, we submit
the following:
1. The gentleman, Col. John G Bal
lentine, who was nominated by the con-
vention at Pulaski, may be, and doubt
less is, a most worthy gentleman, and a
true democrat, but he was no candidate
prior to said convention, and having
remained quietly in the background
until both Gen. Whitthorne and Col.
Cox bad been slaughtered, stepped for
ward to grasp the fruits OF their labor.
He was a dark hose there, and certainly
no more the choice of the district than
Capt. Perkins, or any one OF a dozen or
two other good men in the district. He
simply announces himself a candidate
after the convention had failed to nomi-
nate either of the two gentlemen then
before it, and we think that Capt. Per-
kins stands at least upon an equal foot
ing, as regards his party, with Col.
Ballentine. r.......-., ~
?. We have known 'Tlios. F. Perkins
| from his childhood, and during his
whole life he has been true to the best
| interests Of his people. When the late
war broke out, true TO his section and
! his State, although beardless boy sew
entcen years of age, he entered the Con-
! federate service, and by his energy and
dauutless courage was soon made cap
tain of dashing and daring company
of cavalry. Always at the post of duty
as a soldier, tenderly caring for his
men, he we'll earned their love and con-
fidence, and they were willing to follow
wherever he might lead. When he re-
turned home at the end of the war,
scarcely grown, he at once began life on
his own account, being unwilling to be
a burden upon his aged father. Since
then he has made his way by his OWE
| efforts. Three times he was elected tC
fill the office of County Clerk, the most
| important county Office within the gift
Of the people, In this Office he was dis
tinguished for promptness, accuracy
and answering integrity. at the time
when political passions ran highest ht
was elected State Senator, and although
some of us regret that his judgement or
certain questions did net coincide with
ours, yet we know that he acted consci
enciously and in a manner which he be
lieved for the best interests OF his con
stituents. He has always been an ear
nest advocate of a good and liberal sys
TEN of free schools, wherein the poo,
and the rich might alike educate the ris
ing generation he has never been ap
pealed to by the distressed poor withou
&C once responding to the call. In fact
in all that goes to make up the true man
he excels-
In politics he has ever been a firm
consistent Democrat, believing that tn
people have a full and perfect right {
, govern themselves, and TO control With
proper limits the actions OF their repre-
, sentatives. ma Va q
Feeling thus about him, and feeIin
that he neither wrongs any indfvidua
or any party by his candidacy, we bi
him God speed and recommend him {
the hearty support of all who want a
= honest, fearless Representative in Cor
!. gress.
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