The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-10-19
THoS. F. PERKINS JR.
The People of Williamson
County to the Seventh
Congressional District.

We, who form 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 a 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
lcntine, who was nominated by the con-
Vention at Pulaski, may be, and doubt
less is, 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 had 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 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-
klns stands at least upon an equal foot
ing, as regards his party, with Col.
Ballentine.
II
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 bearCless boy sew
enteen years of age, he entered the Con-
federatc service, and by his energy and
dauntless courage was soon made cap
tain of dashing and daring company
of cavalry. Always at the post of duty
as soldier, tenderly caring for his
men, he well earned their love aud 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 own
efforts. Three times he was elected to
fill the Office of County Clerk, the most
important county office within the gift
OF the people, In this Office he was dis
tinguished tor promptness, accuracy
and answering integrity. At the time
when political passions ran highest he
was elected State Senator, and although
some of us regret that his judgement on
certain questions did not 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 poor
and the rich might alike educate the ris-
ing generation. He has never been ap-
pealed to by the distressed poor without
at 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 the
people have full and perfect right TO
govern themselves, and to control within
proper limits the actions of their repre-
sentatives.
Feeling thus about him, and feeling
that he neither wrongs any individual
or any party by his candidacy, we bid
him God speed and recommend him q
the hearty support of all who want al
honest, fearless Representative in Con-
gress.