The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-07-15
THE CIRCUIT JUDGEsHEF.
COME TO JUDGMENT, COL. AND ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS FRANKLY, CAN
ODDLY, WITHOUT EVASION
OR CIRCUMLocUTIoN,
50 THAT THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW WHAT
ARE FACTS AND WHAT ARE NOT.

so THAT THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW WHAT
ARE FACTS AND WHAT ARE NOT.
Col. A. J. Brown is professedly Republican
candidate for Circuit Judge. If it is not uni
versally known that he is seeking this exalted
station, it is not to be attributed to the Coils
want of "aggressiveness" in manipulating the
voter Backed by the endorsement of con-
vention, whose fairness and regularity as an ex
preston of party will and choice is very seri
ously questioned by many of the staid and
sturdy members of the party with which he is
at present officiating, he no longer enjoys the
immunities of the private. unaspiring citizen
and his political record becomes public proper
ty to be analysed and criticised in gentleman
ly manner.
AS a consequent, we PROFOUND through this
medium few plain, pointed questions to the
Col, and he cannot fail Or refuse to answer them
without mourning a strong suspicion of guilt, +"
and FORGETTING his claim to the confidence and
support of the party whose choice and nominee
he claims to be-
/. We're you not an open and avowed Demo-
crat, in full sympathy and active cooperation
with the Democracy from '65 to rs?
.. Did you not in this decade, ever memora-
BILE for the phrensy of its political passions and
hates, vote the straight Democratic ticket with
the prOmptness and regularity of the most ire
deemable and implacable partisan enthusiast?
3. We're you not twice or thrice the Democrat
ic candidate for the Judgeship against the Re-
publican nominee?
A. Were you not once the nominee of eau
Gus held at Elizabethton composed entirely of
Democratic rebels?
8. When you made the race against the late
Judge Howard for the criminal Judgeship were
you not the nominee OF Democrats and rebels,
who held clandestine caucus in the upper
rooms of the depot building at Jonesboro?
G. Did you not at various times and on several
occasions, in heated political discussions with
strong Republicans, denOunce President Grant
as tyrant and usurper and the Republican pol
icy of reconstruction as brutal, bloodthirsty and
| reyengeful, dishonoring to the Federal soldier
and a cowardly warfare upon a conquered and
helpless people?
| 7. In these same discussions did you not de-
nounce the Republican party for enfranchising
the colored man, charging that it was actuated
by the basest mercenary motives and it was on.
ly to use him as a machine to perpetuate its
corrupt and venal power2
s. In these same discussions. did you assert
that the Republican party, in enfranchising the
eolored man, was arming a mass of ignorance
and stupidity for the humiliation and oppres
sion Of the South and the ruin of the whole
country?
| Q. Did you not state to President Johnson, or
the occasion of your visit to Washington veal
or two after the war to clear up your military
record, and in the presence of Senator D. T
Patterson, that the lawlessness then prevailing
in East Tennessee was carried on by the ruffiaI
element of the Republican party, but winket
at and encouraged by the leaders; that the civil
courts being in she hands of the Republican,
nothing could be done to restore peace and or
der, and did you not invoke the President to us,
the military to quell this lawlessness?
10. When you Changed" your political con
nection, was not the first evidence you Offered
of your penitence and conversion the announce
ment of your candidacy for the Circuit Judge
ship?
II. We're you not groomed for this race b.
men with whom you trained for years in tn
Democratic camp, and who, also had changes
so suddenly as to excite suspicion and distrust
u. When you were defeated by Judge Haeke
in rs for the nomination did you not secret
say and do every thing possible to disparag
and defeat the judicial ticket, and especially tn
candidate who had defeated you?
10. On election day in rs did you not go t
Unicoi county on the pretext of urgent bushes
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were closed-juS IN time TO be too late to vote fo
Hacker Fain and the Repuclicon ticket?
II. In the last struggle before the convention
did you not bargain and intrigue with other
to secure your nomination, and by tn
practice of frauds concocted and manipulate
by eonfederates in the collision and conspirac
defeat your opponent and Honest John Fain,
true and tried Republican?
Is. Are you not now the candidate of a littl
clique who have been beaten out of their boot
and who are secretly stabbing our justly worth
and popular nominee for Congress and VIII
swear they will unlimber their batteries upo
. him when the August election is over?
, Col these questions are asked by Republ
can of 20 years growth, by one who has neve
been an ardent admirer of Judge Hacker an
who was in no wise disgruntled by his defea
except that he has no desire to see any maj
friend or foe, victimized by fraud. They ar
also, addressed to you through the medium of
3 public print, at the instance of several Republ
! cans, who never falter in their support of loyl
and genuine Republicans. You can answer
treat them with silence just as yon see fit. W
l are not done yet. REPUBLICAN, PRIVATE.
: Carter county, July u.