Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-15
CORRESPONDENCE.
MooREspUHGH. COUNT,

SOlNttLOl
MooREsBURGH, HAWKINS COUNTY.
Mr.. EDITOR: l hear q little talk still
about the Jonesboro convention, especial.
ly among the Democrats, who innocently
and alphabetically. without any purpose
in view. except perhaps to stir up division
in the ranks of the Republican
party to make a circuit Judge of st. John
and attorney general of Burrow: econ.
ventions amt fair no now" "Hacker
didn't get a vote from Hawkins"
Brown and Campbell made a trade and
each other" no politics In
these judicial offices no how; civil service
smiling, placid, and innocent st. John;
Cleveland's elector Burrow and Miss
frankie to sweeten the cup, have literally
knocked every star off the old flag,
washed out all the stripes, caught the
American eagle and picked it clean as a
Mexican dog; and give us a country with
no North, nc East, no West, no South,
except a solid South every four years.
where every man is free as the air TO do
as he can, and every man, woman and
child eligible to any Office under State or
government, either elective or by appoint.
ment, without regard to race, color, pre-.
vious condition Of servitude or confine-
ment In whatever Jail or penitentiary,
provided he has not rendered himself Of.
f%ensive, infamous and Ineligible, and
shown himself to be q lecherous, treach.
erous Shiny toad and q fraud upon hu.
mainly and whose crime and infamy have
been piled Sc high that they smell to the
very throne of-Clev Gland, by being
guilty of that capstone wrong, nay more,
crime, and that too so filthy, so diabolical
so ponderous and so shocking to the
great we are as to shake the very foun-
dations of Democracy and sift out every
rascal in, voting the Republican ticket.
1t was so mean I could scarcely get to 1t.
Fact is | feel the weight Of It. My sup.
plies are cut off, with no hope for two
years yet of q p%ostof1ce, gauger's place or
deputy collectors; nothing left but to be
deputy sheriff and that too under q more
consummate scoundrel than even I am.
But | have "spilte' the horn and can't
make a spoon nohow, and l just intend to
vote the Republican ticket if it beats ev-
cry man from president to constable and
fills every Office with an offensive ras.
cal" Now, / was for Hacker and wanted
him nominated, but / wasn't for him be-
cause / thought he was the only man in
the first judicial circuit who could or who
had a right to be circuit Judge. have
never heard that Judge Hacker was the
cleverest OIL best man in the country. I
don't think he fought the war by himself
nor has he been the Republican party of
the country. And put him at his best ev-
erywhere and at all times and / certainly
think he and his friends ought to be sat-
isfed with what the party has done for
him. Many a man as good as Judge
Hacker, and as sensible and well qualified
came home from the army and took up
his abode among the privates in the rear
ranks, and have quietly wrung their earn.
ings from the sweat of honest toll, men
asking for Office, while Judge Hacker has
grown rich In the shade. I don't hold 1t
against him for having taken care Of his
money but l don't think he should forget
his party and become chronic on office.
If Campbell and Brown were able to
nominate each other they had the strength
to make the nominations legitimate and l
consider them as much entitled to the
support of the party as Hacker and Fain
or any other team. Campbell will make
just as good attorney general as Fain, and
Brown will make Just as good Judge as
Hacker, and l say elect them, and the
Republicans around me all say the same
thing. A soldier who can't stand anything
but victory amt worth the uniform he
wears. An Ex.RAscAL.
July 8, 1886.