Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-22
FIr.t district judicial Ticket.

The upper country Republicans have
an excellent judicial ticket in the field,
and 1t will be elected by good round ma
jorities.
Hon. John P. Smith. the candidate for
chancellor. while young comparatively,
stands well as a lawyer, as a man and as
q citizen, and can be most heartily sup
ported by his party at the polls, and will
have the respect and confidence Of the
bar and people, irrespective of politics,
when he assumes the discharge of the
duties Of the responsible station to which
the voice of the majority has called him.
His only opponent, SO far, is Mr.. W. p.
Gillenwaters, who runs as an independ-
ent, and for whose present candidacy
there is no reason or demand aside from
his own ambition and the willingness of
the minority to encourage a boiling Re-
publican, and in this case we do not be-
lieve that even this demand is either cx-
tensive or pressing. Mr.. Gillenwaters is
a man Of ability and as a lawyer has not
o few admirers, but the same can be said
Of many other gentlemen in the district
without implying that any mi of them
has any special call to run for chancellor
in opposition to the party's duly express.
ed will. The field is open to all who
want to run, but the people will elect only
one chancellor and that will be Mr..
Smith.
Col. Andrew j. Brown, of Jonesboro,
the nominee for circuit Judge, is a gentle
man of that kind in whose election the
people will honor themselves and main
tain the dignity of the bench. He is q
careful and diligent lawyer, a painstak-
ing, judicious and conservative man in
his methods, and will take to the bench
those kindly qualities Of heart which
make the people respect the most rigor-
Gus laws when temporarily expounded
and firmly, but rot brutally executed. In
imposing extreme sentences, or in, decree
ing the sterner rules Of the law, some
judges, by their unfeeling absorption in
their harsh duties, seem to forget that
men, women and helpless children, the
innocent with the guilty, must suffer, and
by their very manner make the law al.
most odious to the ~populace, who, under
a wiser and kinder judge, would look up
on the same thing with pity for the help
less, but with q patriotic sentiment Of re-
spect for the law as decreed in kindness.
Col. Brown Is such q man, and will be
such q judge, mindful Of human feelings
but none more inflexible than he in the
discharge Of the solemn trust of his high
office.
Mr.. Campbell, the nominee for attorney
general, is o young man whose past dili-
gence in his profession, whose popular
traits of character and fitness for public
trust inspire the hope Of his many friends
for O brilliant career. AS attorney gener-
al we predict that he will become a model
officer, guarding the interests of the State,
standing between the people and the crew
OF harpies who cluster around every
court house and feed on the people by
melting frivolous prosecutions and bear.
ing false witness.
Parties interested and parties envious
are attempting to stir up strife in the Re-
publican party over the nominations of
Brown and Campbell, butshey will have
their trouble for their pains. They are
the choice of the party, they are good,
sound Republicans, they are as well fitted
to fill the offices for which they were
nominated by the Republican party as are
their Democratic competitoIs-if not bet.
ter-and the August election will show
by their majorities that they are in truth
the choice of the people, KnorriNt
Chronicle.