The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-07-22
THE FRAUDS.
THE SPLIT WIDENING AND THE JUDI
CIAL TICKET CONDEMNED IN
EVERY QUARTER BY LEAD
ING REPUBLICANS.

WILL SCRATCH BROWN AND
Campbell BY HUNDREDS.
The honest, intelligent, reading por-
ton of the Republican party look up
on Col. A. j. Brown and II. T. Camp
bell singly as colossal frauds. They
are forced to this conclusion by the
disreputable and dishonoring meth
dds which they have employed with
out scruple to secure their nomina-
ton and election The misrepresen-
tation OF Hawkins county in the Ju-
dicial Convention was only the begin
ming of a systematic series of frauds
and treacheries, that have prevailed
ever since to q greater or less extent
in every county in the circuit.
These loathesome and disgusting
rascalities have divided the Republi-
can party more hopelessly than the
fierce and furious hostility that exist
ed between the Pettibone and Taylor
factions. The antagonism is irrecon-
cilable, for the better element of the
Republican party cannot and pW not
condone the offences against con
science and good morals 10y which
this Judicial ticket was brought be-
fore the public. This ticket is an in
insult to the Republican party, and
the character of its makeup and the
methods Of its manufacture, as well as
the means now employed for its cleo
ton, are direct propositions to degrade
and debauch the Republican vote. 1t
is not strange that as all the shameful
circumstances leading to its nomina-
ton are being revealed, and all the
treachery and duplicity subsequently
employed to secure its election are be-
ing brought to light-that the ticket
is hiss and a by-word, and stencil
in the nostrils of all fair-minded men.
The wide-opened dissatisfaction
with this judicial ticket, and which is
increasing and growing more deter
mined every day, is attributable to
several good and sufficient reasons.
Brown is not considered genuine,
consistent Republican. lie was Il
Democrat for ten years, and left the
party after all his efforts to get office
under its auspices had been unavail-
ing. All who are booming and boost
ing him admit this fact, except Brown
himself. When he avowed his allie
glance to the Republican party, he
coupled it with the announcement of
his candidacy for the Circuit Judge
ship. His political record is besmirch-
ed with changes and tergiversations
to catch a favoring tide to ride into
office
Another reason for the growing con
domination of this ticket is the high
wayman-like manner in which the
vote OF Hancock and Hawkins coun-
ties was taken from Hacker and cast
for Brown in the JonesbOro conven-
ton. By this infamy, the outcome Of
Brown and Campbell's schemes and
Vaccinations in long secret inter.
view at Jonesboro, Hacker was abso.
lutely robbed OF his rights and the Re
publican party OF Hancock apd Haw.
kins counties of their choice. Browns
strongest friends and Hackers bitter
est personal enemies in the two couu-
ties freely concede that Hacker would
have beaten Brown badly in every civ
il district; and they now openly boast
of the success Of their infamous anC
perfdious plot to override the party
will in foisting A. j. Brown and the
legal luminary of Hancock upon al
unwilling people, And now they tel
the friends of Hacker and Fain-thC
bone, sinew and responsibility of the
Republican party in. these two coun
ties-~-that they must swallow this dose
Ioathesome in the unutterabIe stencil
OF its fostering corruption
Another potent cause of Browns in
ability to carry the full Republican
vote Of Hancock and Hawkins is hi
spotted and unsayory military record
as detailed 10y the men who were Sc
unfortunate as to have been com
manded by him during the war. II
fact, the Sth Tennessee Cavalry vete
rams in these counties are Browne
most uncompromising foes With re
viveG memories they revert to hi,
heartless tyranies as commando.
+, and his dashing charges to the real
when death was supposed to be riding
= on his white charger between the EN-
t battled lines.
r Campbell's widespread unpopular
ity is owing to the fact that he collud
= ed and conspired with Brown, and t.
= nominate the Hancock fraud his in
t discrete and oyer-zealous friend
] knitted Hacker without remorse, anC
3 in he teeth Of positre instructions 10 III,
! contrary.
] A very large number OF Republi
: cans both in Hancock and HaWkin