Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-04-01
FOR CONGRESS

FOR CONGRESS
HON. W. p. BR0WNLOW.
Subject TO the Greeneville Convention,
May 6, 1886,
No Republican in this district expects
any position in the public service from
the present Administration; hence, in the
election of n member of Congress, the
question Of patronage can exert no intiu-
ence. There are other interests in the
district more pressing that demand per
sonal attention, such as the settlement of
claims for property taken by the Federal
army during the war, and claims filed for
pension all of which can be pressed for
adjudication by The member Of Congress,
If he has the influence, energy and pluck
TO press such matters.
Hon. w. p. Brownlow has made a
specially Of these matters for years, and
the beneiciarics OF his work throughout
this district can bear testimony to his sue
cess and zeal in such matters. No man In
the district can do more in the Depart
mcnts than Mr.. Brownlow, and his cleo
ton to Congress will only increase his
power for doing more in the future than
in the past, in aiding worthy claimants 10
secure the amounts due them.
Tue New York Aldermen who voted
away the Broadway Railroad franchise,
over the veto Of the Mayor of the city,
are likely to meet the fate which their
corrupt acts merit. The investigation by
the Senate Committee as TO the means
used to influence the Aldermen To- vote
The Broadway Surface Railway the great
privileges conferred upon ii without Sc
curing to the city any compensation or
protection, has shown that they were
bribcd. Police Inspector Byrnes succeed
ed in forcing n confession from eX-Alder-
man Jachne, that he received $50, 900 for
voting for the Broadway franchise. and
the prospects are that all of the members
of the late Board of Aldermen, who voted
for the measure, will be shown guilty of
having accepted brides. The revelations
made by Jachne have caused consterna-
ton in official circles, and revelations
equal to those made against Tweed and
his ring of corruptionists are promised.
Jaehne and others implicated are shining
lights in the ranks Of the County Demo
cratic organization, of which Secretary of
The Navy Whitney, u boss and it is
suspected that when the whole matter is
ventilated other big guns of the Democ,
racy will be exposed as participators in
iobbcry and corruption.
Mr.. W. Ii. Benson, of Philadelphia,
has issued a call for a new political party
which will stand on the following six
planks: Every one to own $1,000 worth
of real estate free from taxation; articles
of necessity not to be taxed; the United
States Senate TO be elected directly by the
people; no man to be an officer in tho
army without Il previous service in the
ranks; all other parties to be. declared
dead; and the general application OF the
principle Of the greatest good to thu
greatest number. The world has no
heard of Mr.. Benson before this, but III
is quite sure that his name will now triI
gently but firmly down the corridors Of
time.
THE present is an excellent time for the
robust common sense of the American
w%orkingman to assert himself. Differ
ences between labor and capital are not
to be settled by brute force or unreason-
ing bulldozing; wrongs are not TO be
righted by resorting to revolutionary
methods, and grievances are not to be
honestly redre ssed through disorder and
chaos. It is an excellent time for common
sense to display itself. 1t is the work.
ingman's best capital, and he has rarely
had a better time to invest il properly.
OK several occasions demagogues and
sclf-secking politicians have induced the
w%orkingmen of this country, in one Sec
ton or another, TO join themselves with
separate political parties whose ostensible
object was the elevation of labor. Every
one Of these movements eventually col
lapsed, because honest workingmen who
had been led into them IN ont pretext or
another rccoilcd in disgust as soon as the
motives of those who controlled them be,
came apparent.
IT will hardly surprise any one to learn
that the Democrats in Congress believe
that the twelve negroes who were recently
shot in Carrollton, Miss, were the az.
gressors in the trouble. The do not ex.
plain how it happened that no white man
was hurt. One gentleman from Missis
sippi remarks that for the protection OF
society summary methods must some
times be resortcd to. Fortunately only
the white peoplehold to this theory.
THE great strike in the Southwest ap
proaches the natural crisis in the familia
way. There is some rioting; the talk |
violent, and the threats of what will b
done o o are extreme;-while the orga
n~ization already shows signs of intcrnO
dissension, and other Jodies Ct laborcr
are drawing off and beginning to crit
else.
ONE Of the cases furnished by Commits
sioncr Black to sustain his charge tn,
the Pension Office was run as a politict
machine, turns out to be a true.blue Den
ocrat, and Black is embarrassed, an