Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-18
IRVING COLLEGE.
Our Old Correspondent Philosophises
Some for Defeated Candidates, and
hi Talks Business About County
-. Matters. ,rn.y.. ani-,

- Living SOHSSc, aug 'ti3 I0oo'T-
We hope no one will consider that
we have usurped his prerogative,
when we, at this late day, dare again
to address the STANDARD. Freedom,
ofSpeech is one of the most valued
heritages that has come down to us
from our Revolutionary Fathers, and
this same privilege of free-speech is
often abused in saying things that
should not be said and in speaking
when silence should reign supreme.
We may be measured by the stand
ard just set up and found wanting,
but nevertheless we will speak lit
tie. AS we pause and mediate for a
moment, thinking what's best osay,
we hear the last sobs of the defeated
candidates rendering plaintive hill
and valley, field and grove, country
and town. Surely, that man is not
much of philosopher who enters the
arena in which success is dependent
upon the ballot of the, mobile multi
tude, unless he is equally well pre-
pared for defeat as for success. And
the credulity of that man is phenom-
email who believes that every one
will vote for him who promises so to
do. A proper consideration of these
matters before the election would
save many unavailing curses and inn
precautions hurled, after the election,
at all who did otsupport the unsuc-
cessful. Report has it that in the
town of McMinnville on the night of
the election the air was rent with
cursesand oaths belched out by some
of the defeated ones. If such was
the case, conduct of that kind only
reflects on him who engages in it,
and paves the way to sure defeat
again at the next election. .4.,.
A word about the new court. So
far as | am acquainted with the new
ly elected, they are respectable body
Of intelligent business men. There
was time when there was almost a
dearth of business men in the court,
and this was trueito such an extent
that a chairman served for years at a
good round sum. But nearly all OF
quite all of the districts have elected
men whose business qualifications are
such that material for chairman is
not hard to find. And more, they
are willing to do the work alta reas.
enable compensation. The number
of young men now being ushered into
Office and the number of foSsilized
relics of Il by-gone age retired, is
strikingly observable. We live in
the "New Age" There was a time
when the stage coach wheeled along
its "cargo' of passengers sufficiently
fast. A foot met the de
mands Of the times in carrying intel
igence from one part of the country
to another. fla man was prepared
to enter upon profession or to begir
business at middle age, he was III
with the times. But now we SET
young men of twenty or twenty-fv,
years of age standing side by side
with men of fifty or sixty years
equally successful in every depart
ment of life. Their ideas of the DIES
patch of business are such that hu
man labor and human skill have beer
supplanted by the most ingenuouslI
constructed machinery. The type
writer, the telephone, and the loco
motive are the only machines which
. operate fast enough to suit the times
| And it is argued that improvement
must soon be made in these to fill tn
! demands made OF them.
But where in this progressive worlt
! is Warren county? / can't find i
/; mapped out, but with these SAM
! progressive young magistrates il
charge of our county affairs, we hop
soon to be recognized in the progress
sive world. We wish the indebted
ness of our county paid, even if
does stop that important branch
industry o. discounting count.
claims. We want "a surplus in tn
treasury" A surplus would be al
important factor in bridge building
turnpike enterprises, etc. We wan
a better school fund. Upon the de
velopment Of mind is dependent tn
development of our natural resources
Good schools are the mind develop
ers. And finally, we want the Stan
\ DARD to preach progression unit
} fogyism will not dare to show its III
cOuth head. +. b. r.
Now is the Time
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