Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21
@ [. ia WKINS.

above is the Republican candidate for
sheriff of Washington County. He is
the present incumbent of that import
ant office, and is now serving out his
second term. Under the constitution
of Tennessee no man can be sheriff
more than six years in any term of
eight years. Since the constitution of
1870 it has been customary to re-elect
the same man for the second and third
terms, especially when the incumbent
has made a good sheriff. Mr.. Hawkins
has not simply made a good sheriff,
but it is safe to say that this county
has had nc better sheriff since the war.
He has discharged every duty devolv-
ing upon him as sheriff honestly, faith
fully, impartially, and in a manner
that certainly ought to give satisfac-
ton to men of all parties. He is n
thoroughly sober mana man whose
entire influence has always been cast
on the moral side of questions. He is
not only a moral man, but he is regard
ed by all who know him as q heightened
Christian gentleman. He is young,
active, courageous, full of life and
prompt in the discharge of every Off
cial duty. No man has we dared to
attempt to couple the name of Jake
Hawkins with anything low or immor-
al. He is a true Republican, and will
go as far to serve his party as any man,
but he would scorn to allow mere par
tisan feelings to swerve him from the
performance of an official duty. He
has not pleased everybody in the dis
charge of his official duties. He would
have to be more than human to do SO.
The people of this county are not going
to turn Jake Hawkins down in order
to introduce an untried man. The
Democratic candidate may be a very
clever man, but are his friends willing
to stand him up side by side with Jake
Hawkins, and allow the parallel to be
run between him and Jake on all the
lines that go to make up the worthy
citizen-the heightened Christian gen.
tleman? If they are not-why not?
Does the Democratic candidate possess
one single qualification for sheriff that
cannot be found in an equal or larger
measured Jake Hawkins? Can any man
give n solitary sensible reason why a
man of pure life like Jake Hawkins
should be defeated and a man like John
Sanders elected? These are plain sim
pie questions for all good worthy intel.
ligent voters to think about before cast.
ing their ballots.
Jake Hawkins belongs to that worthy
class of men known as self made men.
He was born in johnson County in the
year 1855 of poor but honorable pa
rents. His father died when he was
a small boy, and he was then thrown
entirely upon his own He
was poor, but was not afraid to work.
AT the age of IS years he left home and
went to Elizabethton to learn the
blacksmith trade. He worked at that
trade there and at B~akersville, N. c.,
for about three years, receiving moth
ing for his work but his board and
clothes. He then went to Jonesboro,
a stranger to everybody there, and
sought work at his trade with A. G..
Mason, in whose blacksmith shop he
worked for about three years. He was
then employed by S. H. Anderson as
hackdriver and as clerk in his store,
and remained in that employment for
several years. In the meantime he
married a worthy Washington County
girl. The people recognized in him a
MAJ OF true merit and took him up and
made him sheriff of this county. He
has made and saved some money, and
has invested every cent he could save
in property in this county, and has
taken an active interest in every enter
prise that looked to the upbuilding of
this county. He points with pride to
his record as a citizen and an officer,
and is willing to be tried by them. He
can only promise, if elected sheriff
again, to discharge the duties of the
office with the same honesty and fidel-
ity which have characterized him at all
times in the past, and he promises that
he will give to the people the benefit
of his past experience and hopes to
make them a still better and more eff
cient officer than ever before.