Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-07-19
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

PShoioheis aro uaNinB u uurueT tne
with Hoke Smith than the Confeder-
ate pensioners are having with ''Old
Pete" in Tennessee.
~Tomahawk Judge John p. Smith,
1t is understood, will be a candidate
for reelection, and so far, no one has
announced an intention of contesting
with him for the position.
Knoxville journal: Congressman
Bland, of Missouri, predicts that the
silver agitation will carry the agri-
cultural classes against the COM
mercial centers, and that a general
busting" up of POLITICAL parties will
result. Bland is a silver Democrat.
Mountaineer: Capt, A. r. Toncray,
who was recently discharged as a clerk
in the Pension department, has been
reinstated at Il salary of 81, 1000 per
annum, Sandy is a Republican and
went in under a Republican admins
t%ration, but he has a peculiar tact in
keeping his soft berth,
The Jacksonian is col rect in its
views. The pension bureau by its
present course, is making more Repub-
lican votes for 1896 than il could by
keeping every official In 1t ON the stump
for the Republican party from now
until November 4 1896. 1t is giving
the ex soldiers an object lesson that he
is absolutely forced to learn.
Chattanooga Times Perhaps the
country would survive If tn treasury
failed 10 buy any more pig silver, in
this month, or any future month. We
hope the secretary will buy none, un
less he can get it ut actual value.
Neither the brokers o silver miners
should be allowed to bulldoze the
United States, out of one penny.
Rogersville Review: 1t appears that
other counties than Hawkins, are be-
ginning to see that county courts are
expensive luxuries. The entire county
court system should be wiped out and
the business put In the hands of five
commissioners. The business would
be attended to more satisfactorily and
at much less expense.
The Rushville J~acksonian, a strong
Democratic paper in Indiana says, in
regard to the pension rulings;
The ruling of the Secretary of the
Interior will strike from the rolls tens
of thousands of old soldiers who are
wholly or practically disabled from
earning q living, and who are guilty of
no fraud in securing their pensions.
And this dropping of pensions, if it is
done, will cost the Democratic party
thousands of votes in every Northern
State.
Comet: Hon. A. A. Taylor left his
Chucky farm and spent q few hours in
the city last week. Speaking of the
tie up at E%nlbreville, he says: "Mr.
Prescott, president of the board of di-
r~ectors, informed him that the compa-
ny was perfectly solvent and would re,
sumo operations as soon as litigation
can be suspended. The state of affairs
into which the company has fallen
would not have existed, says Mr.. Pres.
colt, if the English directors had been
notified of its embarrassment"
Chattanooga Press: There is no
difference in the world, in morals or
honor, between the President Of the
United States giving q congressman
$1,000 or $4,000 hard cash to vote to
repeal the Sherman silver law, or to
vote for or against any other law, and
bestowing an Office of like value for
the same consideration. We do not
say he has done or will do such q thing,
but papers of all parties have published
1t as q fact, and there is not a sign of a
disturbance of the public conscience.
This is the era of Democratic reform?
Nashville Banner: The County
Court Of Shelby County have raised
the tax in that county seven cents,
making the State and county tax
ninety seven cents on the 300. This
is two cents higher than the tax in
Davidson, which is ninety five cents
forty five cents State tax and fifty
cents county tax. In both of the coun-
ties of Shelby and Davidson the Boards
OF Equalization reduced the assess
ments of property ten per cent, and it
seems that the County Courts in both
counties endeavored to meet this re-
duction of valuation by an increase in
the rate-ive cents increase In David
son and sever cents increase in Shelby.
1t appears that the Indebtedness of
Shelby County is about $3.50, 900. In
this respect Shelby has the advantage
of Davidson, as the debt of this county
is over $500, 900, an increase, accord.
ing to the statement of Justice Joseph
Thompson, of about $412,OOO within
the past two years.
The people quickly recognize merit.