Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-22
The Congressional Race.

The overwhelming Republican major
ity in this District gives to the action
of the convention which nominates the
party standard bearer the interest at
taching to the formal cost of the ballots
in other Districts. This is not unnat
ural, for with our eight thousand Re.
publican majority, the Republican nom.
inee is certain to be elected.
AS is usual where the nomination IL
equivalent to an election, there are
many gentlemen who are willing and
anxious for the opportunity the Repub-
lican nomination in this District will
give, to have Hon. written at one end
OF their names and M. G. at the other.
Of those already avowedly anxious for
the honor and salary of a Congressman G
for this District; we will mention. John
NJ. Brabson, w. E. F. Milburn, A. B.
Bowman, w. C. Anderson, DR.. R. G.
Smith and Walter P. Brownlow. Be-
sides these it is rumored that several
dark horses" are hid out in the bushes
who are hoping aud praying that Con-
gressional lightning will strike them as
Presidential lightning struck ''Old
Granny Harrison"in 1910, when Henry
Clay should have been the nominee of
his party, and whose defeat for the
nomination really caused the downfall
of the Wing party, as the division and
ruin of the Democratic party in 1850,
resulted from the defeat of Douglass in
1852, by that other dark horses" little
Frank Pierce.
The ambition to 60 to Congress is
honorable and legitimate and any Re-
publican in this District who thinks he
can be nominated has perfect right to
become candidate. And it is also
but natural that the warm personal
friends and next door neighbors of each
candidate and his brothers, his cousins.
his uncles, his aunts and his mother in
law should be anxious for friendships
and kinships sake, to aid in his nomi-
nation. But the great mass of the Re-
publican party, ''the plain people" as
Abraham Lincoln called them, are not
governed in their selection of Con-
gresham by the desire to tickle the
fancy or crafty the personal ambition
of individuals.
The question which the Republican
voters Of this District are asking them
selves is not whom we can serve in this
matter but who, of all the candidates,
is best fitted by training and experience
to serve us? There are no Con gressional
Districts in the United States whose
people have as much of business inter-
ests at stake in the selection OF Con-
gresham as have the people of the
First, Second and Third Districts of
Tennessee, and of these the people of
the First District have most at stake.
Our District furnished more men to the
Union army than any in the United
States and is, therefore, more interested
in pensions and pension legislation.
The Union armies took hundreds of
thousands of dollars in Quarterm aster
and Commissary supplies from our
people, much of which has never been
paid for by the United States as 1t long
ago should have been. 1t is, therefore,
especially important to the people of
this District to have at Washington, for
the next two years, live, energetic,
capable, experienced man who will
fight the battles of the people before
the Departments where money is due
them for horses, mules, corn, oats, hay,
wheat, timber and fence rails fused for
fuel and other supplies. And it is of
the ostimportance to the thousands
Of Union soldiers of this District to have
a man in the next Congress who will
look after their interest before the Pen.
sion Office. Already ten thousand Union
veterans have had their pensions sus-
pended, as many as 20 having been sus-
pended at one post office.
In consideration of these facts and
the hard times, IN money matters, which
now sffiict the people and which are
likely to continue during the present
Democratic administration there has
never been time in our entire history,
except during the late war, when 1t was
as important to the people to have in
Congress man experienced in politi-
cal life and hard worker as it is now.
All the gentlemen we have named as
are good Republicans and
worthy men, and we will cordially sup
port which ever one of them is nomi-
mated. But in the interest of the people
and of the District we unhesitatingly
express our preference for the nomina.
ton of Walter P. Brownlow. We don't
do this because we want to grind Mr..
5 axe or confer five thous-