Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-07-11

burdens imposed on tax payers of the
county to meet the increased bills of
costs to be paid, and this increased bur.
den imposed on tax payers of Hawkins
County during Judge Brown term of
eight years, as compared with Judge
Hacker term is represented by the fig
ures given in the tabulated statement,
1864 so. In the face of these figures
what becomes of the boast of Judge
Brown that under his administration
crime has diminished and the people
have been relieved of burdens OF taxa.
ton imposed by former Judges? 1t is a
delusion, and if Judge Brown makes
the claim knowing it to be unfounded,
it is a fraud, a deliberate effort on his
part to deceive and mislead the people.
We want to give Judge Brown full jus.
tice and we are frank to say that we
don't believe this deception attempted
to be imposed on the people is inten-
t%ional, Judge Brown believes he
is a great lawyer and a great Judge,
and he is honest in this belief, and
comparing himself as a lawyer and as
a Judge with Judge Hacker, and real
izing his own superiority, it is the most
natural thing in the world that Judge
Brown should reach the conclusion that
he had as Judge, surpassed Hacker on
every line, and therefore without any
comparison of the records made by
Judge Hacker or himself. Judge Brown
makes public the assertion that he has
lifted burdens of TAXATION from the
shoulders of the people and diminished
crime. The records show that Judge
Brown is mistaken in this assertion.
But the mistake was natural.
Egotism is one of the strongest forces
of our nature, and leads us into a great
many mistakes in life. Judge Brown
does as we all do sometimes, builds on
one mistake or another, and in this way
reaches the final conclusion he an.
nounces, that he has diminished crime
and relieves the people of burdens of
taxation imposed by former Judges.
His first mistake was in the assertion
that he was the superior of Judge Hack.
or as a lawyer and as a Judge, and he
built on this mistake until he reached
his final conclusion, which a COMPARE
son of the records show to be a mistake.
1t is due to Judge Brown to say that he
is the only man who made the discov.
cry involved in his final mistake as
above indicated.
The truth is that Judge Hacker went
on the bench with an experience of
eight years behind him as Attorney
General and was familiar with criminal
law and criminal practice and all the
statutes regulating cost, and he knew
how to run the courts and save cost.
Brown went on the bench without any
experience and with little knowledge of
the criminal law, and almost totally
ignorant of criminal practice and no.
body could learn him anything and all
that he learned him self he learned at
the cost of the tax payers, and the trou-
Bile is what advancement he has made
in his eight years school of experience
has been in the wrong direction, it has
been from bad in the beginning to worse
in the end. The people did a sensible,
practical thing when they promoted
Hacker from Attorney G%eneralship to
the Judgeship and they are going to do
a like sensible thing in August in pro-
noting Tyler Campbell from the Attor-
ney Generalship to the Judgeshlp, and
get the benefit of his eight years exprr.
fence as Attorney General. This is the
sensible thing to do and this is the thing
that is going to be done. This is a bad
year for Independent candidates. Roy
e~rsville Herald.