Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-03-28

years ago, now known in every home of
this district as Walter P. Brownlow, of
the county of Washington. We do not
ask his nomination on promises of what
he will do in the future. His life work
for the Republican party and for the
people of this section running through
q period of more than twenty years is
the magnet that ought to and is today
drawing to his support the Republi.
can votes of this Congressional Dis
trict, and we gladly rest his claims
to recognition today on what he has
already done rather than on any prom
ise on what he will do, for the all suf-
ficient reason in what he has done we
have sure guarantee of what he will
do. And this is a more sure founda.
ton of which to build than the prom
ises of any untried man, however hon
est and honorable he may be, for good
purposes often fail of accomplishment
for want of ability, and when we rely on
promises alone unsupported by past
services, on the same line the factor
of ability is an unknown quantity. 1t
is fact that for the two years he
served as door keeper of the lower
House of Congress and the twelve
years he served in the Senate he gave
to the Government the required day
service and burnt the midnight lamp in
the service of the people of this district
l make the assertion and challenge its
contradiction, that no man ever wrote
Walter P. Brownlow letter that de-
manded an answer and failed to get
prompt reply. 1t affords me pleasure
to bear testimony to his efficient serv
ices in behalf of the surviving soldiers
and the widows and orphans of tue
dead soldiers of my county. Brown
lows hand has unlocked the vaults of
the treasury at Washington during
these fourteen years of service as an
employe of the Government and made
glad the hearts of hundreds, and per-
haps thousands, in this congressional
district, who, through his untiring
efforts in their behalf have secured an
adjustment and payment of their
claims against the Government. And
| would have you remember and never
forget the fact that for all these serv-
ices rendered to the people of this dis
trict by Walter P. Brownlow he never
demanded nor received dollar out of
any claim as compensation; out of his
meager salary he met all the expenses
for stationery and postage necessary to
the demands made upon him by the
people at whose hands he is now asking
the favor of nomination for Congress.
If the action of this convention is re-
sponsive to the will of the majority of
the Republicans of this Congressional
District, Walter P. Brownlow will be
our next Representative in the Congress
of the United States. If Brownlow is
nominated and elected he will enter
Congress with his reputation already
established at Washington. He is
known, not only at home and by his
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out the entire country, from Maine to
California and from the lakes on the
north to the capes of Florida. He has
been for years the friend and associate
of the representative Republicans Of
the Nation, and standing as he does in
touch with the great leaders of the
party, he can command their influence
and their votes in support of any meas
ure proposed for the benefit of our peo-
pie. All who know Walter P. Brown
low can testify of him as some one did
of Wellington He is a man
"Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
NOR paltered Win eternal God Tor power"
This is the man that am commits
sioncd by the Republicans of Hawkins
County to present to this convention.
Place the banner of the Republican
party of this district in the hands oil
our timer boy and it will never be low
cred in the face of the enemy. He will
bear it aloft through the thickest of the
fight, and in November, in the last
grand charge, he will it plant on the
captured fortress of the enemy, where il
will proudly wave as the signal of VIC
tory-the grandest victory ever won in
this congressional district.