Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-31
Must Not Applaud.

Must Not Applaud.
The righteous soul of the venerable
and venomous Peter Turney is vexed
sorely, in view of the fact that Judge
o. P. Temple, in introducing Hon. II.
Clay Evans at Staub' 5 theater in Knox
vile, mentioned the pane of William
G. Br)wnlow, and that it was received
with applause. 1t was very wicked
thing for the old neighbors of Governor
Brownlow, and their descendants to do,
and as the Governor of the State and
candidate for reelection, Peter Turney
doubtless considered it part of his
official duty to administer stinging
rebuke.
Why should not the people of Knox
vile, and of Knox and surrounding
counties, applaud when the name of
William G. Brownlow is mentionedp
Who was he and what was he, that he
should be used by this venomous and
venerable Governor as raw head and
bloody bones with which timid Demo.
Gratis may be frightened into the sup
port of the Democratic candidate for
Governorp Is it because as Turney al
leges, Brownlow announced that "if
man was convicted of killing rebel,
he would meet him at the depot with q
pardon in hand?" No, not for that, for
that is lie; Brownlow never said it.
Brownlow's 3 offense dates further back
than that Turney was in such hot
haste to overthrow the union that he
recruited regiment for the Confeder-
acy before Tennessee went through the
form of secession. While he was doing
this, Brownlow was fighting against
secession with all the vigor and energy
OF which he was master. His course
met with the disapproval of Peter Tur-
ney then, and he has never forgotten
it. And now, although in his grave
for these many years, this aged and
venomous candidate for Governor of
Tennessee thinks it something terribly
wrong, for the people of Knoxville to
applaud the name, and keep green the
memory of William G. Brownlow.
1t would have been impossible for
the Republicans to furnish reason so
conclusive, why Gov. Turney should
not be re elected as he has furnished
himself. A man who is so blind to the
inducements and the opportunities of
the present, and who gropes about in
the darkness of the past, is not fit to be
Governor of Tennessee. This is an age
of progress and Governor Turney is a
hard shelled bourbon, who learns moth
ing and can forget nothing. In the
grand march of events that have rem
dered the third of a century memorable
forever, ne Rugged an absurd dogma
in 1851 and in 1891 he was still hugging
it. And so intolerant was he then and
now, that the grave furnish es no for
tress against the vigor of his attacks.
Impressed then with the theory that all
the intelligence and the decency of the
State was on his side, he thinks so yet,
and the men who presume to be Re-
publicans have no rights that patriots
of the Turney school are bound to re-
spect
Having spent the greater portion of
his life in public office, he thinks the
chief end of man is to get and hold of.
fee, and he therefore looks upon Hon.
II. Clay Evans, his Republican compet-
itor, as an impostor and interloper, and
attempts to sneer at him. as mis-
sionary" from another State who has
come here to teach Tennesseans what
they should do. Never before in the
history of Tennessee has any candidate
for the Office of Governor stopped so
low in appealing to prejudice, as has
Peter Turney this year, and never be-
fore has a candidate displayed such
low estimate of the intelligence of the
people upon whose support he depends
for the additional honors he so inordi-
nately Graves. Journal.
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