Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-07-11
For the Herald ana Tribune.
How TO Vote.

fIluuy July U, lOO4'-lne uSua mar
vest has passed but another cometh:
From early morn until the shades of
twilight steal gently DER the summer
landscape the busy reaper coming
from nobody knows where, returning
to nobody knows where plies his busy
calling with a zeal worthy of a better
cause. No stone is left unturned, no
prospect however faint is neglected; the
dirtiest urchin, as he wends his way
along the creek carrying his oyster can
filled with tad poles for bait is acosted
by another fisherman, who calls him a
little man" asks him where he lives,
how many fish lie has caught and if his
papa is at home. Every farmer has or
seems to have the finest corr the gem
tleman carrying the saddle bags has
seen during the season. Children, in
whom not even the parents have been
able to discover anything out of the Or
binary suddenly appear to possess mar
velous talents, and even the farmers
hogs are unusually fine. But the gen.
tleman who has manifested so deep an
interest in the farmers welfare fails to
realize that the farmers may wake up
to the fact that all these discoveries
are not due to the unusual powers of
perception possessed by him who makes
them but to the desire for the power
that something he wishes to obtain the
farmers vote will give him.
Voters, what is your mission? Who
gave you political franchise by the ex-
ercise of which you are the rulers Of
the mightiest empire on lhe face of the
globe? God himself. The liberties
which your State guarantees to you are
a birthright from on high to every free
and intelligent people. Can you, a free
American citizen, go the polls and abuse
those privileges by voting some vile
demagogue, totally untitled by nature
and habit, for the duties of the office
to which he aspires? No you can not.
The man whose sole object is temper
airy power is unfit to be the servant of a
free and Independent people. Can you,
fellow citizens, afford to place the
helm of State in the hands of men who
will make shipwreck of your liberties
and leave to your children only the
fragments of what was once the noblest
example of a self governing people the
world has ever seen? Should you do
SO at the time when the destiny of our
Republic hangs in the balance you bid
adieu to the spirit of liberty which laid
the foundation on which our nation is
built.
No man who is actuated by the SEN
timents which caused the noble Henry
to exclaim, give M liberty or give me
DEATH The heroism which enabled
Washington to bear up under the dark
cloud which enveloped the early history
Of our country, or the high sense OF
duty which caused Clay to exclaim, 81
would rather be right than President
can sacrifice to party prejudice the
best interests of humanity.
When you go to the polls in our com
ing August election and the one follow.
ing in November, remember that the
future liberties of your children, as well
as your present welfare are at stake
Do not cry hard times until you be
come hoarse and lay it all to the party
politics. Lay it to the men whom yor
helped to place in Office for the sake o.
politics, whisky, or the almighty dollar
and not because they were uprigh'
honorable men fitted for the places il
which you helped to place them.
When you go to the polls on election
day think before you vote for a mar
whether he is truthful, honest, anC
just and not whether he represents tn,
interests of your party.
One man on our county ticket hal
said that he will not be guilty of usinl
liquor in the coming elections, and
that il he can not be elected withou
such means he will be defeated. How
many Of our candidates have said thu
same? Can he who possesses the spiri
of a true Southern man aspire to al
office that it requires the vote of tn,
saloon tenant to place him in? H,
would, on the contrary, prefer the vot,
of American citizens to that of thosC
miserable beings who represent thu
slavish customs Of the servile nation!
of Europe.
Go to the polls on election day; at
tend to your duty as a citizen. Let tn,
man who has framed SO low an opinion
of political franchise as to buy vote
reap the reward of his doings and whe1
the returns come in, let the result b,
what it may, you will be able to say
II have done my duty as an American
citizen. A WRITER.
That Tired Feeling
is a dangerous condition directly due tt
denleted or imDure blood. II shonlC