Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-02

County.
ELIzABETHToN, TENN. Nov. o.
Editor Journal: l notice What purports
TO be an interview with Gov. Robt. L.
Taylor published in the Chattanooga
Times of the 10Th inst, in which he is
reported to have made some very seri
GUS charges against the people of Car
ter County and against me as Sheriff
OF said County. quote the following
from the interview as the same an
peared in this paper of that date:
Il am opposed to dishonest elections,
n l am going to do all l can to stop
these ever recurring election frauds in
the Republican counties of East Ten.
nessee. Why, sir, they pay no atten.
ton to the poll tax law up there, and
10 year old boys are voted with impu-
nifty. Had it not been for these frauds
IN Carter and Sewer and other counties
my majority would have been 10000
instead of 10, OO0."
de further says: We've got to teach
these Republicans that they can't hold
BACK returns and manipulate and doc.
tor them to suit Themselves
he further says: ''These rascals
scream about election frauds in West
Tennessee, when they have come red
handed from the most diabolical cor.
ruption of the ballot box ever attempt.
ed, and would like to get q chance to
show them up"
THESE are grave charges, made by a
man who has been honored by the PEG
pie as few men ever have in Tennessee,
and made by q man who was born and
raised in Carter County, a man who
used to delight to call himself the
mountain boy" and who has been
going over the country blowing about
the place Of his birth and the home of
his childhood. Born upon the banks
OF the beautiful Watauga, which in
the Indian v%ernacular, means beautiful
etc., and yet Gov. Taylor has
deliberately co~ndescended so low as to
SANDER the people of his nativ e county,
the people with whom he was born and
raised, in the most outrageous manner.
Tor In reply to the above charges.
mere state, and am responsible for what
1 say, that they are absolutely false.
n the author is n liar. He charges
that the parties who hoid the election
disregarded the poll tax law, and al,
10 year old boys to vote. There
are seventeen voting precincts in this
county. and there were three Judges,
clerks and n officer, making six
men ut each voting place, or 109 off
GERS OF election in the county, and
dov. Taylor charges that these men
committed willful and corrupt perjury
by allowing men to vote without poil
receipts and by allowing Is year
Do boys to vote. In the first place. !
lnStructions were given to every officer
Of election to use the greatest carr in
requiring the production of the poll
receipts or the filing of the required
affidavit, and the law was carefully
IND strictly complied with AS to the
Young OF minors, it may be that an
case may have been where an
illegal v6ke was cast, but the charge
that they were voted with impunity. ia
false.
The charge that the returns have
been doctored and manipulated is alb.
'olutely false, and any man who saws
states a deliberate, unmitigated
'alsehood.
There never has been a fairer nor
honest and faithful election held
n tennessee, than was held in Carter
jounty, and the effort to cast a reAec-
ION upon our people and the officers
II election, is done by a set of men in
'ur country, who are unconscionable
md unprincipled, and these charges
re made for the purpose of covering
,,p the frauds, and the corruptions in
Vest Tennessee by which Gov. TAYLOR
eceiyed q majority-on the face of the
Taking the interview referred to as
sample of Gov. Taylor's honesty and
airness, he is a worse man than Peter
'urney, and rurney has pardoned bet
men than himself out of the peni.
for grand larceny, since he
tole the ~Governorship.
Respectfully, JAS. L. BRADLEY,
herit OF Carter County, Tennessee.