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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

We have always entertained a kindly
feeling and great respect for the man
who, by his W efforts, has fought his
way up from obscurity to prominence
and usefulness. There is something
in a man of that kind above the ordi.
nary. his enemies are generally of
that class who are envious because of
his success, and fearful lest he outstrip
and outrank them in the battle of life.
Take the Hon. W. P. Brownlow. who
was elected to Congress from the First
Tennessee District by over II, 1000, the
largest majority probably ave- given
any candidate for Congress in the Dis.
trict. He has been toiling and strug.
Cling upward for years against adverse
circumstances, but his indomitable
energy and pluck carried him over
difficulties and obstacles which would
have appalled, others. One of his char.
acteristics Is not to hide under cover
but to make an open and manly fight
against his enemies.
When he made his first effort two
years ago, for the nomination they
said he was no speaker, and it wouldn't
do to send a mar TO Congress that
couldn't speak. He tried to show them
that the most effective Congressman
ala little or no speaking. A combina.
ton downed him, when his nomination
seemed a certainty. Nothing daunted
he showed up again last spring, and
during the canvass in the primary sur.
prlsed his friends by his histrionic
nttnrfl Ha uuno nn.,;,tal ..zl L..
speeches last fall in the canvass, were
remarkable for good sense, logic, and
a quaint humor, which is natural with
him, and which captured his audiences
wherever he spoke.
No man has labored more faithfully
for the people of his own district than
Mr.. Browniow. He works in season
and out OF season. He is kind and
generous hearted, faithful to his friends
and merciful to his enemies. The cir.
Gle of his friends and admirers enlarge
as he is better known. Loyalty to his
party, his country, and his section is a
predominant trait.
He has been honored by his party
with a seat in Congress and by being
a mem Der of the National Com
mittee,. both of which places he will
fill with honor to his party and credit
to himself. We said before his election
that he would make one of the best
congressman ever sent up from the
First District, and we stick to it.
Mark the prediction, il w. p. Brown.
low lives he will be a power in his
party in the State and Nation.-Bristol
News.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
THE INVESTIGATION.

The investigation of the alleged
frauds in the late election in Tennes.
see should be prosecuted in the interest
OF no man and no party. 1t should be
prosecuted In the interest Of justice,
and free government, and with that
absence of partisan rancor and that
spirit of fairness and honesty which
will make its conclusion satisfactory
and convincing to all thoughtful, in
telligent and right minded men. The
sole aim should be to ascertain the facts
by processes untainted by partisanism,
to establish and vindicate the truth, to
right the wrongs that may have been
committed, and to give the Offices to
the men whom the people have elected.
The impression has gone abroad that
the government in Tennessee is an
usurpation established and perpetuated
by a continual rape OF the ballot box:
that the State is a rotten borough:
that a fair and honest election is an
impossibility; and in fact that the
Centennial State lis the worst governed
State in the Union The truth is, a
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
Read This.

The melancholy days are here, the
saddest of our time; the chilly blasts
begins to blow from far off northern
cline. The woodsaw sings, the coal bin
groans, the tree doth moan with sorrow;
the sun shines bright and warm today
might snow like - tomorrow. We
gladly think Of times to come, when
we a swiftly soar through mince pie
skies and nightmare drives aud stom-
achaches galore. Subscribers who are
two years back should to the office
stroll, and soften times which sorely
try the editorial soul. Trade is fair
everywhere, If merchants do not fail
to advertise judiciously the goods they
have for sale. -Groquars Is. d. Chief.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

In the investigation that is coming
one great difficulty will be obviated.
The Democrats two years ago settled it
that 1.-THE face of the returns" ARE not to
be considered at all in determining the
election or defeat of q candidate. Ac.
cording to this rule, laid down by the
ring, nobody on earth knows whether
Taylor or Tillman was elected. The
Legislature will have to send out
privately instructed committees to
purge and purify before the people will
know to whom the Governors salary
belongs, and then, as happened before,
in all probability the man that has a
plurality of the lawful votes will be de-
frauded out of his office and his money.
This will most certainly be the outcome
If the final arbitrament rests with the
Legislature. The collapse of Republic
can government in Tennessee means
The continued and fatal supremacy of
the machine, and the will of the people
will never have force and effect until
this monster of ~viciousness and ~rapacity
is crushed out of existence by the fiat
OF contest and the penalties of the law.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
An Apt Comparison.

The following is an interesting com
parison; Suppose that a farmer raises
1000 bushels of wheat o year, and also
sellsthisto 1000 people in all parts of the
country, a great portion of them saying:
1 will hand you a dollar in a short
time.' The farmer does not want to be
small, and says all right Soon the
1000 bushels are gone and he has
nothing to show tor it, and he then
realizes that he has fooled away his
whole crop, and its value is due 10 u
thousand little driblets. Subsequently
be is seriously embarrassed in business
because his debtors, each owing him
one dollar, treat 1t as a small matter,
and think 1t would not help much.
Continue this business year in and
year out, as the publisher of a news
paper does, how long would he stand
itt"-Prcss and Printer.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
AUX

1t seems as If winter which has been
delayed for sometime awoke a short
time since in reality. The farmers are
busily engaged in handling their to-
bacco and hauling it to market, but
owing to the low price many are COM
ing out behind. Since the recent
cold snap hog and hominy have been
the order of the day. Quite a number
who had ~butchered prior to this cold
spell have lost much of their meat.
Rev. Cross, of the NJ. E. faith, filled
the pulpit at Mt. Carmel last Sunday
to a large and intelligent audience.
Horace Lady, of Knoxville, was ming
ling with friends on the river a short
time since and reports that times are
looking up in his city since the tidal
wave of Republication swept the land
from the rivers to the ends of the earth.
There will be a joint teachers Insti-
tute at Pleasant Hill, Greene County,
January / and 2, 1897; all teachers
from both counties are cordially in.
vited to attend. Miss Lola Burgner, of
this place, spent a few days at her
uncle's, Joe Burgner, on Horse Greek
last week, returning Tuesday. Miss
Sallie Rogers, who has been confined
to her room since last spring, we are
glad to note is able to be out again,
to the qualification of her many friends.
Officer Love, of Erwin, was down in
this section a few days ago looking
after some of our people who have been
dealing in a beverage familiarly known
as mountain dew The work on the
church at Liberty is progressing very
slowly, and we predict that it will be
many moon before it is completed
unless there is more interest manifested
in the future than has been in the past.
Superintendent Cox was making his
annual visits to the schools of this
district lately, and seemed very we'll
pleased as to the progress the schools
were making. There will be a Christ
mas tree and also some exercises by the
school at Liberty during Christmas
week. j. @. Berry, who is teaching at
the above place, accompanied by Sam
Laws, spent last Saturday and Sunday
with friends and relatives at May Day,
the home of the former. We notice
through the columns of your paper the
marriage of Chas. CARRIER. We wish
to join in with his many friends in
wishing him a peaceful sea ON which
to sail. P. SHOCKS.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

very large number Of our best citizens
believe that. under the domination of
rotten politics, we have reached the
stage of decadence. dishonor and cor
ruption. To be q State officer is no
longer esteemed an honorable distinc-
ton. but rather the office is regarded
as the badge of crime.
The daring and reckless resolve, in
certain localities of the State to defeat
the guarantees of the amended Nation
al Constitution vas the genesis of all
this trouble and shame. The white
people In the black counties were de-
termined that the colored man should
not exercise and enjoy the rights and
privileges of his enfranchisement; come
what may or would his vote should
not count. IN a hopeless minority,
the justified themselves in the use of
any measures required to avert what
they called, negro supremacy"
When intimidation or coercion failed,
they 'purged"the poll lists and "fxedn
the face of the returns to suit them
selves. They practiced these frauds
systematically at every election with
out fear of detection, prosecution or
punishment, for the whites were all
interested land the courts were on
their side."
The poison of fraud and dishonesty
spread like the virus Of cancer in the
human body until the whole western
division of the State is saturated with
1t.
1t 10 probable that the outside world
would never get a peep inside of the
intrenchments nor become acquainted
with the perfect system and ramiica-
tions of the villainy, had the Democ.
racy remained the harmonious, happy
family as of yore. The conscience
stricken better element of the party
would harbor the secrets of guilt no
longer.
AS long as the West Tennessee
methods are allowed to prevail, cleo
tions in Tennessee will be a grotesque
mockery of law, liberty, honesty and
civilization, and our government a
%stupendous farce worthy only of de.
rision and scorn.
The punishment of election heelers,
ballot box suffers and poll list burgers
must be swift and merciless. The de-
cent and respectable citizens of the
State must arous themselves from
their deathlike lethargy and contend
against the powerful forces of corrup.
ton and ~venality for the mastery of
the law which says that elections shall
be fair, honest and pure. Such must
be or the fate of this State is sealed.
This is a faithful map of our po-
litical condition in the year that rounds
out the century of our existence.
If the investigation delivers us from
our bondage to despotism and crime
and restores the shattered temple of
our liberties, it may be that the OBJ
livion of the kindly years, as they join
the shadowy groups of the past, may
hide the foul stigma upon our name.
II so, the investigation will be a profit.
able expenditure of money and time.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

THE miserably weak defense thai
some of the self styled Democratic pa.
pers are putting up for the frauds re.
Gently %perpetrated in the election in
Fayette and other counties, assume a
righteousness that is pitiful, especially
after reading the following from
the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
a Democratic paper of the most pro-
nounced type, which supported Bryan
and Taylor throughout the late cam.
paign:
Election crimes must cease; election
criminals must hide their heads and
remove themselves from the gaze of
their fellowmen. A higher moral tone
must succeed, and the present debase-
ment of manhood suffrage must come
to an end. A clever thief must not be
regarded as the best party man and en-
titled to the greatest honor. Party 10y.
ality must not be gagged by the
amount of thievery performed. A de-
mand for decency Is not a defiance of
party domination and q condemnation
OF fraud is not treason to party organi.
cation. The ballot box suffers and
election criminals have fattened on the
spoils of victory and trespassed on pub.
lie patience until further patience
would be a compromising crime. A
halt has been called. 1t is true that
there are some newspapers, and al.
legged Democratic newspapers at that,
whose editors imagine that what is vile
and vicious from a moral standpoint be-.
comes v%irtuous when used as an auxil.
larry to political success; that to steal
for their side becomes a consecrated
act, but these have little influence and
are looked upon with but small respect
by the public. Even those in whose in
terest the false philosophy is preached
have a contempt for the intellectual
degradation and moral prostitution of
their advocates. The leaven Of decency
has been at work for some time. The
election thief has come to be regarded
much the same as any other thief, and
the s~coundrelism of which he is guilty
Is ~reprobated by decent people with tho
same emphasis and adherence as any
other offense in the category of crimi-
noloRy,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
For the nernld anal Trlhune.
Taylor Versus Carter and seyier-Make a Le-
gal Test Of II.

l0A ~ AAttot0 aAa mum
Taylor Versus Carter and Seyier-Make a Le-
gal Test Of II.
/ was expecting to see such a letter
us that published by Sheriff Bradley,
of Carter County, and | suppose most
of the election officers of that county
feel, and are disposed to talk like the
Sheriff. OF course, l have no personal
knowledge as to how the election was
conducted in East Tennessee except as
to n precinct in our County of Wash
ington. At that, after depositing my
ballot, l stood for some time and noted
the fact, that except as to the old men
past poll tax age, the first act of the
voter was to present the veritable poll
tax receipt. My information was, that
throughout East Tennessee a most care
full observance of the poll tax law was
to be enforced, so as to avoid the posi-
bility of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dis
%franchising legal voters who complied
as in 1894 with the spirit of the law
but not the statutory letter. l was adj
vlsed further, that money was provided
to pay the poll tax of every man not
able tn do so, that was disposed to vote
the Republican ticket; and further,
the word went fully out, to bring every
Republican voter to the polls. This
was done, and | feel quite sure that the
Republican vote of East Tennessee was
bomb proof as we'll as McCorry-V Yer
trees proof. l therefore estimate that
what Sheriff Bradley says OF Carter
County is strictly true, Taylor's broad
and specific assertion and declaration
to the contrary Notwithstanding. The
charge made by Taylor against the
election officers Of Carter and Sewer
Counties is specific and of q severe
criminal character. If true they are
liable to severe criminal punishment;
and as q citizen of the State Mr.. Tay-
lor having the knowledge of their guilt
which he asserts and has Published
broadcast I'VE the county, it Is his duty
10 see that the guilty parties TALL the
election officers of those stated coun-
ties1 are prosecuted. On the other hand,
if Mr.. Taylor's open and specific charge
is not true as to all or any of the cleo,
ton officers designated, he is guilty of
criminal SANDER, If not criminal libel,
as his utterances were made knowing
that they were to be published. If
Sheriff Bradley speaks truely, as he
appears TO, and as the public believe,
there are notices. than sixty eight causes
of action against Mr.. Taylor in Carter
County and probably as many or more
in Sewer. The parties aggrieved have
n ocause of complaint against the news.
papers making the publication, as Mr..
Taylor's high position led them to be-
lieve that he personally knew of what
he spoke and that what he stated was
true, as he was fresh from the scene of
action. The matters are and ought to
be, alone, between Mr.. Taylor and the
election officers whom he charges with
legal purjury aud an open, notorious
violation of the laws of the State.
OLD LAWYER.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

EVERY furnace and factory that re.
sumes and every new industry set on
foot is q fatal stab in the lank sides Of
free trade and a knock down argument
against free silver. 1t begins to look
like American people are done with
these Democratic follies.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

Aslong as the dirty, nasty villainous
ring" that counted Turney in and
"heeled" the returns SO as to defeat
Tillman in the last race, are in control
of the Democratic organization, it is
a criminal waste of time and energy
to talk about reformi in Tennessee.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
GENERAL PROSPERITY is now on his
rounds.

AS we review the Democratic news
papers published before the election
we are literally overwhelmed by the
number of prophecies that failed to
put in appearance on election day.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
Non.R Resident Notice.
In the County Court of Jonesboro,
Washington County Tennessee.
]. W. Rev ys. j. ii. Watts.

In this cause it appearing from com.
plainant's bill which ia sworn to, that
the defendant j. II. Watts is a non
resident of the State Of Tennessee: II
Is ordered by me that publication be
made for four successive weeks as re.
quired by law, in the Herald and Trib.
une, a newspaper published iu the town
OF Jonesboro, in said County, notifying
said non resident defendant to appear
before u said County Court at a
Court to he held at the Court House In
Jonesboro, on the First Monday OF
January, 1907, and make defense to
said bill, or the allegations thereof will
be taken for confessed aud the cause
set for hearing ex parte as to him.
JACOB LEAD, Clerk,
by CHAs. s. MASON, d. C..
This December ., 1896. pfS0
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
/, saye,This.

The Scientific American gives a re.
ceipt which the whole world ought to
know. At the first indication Of diph-
theria in the throat of a child, make the
room close, then take a tin cup and
pour into it a quantity of tar aud tur-
p~entine, equal parts and set fire TO
it. The little patient, on inhaling
the fumes, will cough up and spit
out all of the membranous matter,
and the diphtheria will passout. The
fumes of the tar and ~turpentine loosen
the matter in the throat, and thus
afford the relief that has bafled the
skill of physicians.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

THE yell for reform is likely to die
without an echo. No one aver heard of
such reform triumphing in this State.
1t would mean the breaking of the
ring. bristol Courier.
A man don't have to have sense to
perceive the truth of this remark.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

THE only way to get reform in Ten
nessee is to down the ring. So, let US call
things by their right name and ''cry
down with the ringl''-Bristol Courier.
Charlie Slack is on the right track
for "bearn this time.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

If the popular clamor for a fair vote
and an honest count ends in an inves.
tigation that stands Robert off, states
manship is doomed to lose one of its
greatest natural curiosities.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

San Antonio, Tex, Dec. IA head.
end collision between two freight trains
on the Southern Pacific road, near
Wealer, this morning, resulted in the
death Of two engineers, two iremen
and q brakeman.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-09

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