Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-04-15
HMARES A BIG DIFFERENCE

AS to Brownlow and Milburn it does
make difference and big difference,
too, which n is sent to Congress, as be-
tween the standing, influence and abili-
of the two men there can be no COMPARE
son.
Brownlow has aqualifying experience.
He has been tried. He has failed in
nothing possible to human achievement
in serving the people of this district. In
this long and unrewarded employment
he has learned the lesson invaluable to
a successful Representative. He is rain
ed not only in Departmental work, but
in the intricate routine of national legis-
lation. He is ready now.
Milburn is untried, unframed and has
everything to learn. He would have to
achieve prominence and influence. Were
he ever so brilliant and apt, for the
whole term his identity would be lost in
the political aggregation at Washing
ton, and this would be an entire loss, if
not a positive detriment, to the people
of the First District.
Nor is this all nor the half of II. Brown
low would he the Congressman in fact,
and not in name only. He could and
would mango the business in hand with
out any olliciOus outside assistance. He
would listen patiently and CONSIDERABLY
to the counsel of his friends, and when
their suggestions met the approval of
his deliberate and well matured iudg-
ment he would follow them; otherwise
not. He would have no masters but
would have all men as his peers. lie
would not consider himself infallible
but would be ever ready to learn from
sources above him and sources beneath
him.
Milburn would be "cribbed, coiined
and confined" rightat the start. 1t would
be supreme arrOgation for him to claim
any freedom at all or that he had more
than a nominal title to his Office. He is
wholly in the hands of a selfish clique of
r%epudiated and discredited politicians,
who hope to regain their lost prestige
and power through the influences they
would compel him to command were he
elected. They say 50 in their "secretr
talks and "private" letters. Here, there
and everywhere, they are lifting up the
Macedonian cry to help them by help
ing Milburn. Should Milburn be elected,
this district will be in the clutch of these
men, whom the party has retired with
an emphasis of condemnation too forci-
BILE and explicit to be misunderstood.
These men know that they can never
win back the masses; that they are
"back numbers'-mere cyphers hanging
upon the point of m eternal zero-and
in their insane efforts to get back into
their old places and to get control of the
party machinery they are simply using
Milburn as a tool to accomplish their
selfish ends. 1t will be a sad day and n
dark misfortune if the Republican party
OF this district is ever Frustrated under
the heel of this greedy and conscience
less cabal. 1t will be the political os-
tracism of every Republican who dares
to protest against its vicious despotism.
Now is the time for the people to arise
and speak outin thunder tones that they
intend to maintain their manhood and
independence; that they have no fur
Their use for the leeches they have cast
OF; that they will run their party af-
fairs without masters and dictators and
that they are the power now and shall
remain so.