Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-22

.1 So @a1
he descants upon its iniquities in
the recent past:
1.-THE course of legislation pursued
by the Democratic party in Tennessee
for the last few years upon the election
laws and action hereunder, has been
such rs to deprive it of all right of
claim to being the friend of either free
or pure elections. Both a property and
educational qualification have been af-
fixed to the right of suffrage in a por.
ton of the counties of the State, while
only the property qualification is re-
quired in other counties. Another law
has been enacted prescribing a ballot
sc exact in all proportions that a free
born American citizen may be deprived
of his vote, if he makes the mistake in
the size of his ballot one eighth of an
inch. The enactment of these laws 80
utterly subversive of the rights and lib
critics of the people, some of them vic.
lative of the constitution, ought to be
sufficient, it seems to me, to forever
condemn the party that enacted them
in the minds of all thinking people.
The patriotic masses, however, have
quietly submitted and endeavored to
conform to and carry them out. In the
last biennial election they repaired to
the various voting precincts in the
State and with their sworn officers
holding the election proceeded to cast
their ballots, cut according to regula,
ton size for the several candidates for
Governor. A mar distasteful to a Ger.
tain class of politicians was duly cleo
ted, receiving a plurality of all the
votes"
THE LEGISLATURE GOES BEHIND THE RE
TURNS.
"The legislative department of the
government proceeded to pass an eS
post facto contest law, unconstitutional
in some of its provisions on its face
under which a form of investigation
was gone through with at a cost Of
thousands of dollars to the tax payers
of the State. In many localities the
committee charged with the investiga
ton, by a method unknown to law
proceeded to guess at how the vote
ought to have been cast and counted
without even the form of an investiga
ton, thereby DISTINGUISHING hundred
of voters of both leading political par
ties, which guessing process, as wa
doubtless known in advance, disfran
chased most on the winning side. Thu
the candidate that was elected wa
counted out and the candidate that wa
not elected was counted in"
Evidently, from this deep, merciles
thrust of his long, keen rapier, Judg
Morgan might have a much highe
opinion of
BOB, THE PETERBOSTER CANDIDATE.
I'm nominating the one man only
who it is thought can hope to lead tn
party to success in this, the C~entennia
year, the Democratic leaders in Tennes
see endorsed this great outrage (th
count out and the count in-ED. upo
the liberties of the people-this stab q
the right of free suffrage by endorsin
it in their platform. Much as ! ma
esteem personally the distinguish
magnetic gentleman who has been 81
lected as the great physician to heal u
the bleeding wounds of the goddess @
reform and get the people to endore
the sitting of their own voice, l ca
not support him on such a platform.
GENERAL RETRosPECTIoN.
In Judge Morgan's list of punger
criticisms and singing rebukes occur
the following significant paragraph:
-Four years ago the opponents of tt
; Democratic party charged that it coul
not successfully run the government
if entrusted with power. A majorit
) of the people thought differently an
the party was given the reins in all d
partments of the national governmel
and was continued in power in Tenne
see. 1t is not necessary to go outsit
of the Democratic ranks for proof TIL
: said charge has been abundantly vel
fed. The Democratic press, from or
end of the country to the other, is flu
of 1t, and Democratic orators proclai
it from every platform"
The Republican party is good enoue
FOR ALL HONEST PATRIOTS OF VIVA
= EVER NAME.
Turning sadly from this nation
. failure, we need call none but Dem
. cratic witnesses to sustain the char
as to our own loved Tennessee. I'll
8 report of the Democratic legislati
penitentiary investigating committe
t which is a matter of public record al
| the declaration of the late Chairman
the Democratic Executive Commit
that Tennessee is the worst govern,
State in the Union certainly esta
fishes the last proposition beyond {
controversy.
viewing the field wei as an hunt
private citizen who seeks no polite
preferment of any kind, desiring to 8
the great boon of free government p,
o pertuated and handed down to post,
O ity untarnished. l a not longer fl
low the lead of the Democratic part
The Republican party has unsection'
o lied itself by the removal by the DR.,