Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-15

of fortune. The climbing capacity,
too, makes the difference between sue.
cess and failure. Force always means
the power to do something.
In the gathering Of the clans pre-.
paratory to this new struggle of parties,
the Rogersyille Herald has Rogers.
Vile boy to offer to the gallant first
Congressional District as a candidate,
who fulflls the conditions family
outlined.
We place at our masthead the name
of Walter 2. Brownlow, as our choice
for member to the Fifty Fifth Con.
gress.
Far back in the years 1867, a beard
less boy, black with SCOT and dust,
toiled over Il timers bench, in the old
town Of Rogersyille, the first capital of
the territory southwest of the ALE,
ghanies. The boy was as poor as our
NOW bird, but had in him the hunger
ITO be a man" AT an upper window
of an humble home he burned the mid.
night oil to educate himself for a higher
sphere in life. He rose first to be u
railroad engineer, a position where
one mistake of hand or eye might
make Il wreck. AS if this response
bility was not enough, he entered the
journalistic field against the Solid
Democratic South. Later, we see him
at the head of the Congressional Com
mittee of the District; then Chairman
Of the State Executive Committee, and
for four years Il member of the Repub
liCan National Committee. Next, by
the votes Of the Republican party, he
was chosen Doorkeeper of the National
House of Representatives. Six times
in succession, as a reward of merit, he
was honored by a Republican United
States Senate with a responsible posi-
ton retiring only when the Senate
ceased to be Republican.
This outlines what Walter P. Brown
low has done in official service. We
disparage no man, but we advocate
him for these and other cogent reasons.
Walter p. Brownlow is a thorough
business man. The United States Gov
eminent is now a great business con
Germ, and Brownlow has had virtually
fourteen years of political experience
therein. He is a live, vigorous, push
ing man. His acquaintance with the
public men of the country is large and
influential: and his knowledge of Com
mittee and Departmental service is
greater than that of any mar in East
Tennessee. As an unofficial public
servant, he has specially stood by the
old soldier at every turn of the wheel,
in all these fourteen years, wholly
without Iecompense. Yet to him, the
business has been no holiday affair. 1t
has cost him many an hours tramp in
the long corridors of the departments
at Washington.
The next Administration will surely
he Republican. The public questions
that will come before it will be largely
financial, commercial and diplomatic
business and patriotic policies. The
day of the skyscraping orator is past,
the logic Of business, the comprehen.
sion and forecast of large commercial
problems, the work of an untiring
committeeman will be the ideal Con.
gresham of the next Republican AID
ministration, Brownlow is our first
choice, our second choice and our last
choice. Let us join, with a kindness
we have learned from him, and a
harmony that he has c~onspicuously
advocated, in nominating him for a
position and "A career that will bring
new houors to a Congressional District
that has always sent to the National
Capital its strongest men.-Rogersville
Herald.
American Historical Magazine.