Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-08-19

proof OF payment of the poll tax except
by production OF a poll tax receipt oil
affidavit of its loss, and because it ex.
cludes all record evidence and all Other
and better proof of the fact Of payment.
and, further, the poll tax law is n bar tu
worthy, honest and capable poor citi.
zens aspiring to public office, FOR the
reason that the poll tax has to he paid
largely by the candidates.
We denounce the registration laws
because not applicable to the entire
State, and only applicable to such local..
ties as may suit the Democratic party
for its purposes.
We denounce the so called Dortch law
because, Notwithstanding the plain man
date of the Constitution of the country,
1t imposes an educational qualification
and because, by its provisions and the
construction put upon it by Democratic
rulings, 1t is designedly confusing.
The ballot should be so plain that
every %elector, constitutionally qualified
to vote, may easily and without trouble
or hindrance mark his ballot.
We denounce the uniform ballot law
because it allows no device or designa-
ton on the ticket by which the voter
can recognize the candidate of the politi-
cal party of his choice.
I. We condemn the action of q major
ity of the Democratic party in the Legis-
lature of Tennessee by which the Con-
stitution was subverted, the voice of the
people ~annulled, the rights Of citizens
trampled upon and a usurper and a man
found wanting by the people fraudulent
ly placed IN the gubernatoriai chair, 10
which his opponent had been rightly
and legally elected.
& We condemn the policy of the Dem
ocratic party of the State whereby con
vict labor is brought into competition
with free labor, and we advocate the
utilization of convicts upon the public
works and public roads Of the State and
its counties.
" That we approve of the patriotic
movement inaugurated in Nashville and
responded to by every portion of the
State for the celebration of the entry of
Tennessee into the Federal Union; that
we indorse the scope and contemplation
OF the Exposition and its purpose; and
That the progress of the preparation as
evinced by the admirable presentation
OF beautifully located, improved and
decorated grounds, us well as most at
t%ractiye and appropriate buildings, we
deem hitting memorials of Tennessee's
one hundred years of Statehood-cmi-
nently worthy of recognition and aid by
the State.
III. Tennesseans who love their State
more than any political party; who be-
lleve that expenditures from the State
treasury should be limited to the neces-
sary expenses of the State government
economically administered; who con-
demn open and notorious violations of
law by judicial officers high in author
ity who favor election laws enacted
solely to facilitate al honest expression
10 the will of qualified voters; who
would rebuke an attempted swindle of
huge proportions in connection with
the erection of a p~enitentiary, and bri-
berry and corruption in high places;
who would restore Tennessee to its
former proud position, are cordially in
vited and earnestly urged to join with
us In the condemnation and the over
throw Of the faction in power, respon-
sible for these evils.
VIM. RULE, Second District, Chairman.
W. E. +. MILBURN First District.
9. j. EVANS, Third District.
w. B.JMILLER, Fourth District.
q. a. MCLANE, Fifth District.
}. w. BAKER, Sixth District.
JOHN SHADE, JR., Seventh District.
6 EoRGE L. MCCALL, Eighth District.
X. II. MITCHELL, Ninth District.
L. W.. BROWN, Tenth District.