Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-05-06
AWAY WITH RUM.


rum shop or earth with a holt that
nothing short of an earthquake of the
Last Judgement could unfasten. The
rum traffic is the worst business that
ever smoked up from hell. Yet the Re-
publican and Democratic Parties are
down on their knees before the demi.
john, worshipping, and practically
saying, "Oh, thy mighty Rum jug, we
worship thee. Have mercy on US and
tell US what to do, and we will do it. |
Give us office, or we die. Let some of
thy drippings fall on usY and thine
shall be the glory, forever and ever,
amen" Things will 60 on and grow
worse, until all good men of all par
ties will combine and rising above base
partnership, ring the death knell of
rum. You can not at the election shirk
the responsibility. A sailor who should
roll over in his hammock 10 take IN
other nap when the sharp whistle of
the boatswain gave the call to the deck,
or to the ratlines, arguing that as the
other sailors will attend to their duties
1t therefore makes no difference to his
attendance of duty, would deserve to
be put in irons. On board the ship of
state each citizen has before him a
rope or crank which he must lay hold
Of. Failing to do that, he deserves to
be set ashore or transferred TO some
fragment of a wrecked monarchy. He
has no business here, where God and
America expect every voter to do his
duty. l have no patience with those
people who sit and growl from gear to
year about public corruption and mis-
management of city, State and nation
al affairs, while they put forth no x
ertion to make things better. Vote
you must whenever the opportunity.
opens. Let carriages go out and fetch
in the invalid and the aged to the POLLS.
There is no more patriotic scene than
the octogenarian on crutches or couch,
at the ballot box, helping to decide
whether his children and grandchil-
dren shall live in a country ~righteously
governed or a land cursed with bale.
full influences. When either of the DO.
litical parties comes to be Immaculate,
the words, Democrat" and "Republi-
can" decide nothing for me. have
almost always voted a ''split" ticket,
Some men pride themselves on vot-
ing the entire ticket of their party
with reference to the qualifications Of
nominees, as though a man should go
to an apothecary store, and needing
one medicine on a shelf, should order
the druggist to give him some of all
the medicines on that shelf. You tell
him there are medicines on that shelf
that will do him damage. "Oh, The says,
II pride myself on the fact that when
l take one medicine on a shelf | take
the whole shelf--rhubarb and calomel.
and jalap and belladonna and strych.
nine." But do not take without dis.
count what men of n party think of
the nominees of the other party. There
are legitimate ways of finding out
what are the qualifications of all the
candidates for the different offices.
Never vote for a bad man, whether he
thinks as you do or not. You can not
depend on a bad man to do right. At
the fret temptation he will fly the track
and sell out to the enemy.
Daniel Webster was an able Score
tary of State, but nobody would have
proposed him for Secretary of the
Treasury. Some men are born with
senatorial manners, and are not at
home until they reach a senatorial o O
sition, while others have postmortem
physiognomies and show they were in.
tended for %coroners, and really enjoy
a funeral. The accident of politics
often hurls into office men united for
their position. No cruel man should
be a jailer. No merciless man should
be a sheriff. No man of ungovernable
temper should be a policeman. No
biibeable man should be a legislator.
No man unable to take in all the inter-
ests Of a city should be a mayor, or all
the interests of a State should be Gov
ernor, or all the interests of the North,
South, East or West, should be o Presi.
dent. In such matters abstain from all
personalities. DO not use epithets.
you will be sorry for it after the strug.
gle is over. Do not style the opposite
candidates knaves, or blasphemers, or
sots. You gain no votes by a~busiveness.
ISLANDERS react, My father said it was
political persecution that gave Andrew
johnson an overwhelming majority.
1t is human nature to sympathize with
the under dog in the fight. Let all
contests be open and fair and honora,
BILE, though they be persistent. II you
put off your robe of Christian charac'
ter until after IN election you may
never put it on again. A religion that
will not help a man and preserve hi:
equipoise during an election, Is no re
ligion at all.-T. Dewitt Talmage, in