Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-10-26
J. F, BROWN ANNOUNCES
AS CIRCUIT COURT CLERK
He Gives Some Remoniseent Talk and
Jollies the Voters With
Some Humor.

Hergecoth, Tenn. October az
Editor Chronicle: Allow me to tell
the voters of Cumberland county
what | think of them and | will give
you $1,000
You can always tell when a man is
growing old by the things he talks
about A young man talks about the
present, young lady about her beaus
and an old man about the past. Put
me in the class in which you think
| belong from the following.
| love to think of the long ago.
when youth was a real JOY and
was worth the living. When years
of age, | spent my first day in school
with Uncle julie Handy as teacher.
| liked him, because he liked me, and
for years l thought all the Hambys
and were kin. The Roses came and
that may be why love the fragrant
scent of Rose yet. / never disliked
rose but once. S. w. Rose and
fell out over a penny bet one beaut-
iful Sabbath morning on our way rt
church. 1t might have been a lesson
to Sam as he forsook the evil of his
way guess l was right as | al
ways have thought my rock hit the
nearest the spot.
There was A. M. Dorton Jr., J. G.
Renfro, A. N. DeRossett, etc, and l
can't take time to mention them all
but some day am going to make
list of them all. If you think l can
remember their names you are out of
your head. For instance take the
Hassler family, the boys in the FAM
lily were James Madison, Franklin
Pierce, Thomas Jefferson, Geo. Buel,
VIM. Michael and John Adams. Mike
and John have past under the curtain
and disappeared among the shadows,
but their laughter and song and gay
ETY. is still ringing down the ages for
| hear it now / suppose by now you
know to what class | belong.
If at any time you should meet an
old man with eyes dim and step slow
with bay windows in his western
hemisphere hungry and tired and
begging tobacco take him in and treat
him kindly, that's liable to be n,.
| am liable to make this campa.n
foot. | want to meet my opponent
as often as possible and that way
can meet him two or three times COM
ing back as | go on and hope to be
able to meet him coming out of the
Clerks office as l go in.
The office of Circuit Court Clerk
is the only county office ever asked
for. Four years ago l left the race
to Mr.. Keyes and Mr.. Hendley, they
are both my friends have been on
the anxious seat for years and never
have been blessed. Then there is an
old saying that "a patient waiter is
not a looser." So you see l have
been both longsuffering and patient.
This will be the first county cleo
ton in which the ladies have taken q
part. They enter the contest with
vigor, each candidate paying the other
all the respect due the gender. 1t
is a new phase in the political atmoo.
phere. No one can forshadow the
result. | want to warn the ladies
who will exercise the elective fran
chise, that the only single masculine
candidate under our present laws can
have but one wife, and he thinks he
knows who she will be. | earnestly
doh yOu " SuppOll lIiC anu dFOlu tIIS
rush.
| have not outlined my platform, |
ask no one to dictate my policy For
38 years have adheared to the teach
ings of Washington, Lincoln, McKin- /:
ley and Roosevelt, and have seen the
emaculate Woodrow like Moses lead
us out Of darkness into light. | have
been defeated but | never ad cold
feet. If defeated again, | will remain,
normal. ] ask every voter in the
county, both male and female, TO stop
and consider. look the matter over
and cast your votes as you
think proper and right. One has
fought forthe party 38 years The 9TH
er has held office four years at the
end of the present term One at
the end of another term will be o2,
the other less than half that. One
has family, the other would like to
nave. Take the case gentlemen and
aides and bring in such verdict as
he dictates of your concience directs
remembering always that if there is
/ reasonable doubt it should be given
o the defendant. | am the defend
mt in this case.
Thanking you in. advance for any
md all favsrs that may be shown
ne, am yours truly,
]. f. BROWN.