Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-07-19

him upon the county or upon the
District.
WE are fully conscious of the fact
that the fight against the instruction
of this county as a unit for Snodgrass
should have been made in the county
convention, and we so stated in our
first issue after the convention. But
we want it understood that the ed
itor Of the STANDARD is no politician,
and does not attend conventions for
the purpose of making speeches or
trying to control them. His only
object in attending conventions is to
cast his vote as an individual and
to procure the proceedings for his
paper. 1t is the province and duty
of every honest newspaper man
to give publicity to all political and
news matters intimately con-
corning It's readers and patrons. In
our structures upon the action of the
Warren county convention, we have
but exercised this prerogative in ex-
pressing as we honestly believe the
views of majority of the Dem
ocrats Of the county. If, as the Era
would have its readers believe, there
had been only few dissenters around
town to the conventions action, we
should have acquiesced and made no
complaint, but on coming out of the
convention we learned what we did
not know before, that there were
many in the convention who did not
approve its action, and the reports
which came to us from all parts of
the county soon convinced us that
a majority of the democrats of the
county did not approve the action.
There are scores of good democrats in
Warren county who feel confident
that Mr.. Snodgrass cannot carry the
democratic vote of this county, and
that his nomination will result in
loss of the district to the party. We
have made the fight on the action of
the Warren county convention out of
season, we are free to admit, but have
done so upon the assurance of doz-
ems of Warren county democrats that
the majority of the county approved
our action. We have done it in the
interest of the democracy of the en-
tire Third District. We would be
untrue to the democracy of the county
and untrue to the Democracy of the
district if we saw the party driving
to certain defeat and failed to sound
the alarm. This county is not unan-
imous for Mr.. Snodgrass by good
many hundred votes, and the men
who put the resolution through in.
structing for him knowit was not fail
or just to the opposition to Mr. Snod.
grass. We have nothing to regret in
the course we have taken. Hun.
dreds ofDemocrats on this side of the
mountain feel perfectly satisfied thai
Mr.. Snodgrass could not lead the
party in the district to victory, and we
are truly glad that we have made
the fact known.
IT is now very evident that Mr.
Snodgrass cannot be nominated. H,
has had fair and thorough trial anC
has developed all the strength h,
can ever get in the convention
Looking at the results of yesterday
ballots, and considering the strong OPP
position to Mr.. Snodgrass in thi
county, we ask if it is fair or just tina
the Warren county delegation
shall be longer bounC
by the unit rule? There ar
/, several members of the delegation
who are not thoroughly cOnvincet
that the he cannot be nominated, ant
who desire to cast "A relative proper
ton of the vote of the county for Nj