Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-04-30
An Open Letter.

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fellow.democrats of the county |
will you please allow me space for
the following;
| noticed recently that Hon b.
A. Enloe is being urged to make
the race for congress from this
district. Now, without saying
anything disparagingly against Mr..
Enloe, l want to ask what can we
promise ourselves with Mr.. Enloe
as our championi Surely nothing.
If we would regain our lost pres
tige, does it not behoove us to
nominate the most available man
we have! Certainly so. Would
Mr.. Enloe make the strongest racci
His defeat two yeaes ago says not.
BY his persistent greed of office
he has almost paralyzed the organ.
ization of the democratic party of
this district; and he is the most
unpopular leader in the district
today, and if nominated would be
overwhelmingly repudiated by the
people at the polls.
But what is the reason for Mr..
Enloe's wanting the nomination
again, after he suffered our banner
to 90 down in defeat? By whom
has he "bcen urged" to enter the
race? All, it does not require a
very strong field glass to see
beyond Mr.. Enloe's candidacy the
cunning hand of Madison county's
boss. Pull back the curtain and
there revealed in all his hideous
corruption is the craftiest political
trickster in Tennessee, Henry w.
McCorry. He rules the realm; his
word is law; his directions are
immutable; he uses the people as
puppets and Enloe as his mastiff;
when he takes snuff they all
sneezc. When he tells EnlOe to
run, Enloe runs. "But," says the
boss, "none but a Madison county
man can be elected" Indeed!
Then let's tear down our history
of a century full of victories, turn
the faces Of ouI great chieftains
to the wall, spit on the grave at
Monticello, blow up the Hermitage
at Nashville and quit. But the
past proves the assertion false
Ehe safest majorities the district
ever cast were when Atkins und
Taylor, Henry and Henderson
county men, .were the standard
bearers.
1t is same old domineering
spirit that has made grovelings OF
every other county in the district
except Madison. With her artful
chicanery she has trampled rough
sh0d over us until now when q
probability arises that a patriot
from another county will secure
the nomination, she presents heI
defeated "pension hero" and says
te us "herc is onr Saviour"
If b. A. Enloe is again nomina
ted, he will the bitterest pill the
democracy of this congressional
district ever swallowed. Why
gentlemen of Madison, did you
send Capt. Paine to us for ouI
endorsement of him, and hardly
had our popular ex-fellow citizen
reached us when your executive
committee passed resolutions ell.
dorsing L. L. Bullock? and when
Mr.. Bullock declined, you trot out
the patched and bandaged "hero'
of the picturesque q Forked Deer
and with q wink at each other, tel
us that he is our Moses!
Fellow democrats Of Hardin
county, VIC have instructed fol
him whom we regard the stronges
ablest and most available to make
the race. Let us be true to our
selves and to him. Let us work
with honest hearts and willing
hanos. Let us make strong pull
and steady pull. Let us do oul
duty, and we will elect, with al
old-time majority, that able states
man, brilliant orator and and hon
est man, whose voice has evel
been lifted in favor of the poor
whose public and private career il
without a blemish, whose life is al
inspiration, our former fellow citi
zen, Hon. Thetis w. Sims.
A DEMOCRAT.