The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-10-29
Just Before the Battle.

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Get out all your voters.
Blount County must do her duty.
A man who votes this election must vote
from patriotism,
Work from now until the pals close
Tuesday night. Work.
Victory Is in the air. Your district is the
one for you to look after.
Read this column find out what you
need to do and then do your duty between
now and the election.
Keep your eyes on the old flag boys and
vote right. The district making the largest
gain gets handsome flag.
Kentucky is as sure as any State in the
Union for Mckinley. Why can't her
sister state Tennessee fall into line?
Republicans OF Blount county some
earnest, honest, hard work should be done
between now and election. Every vote
should be cast.
The democrats who refuse to stand on
the populite platform will most Of them
place their votes where they will do the
NEST good for Mckinley.
The democratic organization in Blount is
better than ever before. They are trying
to reduce our majority. See that you don't
let them do that in your district.
Every report from Nashville and Mem
phis indicates that thousands of sound
money democrats will vote with us this
year. See that your district does its duty.
The old Republican party has been
right during the years Of the past and time
will prove she is on the side of honesty, the
side of right and the side of good govern
ment this year.
Everything points to the defeat of de-
mocracy in Tennessee if this section of the
state does its duty. Let us make one grand
pull together for the redemption OF our
grand old State.
A member Of the populist national COM
mittee says the democrats of Tennessee
were more anxious to defeat the populites
than they were to elect Bryan so there was
no fusion in this state.
Each district should have meeting
some time before the election and get orga'
nized by appointing one man to look after
every ten or fifteen voters and see that
they are at the polls.
Independents should not be voted for
this year by republicans as such votes are
only confusing and lead to republican
loss when republicans are making big
effort to get out every vote.
The district committeeman will be held
responsible for getting out the full vote of
their district and remember the district
making the largest republican gain will be
presented with handsome flag.
Beware Of bogus tickets. See that your
ticket has on it the names of all the repub-
lican candidates. See the names of the
republican electors on this page. The
other candidates are on the second page.
The New York Herald always makes a
prediction one week before the election and
for the last forty years it has not missed it
once. This year it says Mckinley will be
the man and gives him sure 24S electoral
votes.
If every republican in East Tennessee
votes we will snow Bob Taylor under sure
Not stone should be left unturned in
Blount county for our failure to do oul
duty might result in the defeat of the
republican ticket.
Heretofore there has been on an aver
age of ten stay-at-hcme republicans in eacf
district of the thirty-four East Tennessee
counties. These votes must be brought
out this time. The committeeman by the
help Of other loyal republicans must take
wagons and go after those who live at {
great distance from the voting place, or arr
too old OF feeble TO gct,out
The tickets will not have the names o
the candidate for president and vice presi
dent printed on them-only the electors x
be sure your billet has the righ. set q
electors on Y. The man who} looks after
!. the, voters at the polls shoulq see that all
republicans who cannot reM have the righ
s., Of electors, for thers might be ticket
v,,h democratic electors and the republican
candidate for governor. Be sure your ticke
reads right from top to bottom.
n~ll ToX NnttGa.