The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1900-01-20

be elected in Tennessee next NOvem-
Der, will elect a United States Senator
next January. The office of Senator is
the highest within the gift of the peo-
pie of State. A full Senatorial term
is six years. Senator Turley, who was
elected to fill out the unexpired term
of Senator Harris, will retire from the
Senate March 4, 1901. There are two
announced candidates to succeed him.
One is D. L. Snodgrass, of Chattanooga,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee, and the other is Edward
Carmack, OF Memphis, present Con-
gresham from that district. 1t was
thought that Governor McMillin would
also be a candidate, but so far he has
made no announcement to this effect,
though it is rumored here that he may
soon declare himself. 1t is claimed that
some of the friends of Mr.. Carmack are
seeking to bring McMillin into the
race, believing their man will have
better chance in three-cornered fight.
In the event McMillin enters the race
for the Senate, he will not, of course,
be candidate for reelection to the Of
fee of Governor, and in that event
there will be several entries in the Gu
bernatorial race. One would be Mayor
James NJ. Head, of Nashville. Another
would be James B. Frazier, of Chatta-
nooga. There would be others also.
The wiser politicians, however, do not
believe Governor McMillin will enter
the race for Senator. He is serving his
first term as Governor and If he is a
candidate for reelection there will be
no other candidate. Carmack is an
anti-expansionist. He wants to give
up the Philippines, Snodgrass is an
ti-contractionist. He wants to hold
on to what we have got, and is against
hauling down the American flag any,
where. The business men and most of
the thinking men of all classes every
where are against the policy of con-
traction. We have already expanded.
We did that when Dewey annihiliated
the Spanish feet at Manila. No matter
who is elected Senator, no matter how
Tennessee or the South votes, the
American flag will continue to wave
wherever it has been raised. No pol
icy or opposition or negotiation can
prevent this. The retention of the
Philippine Islands means better gov
eminent for the natives than they ever
dreamed OF. 1t means civilization for
them, whereas to abandon them means
worse than anarchy. No one who be-
lieves in missionary work can consist
emily oppose their retention, because
American control means more for
Christianity, education, liberty, civil
cation and human progress in ten years
than the work OF few missionaries in
as many centuries. Under American
control they will have as free govern
ment as we have. They are not en-
titled to any better. American control
of these islands means a distributing
point for our trade with the Orient,
with it's 5000, 900 Of people-all of
whom wear cotton clothes. 1t means
millions more cotton spindles in the
South, an increased market for South
ern coal and iron, and for all manufac-
tured goods. With our retention OF
those fertile islands and their valuable
strategic position from commercial
point of view, and the construction OF
the Nicaragua canal, the human imagi-
nation can hardly conceive of the vast
benefit that would result to this coun-
try-and especially to the South. The
American people are not fools. They
will never surrender such golden OPP
portunity, such tremendous advant-
age as this. Party prejudice can not
influence thinking people in this mat
ter. There is too much at stake. Elk.
pansion is good Democratic doctrine.
With the exception Of frozen and al.
most barren Alaska, every foot of ter
ritory that has been added to the
Union since the original thirteen States,
was added under Democratic admins.
trations. Southern craftsmanship and
Southern arms have placed every star
on the flag, since the original thirteen.
Expansion has always been Democratic.
1T is also becoming Republican. Blu,