The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-09
SNODGRASS'
SARCASM.
He SYmpathizes With the Bantams
Of Tennessee.
Mr.. McMlllin Should Have All the
Offices, If No Other Capable Man
Can Be Found.
Nashville American:

In an interview from Washington,
Congressman Carmack expressed his
opinion of the position taken by Gov.
Benton McMilnn with regard to the
Tennessee Senatorial race.
Last night Judge ID. l.. Snodgrass
gave his views upon the subject. The
Judge said, also, that he was wen
pleased With the situation so far as his
candidacy was concerned, and that he
had no doubt as to the tinal result.
II can see no reason why Gov. Nc
Millin cannot run for both the Senator
ship and gubernatorial chair. He is "a
man OF standing, with character, and is
recognized as man fitted to serve in
one or both places. Surely, as of all
others citizens, he has right to run for
one or both at his option If he elects
to run for both at the same time, as he
has done, nobody has right to com
plain. Every citizen has an equal right
and there is nothing in the fact that he is
Governor and is running again fol- Gov
ernor to preclude him from the race for
Senator, If he desires to make it, as he
has decided to do.
1T is question of fitness, entirely. If
he so outcIasses all others candidatS for
Governor and Senator, 50 that they
should all be defeated by him, it is the
proper thing to occur. The people need
good men in both Offices, and if they
have not two to fill both offices fifty and
to their satisfaction, then they ought to
select the one who can do it properly
and successfully.
There have been times in Tennessee
when we have had many men supposed
| to be fitted for one office. If we have
reached the time when we have only one
man fitted for many Offices, then we
| should recognize that can, idate and see
that the fitting man takes them all. The
public are not interested in personal
ambitions; it is interested in capable and
pre-emlnent service. The offices of Gov
ernor and Senator are the greatest in the
gift of the people of tennessee. Of
course, if they mad two men capable of
| filling them, it would be natural, and to
] be expected, that they would select them
| to do 50. If they have not, they ought
to be sure and select only one, because,
however narrow may be the range or fit
ness IN the citizenship of the State of
Tennessee for its various offices, the true
/ theory is that the best selection should
be made, and if it should turn out as a
matter of fact that we should only have
one m IN capable of filling all our offices,
he should be required to do so in the in
terest of the public service. Naturally,
if he thought himself the one fitted man,
he would be inclined 10 bow to the will
CT the people who concurred in that be-
lief.
THE candidates for Governor, who
have thus been showed aside to wait
while he makes his double barrel race
for little men can only make single
race-may be somewhat disappointed.
Ii they are patriots they will bow to the
will of the people, who know they have
a champion and representative so supe-
rior to them that they have no cause 10
complain wnen it is demanded of them
to subslde until pony races are in order,
and when double entries of single horses
have gone out of fashion in Tennessee
politics. Let the single-barrel gentle
men of small cllibre who wish to run
for Governor learn not to explode at this
Juncture or on improper occasions, but
contain their small charges until pro.
pitious time, when one of them shall
find class in which he can run. The
most unwise thing in modern pugilism
as well as in modern politics, is for the
feather-weight champion to enter the
list against him who not only fights as a
heavy weight, come whence he may, but
takes two at time on a cheap wager OF
the governorship of Tennessee and the
place i'll the Senate. May the LORD
help the bantams of Tennessee! !"