The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-07-26
Governor of Tennessee Carroll
County Democrat.
TENNESSEE STATESMAN.

county OeInOCfdJ'
TENNESSEE STATESMAN.
Judge w. H. Swiggart has de-
cided to enter the race for Govern
or of Tennessee next year. Is
Swiggart the right man for this
high oflicel Is he worthy of be-
ing Governor of Tennessee! Are
his chances reasonably fair!
What counties will support him
for the nomination? To begin
with no man who knows Judge
Swiggart but realizes that in a
superlative degree he is worthy Of
this high office. He is the incar
nation of honor; his judgment is
ripe and matured; his experience
broad; his integrity as rock-ribbed
as the foundations of the eternal
hills. He comes of old Obion pio-
neer stock, a stock that was here
when Obion County was a cane
brake and the Houser valley a
trackless swamp. 1t is a credit to
Obion to have produced such a
citizen and every Obion countian
ought to feel proud of it. 1t is
true Judge Swiggart does not
wear his heart on his sleeve for
iackdaws to peck at, but our expe-
rience is that he meets bis friends
and acquaintances and the business
and social emergencies of life with
gentlemanly fairness, dignity,
earnestness and consistency. The
only charge that can be advanced
against Mr.. Swiggart will be the
high plane on which he will con
duct his canvass; he will scorn to
stoop to the low arts of the pro-
fessional politician. But what
man of sense and character will
not the more esteem him for thatg
1t is true few parties in Judge
Swiggart's judicial circuit will OPP
pose him because they have been
in his court and have felt the
crack of His Honor's lash. But
then, what thief ever felt the hal
ter draw with good opinion of the
law2 We may be very sure the
opposition to Judge Swiggart in
his home districts will from its
very nature and on account of the
causes that produced that opposi-
ton be weak, desultory and in
effectul. AS to Judge Swi ggarts
chances, so far as they can be
viewed at long range, they appear
good and satisfactory. There will
be no other candidate from West
The strongest, the
most powerful, the most inhuen-
tial county in West Tennessee,
Shelby, in reality brought out
Judge Swiggart and it will fight
his battles to the end. West Ten
nessee has not had a Governor now
in nearly thirty years. When it
is remembered that the bulk of
the Democratic votes are in West
Tennessee, she should have the
and she will get it too
if the counties of West Tennessee
enter the convention solidly united
on Judge Swiggart and with the
fixed purpose of securing those
rights which their own lack of
unanimity and the greed of Middle
Tennessee has so long deprived
them. The administration Of the
States affairs under Judge Swig-
gart would be ideal; an admins
tration that would demand and re-
ceive the respect and praise of all
for the vigor, good sense, honesty,
economy, recritude and statesman
ship therein displayed. Troy
News Banner.
PEER OF ANY MAN IN THE STATE.
The contention of one paper
is, that sectional lines are not
to be considered at the expense
of the qualifications of candidates,
to which we agree. But, if under
the circumstances West Tennessee
has as good n man as Fast Tennes-
see, we claim that by every rule of
fairness and policy she should have
the nomination. Sheawill present
the name of a man, who, in point
of moral character, integrity and
ability, is the peer Of any man
who is or may be in the race, and
his name is w. II. Swiggart, -
Paris Post,
Mr.. Cleveland may now come out
Of his hole and look around - Ex.