The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-09-26

essary for these "friends" of jack
son to have adopted a three-fourths
or four-fifths rule to prevent his
nomination.
AS to Hardin County, six of he1
delegates voted with us for Jackson
throughout and refused to submit,
along with us, when the final wrong
was consummated, as did also a
part of the vote of McNairy Coun.
ty. 1t is due to the delegates from
McNairy County to say that they
told us they would vote for Jack
son, as they were instructed, as long
as Hardeman County stuck to him;
and they did so, and only voted fol
another man after Jackson had been
deserted by part of the delegation
of his own county.
They claim that the charge was
made on the floor of the convention
that GA. j. Coates had offered the
20 votes of Hardeman County to
Edgar Cherry" Coates made nc
such offer to Cherry, and no such
charge was made on the floor of the
convention, and the 20 votes Of
! Hardeman we never offered to any
one but Jackson.
The charge that two Of our mum
Der were "dark horses" and that
we tried to nominate another than
Jackson is utterly untrue.
We are also told in this article
that the two-thirds rule has always
been used in this district. The fact
is that this is a new district, Just
created by the last legislature, and
as far as the old district is concern
ed, it has not been in use for Is
years at least. That rule is obso-
lete now in democratic bodies and
to resort to it is exceptional, and
when it is done it is always with a
very obvious purpose in view, and
that is to defeat the will of the ma
jority. 1t ought to have been drop,
ped sooner than it was.
They also say that only one OF
our number was regularly elected
delegate, and goes on to speak of
eve of the regularly elected dele
gates, etc." meaning themselves.
Now, a stranger might think from
this that J. r. Reaves, when he
ran against Jackson in the primary,
had been refused the Senator's office
but had been elected a delegate and
instructed to vote against Jackson
for he certainly was there and chal
lenged the vote of Hardeman which
had been instructed against him
self and when the chairman ordered
the vote recorded for Jackson he
appealed from the decision Of the
chair and C.. A. Miller announced
that he "accepted the responsible
ity."
They say further, they gave
Jackson an "earnest and honest
support at both Selmer and Savan-
nah" Now, don't any sane man
know that Reaves and Miller did
lot go to either of these places to
support Jackson, but on the contra
ry went for the deliberate purpose
of knitting him? Can they deny
that J. r. Reaves and G. A. Miller
went into a secret caucus held in
Edgar Cherry's Office by the enc
mics of Jackson and in that caucus
voted for J. L. Barnhill to beat
Jackson with, but Tuten receiving
a majority, they accepted him?
They were very much afraid of
electing a dark horse, it seems.
They say they "have no apology to
OFFER" and after the effort made in
this card it is very apparent that
none could be offered.
In another part of this same issue
of the Free Press we find an edito-
rial which bears the ear marks of
the same author. In it is charged
that we refused TO crafty" the &C.
ton of primary four years ago be-
tween Reaves and Coates for State
Senator, and tries to find in this
some comfort for boiling the in
structions of the people. The facts
are that although Reaves had re-
ceiyed only minority of the pop
ular vote, Coates submitted to it
and no one appeared at the nominal
ing convention to challenge the vote
of Hardeman County. We do
not know what they mean
by ratification" but we do
know that we supported and worked
for the election of Reayes and Eos
ter in the November election and
any statement to the contrary is ut
terly false.
To show how hard up they are
for something to bring against us,
it is charged in this editorial that
J. w. Jones refused to meet with
the executive committee, and worse
he persuaded others to stay away!
Now, there never was a meeting of
this committee but some member
was absent, and Reaves has sudden
ly discovered it to be a heinous Of
Tense. On the occasion alluded to,
a quorum was present, and their on
ly business was to organize, which
was done and we have made no
complaint. But, it says that some
of our number have been repudiated
by the people. Perhaps so, but
Reaves, when the people repudiated
him, not to be outdone, he turned
around and repudiated them back !
1t is true that some Of us have suf-
fered defeat, but we always submit !
ed and bowed 10 the will of the
majority. The unique distinction