The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
SENATOR JERE BAXTER.
Democratic Legislative Nominees
Selected and Platform Adopted.

for the legislature
at the Davidson county Dem
ocratic convention, which con-
vened here this afternoon:
For the senate: Col. Jere Bax-
ter, president of the Tennessee
Central Railroad; W. A. Stuart,
member of the firm of Stuart q
Bruckner, iron holders and ma
chinists.
For the house: j. j. Straub,
news editor of the Daily News;
w. w. Wilkerson, livery man; j.
Washington Moore, lawyer; John
w. Morton, son of Capt. j. w.
Morton, secretary of State; Lytton
Hickman, lawyer; Ben. S. Cock
relI, farmer and stock breeder. S.
G. Traton of Wilson county had
no opposition for foterial repre-
sentative for Wilson and Davidson
counties.
The convention was compare
lively tame affair, although there
was considerable squabbling over
several nominations for the house.
Q The ticket is garded as victory
for the Baxter-Head forces. They
had complete control and captured
the organization without a strug-
gle. Mayor Head was made tenn
porary chairman and L. j.
Hardiman secretary. E. R. Rich
ardson, an ardent Baxterite, was
selected permanent chairman.
The platform adopted indorses
municipal ownership of public
utilities and instructs the nominees
to vote for an amendent to the
charter to enable the city to issue
bonds for the purpose of building
a conduit system sufficiently large
to accommodate all overhead wires
except trolley wires and to install
therein telephone and heating
systems whenever deemed advis-
able to do so.
1t also favors the issuance of
bonds to enlarge the city's electric
light plant. 1t is unalterably
opposed to the merger or consoll-
dations of parallel or competing
lines of railroads. The nominees
are instructed to vote for such
legislation and do all things in
their power to prevent the con-
summation of such schemes,
whether actually contemplated at
this time or not.
The clause on the terminal
question, which has been agitated
considerably, is as follows: "We
favor adequate and mandatory
laws for compelling all public
common carriers, including termi-
nal companies, to charge the
duties for which they were createc
impartlally and without discriml
ton, and especially law compel
ing every terminal company IL
the state to serve all railroads
without discrimination, on Jus
and fair compensation being paic
for such service.
eve favor adequate an(
mandatory laws compelling al
railroads in this state to inter
change business with all connect
ing railroads upon fair, equal anC
Just terms, and laws COMPEL
! ling the fixing of reasonable
! through rates for both passenger
and freight, to the end that thu
public may enjoy the full benefit
to which it is entitled from thu
transportation facilities which
have been brought into existence
under the laws and at the expense
largely, of the state.
And we favor all such con
stitutional measures as will tent
to prevent monopoly and promot'
competition in transportation. w,
hereby instruct the nominees o
this convention if elected to vot,
for all legislation necessary to &C
compIish the purposes hereil
above set forth. +"
7 The platform indorses the ad
minlstration of Benton McMillin