The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-09-26
THE HOHENWALD CONVENTION.
Harmony Prevailed and Judge E. E. Erwin
Nominated For State Senator.
THE DELEGATES FROM MAURY AGREED AMONG THEMSELVES
TO SETTLE THEIR OWN PERSONAL DIFFERENCES
FOR THE GOOD THE PARTY.

Judge Erwin, partly to nominate his
friend Mr.. John Brown. Happily for
the party, when Mr.. Brown, who was
present, saw the situation, his heart
failed him: or rather his good sense
rescued him; and he said to his cham
pion, leave me out OF it, 1.-THE game is
not worth the candle. !"
Another fortunate circumstance was
that there was no personal strife be-
tween the delegates present; they We're
all en- good, easy and approachable
terms. So, early in the dav, while still
preparing for war, Mr.. Lander was
selected by the Erwin delegation to
approach Mr.. Cheairs with overtures
of peace. And that was the beginning
of the happy solution of the trouble.
The Erwin delegation were willing
to capitulate if they could get their
man. Mr.. Brown having withdrawn,
Mr.. Cheairs had no man. He was in
position to carry his political grudges
and personal prejuoices on into the
convention and give the nomination
to Mr.. Carter of Perry; thereby Great
ing bad feeling and factionai strife In
mis- own county; or the opportunity
was his to rise above these baser pas
sions ana in a spirit of true manli-
ness, and with broad conservatism,
and fer harmony sake. to nominate
the man he had gone there to defeat.
To do, as he said in his speech. what
"a hours before he had no more notion
of doing than he had CT flying to
heaven. And he himself will admit
that his wings are not sprouting yet.
But, be it said to. his everlasting
credit. he chose the better part and
did the manly thing.
Under that agreement both sets OF
delegates from Maury were seated, and
when Maury was called upon for nomi-
nations, Mr.. Cheairs presented the
name of the Hon. E. E. Erwin. This
was seconded by Jas A. Smiser, Esq,
and Prof. Jesse Tomlinson cast the
entire vote of the county (33) votes, for
Judge Erwin, which gave him the NOM
ination by more than two-thirds ma
jority.
The Maury delegations. could not agree
entirely upon the platform and resolu-
tons reported by that committee, and
divided it's vote, S14 votes voting in the
negative. The platform endorses the
Peeler bill.
On motion of Mr.sTomlinson of Maury
resolution was adopted giving the
Senator to Lewis Co. two years hence,
then to Perry for one term. and for the
following three consecutive terms to
Maury. The Maury delegation was also
divided upon this question, ano Mr..
Lander made a talk against it. His
position was, first, that this conven-
ton was called and empowered to
nominate Senator for this year or
term, and for no longer that to att
tempt in any way to bind the party
two or four or six years hence, was
not only illegal and void, but i'm
moral and wrong. 1t was not ques-
ton, he said, of where man came
from, but what he stood for. And
for a small coterie of politicians, who
considered themselves the party, to
undertake now to say to the SIX or
seven thousand democrats of this
Senatorial district who they should
vote for two and four and six years
hence, was high handed proceeding
he would give no countenance to. He
remi nded the convention that there
were various and sundry sorts of
Democrats these days. Gold dem o.
Gratis and silver democrats whiskey
democrats and temperance democrats !;
corporation democrats and anti-cor-
poration democrats; and that what
the people generally wanted to know,