The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-31
FROM CAPTAIN JACKSON.

luSJ nave UIOuSuI III Iuc dtlOIutf
of the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road, Dorsey Hudson, to canvass this
county against me. In the past, this
great corporation Uouisville&Na ash
ville) has been notorious for the
methods it has used to corrupt leg
islation, and on more than one occa-
sion it has succeeded in defeating
the interests of the people.
Mr.. Hudson is going over the
district and in his speeches claims
that w. r. Tuten is the nominee of
the democratic party, when he
knows that any body Of men, to be
a democtatic body, must be govern
ed by democratic rules. The ma
jority rule is democratic, a two
thirds or nine tenths rule is undem-
ocratic. l received a majority of
the democratic vote of this district,
and any body of men who under
takes to deprive me of the nomina
ton is not a democratic body.
The question is now laid square!y
before the people, whether maj or-
tiles shall rule or whether few
bosses shall take the party in de-
fiance of primaries and majorities
and run it for their own benefit and
that of their heelers.
Why should all this fight be
made against me when there is no
republican running, and now can
not be, as it is too late to get his
name on the official ballot were one
to come out, as those tickets are al
ready printed, and under the law
the name must be on the ticket ten
days before the election, and the re-
publicans have endorsed 10 one for
State Senator.
The Commercial Appeal has seen
fit to take a hand in this contest,
championing its constituency of
Memphis corner groceries, no
doubt. 1t first comes out and sheds
tears over the primary election he
cause l was chosen over Reaves, and
denounces the people of Hardeman
County; and then, just after the Sa-
vannah convention, it praises Reaves
for "whetting his carving knife as
soon as he was defeated, and knitting
me there. A few days since 1t had
an editorial headed BLADES in Har-
deman," in which it repeats a
charge made in the Free Press, that
l violated my instructions for ]. M.
Taylor after voting for him one
time, whereas Reaves and Miller
had voted for me 1873 times, or I'M
til "'they were black in the face" at
Savannah. The facts are that / did
not vote for any one except Taylor
at the judicial convention alluded
to. l will say that my delegation
voted once solidly for Taylor and a
part once for Mallory, but l do not
think that we were Instructed at all
by my district for Judge of Chan
Gerry Court of Appeals; yet this pa
per justifies Reaves after he had
been defeated by the democracy of
Hardeman County "whetting his
carving knife" going to Savannah
for the express purpose of knitting
me and casting my instructed vote
for Tuten This article has all the
appearance of having been prompt
ed by the bar room companions of
the convivial editor of that paper,
who lives in this county, and only
goes to show the desperate straits
to which they resort to defeat me
calling to their aid the L. % n. at
torney and the Commercial Appeal,
Frank Thompson and everything
else they can, to try to overcome
the expressed will of the people.
call your attention to the fact
that Chairman Thompson is sending
out letters to democrats advising
them to vote for Tuten, undertake
ing to decide as to who the demo-
Gratis of this county shall vote for,
when only few days ago he wrote
telling the Democratic Committee
of this County that the State Com
mittee, of which he is chairman,
chad no jurisdiction in this case,
unless it was appealed to by both
Mr.. Tuten and myself" Chairman
Thompson and no other man has
right to dictate to the democrats of
this district how they shall vote.
There are sixteen members of the
State Committee and Thompson un-
dertakes to decide this question
without consulting them, and that
upon a one-sided statement. / think
the people of this district can de-
eide this question without having
anybody from Nashville, or Mem
phis or anywhere to tell them how
to do it.
In conclusion, l will say in regard
to the use of money in this canvass,
that not dollar has been used for
me from any source whatever, ex-
cept a small amount voluntarily |
contributed by personal friends in
this county, which was used to pay |
the way of some delegates from
Benton County who wished to vote
for me, but were not able to defray |
their own expenses, but were denied |
the right to vote for me after they |
reached Savannah-whereas large
of men were brought to Sa-
by Mr.. Dorsey Hudson
and voted against me, and it
was we'll known that not only their
but all their expenses