The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-05-13
THAT MCMIL-
LIN VICTORY. y
Prominent Maury County
Democrat" Makes Some
Claims i'm Nashville
Banner.
SAYS MeMILLIN FRIENDS
RUN THINGS
Mr.. w. q. Whitthorne, However,
Goes Into Details and Disproves
The Statements Bates
Friends Controlled.

The following very interesting inter
view, which appeared in the Nashville
Banner Tuesday afternoon, created con
siderable comment and some criticism
in political circles. Especially among thu
friends of Gen. Bate was the interview
very strongly disapprOved, because the
statements made therein are, according
to them, untrue. The interview is a
follows:
THE McMilin men of Maury Coun
ty certainly regard the action of the
committee yesterday as decided vic
tory, said we'll known Maury County
Democrat today. The subcommittee
appointed by the General Committee tC
select delegates to the State Convention
was made up of three McMillin and two
Bate men, Our side, however, did not
take an arbitrary advantage of the 9th
ers. We named the delegates irrespec-
tive of preference for the United States
Senator But it was in the endorse
ment of Mr.. Schubert where we claim
the victory
"'There had been a good deal of OPP
position to Mr.. Schubert on the part of
the Columbia Herald and leading Bate
men
1.-The McMillin men led in the fight
for Schubert's endorsement on the
grounds that his nomination should be
recognized, as. under the rotation rule
Of 1902, it was Lewis Countys time to
name the Senator; and, while Mr.. Schu-
bert had expressed some personal pre-
objection for Gen. Bate, the McMillin
men are confident of instructing him in
the primary agreed upon yesterday.
"'Mr. Schubert's endorsement was
voted against by only two members of
the committee-James Smiser and Will
liam Cameron. Mr.. Smiser was in the
Hohenwald convention two years ago,
and as delegate agreed to allow Lewis
to name the Senator this time. !"
Mr.. w. c. Whltthorne' 8 Statement.
The attention of Mr.. w. G. Whit
thorne manager of Gen. Bates cam
paign in Maury County, was called
to the above interview by a
Herald reporter, and he was asked
to make statement in regard to the
same. Accordingly, he dictated the
statement to his clerk, and
handed it to the Herald for publica
ton
"My attention has been called to an
interview by'a prominent McMiliin man
Of Maury County,, published in the
banner Of the 10th. Or course, | don t
know who the prominent man is that
gave this interview, but it certainly
could not have been McMillin man
who was present here on May 9th,
when the Democratic Executive Com
nittee met.
1.-The facts are that the McMillin |
men were perfectly willing that Mr. |
Schubert should be simply endorsed,
md that nothing further should be
aid or if anything further was said.
hat he should be instructed how
le should vote in the matter of United
States Senator by some means hereafter |
o be determined; and the McMilin men
gere bitterly opposed to instructions
icing given by a primary-election.
The Bate men were for endorsing
nd nominating Mr.. Schubert and at
he same time coupling that endorse
nent and nomination with a resolution
hat the Senator from the Twentieth
enatoria District, composed of Maury,
lewis and Perry Counties, and the
irect Representatives from Maury
county should abide by the result Of q
Urinary Election to be held in Maury
'ounty. This issue was fought out bit
erly and determinedly by both sides,
nd Just before the Executive Commit
90 met, after its recess, an earnest APP
cal was made by the Mcmillan men to
ne Bate men not to introduce this reso-
ltion, which had been drafted by
lajor w. }. Whitthorne and E. II.
Iatcher, both of whom, as everyone
nows, are ardent Bate men, so that a
liter fight and wrangle would be pre-
ented in the Committee. The Bate
zen notified the McMillin men that they
ould insist upon this resolution. 1t
as introduced by Major Whitthorne,
nd when the McMilin men counted (
oses and saw that the Bate people were
control of the Committee, they then
,ry wisely submitted to the inevitable.
resent know that Bate sentiment and
ate friends were 10 the majority on the
ommittee: and all Bates friends
trough Maury County are perfectly
tisfied, now that they have the assur-
ICE that the question as to who Maury
)unty's Representatives shall vote for
the Legislature for United States
,nator, can be decided by direct vote (
the people. All that we have wanted
IS this end. We have feared mass (
INVENTION; we had feared that by some J
~, by some means the right OF the
ople to vote directly for their choice
r United States Senator would be pre- Z
nted: and now all Of the Bate men all
er Maury County are sanguine of sue
80 and are jsbiant in the fact that
} can now express our sentiment by
imaiy election. n