The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-05-06
HEARD
ANOTHER COUNTY
FROM.


enters the following protest:
..The Democrats OF this county are
entirely unable to understand the pc
cul,ar antics of the Giles County Com
mittee. This august body, noted Tor
WAYS that are dark and tricks that
are yaip,' has called primary OF Giles
County Democracy, to instruct the
State Senator from Giles, Lawrence and
Wayne and the fioater from Giles, Law
renee. Lewis and Wayne, whom to vote
for. for United States Senator. Now we
submit IN all fairness, that Giles Is try
ing to usurp a little too much authority.
We are willing to have a general prim
ary for the entire Senatorial and Fiot-
erial Districts to instruct the represen-
tatiyes, and are sure any man whom
the people should send as their rep
resentative will abide the peoples wish.
Bat peculiar as it may sound, Giles
County is not the whole district, In
either case. The other counties are en-
titled to some voice. Giles County
could. with propriety, have ordered a
urinary to express the preference OF
Giles County Democracy for United
States Senator, and this action would
have been binding on the direct rep
resentative from Giles, and would
have been given its proper welgnt Dy
the senator and hoater. But Giles, IN
her greatness. will have no halfway
measures or divided powers. She pro-
noses to settle the whole thing in GER
tain primary of May q, 1904. Can she
do it? We visit not. We nave
spoken.
The condition there is somewhat siml-
lar to the condition here; and IN both
districts the condition grows out OF
the machine politicians trying to
regulate the affairs of the people against
their will. In that district 1t Is Giles
time, according to the rule OF rotation
adopted Wy the machine bosses, and
Giles claims the whole thing; the right
to select the senator and hoterlal
representative, and instruct them, with
out the slightest suggestion or interior
ence from the other counties in the dis
trict. And, naturally, the other COUP
ties are kicking. And in their KICK
thew claim that Giles, being big coun'
ty. ia trying to run oyer the little coun-
| ties. ;
In this district the little county OF
Lewis is trying to do the same thing
that the big county of Giles Is, so lar
as selecting the senator is concerned
They don't want Maury to have any
voice in it whatever; and they say
it would be cruel and overbearlng aud
unkipd and ali that, for the big county
of Maury to raise the slightest objection
to the Lewis county man. And why
Re .ause a convention, acting without
authority and with less than dozer
men from Maury | r sent and voting
J undertook to say for $500 Democrats IL
Maury, that they should have no voice
whatever in naming the senator FOL
this senatorial district for the next foul
wears. Because six or eight delegates
sent from Maury to the Hohcnwald con
vention for the transaction of other bust
ness, "puffed up with little brie
authority undertook to legislate FOL
the people for the next ten years
we must all bow down to their ips'
dixit, anG vote for any kind or char
acter of machine made man Levin
County presents.
The people all oser the state arr
rebelling against machine methods llk
this, and the people of Maury-th
Democrats of Maury-will never ind
better time to enter their protest.
But the time to kick is now. Tn
time to fight is now. 1t is much NOR
pleasant to fight inside the party line
than out. 1t is much easier to vii
inside the party, in this county ant
district, than out. II the Democrats o
Maury want any voice 10 naming tn
senator from this district this year, nov
lis the time to Assert and to demand thei
rights.