The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-09-30

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! when McDowell's convention nomi
5 mated Davidson it adjourned
, The delegates selected to attend
. the State convention. went to that
convention, presented their creden.
| tials signed BY c. p. Wilson, chair.
man and T. J. 0gilvie as secretary
and were admitted to the delibera.
tions of that body and some oil
them honored By being placed on
very important committees. The
State convention recognized them
and the convention which nominat-
ed Fry, as legal aud regular Dem
ocratic convention, aud admitted to
its deliberations all the delegates
who attended. There was not a
word raised against them there
and if their appointment as such
delegates was regular and legal, so
was the nomination of Fry for it
was all done by the same conven-
ton.
i When the regular convention in the
circuit court room adjourned and
when the boilers below adjourned, we
hear no more of Mcdowell, except
occasionally a word or two reaches the
| Democracy thatshe may yet be cau-
didate, though he told the convention
when he bolted it, that he would not
be-. On the first Monday in July, some
men met in the courthouse. They
were not called there by the Demo-
cratic executive COMMITTEE, or by any
other authority. They just met there,
of their own accord | suppose. was
not there, as it was not a Democrats
meeting. There we're but few who
did attend. j am told by two men,
Democrats, who were there to see who
and how many there was present, that
just forty-seven took part in the meet
| ing and that there were four Others
present looking at the show. That
meeting nominated Mcdowell as ITS
candidate for the Legislature. They
| did not nominate him as Democratic
candidate, for they had no right to
speak for Democracy, las 1t had already
spoken for itself and nominated Fry
That meeting spoke for Mcdowell and
only for Mcdowell. He called it to-
gether; he worked 1t up; he was the
authority which got these men to-
gether, some Of them good men and
clever citizens, but it was McDowell's
meeting and his meeting nominated
him for the Legislature, and he is
now his own candidate, nominated by
himself at his own meeting. AT any
time he had given the word that
meeting would have been called off,
or would have adjourned without do
ing ANYTHING; at anytime he had said
''make no nomination., no nomina-
tion would have been made. He was
"Itn so far as that body of men was
concerned the whole cheese cloth.
1t was ready and willing to do his bid
ding 1t was his; he called 1T into be-
ing and controlled it; it was he acting
through others, and hence he nomi- |
mated himself and Is his own nominee, |
not the nominee of the Democracy of
this county, and it is perfectly ridicu-
lous for him or any one to claim that |
he Is the nominee of the Democratic |
party in this county. He is his own
nominee.
1t will be seen from all the forego-
ing, that Fry is the nominee of the
Democracy of this county and that /
Mcdowell is his own nominee, and |
when he declares from the stump, as /
hear he does, that he is the regular
Democratic nominee, he states what
he we'll knows is not true.
But Democracy In this county took
a nap during the August primary cleo
tion which elected new Democratic
executive committee and Mcdowell
captured a majority of this commit
tee. and when it met for organization,
1t then endorsed this bOlter and de-
ala h lur Aarsa q tai
nominee for representative in this
county, a thing this committe had no
more right to do, than | had, and it
when so doing, declared what all of
them knew and believed not to be
true, but Mcdowell wanted it done
and hence they did 1t. This new COM
mittee was elected to.have charge Of
the Democratic campaign in this
county aud to aid in the election of
the Democratic nominees from Par
ker down to and including Fry and
when 1t went out Of its way to endorse
Mcdowell, it went outside of its jur.
isdiction and beyond its power, What
it says or declares as to Mcdowell is
no more binding on Democrats than
what any other man, or body of men,
would say or declare, 1t, cannot, by
its ipse dixit, make Mcdowell nomi-
nee, nor displace Fry from that posi-
sition; its declarations along these
lines are utilities and no one is bound
to regard them in the least.
Now, a few additional observations
and we are done. Tramp, CORE
spOndent from Union City in the
News Banner, "a few weeks ago threat
ems to holt all Democratic nominees
in the State who advocate the election
of Fry. These men will not only bolt
Fry, but all candidates who advocate ,
his election from Frazier down. Ii
his advice is followed by McD0well's
then the State and Nation
al ticket will receive few less votes,
but these men do not care who is de-
feated, so Mcdowell wins. They are
ready to bolt anything or any nomi-
nee If things do not go their way. !
Tramp says let the Democracy of this
settle at the ballot box its own
troubles without outside interference.
| wonder when Mcdowell becomes a
convert to that doctrine? Six years
ago, when he and Gordon we're in a |.
sQuabble here as to who was the n0mi- !
nee. he then invoked the aid of the
State committee to have himself de- !
clared the NOMINEES, or to have pri- /.
mary election in the fi0terial district !
10 determine which was the nominees: