The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22
rHEHoHEN VALID AGREEMENT.

was adopted; Lewis and Perry countie
voting for it. and Msury county divid
ing its vote half for and half against il
what was known as the Erwin deIega
ton voting against it:
ape it resolved that it is the will o
this convention and by agreement of th,
delegates in attendance in the conven
ton that two years from today Lewis
county be permitted to name the demo
cratic candidate for the Senate for the
twentieth senatorial district. and that
Two years afterwards Perry county be
permitted to name said candidate, and
that Maury county he conceded the
Renator for the following three terms
after which said rotation agreement
shall continue in the same manner as
prescribed above"
Now the Herald's contention is that
that resolution is ultra wires and not
binding upon anybody. A delegated
convention must act within it's delegated
powers: and whenever delegs ted body
goes beyond this limit, right then their
acts become the acts of the individual
and not of the delegate, and are in no
wise binding upon the party or the
people they pre- pose to represent
The Hohenwald convention was COM
posed of delegates selected by the sew
eral counties of the Senatorial district,
and charged with specific and well de-
fined purpose; and that purpose, well de
fined, expressed and understood, was to
make nomination for the Senate for the
ensuing two years. In the county con.
ventions which selected and instructed
these delegates and gave them all the
authority and power they had, this ques-
tion of ROTATING the Office from county
to county was not even limited at.
Neither was it raised 10 the discussion,
private or public preceding the con-
vention. Not until after the nomina
tion was it sprung; and then for what
purpose9 For the supposed purpose of
making other political interests in
Maury more solid down in Lewis and
Perry. DISTINGUISHING $500 Demo
cratic voters to curry personal favor
with Lewis and Perry.
A careful reading OF the resolution will
show to what unreasonable lengths the
resolution gees. The trainers of it are
tandid, at least They do not make
pretepse that the people demand 1t or
that it is in the party's interest or that
the public good is suffering for it. They
oheerfully set forth that the delegates !.
agree to it, and that settles it.
And what is it these wise guardians
Of our political rights agree to? Not
that the Democrats of the district, in
their candidate for Senator,
this year, must find him in Lewis;
select him from the number of good
and clean men in Lewis.
Oh, no! But that Lewis county be
to,name the candidate for the
Senate for the district" No Democratic .
voter in the district shall have any =
soice in the choosing, unless he lives :
In Lewis county. Utterly, absolutely, :
completely DISTINGUISHING the Demo 8
rats of Maury from taking any part :
whatsoever, or having any say in nom
mating the standard bearer of the "
,arty for the Senate this year. 1t
matters not what his opinions are as
% the Adams law, or his predictions
ID to United States Senator, or upon y
,ther important questions, just any
Id thing Lewis county labels, the
J, 600 Democrats in Maury county must
'ote for, nolens volens. S
And not only this year, but two years
rom now, the condition will be the
anne. Maury County Democrats need h
Tot form any opinion upon any question
or the Senate to consider, for they will
ave no voice in the choosing of any a,
Ienator. II will be Perry Countys
ime. Not for the Democrats Of the Of
istrict to select man from Perry; but ~
Or Perry to select man for the district. 70 70
md whatever Perry says. goes; and A,
whatever Perry agrees upon we must w
Il vote for. He may be numbskull, pu
lockhead and q bolter; but that does "a
OF matter little bit. II Perry picks G,
i'm, whether he be demon, democrat or I'M
evil, or whether he has honesty, 10 mi
egrity or democracy; whether he buys III III
is election Or somebody steals it and tex
ives it to him; whether his moral char ha
cter or political ideas are at all agree no
BILE to the Democrats Of Maury, thee
aust all vote for him. Why? Because 3
be delegates at Hohenwald, without q
xcuse, or reason, or authority, said SO.
But the wise statesmen of that ill &
barred convention did not stop at that 3
hey resoluted not for themselves and z
Dr. us merely, but for posterity. After
roviding for Lewis one term, and Perry q
ne, and Maury three, they solemnly de 3
lare that "said rotation agreement shall y
ontinue Cad infinitum) in the sam y
manner as prescribed above" (The 4
aran eais ia ours 10