The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-09-23
TIE NOMINEE
TO The COMMERCIAL:

ldtb Win Jne same potter Who has 10
ten years or longer disturbed the har
mOny Of the party in Obion coun6l
and done more than all others com
bined 20 produce discords and dissen
si0ns IN the party. This man claim
TO be the regular nominee of the Dem
pcTatic party for Representative from
this county to the next Legislature
and there are good men whom he hal
so deluded that they too are claiming
him to be the regular nominee gf the
party, when all thoughtful and all in
formed men know he is not the regular
nominee and has no more claim to bt
the regular nominee than / have, anC
that he has absolutely no excuse 81
reason for his race, except his inOrdi
nate ambition and desire to be a can,
didate or to have and see his name in
print. Joseph u. Fry is the nominee
regularly and legally made such by a
convention which was regularly called
into being on motion made by this
self same bolter. Any fair minded
thoughtful and informed Democrat
Will so declare without a moments
hesitation,
Let us for short time investigate
the Democratic party in this county
for Representative to the next Legis-
lature. Let us take up the record as
made on McDOwell's motion and see
what claim he has to declare himself
the regular nominee ia this county.
a notice was published in all the
county papers for meeting OF the
Democratic executive committee of
the county to meet on the first Mon
day in March, 1904, at the courthouse,
for the purpose Of transacting any
business that may be brought before
it," This call was signed by Geo, r..
Hurt, chairman, and III. G. Alexander,
secretary. On the first Monday in
March, as called, that committee met
at the place designated, Ia the court
house; Present, w. II. Harpole, from
Dist. No. /; j.. M. Glenn, from Dist.
No. Q; M. S. Marshall, from Dist. No.
3; w. B. Stovall from Dist. No. u;
Geo. p Hurt, from Dist. No. S; Hardy
@. Davidson, from Dist. No. 8; j. I'll.
Mcdowell from Dist. No. 10; =. N.
Matl0ck, from Dist. No, IL; j. M.
Hickman, from Dist. No. ~; III. G.
Alexander, from Dist. No. ID; A. X.
Wells, from Dist. No. IA; X. j Green,
from Dist. No. Is; and w. M. M lies as
proxy for Walter Morris, from Dist.
NO, 16; all the districts being repre-
Scented az that meeting except dis
tricts Nos. 2, 4, and 6. At that
meeting district conventions were or
dered TO be held on Saturday, April
80, at 2 o'clock for the purpose Of Sc
lecting delegates to attend county
convention which was ordered to he
held in Union City, at the courthouse,
at / O'Clock p. IN. on the first Monday
in May for the purpose OF electing
delegates TO attend the State conven-
tion at Nashville. j. III. Mcdowell,
in said committee meeting, moved
that the delegates selected in the dis
trict conventions to be held on the
last Saturday in April be directed to
vote at the county convention at
Union City on the first Monday in May
to nominate candidate for Repre-
sentative Of Obion county. This mo-
tion was duly seconded. II. G. Alex
ander moved TO table McDowell's mo-
tion, but Alexander's motion failed
by vote of for his motion to 7
against il. Then the vote was taken
on Mcdowell s motion and was carried
by vote OF 7 for 1t and 8 against it,
those voting for his motion being him
self, Mr.. Marshall, Mr.. Harpole Mr..
Matlock, Mr.. StOvall, Mr.. Miles, Mr.
Hickman and Mr.. Green, all Mellow
ell men except Mr.. Green and Mr.
M lies who are now, as understand,
supporting Mr.. Fry. So it will be
seen that Mcdowell called into life
the convention that nominated Fry.
1t was on his motion that such con-
vention was called, He was then a
candidate for the Legislature and was
then the only man who was such a
candidate. Before then, he and his
friends, had always clammored for
primary election to nominate candi-
dates for office, and well remember
former occasion when he claimed he
was defrauded out Of a nomination.
that he appealed to the State com
mittee TO order primary election TO
decide whether he or Mr.. Gordon was
the nominee OF the party and after
under an avalanche of votes and
majority SO great that no onS ever
supposed he would come to life
again, but he came up again last
spring as an announced candidate
for the Representative honors. In
the contest with Gordon he then
called into being primary election
and was buried by an Overwhelming
majority in such primary, and th at |
may have been the reason which
moved him to want county con-
vention, so that he could get in
some of his fine work tor which he
is accredited; so that he could pull
the wool over the eyes of the people
and by his skill as convention ma
nipulater wrest the nomination this
time from the Democracy whether
it wanted him or not. But in this
he reckoned without his hosts. The I
district conventions we're held on
Saturday as ordered, and in the
meantime 10. Fry had announced
himself as candidate for the place.
1t was well known that Fry was
very popular in his old home dis
trict at Harris raation, where he
spent most of his boyhood days and
that he would likely carry that dis
trict over Mcdowell; that Fry would
carry No. his friends were conf
dent and had no doubt and results
atef on showed that their conf
ience was well founded. Mr.. Nc