The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-16

take from US q part Of our vote and
voice in the electoral college and
make it impossible to ever ~disiodge
them from power.
Upon that platform my competitor
stands, and in one breath he asks the
suffrages of the people of Tennessee,
and in the next he Endorses and APP
proves the purpose of his party to
steal from them their constitutional
representation in the congress of the
United States. For nearly forty years
the men of the South have struggled
with patience and fortitude 10 settle
in peace and justice the race question,
to them the most stupendOus problem
in the domestic life of the republic,
and now comes Mr.. Roosevelt, the Re-
publican candidate for president,
whom my competitor indoTses and for
whom he asks the electoral vote Of
Tennessee, and by his action and that
of his party, he opens again that old
wound, to the infinite injury of Ten
nessee and the South. 1t was made
for partisan and selfish purposes and
to make sure of the negro vote In
those States where it is the balance
of power. The issue Is made and
made by the Republican party Roose-
Welt ard Littleton stand upon the
same platform and advocate The same
policies. Shall the South control it's
own affairs? Shall this be a white
mans government, or shall it not
leave 1t to the intelligence aud man
hood of Tennessee to say.
Ny competitor criticises everything,
but proposes nothing. What a1firma-
tive measure does he propose or pol
icy advocate? Not one. His 10 a pol
icy of retrogression, a policy of re-
treat. He wants to go backward, not
forward. He would tear down, not
build up. He stands committed in his
opening speech against every forward
which has had for its pur-
pose the moral and intellectual up
building of the people and the material
of the State lie would
repeal the uniform text book law AMI
cripple the schools and leave the chill
dren TO the unrestrained extCrtions If
the book concerns in every county in
the State He would abolish the aSri-
cultural department and leave the
farmers TO the unprotected greed Of
the fertilizer companies. He would
repeal the election laws and again
1ren the doors to fraud and cCTIup-
ton. He would abolish tle Railroad
which, by it's assess
ments, brings 1851, Geo in taxes to help
run the governments State, county
and muriCipal-and would leave tho
aiIroads unrestricted to regulate theIr
-
TO extOrt on the people He would
cripple the penitentiary, which yields
4 profit OF nearly $500, 1000 year 10 the
State. by taking from it its business
managers. All these things anG more
he would tear down, and yet he offers
nothing to take their places.
No. my fellow citizens, TeDnesseans
Ire progressive people, They never
&c backwards. Under Democratic gov
sTnment the Old Volunteer Stale 10
standing on high and solid ground
mo looking to the future With hope
md confidence. Under Democratic
government its Institutions have pros
,ered, its resources been developed
md IS wealth been many times multi
,lied. The assessed value Of lis prop
.Ity has risen from $249. 1cG eco in
$50, the last year of Republican role,
0 $40S, III 600 in 1902, or au increase
4 Ga per cent in twenty years rel
0W Democrats, with such a record for
'ur party in the past, We cannot af-
ord to waver in Tennessee this year.
he hope Of national victory was
lever brighter, the need OF Demo ratio
WAC orpoTGr
nd simple republic OF tbe fathers,
nder Republican rule, by waFping
nd overriding the constitution, ~ be-
ng transformed into a government Of
if not tyranniCal powers. We
Re drifting from the paths OF peace
1hich We have travelled with honor
nd glory to the ways of was with
he swaSger of the bully ~" arc
pending more than 5000, 000, 600 year
Or military purposes in times of pro-
)und races. We have gone across the
eaters 7,00c miles from our shores,
nd there conquered a helpless people
nd are governing them by arbitrary
over, as a monarch would govern his
abjects, without even the protection
the constitution or the right of trial
y Jury. We are ieTyIng taxes On
cera without their consent and gov
ming them as subjects, not as xiti-
ems. This great republic, which was
uiiGed upon the cornerstone that
governments derive their just pow
rs from the consent of the governed"
nder the domination Of ambitions
len III the Republican party, tas
bandoned this principle, which j. the
rk of the peoples safety, and is now
ssuming to govern people "a soi0nicg,
Inside OF the constitution, after tho
lanneT of tbe hingsiOms ana empires
the Old World. Let me admCniyh
Ou. my countrymen, Of all parties,
TAT the. only safe and sure wfy 10 pre-
erve our own liberties 1ninpa.foi is
; keep this repobiic along the fines
M within the constitutional Iin.fto