The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-09-23

when McDowell's convention nomi
mated Davidson it adjourned.
The delegates selected to attend
the State convention. went to thai
convention, presented their ereden.
tials signed by c. P. Wilson, chair.
man and T. J. Ogilvie as secretary
aud were admitted to the delibera-
tions of that body and some OF
them honored BY beng placed on
very important committees. The
State convention recognized them
and the convention which nominal
ed Fry, as legal and regular Dem
ocratic convention, and 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 couven-
ton.
When the regular convention in the
circuit court room adjourned and
when the boilers below adjourned, we
hear no more of Mcdowell, except
occasionally word or two reaches the
Democracy that.he may yet be a eau
didate, though he told the convention
when he bolted it, that he would not
1 be. On the first Monday i'm July, some
men met in the courthouse. They
were not called there by the Demo-
cratic executive committe, or by any
other authority. They just met there,
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not there, as it was not a Democrats
meeting. There were. but few who
did attend. l am told by two men,
Democrats, who were there to see who
and how many there was present, that
just forty-seyen took part in the meet
ing and that there we're four Others
present looking at the show That
meeting nominated Mcdowell as ITS
candidate for the Legislature, They
did not nominate him as a DemOcrat tic
candidate, for they had no right to
speak for Democracy, las it had already
spoken for itself and nominated Fry.
That meeting spoke for Mcdowell and
only for Mcdowell. He called 1t to-
gether; he worked it 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 nominal
tion would have been made. lie was
"It'' 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 it 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 nomiaee 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 well knows is not true.
But Democracy in this county took
a nap during the August primary cleo
tion which elected a new Democratic
executive committee and Mcdowell
captured majority of this commit
tee. and when 1T met for organization,
1T then endorsed this bolter and de-
clared him the regular democratic
nominee for representative in this
county, thing this committe had no
more right to do than 4 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 it. This new COM
mittee was elected to have charge Of
the Democratic campaign in this
county and to aid in the election of
the Democratic nominees from Par
ker down to and including Fry and
when it went out of its way to endorse
it went outside of its jur-
isdiction and beyond its power, What
il 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, corre- [
spondent from Union City in the !
N ews-Banner, a few weeks ago threat /,
ems to Eolt 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 McDowell's
followers, then the State and Nation
u ticket will receive few less votes, 5
out these men do not care who is de- /.
'eated, so Mcdowell wins. They are
ready to bolt anything or any nomi-
nee il things do not go their way :
Tramp says let the Democracy of this
county settle at the ballot box its own
troubles without outside interference. !.
wonder when Mcdowell becomes a
convert to that doctrine? Six years
lgo, when he and Gordon were in a !.
iquabble here as to who was the nomi- !
lee. he then invoked the aid of the
State committee to have himself de- !
Jared the nominee, or to have a pri- :
nary election in the fioterial district !
% determine which was the nominee: !
he State committee, over Gordon'S y
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