The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-12-01
REPUBLICANS
HOPE TO ELECT GOVERNOR
OF TENNESSEE NEXT
YEAR.
ON TEMPERANCE QUESTION.
Party Platform and Candidate
Will Speak Out In No I'm
certain Terms.

The growth of the spirit of indie
pendence among the voters of the
Nation recently manifested in the
elections in the North, while very dis
comforting to the Republicans Of the
States affected has gwen renewed
hope to the Republican party in this
State, and there has pIobsb bly, not been
time since 1894 when tie opposition
party in Tennessee felt IS much CON
tidence In the success of their cause as
they do IN the elections or next wear
Any student of political conditions in
this State could not be blind to the
fact that there has grown up within
recent years a very strong sentiment
among the average voters. these whose
only interest IN government is to secure
honest and efficient administrator, 20
wear their party robes very loosely
when the record of their paIty's can
didate does Lot meet their appro cation
or when the methods by which he
obtained the nomination will not bear
the closest scrutiny.
Tbs spirit of party unrest was mani
tested in the county and Judicial cleo
tlons of three years ago in the succt !,
OF number of Independents in dis
trIcts and counties where heretofore
party Endorsement mad been equivalent
to an election. In the November cleo
tiOns of 1902 two so-called Independ emit
Democrats were elected to the House of
Representatives, in the last Legislature
there were eight members electei in
opposition TO the so-called regular
nominees. The defeat of the regular
nominee in the recent city election is
another evidence that this sentiment is !
growing.
PROFESS CONFIDENCE.
1t is for these and other reasons that |
leading members of the Republican !
party profess the greatest con fiuence IN |
the outcome of the next years battle |
at the polls They all have apparently |
good reasons to advance for the faith |
that is III them, too. Not long ago |
one OF the leading members of the |
party IN the State, who has IN times
past been its standard bearer in more
than one contest, made the prediction
that next year would witness the trst
genuine struggle to obtain the nomina-
ton of his party fol- Governor since
the Mccall Winsteah fight in 1892.
What fights there have been in the
State conventions since that time have
not been for party honoIs so much as
they have been for control of the ma
chinely.
Next year, however, it is predicted
that because of the hope of victory at
the polls there will he a struggle for
the nominations itself and not as a
means to currying favor with the
In order 10 stand near the
throne at the distribution Of Federal
patronage There ls little doubt that
the Republicans next year, prodting
py theIr disastrous experience of the {
last campaign, will nominate a con-
slstent temperance advocate upon an
temperance platform. The
fact that the RepnDIcan minority in
the last General Assembly in caucus
decided to support all
measures tor the suppression of the !,
liquor traffic, proved pretty conclusively I
that their GubeInatoI isl candidate the
year before did not represent the senti-
ment OF his party upon this issue Ask
nearly any Republican OF prominence
what his patty will do on the liquor
question and he will tell you very 1
that the Republican party Is