The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-12-22
JUDGE BOND
For GOVERNOR.

moApulS SpoeCu' was O SIco1 honP'
pointmtnt to his friends and the tenn
perance people generally: but what be
has said since is eminently satisfactory.
Judge Bond is for the extension OF
the Adams law to any town or city, or
any ward of any town or city, in Ten
nessee, where the people want it.
That is not only good temperance doc
trine, but it is good democratic doctrine.
Judge Bond is not only for prohibition
in spots where the Adams law can he
made to reach, but he is for high license
where the Adams law cannot carry. In
short he is practical in his views. He
is for the best thing that can be gotten
at the time. He is for cutting down the
number of saloons, and preventing
drunkenness, poverty and crime, Lne
best way 1t can be done; and he thinks
the best way to do it, is the way the
people of the respective towns, cities
and wards want it done.
That is the platform we have been
coming to all these years. 1t is sound
and safe and Democratic. 1t is funda-
mentally Democratic, in that it recog-
nizes local self government, which is a
fundamental Democratic doctrine.
The Adams law has been subject to
this criticism; it egislated, in a temper
ance way, for the smaller towns and
against the cities; it drove liquor deal
ers and their retinue Of loafera from
the towns into the cities; and Jne cities
complained at that. Then, too. those
whose flag follow their trade, argued
| that it drove trade from the towns to
the cities. Unsound, and yet an srgu.
! ment. But the extension of the Adams
law to the entire State, means this:
N t, absolutely, that all the towns must
and stall be dry towns: but that ali
such, whose voting population desire it,
may become 50 In other words, in
communities where a majority of the
voters want whiskey sold in their midst
it will continue to be cold. But in other
communities where tie citizenship is
cultured and refined civilized and
Christianized, they can rid themselves
Of it by majority vote, whenever they
choose to do 90
Judge Bond is not only committed to
good platform, but he has clean life
record behind it, He joined the Confed
crate army when boy in his teens and
made a gallant soldier for "a cause
though lost still just" After the war he
studied law and practiced his profession
at his home 10 Brownsville West Ten
nesepa, until his old comrades ca led
him to the offica of Attorney General of
that district In that office for eight
years he acquitted himself so well that
he was elected Circuit Judgs, and for
the last twelve years has been on the
Beuch and we have the testimony of
leading lawyers at his Bar and elsewhere
that no Circuit Jugde in the State
ranks higher than he for firm, Intelli
gent, impartial enforcement of the law.
He is typical Southern looking gen
tleman, and Tennessean "to the man
ner born He is Democrat without
guile. and last, but not least, a Christian
gentleman, having for years been a
steward in the Methodist Church o.
Brownsville.
Judge Bond has the endorsement of
the Anti Saloon League of Tennessee;
therefore we commend his candidacy to
those who endorse the efforts of the
Anti Saloon League of Tennessee.
Judge Bond is the only old soldier in
the race. Therefore we commend his
candidacy to his old comrades in arms
Judge Bond is the only Christian man
with a clean temperance record, IN the |
race. Therefore we commend his can
didacy to all Christian, temperance
men who may wish to supplement their
prayers for temperance ard good gov
eminent, with their ballots.