The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-05-04
ELBRIDGE.

nv ShOWNAo last Aludg onN
Monday were very beneficial. as
sisting the farmers in pulverizine
the soil.
The buffalo gnats and mosquitoes
are seldom worse than at present
in this section. They are perfect
terror to man and beast. Live
stock fight gnats in daylight and
people fight mosquitoes at night.
Elbridge had an experience last
Monday that never occurred before
in her history-a visit from a real
Governor. But the very limited
few who met the Governor shows
very conclusively that our people
do not hold in very high esteem the
present Governor of our great State
or approve of the mud-sllnging that
has been INDUCED in during this
campaign. But in justice to Gov.
Cox we candidly believe that his
opponent, Mr.. Patterson, could
have drawn no larger crowd, as our
people think it is about six of one
aud half dozen of the other. We
know quite a number of good DEM
ocrats in this section who will not
vote in the Gubernatorial primary
on the 18th if there is no other name
before said primary but those of
Cox and Patterson, and we believe
this is right, as neither one of them
should be honored by the highest
office within the gift of the people
of the old Volunteer State, tor it is
very evident to any one that neither
one is worthy of this high office
taking the record of each as shown
up by the other as basis of iudg-
ment, and if these records are not
true then each is falsifier, and no
perverter of facts should occupy
the Governors chair.
The recent Senatorial campaign
in Arkansas which resulted in the
nomination of Jeff Davis for U. S.
Senator and the present mud-sling-
ing Gubernatorial campaign be-
tween Cox and Patterson in our
own State calls very forcibly to our
mind an article that appeared in
print some years ago and which in
part we give below. At the time
we thought the picture as portrayed
in this article was somewhat over
drawn, but we believe now the
writer was about correct. The ar
ticle referred to was written by w.
r. Andrews, Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, and was an appeal to the
to stop fighting and be-
come peaceable citizens of our great
country. "You ought to send dele
cations over to see us, he said.
The land of the free; bibles, forts
and guns; mill1onaires and paupers;
Lheologians and thieves; politicians
and poverty; Christians and chain
gangs; schools and scalawags,
trusts and tramps; money and mis-
cry; homes and hunger; virtue and
rice. A land where you can get a
good bible for Is cents and a bad |
rink 0 f whisky for FIVE cents;
where we have a man in Congress
With three wives, and a lot in the
oenitentiary for having two wives;
where professors draw their convic-
lions from the same place they do |
their salaries; where preachers are
paid $4,000 year to dodge the
ievil and tickle the ears of the |
where business consists in |
getting hold of property in any way |
that won't land you in the peniten-
Liary; where trusts hold you up and |
poverty holds you down. A land |
where we spend $500 to bury a
statesman who is rich and $40 to
put away a workman who is poor;
where gold is the substance, the
one thing sought FOR; where we pay |
ELS, 200 for a dog and Is cents a
dozen to a poor woman tor making |
shirts; where we put man in Jail |
for stealing a loaf of bread and in
Congress for stealing railroad.
Come to us, you Fillies.' Now,
some one may think, as we did at
first, that the picture is overdrawn,
butsif one will let their minds calm
" think over matters they will con-
slude as we have that the picture is
about correct. Who is to blame for |
this state Of affairs in thfs grand |
republic of ours? A country of |
which we all boast as the home of
he brave and free. The people are
20 blame. Where does the blame
.est for the nomination OF Davis in