The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-30
ELBRIDGE.

Last weeks weather was anothe
knockout for the farmer.
The snow and sleet has come
the ice formed and blizzard rage,
but the fruit crop is still o. X.
A big black hound dog made
raid on Mrs. U-Know's flock o
Toulouse Geese one night recent
and killed ten and wounded thre
others, and now a war OF eXter mi
nation is to be waged on the canine
race by the U-Know family.
We notice in a recent dispatch
from Washington that the proba
bilities are that the appropriation
of money for the free distribution
of garden seed will be discontinued
This should have been done long
since, as the enormous sum thus
appropriated each year is waste
of the public funds, as no one is
especially benefited but the seeds
men who sell the seed.
The editor of the News Banner
told us last Friday at Obion that
Tramp was digging us up on the
road question. Now we don't CUES.
ton the veracity of Col. Brice, but
we believe that Tramp has toe
much sense to oppose or try to dig
us up on the road question, and il
he did undertake to do so, he could
only use sweetened air and make
nonsensical statements, as all 9TH
ers have done who have heretofore
written in opposition TO bond is
sue for the betterment of our road
system. A few years ago when we
published a paper of our own we
wrote extensively on the road prob
lem, because we could publish what
we wrote, but since we discontin-
ued the publication OF our paper
our articles on the road question
sent to the county papers for publi-
cation have been so abridged, and
sometimes consigned to the waste
basket, that we have become dis
gusted and driven to the opinion
of Mr.. Levi Rains, as expressed
several years ago when number
of gentlemen were discussing the
building of gravel road from
Obion 10 Samburg when Mr.. Rains
was called on for an opinion. He
said: Gentlemen, you will find it
difficult matter to build frst-class
road with second-class people.
But as stated in a recent article
we favor bonds. If some one can
offer better plan we will be tor
that. But an assertion by some one
that they can write road law in
thirty minutes that will solve the
croblem is a lot of sweeteued air
md will not turn us from our bond
.heory. That we need better roads,
.hough one be fool, he can but
admit.
The Gubernatorial contest is in.
Iced becoming a stencil in the nos
.rils of all right thinking people.
We candidly believe, with either
Cox or Patterson as the standard
bearer of Democracy in the State,
hat it means defeat for the party in
November, aud we find we are not
llone in this belief by any means;
hen why not relegate these mud
singing tricksters to the rear and
tut up some clean man for our
standard bearer? 1t would not only
,e better for the party now but for
II time to come, and would teach
uture political aspirants not to at
empt to wash their dirty linen in
'ublic, as these men are doing.
Fhe low plane to which they both
ave descended in this campaign
hould deter any decent man from
oting for them. We earnestly hope
he State convention, when it meets,
1ill wipe this stain from the Demo-
ratio party by nominating some
lean man for Governor.
The sd Of March has come and
one and worse weather conditions
ould hardly have prevailed had the
lements conspired to that end.
Notwithstanding the tinued
ownpour of rain Senator Carmack
'as greeted at Obiou by large
rowd. The college building was