The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-10-26
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making a most egregious blunder. In
the first place. whatever claims or
rights Perry county had to the Sena-
tor this time, Capt. Webb defeated
them. Maury county, for reasons here
tofore mentioned, refused to accept
Capt. Webb; but his friends were
told plainly that thst did not mean
that Maury would net accept Perry
county man; and his friends in turn
told Capt. Webb that: so that nobody
is really to blame for the nomination
not going to Perry, except Capt. Webb
himself Capt. Webb's own stubborn
ness defeated Perry county, and not
satisfied with that he is now trying
to engender factional difference and
prejudice between the counties.
And if he succeeds. what can he
hope to gain by it? If he persuades
the good people of Perry not to vote
for any Maury county man, is he SO
narrow of vision that he cannot see
that that sort of thing is contagious
and will quickly splead into Maury?
If he succeeds in dividing the party
against itself so that the smaller coun-
ties will not support any man from
Maury. and Maury will not support
any man from the lower counties,
what qualification will that be to those
who are to come after him, or what
benefit will it be to the smaller coun-
ties? Do the aspiring young demo
Gratis of the lower counties see any
future for themselves in following the
valiant Captain into an open political
grave such as that? Does any loyal
hearted democrat see any good re
suits to the party from such churlish
sulking as that?
Capt Weeb is sowing seed that will
not effect him particularly, because
he is an old man and has no political
future; but he is sowing seed that will
hurt the democratic party more, and
jeopardize the interests of Lewis and
Perry counties more, than any course
he could possibly persue.
Without any agreement, Maury has
always treated the smaller counties
with all fairness and consideration.
Under the Hohenwald agreement, the
two small counties only claim repre-
sentation one term each in ten years.
Without any agreement they have far
ed better than that in the last ten
years. Under that agreement they
would only be entitled to representa-
ton four times in t. enty years With
out any agreement they have had rep
resentation four times in less than
twenty years. With no agreement the
counties always mot in district con-
vention and as neighbors and friends
and democrats settled their claims
and rights and interests without any
quarrel or friction; and not until the
foolish agreement of four years ago,
and Capt. Webb's still more foolish,
stubborn and selfish contention that
that agreement must inure to his sole
and separate use, and that no other
Perry man should ne considered, did
the party ever have any trouble in
amicably rotating the Offices.
We are opposed to fighting this bat
tie, or any battle, on so low and mean
an issue as county unes;" we believe
in principle first, and character of
man next, and county line last. And
after making so valiant fight so far
for the cause of temperance, certainly
the temperance men of this district,
democrats and republicans alike, will
not permit so small a thing as the
personal ambition OF one man, or so
narrow a thing as a county line, to
divide them. We trust not. We hope
better and think better of the demo-
Gratis of Lewis and Perry. Their
spokesman, Senator Schubert and Mr..
Sloan, pledged them to the support of
the ticket; publicly and privately, be-
fore and after Capt. Webb's defeat,
and we believe the people of their
counties, the democrats who sent them
here to speak for them and repre-
sent them, will stand for and make
good and redeem their pledges.
But what combination the whiskey |
men can make with the republicans
and with the Webb boilers in Perry |
and Lewis, we do not know. They
failed to interest the republicans of
Maury, but that they are doing their
best in the other counties and will
continue to do their utmost, there is |
neither doubt nor denial. And that
they are making better Roadway In
the other counties than in Maury, Is
true. The whiskey men of the dis
trict are lined up in solid phalanx for
Webb; the Republicans Of Lewis and
Perry are largely for him, and the