Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-08-27
Third District.
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campaign will he the auietest ever |
since the foundation of this |
great republic, rs both the candidates
for president have got incoruorated in
their platforms plank TO catch the |
iaborlng men of the nation. Ii is a
nard problem for me to solve just now |
II only knew just which one of the |
candidates would get the endorsement |
ana vote of all the different labor or. |
carnations of our nation | could ans
wer at once and tell all your readers
lust who would be the next president |
Which way the laboring men of Amer
lea votes this crack will surely decide |
the next president Just write this |
down on your day book and slip it |
right in your vest pocket for future
reference. Tennessee is split wide on
EN- with two great political parties,
with lot of minor parties. Two dis
tlnct republican parties and two great
democratic parties. The home rulers,
the peoples party, the Prohibitionists,
the Socialist, the labor, all to be mix
ed up to get a clip at the pie and pud-
ding this time. SO many different
political parties remind me of this in
fernal Dorch law. You have already
learned how that goes All the names
of candidates of different political par
ties are all stirred together on the
ticket, and left for you to be the ex-
elusive judge Of whom you will choose.
Next year You will have the privilege
of being the exclusive judge of your
choice out Of so many different poll
teal parties which are now set before
you on the political table for you to
select your choice-pie, pudding or
pumpkin, it's on the ticket for you.
You can partake or reject, and if you
get beat after you shuttle this deck of
cards please don't come around my
way, for had rather look sheep in
the face as to see you after you have
had all this good, political hash set on
the political table of Tennessee, and
hear you cry aloud that you failed to
| get any dinner. When the time comes
that christianity and politics can truly
reconcile labor unions of this country
and can have the stability to stick to
them as they think you ought to, just
SO soon they will recognize you and
your success will be crowned with vic
| tory and your candidates will have
many flowers put in your path. But
on the other hand, if any of you cam
didates from the highest to the lowest
Office come out and declare themselves
against labor, an3 are fGT the money
gous of the land, they will say he that
hath his heels up against us is not for
us, and so all you will get in return
is complete defeat and a round trip
ticket up Salt River and return home
retired to private life right where they
belong don't belong to any of these
political factions of Tennessee, and
neither has any political boss got any
strings on me. | am glad we all can
vote to suit ourselves, and that we
have the political history of our coun-
try before us and that we can read
and educate ourselves as to the past
and from experience we will learn to
sleep at night with one eye open and
every man that tries to Jonah the peO-
pie will be separated at the ballot box,
as the sheep will be from the goats.
tell you, people, that the old repub-
lican and democratic parties are a
thing of the past, as far as Tennessee
is concerned. You can't tell how how
either party is going to vote this time.
1t will be altogether the issue be
springs and the platform he runs ON,
and if he's for the mass of people and
will pledge himself to represent TIE
people as a whole he will get theil
eye. l will cut this eff right here a:
it's almost too early for me to open W
anyway.
This whole community is shocked
over the death of Rev. r. j. Moore
who was loved by all and who had at
tended more funerals at different Gem
eteries for forty years past and officia
ted at the same than any man living
this age. His death had been expected
for some time. There was the largest
attendance ever witnessed at funera
in the history of our county at his bur
ial He was laid in what some wOult
term sepulchre. He arranged hi
tomb long before his death at a consid
cradle cost. 1t is built on ton of tn
earth and will remain for years t
come. The people of east side on tn
a river realize that they have lost tn
greatest man among us. No man liv
ing can fill his place. 1t never raine
3 too hard or was ever too cold, bu
what every time the people went afte
= him to Officiate at funeral for th
S past forty years but what he Away
came. The hours of the past with hiI
= among us can never be forgotten, an
b we tender our sympathy to the bereay
> ed family. Ye writer was associate
with an Office with Rev Moore Will
\ he was Justice of the Peace for Me-
= rion county, for over year, and
+, will state that in all the Justice Of tn
. Peace courts that | ever attended an
in all the judgements of said court
II there never was a judge more fair {
II one who gave better satisfaction to al
After he had to pass judgement on tn
defendent, the defendants, plaintiff
l. and the attorneys would respect h
p judgements, and he would always u'
\ a passage of scripture to sustain hin
4 self and the court and to warrant I'll
4 conviction or the acquitals of the lit
giants. He never allowed himself TO
drawn away from MS duty by any a
J torneys who might try to mislead hin
| feel that have lost the best friend
had on earth, and that no mortal na
living can ever fill his place. H
words, his songs, his voice, are ST
ringing in my ears and will ring
: long as | live.
| am sorry to pen the death of Nj
John Moore Of near Victoria, who di,
last week ! failed to get the partic
lars of her death Some reported tn
her death resulted after an operati,
on her side.
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