Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-03-19

for the successful operation of business
enterprises along legitimate lines, and
labor has never reaped richer harvest
than during the administration Of
President Roosevelt but the life of
the CRATER and boOdler has been made
hard. Unjust and illegal combinations
of capital have been forced to loosen
their grip on the people, and a square
deal has been given to all classes and
conditions of men.
In looking over the field for a suita-
BILE man to succeed President Roose-
welt, we see in the person Of the Hon
William H. Taft, of Ohio man most
eminently qualified and fitted to dis
charge the duties of this great office
and to carry forward to successful com
pletion the great work of reform al
ready begun, and to meet and over
come the great difficulties surrounding
the Panama canal, the most stupendous
undertaking of modern times. We,
therefore, endorse the candidacy of
Judge Taft for President of the United
States and pledge our support to his
nomination and election.
The Hon. John H. EARLY, of Chatta-
nooga, is Il young man of splendid at
tainments, honest, fearless, and always
stands for the right. We heartily en-
dorse his candidacy for governor of
Tennessee, and hereby instruct the del
egates selected by this convention to
the state gubernational convention,
when called, to vote as unit for him,
so long as his name is before the con-
vention
We believe that the Third congress
ional district of Tennessee should be
represented in the congress of the Un-
tied States by republican, and we re-
cOgnize in the person of the Hon. John
T. Raulston, of South Pittsburg,
Tenn, young man most eminently
fitted for this high Office, and we,
| therefore, recommend that he be nom
mated for this office by the republicans
of this district and we pledge him ou1
hearty support.
We instruct the delegates elected by
| this convention to the district conven'
| tion to vote as a unit for the Hon.
Clay Evans and A. J. Fletcher fol
| delegates and for the Hons. Joseph
E. Brown and John E. Patton for al.
ternate delegates from this district tc
the national republican convention tC
be held at Chicago in June.
We instruct the delegates selected
by this convention to the state con
vention, to be held at Nashville on the
25th of March, to vote as unit fol
the Hons. Newell Sanders, R. R.
Haggard and f. w. Essary for dele
gates from the state at large to tht
national convention.
Respectfully submitted,
D. A. TATE, Chm,
G. w, McCURRY,
JAMES NJ. BIBLE,
Committee.
A minority report was submitted BY
Frank Patton, concurring in above re
port but substituting the name of Johl
4. Patton for A. J. Fletcher as dis
trict delegate to the Chicago Con
vention. Motion was made to tabl
his motion and after viva voce vot
the Chairman not being satisfied, de
manded a division of the opposing
factions in the court room, which re
suited in Mr.. PattOn's motion bein,
lost by about to in numbers. TIL
majority report was then adopted.
Report on Executive Committee wa
then read as follows:
1st District:-R. J. Kilgore, Ere,
Campbell, S. G. Green,
2nd District:-J. A. Grayson, J. J
Dykes, John Cowan.
3rd District;-H, L. Long. r. J
Massey, Tom Smith.
4th District:-John Bible, S. B
Raulston, Crit Tanner,
5th District: Geo D. Smith, NJ
Fl, Merritt, H. P Kelly
9th District; Sam Collins, Jr., Jno
Coffelt, Roy Gillian.
7th District;-F NJ. Mccullough
Jno W. Brown, Chas. Curtis.
Sth District: e. Graenicher, e. "
Holcomb.