The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-25

.irical situation II this district an
rho have been familiar with eond
lions here the news that two CONVEX
ions we're held Al Hohenwald o
tuesday VIII cause no surprise.
aas been apparent for some time TIA
The Pa terson element was bent on
rule or ruin policy. Failing in III
snort to dominate the party council
\ N this section il was decided 10 d
Eide the party and promote strife an
iissention. Since the Democrats o
Maury county BY an emphatic vot
.ecided that they would not approv'
platform in the making Of which tn
people had no part nor voice, the de
ieated faction has been bent upon I
yolicy that led inevitably to division
and diseord
That the nomination Of John E
5reer, OF Perry county. was regularly
and properly made and that the actor
Of the convention which nominated
him voiced the viii Of the people Of
| he district is a question that admits
Of no dispute whatever. Greer was
twice declared the choice OF the Dem
ocrats of his own county in conven'
ion assembled. A convention of the
i regularly elected and commissioned
representatives of the Democracy of
Maury county endorsed and approved
his nomination and later at Hohen-
wald these same delegates voted for
mis- nomination.
On the other hand the boilers rep
resent a bare dozen boiling Democrats
In Perry county, half hundred Pat
.erson partisans in Lewis and seven
ty-seven of the same class in Maury
county. Altogether the boiling dele
cations at Hohenwald did not voice
the will of exceeding $50 Democrats
If the district. On the contrary the
-egular delegation from Perry was
chosen in convention composed of
more than this number, and in addi-
ton the delegations from Maury and
Lewis counties in that convention had
been commissioned by not less than
2, 800 Democrats acting in the usual,
and legal manner.
When the Democrats of Perry coun-
~ in regularly called mass convention
On July IL endorsed Jonn E. Greer
and the Democrats of Maury county
n regular convention on Aug. s en-
lorsed and ratified that nomination.
he became in effect the nominee of the
Democrats of the district and in good
aith it became their duty to support
Tim as such. Subsequent efforts by
he element which would make the
legislature an automatic machine to
egister the will of the Governor, have
ended wholly to the disruption Of the
arty and have been prompted by no |
'orthy motives.
The call issued by the County Chair
len Of Perry and Lewis was not
rompted by any desire to promote
armony, on the contrary that call 8
as issued in defiance of party law and t
established precedent and it sought to G
npose conditions upon and prescribe r
rms for the Democracy of Maury t
,unty, which, If submitted to, would s
ave made that party unworthy the p
lpport of self-respecting freemen. C
hat movement was prompted and in p
tired by selfish interests which seek Il
control government for personal Il
ploitation. a.
There can be little doubt as to the ST
suit in November Every county in al
e district will register an emphatic ii
otest against the disorganizers and te
tiers. Self-seeking politicians at CO
lshville and selfish special interests tn
itch live to prey upon the tax pay 81
5, who inspired this movement to be
'rupt the Democratic party in the m
District will be taught VI
son that they will not soon forget. WI