The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-10-27
+. RUBBISH AND TRASH"

about its candidate.
1t denounces the statement in Tn
Commercial Appeal about what would
happen if Hooper would be governor a
mere rubbish and trash" We re
print what the Journal and Tribunl
objects to in another column, and alsI
what the Journal and Tribune say
about it.
That paper not oaly attacks Tit
Commercial Appeal, but also "th'
nameIess man from Hooper's owr
county who has been; travelling with
ator Taylor" This ''nameless man, >
the Journal and Tribune says has been
making some attacks upon Hooper by
innuendo, Its position is that, he is
unfit to be governor of Tennessee. Mr..
Hooper himself in public statement
alleged that certain machine papers
were attacking his life previous to four
years. From that time forward Mr..
Hooper gives the public statement as
to his life. Capt. Hooper, it seems, is
trying to make capital out of some
thing that has not been done.
Upon his public record and upon his
viewpoints as shown by his public rec
ord, and upon his mental attainments
as shown by his public records, and in
his public speeches The Commercial
Appeal says he is unfit to be governor
of Tennessee.
He has the bigotry that goes with
weakness. He has narrow viewpoint
that comes from lack of experience.
He has small hatreds in his soul be-
cause he has never come in contact
with the big things of life.
He votes against Confederate pen
sions. He votes against shelter for de-
crepit Confederate soldiers.
He thinks, as the journal of the leg
islature shows, that sixteen years are
too high for the age of consent law. A
man of these ideas does not measure
up to the standard required in the in
dividual who would be the head Off
cial of the people of this great state.
He could not have secured the re-
publican nomination for governor be-
cause of anything he may have done.
He was nominated because those who
him thought he had done
because, they thought, he
had no record.
His record is bobtailed one, but
what there is of it is bad. He was
because Newell Sanders and
HI. Clay Evans controlled the federal
of Tennessee. They told
the federal officeholders to nominate
Hooper, and Hooper was nominated.
If Hooper should sit in the governors
chair he will fetch and carry for San
ders and for Evans.
Who is H. Clay Evans? A man
who during his term in congress was
an advocate of the force bill.
Who is Newell Sanders? The head
Of the republican machine of Tennes-
see.
The republican machine of Tennessee
IS sordid organization of officeholders,
md until this year its meetings were
marked by fist-fights, by chickering's |
and by blackguardism.
If Hooper is elected, Sanders will be
he real governor of Tennessee, and if
sanders is the real governor of Tennes-
zee he will move heaven and earth to
Keep Tennessee in the republican col
INN.
If it is needed to re district the state
o do this, Sanders will see that it is
lone.
If it is necessary to wheel the ne
,roes in line, Sanders will bring them
n.
Z The national republicans are helping
o finance Hooper's campaign. The
rational republican committee wants
tennessee in the republican column in
912.
Newell Sanders is assessing federal
in Tennessee for money
or Hooper.
Who is paying the expenses of Gus
Chloe in this fight? Who is paying
he expenses of Hooper's campaign ?
officeholders, and those
nen who have in the past contributed
money to debauch the electorate in
lew York and Indiana and other
yorthern states. The republicans are
laying deep game. Hooper is the
My republican on the stump. The
ther public speaking is being done by
emocrats who have turned traitor TO
heir party. The republicans know
ubli .an spellbinders the people of
ennessee will see the full meaning of
MS campaign.
These republican leaders are doing
heir work under cover, and are send
,g out decoy ducks like Enloe and
ates. Elect Hooper governor of this
,ate and make Newell Sanders the
,al governor and he will throw this
ate back to the time when republican
lie meant oppression, disorder aad the
of the state. -Commercial
ppeal.
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