Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-08
ADOPT STRONG
AND RINGING RESOLUTIONS
7. H. Lambert Elected to the
Office of Chairman, With
Power to Make Selec-
ton of Executive
Committee.

rion County met at the Court House
in Jasper Monday at 10 a. M. Meet
ing was called to order by Hon. D. I.
Layne.
Mr. j. P. Armstrong, of South Pitts
burg, was chosen chairman, and the
representatives of newspapers present
invited to act as secretaries.
On motion the following were chos.
en- to nominate an Executive Commit
tee and also delegates to meeting in
Nashville Sept. IA: d. T. Layne, G.
A. d. Farris, j. H. Lambert, W. s.
Wilson.
During the absence of the Commit
tee, speeches were made by the Chair
man and Mr.. A. r. Rankin, of Chat
tanooga.
Committee on Resolutions reported
as follows:
We, the Democrats of Marion county
In convention assembled, pledge our
allegiance to the Democratic Party
and assert our loyalty to the principles
for which it has stood for the past
generations in Tennessee. We con-
denim machine methods in political
parties as being un-Democratic, and
against the interests OF the Democratic
Party in Tennessee and against good
government We especially condemn
the action of the so-called state execu-
tive committee and its insidious dicta-
tor, the present governor of the state,
because of the Democratic and ille-
gal manner in which Democratic
primary and convention was attempted
to be held, to nominate representatives
of the party for state Office And we
condemn the primary and convention
that was attempted 30 be held, and
which was mere farce, without bind
ing force or effect upon the masses of
the democratic party in Tennessee.
We condemn Gov. Patterson for his
usurpation of the peoples rights, and
we assert that he is not the regula r
and lawful representative of the demo-
cratic party in Tennessee, but that he
is political despot, whose assumed
nomination was given him by no au-
thority except his own, and at the be-
hest of few puppets whom he him
the nominee Of the great body of dem
ocrats in Tennessee, that he has be-
trayed the peoples and the party's in
terests, that he has refused to give
the majority of the democratic party a
voice in it's affairs, either to declare
its nominees or to write it's platform.
Gov. Patterson's self assumed nomin-
alton is therefore, hereby repudiated
and the democrats of Marion county
hereby declare that they are in no
sense bound to him by party allegi-
ance or otherwise.
And. furthermore. we, as represen-
tative democrats of Marion county,
condemn in unqualified mea sure the
action of Mr., Geo. e. Banks, of
franklin county, in attempting to filch
the rights of the democracy of Marion
county under cover of an infamous
political intrigue. By time honored
custom of the democracy of this sena-
torial district. consisting Of Marion,
Grundy, Warren and Franklin coun-
ties, each county has been allowed to
nominate the senatorial representative
in rotation, according to which custom
it is now the privilege and right of
Marion county to nominate the candi-
date for the senate from this district. |
Such an arrangement is fair and just,
and has always been SO recognized as
to become fixed and settled law, and
we condemn the action of Mr.. Banks |
as being not only unauthorized and
unfair, but as being in violation of
good faith and breach of the honest OBJ
legations which he owes to the demo-
Gratis of Marion county. who supported
him two years ago under this arrange
ment. p
We assert that he is not EMIT led to
be the nominee of the democratic par
ty in this senatorial district. that he
is assuming and claiming to be the
nominee against the wishes Of the
great majority of the rank ard file of
the party, and that he is not in fact
the nominee and his claims are false.
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