The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-01

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link in the golden chain of life is gone
but it is that one link which draws us
to the other side and we pray that the
Great Friend will love us and help u,
to live so that we may continue oul
friendship there where partings come
no more.
Ruth was a noble girl. We, who
loved her best, knew her virtues, and
her influence will live in years to come
and lead us where she has gone before.
She has sweet rest with her Savior and
her joy is full. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we bow submissively
to God in that His will was to transfer
our class mate and dear friend, Ruth
Lyle, to the home above, and we want
to show our devotion to her by elimi
mating her beautiful character and ex-
celIent virtues and most of all her con
secrated christian life.
That we do extend our most loving
and heartfelt sympathy to the dear
father and mother, and that a copy OF
these resolutions be given them.
Kate Gilmer,
Sarah Broyles,
Emma Lee Weller,
Committee.
he concluded something like this:
Gentlemen: | managed one cam
paign in which the republican guber-
material nominee was accused of vot-
ing for the force bill, and | will tell
you frankly | never want to manage
another campaign in which our guber
Material nominee can be accused of Il e
same thing.
Then Mr.. Sanders sat down.
The Taylor Tide Begins to Ebb.
When the force of Mr.. Sanders argu
ment had percolated the mentalities
the leaders they began to tumble off
the Taylor band wagon like ripe per-
simmons falling in the fall when the
frost is on the pumpkin and the corn i
in the shock.
The smile may be apt, for Mr.. San
ders certainly cast frost on Taylor
political pumpkin and put his guber-
material boom in shock for fair
After that conference it began to bt
whispered around among the leaders i
all of the counties Of the state, especia
ly among the Evans-Sanders followed
in the counties of Middle and Yves
Tennessee (cire being shrewdly take
to keep it from the counties in Eas
Tennessee known to be for Taylor
that the nomination of Taylor woulG
not do.
"Why won't it do?' some Taylor
man would ask.
Because Taylor voted for the forc'
BILL" would come the whispered ans
wer. And so the tip Travelled ant
trickled, silently and stealthlly, but ef
fectllely, throughout the counties de
sired to be influenced and the ghost
the force bill once more began to get il
its work.
And the Villain Still Pursued Him
The day of the convention came. Re
publicans of prominence moved about
the convention hall pulling wires and
manipulating matters as though they
were the powers that be, the powers
that controlled.
Vain puppetsl Had they but known
it they were the jumping jacks of an
inanimate thing, musty document in
the archives of the national capitol, a
dead and buried issue, and yet living,
pulsating power.
This power moved about the conven.
ton hall unheard unseen, unthought
of. Yet at the psychological moment
it was picked up by the Lord High Ex-
ecutioner and made to do its mission.
And, according to The Americans
informant, it was Executive Chairman
Newell Sanders who spoke the soft
word and welded the force bill as a
big stick, telling forever to the political
ground the gnbernatorial timber of the
Hon. ALI Taylor, even as the woodman
yields his AK and fells to the ground
the mighty giant Of the forest. The
difference in the smile being that
whereas woodsman must make many
strokes with the ak to fell a tree, the
gubernatorial timber of Taylor was cut
down by the force bill with one fell
stroke.
Thus for the second time in the polit-
ical history of the state did the force
bill, the memory and the ghost OF the
force bill, rise in its might and aNenge
the wrong once attempted to be done
the people of the south.
And it wasn't patriotism that arous-
ed it this time, but politics-Newell
politics. Nashville American.
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