The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-06-30
POLICIES OF ADMINISTRATION

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to Treat All Public Questions Fairly
and to Meet All the Responsibilities
| of the Executive office-What Has
tempted, and What it Is Hoped to
| Accomplish in the Future-Care for
the Schools and th9 Veterans of the
Sixties Of First Importance.
AS Governor of the State it has
been my earnest desire to advance it's
interests, to treat all public questions
fairly, and to meet all the responsible
tiles of the Office.
A considerable part of the people
nave not agreed with all my positions,
but there is not man in Tennessee
who has ever doubted how I stood
upon any public question, and never
at any time has there been the slight
| est evasion or equivocation on my
part.
l have never sought to bring an is
sue before the people for political ef-
| feet, to excite them or to betray their
| confidence.
Toward labor and capital my pol
| icy has been to recognize the rights
of each as the great developing fac
| tors of our resources, both necessary
| to the upbuilding of the Common
wealth. / have inaugurated no assault
on corporations, being content not to
harass them if they lived within their
powers and performed their duties to
the public in a satisfactory way.
have sympathized with every reasona'
BILE request of the labor organizations
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labor law-that of vital statistics, that
limiting the hours of female employ
mental of which are now on the
statute books.
I also recommended to the Legis-
lature the enactment of fellow-serv-
ants bill, which was not passed, but
which must come in time, for it is
Just and in keeping with humane and
enlightened legislation.
The mining laws of the State were
amended at my suggestion in several
important particulars, and it is mat
ter of congratulation that with the
number of coal mines in operation
there has been so little loss of life
and property as compared with the
fearful disasters occurring elsewhere.
The Department of Agriculture has
been strengthened, laws have been
passed preventing the adulteration
and misbranding of commercial feed
ing stuffs, to protect the farmers
against impure seed, TO prevent the
spread of contagious diseases among
cattle-an experimental station was
established in West Tennessee, and In
other ways agriculture as the chief
source of our wealth has received the
support and encouragement OF the
State and mine as its Governor.
believed that the health OF the
people required the protection from
impure and adulterated foods, and
pure food law is now in force, which
should be further strengthened so as
to accomplish the best results.
The efforts of the physicians Of the
State to establish a tuberculosis hos
pital have met with my cordial coop
Grafton, and it is a regret and almost
a reproach that their disinterested eff
forts to overcome the dreaded evil
which has carried away its thousands
should not have received the approval
of the Legislature.
The evidences of highest civiliza-
ton and Christian endeavor are found
in the treatment of the helpless and
afflicted, and it proceeds in the dfrec-
ton of helpfulness, so have thought
it was our duty not only to maintain
our asylums for the insane to the full
est extent of our resources. but also
to establish a consumptive sanitarium
and reformatory where boys could
be sent who had infracted the law,
instead of being consigned to the
warehouses; and penitentfary.