The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-10-14

that Tennessee, the land Of Old Hickory
and James K. Polk and Andrew John
son, the land Of Forrest and Cheatham
and Harris and Bate shall in this glori-
Gus hour fall out of the Democratic line
and lock shields with the enemies Of all
that is most sacred to Southern hearts
and Southern hopes? Can it be that
Tennessee shall be the first to turn her
back upon all the memories and an die
traditions and all the ideals Of our
fathers?
PASSION AND INTOLERANCE.
Il have no feeling Of bitterness or
condemnation for any Republican under
the skies il he is an honest Republican.
l have no quarrel with any Democrat
who was either a regular or an indie
pendent in the last judicial campaign
l conceded to them all that | claim for
myself honesty Of purpose and purity
Of motive, but, fellow-citizens, honesty
Of purpose when drunk with passion,
and purity Of motive when mad with
intolerance have always been the two
destroying angels OF this world. They
have many a time dashed both church
and State like Mazeppa to the wild
horse Of fanaticism They have led
ten thousand martyrs to the stake and
drenchcd the earth with tears. They
inspired all the fruitlesS crusades to the
Holy Land that cost countless treasures
and rivers Of blood Honest purposes
and pure motives A8cipitated the reign
Of terror in France IN made the world
shudder with horror In our own coun-
try they burned witches in New England !
and again they lowered over the North |
and the South in a dreadful civil war,
and reckoning a million men to the
opening grave Honest purposes and
pure motives with CLASSY eyes and froth-,
ing mouths are now raving in Tennes-
see, melting the brayest people that the
sun ever shone upon to the widest ex-
tremes of discord and bitterness ever
known in our State.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
= have the greatest respect for the
young nominee of the Republicans for
Governor. He is a Republican to the
very marrow, he believes in its princ-
pies and theories OF government; he be-
Iieves in its history and all its ideals,
and he is only doing what | would do if
were Republican He is striyipg to
proselyte Tennessee from the teachings
of our fathers and to deliver her as a
trophy to Republicanism. 80
Il have profound respect for the
President of the United States | be-
Iieve his purposes are honest aud his
motives pure, and do not condemn him
for casting his net for Tennessee, but
how Tennesseans can willingly permit
to be caught by Republican
fishermen is mystery to the wondering
world. The bitterest Republican States
n the North have repudiated the things
hat Hooper stands for They have re-
)udated the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, \
approved and signed by the President.
They have repudiated Cannonism and
lass legislation all along the line, but
he Republican party of Tennessee has 1
endorsed all these things; its candidate J
or Governor is proclaiming them on I
he stump and Gus Enloe and other i
Democrats, high in authority in the |
party, are shouting Long 4
i've Hooper.
The Republicans Of the North have
rampled under their feet all the extreme
,olicies and doctrines Of the old party, {
mt the Republicans Of Tennessee have I
ndorsed them and are attempting to &
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