The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-05-06

Hon. J. H. Dining spoke briefly but
to the point. His points were receiv
ed with loud cheers. The same reason
that prevents fuller notice of Mr.
Smiser's speech applies also to Mr.
Dining.
Chairman Hughes urged full at
tendance Of the delegates at Nash
vile.
On motion of j. l. Finney the con.
vention at $3.50 o'clock adjourned.
At 1906 o'clock Judge E. e. Erwin
called the convention to order 81.
nouncing as the first business the Sc
lection of chairman. On motion of
Esq. Ballanfant G. T. Hughes was &C.
lected by reclamation.
Mr.. Hughes.
81 profoundly appreciate this ex-
preston of your confidence and es-
teem," said Mr.. Hughes, by way of
opening.
Mr.. Hughes then stated that nothing
but weighty matters would impel him
to preside over political meeting.
But it would be cowardly If in view
of recent conditions we should remain
SILENT he added.
Mr. Hughes declared that It was a
matter of small concern as to what
individual should be elected to once,
apart from their character and quail
fication for Office, but that 1t is
a matter Of deep import when the con-
stitution is attacked, when the bar
riers that separate the three depart
ments of government are broken down.
That politics had taken such a turn in
the past few weeks that this Is q QueS-
ton that we must consider, ques-
ton that is of interest not only to us
but to posterity.
Political parties are necessary in
our form of government. / am Dem
ocrat. For more than forty years I
have given my allegiance to the Dem
ocratic party. / love the party be-
cause of it's glorious past, because
when Civil War swept devastation and
ruin throughout the Southland white
men gathered around 1t and establish
ed as the cardinal principle of the par
ty that the white man should rule, re-
of the numbers that might OPP
pose. We have stood by the party un-
I'll the civilized world acknowledged
we were right-and l look with alarm
On the present conditions when a
white man would call to the polls the
negro vote That man who would call
% his support the negro voter to re-
place the dissatisfied white man is a
raitor to his race. Not that | am an
,nemy to the negro, but because be-
ieve this is white mans country,
md the white man should rule it.
Mr.. Hughes characterized the Dem
'cratic party as the tool of no man. ),
Ie said that the Executive Committee
eceived its power from the people,
lie declared that the hum
lest citizen had as much right to
ONE before that committee as the
hief executive. He denied that the
ommittee had the power to cut of
rom the people the right to govern
themselves. He referred to Patterson
s an individual" who would dictate
D the committee, and said that under
pecious pleas Of fairness the commit
% had devised a plan whereby they
ouid veto the rights of the people
nd perpetuate themselves in power.
There is enough in the primary
Ian to have condemned II In itself,
ut in view OF recent charges made
gainst that committee by three judg-
! OF our higher court, / say that II
,ese charges are correct, II they are !,
by the facts. then there :
as been an infamy perpetrated, the +,
onseouences Of which TO the future >
e cannot now conceive. =
Mr.. Hughes declared that he did not
Iake the charges himself, but they !,
nd been made by men Of such stand