Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-10-27
EXTRACT FROM MAJ. CHARLES R. EVANS
SPEECH PERTAINING TO JUDGE MOONS
RECORD IN CONGRESS.

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the committee in the methods adopt
ed and the drastic rules passed for the
primary nominations.
! Or did he vote for the free and I'M
tramelled judiciary nomineesg
After the August election Judge
Moon then comes out for Governor
Patterson and the straight democratic
ticket in an interview published in the
Nashville American on August 81, and
says, 81 am for the straight democrat
ic ticket from top to bottom and shall
espouse it to the best of my ability"
He then comes out SO strong that ''he
was willing to forego the duty of an
attendance upon a California horse
doctor convention in order to do this
thing"
j charge Congressman John Austin
Moon with leading the fight and vot-
ing against the Postal Savings Bank
bill, acting in the interests of banks
rather than in the interests of an alb
solutely safe bank for the poor man
where he cannot lose, and can become
a government bondholder by purchase
of bonds at par.
l charge Congressman John Austin
d Moon. for fourteen years elected to
Congress by the grace of democratic
votes, with allying himself with
twenty-five other congressman, also
elected by democratic votes, group
composed of Daniel j. Riold dan, Tam
many Democrat, protege of big
Tim" Sullivan, representing the Bow
cry District of New York City, the
most vicious politically of Tammany
districts, and therefore the most vic
ious in the United States; Michel F.
, Conroy, Charles V. Fornes, Henry M.
| Goldfogle, Joseph A. Goulden, Fran
els Burton Harrison, all Tammany
, Democrats from New York City; two
} high tariff on sugar democrats from
Louisiana and fourteen others from
} scattered states and by so doing defeat
ed the effort of Champ Clark, demo-
D cratic leader of the present and the
last House, and the great body of dem
3 ocratic members combined with the
= Insurgent Republicans to change the
Q rules, whereby the committees in the
House are the mere fingers and thums
of Speaker Cannon, so that committee
s assignments should be selected, not by
Q the Speaker, but by the House itself,
so that they shall represent, not the
+ Speakers interests but the sentiment
g of the House as whole.
IS The proof of this charge is the Con-
g gressional Record and the admission
s of the fact charged in Judge Moon
Q jacksonville speech
In doing this Judge Moon claimed
he acted conscientiously. l will not
/. argue that, but however conscientious.
l. ly he may have acted, his judgement,
from party standpoint, was bad. A.
s Napoleon said upon one occasion, 1T
S was worse than a crime, it was g
t blunder." The judge joined six Tam
s many Democrats and few other DEM
n ocrats and left his party and went tc
e the rescue of Joe Cannon, who woulc
It have lost his fight but for the aid OF
) these twenty three democrats
l. Golfers Weekly, in commenting or
d this matter. says:
# Here are six Tammany Democrats
IS voting as unit with the Republicans
j. Here, again, the very fact is in itself
n a flaming question mark-six Tam
g many Congressman breaking away
l. from the Democrats and voting as
n unit from motives of conscience anc
conviction is pretty strong medicine tt
swallow. Not only does the situation
create strong inference as to theil
own motive-it is in itself an indict
ment of the other seventeen Democrat
who are so unfortunate as to be fount
in their company. As to all the TWEEN
ty-three, one generalization is safe
However good or bad their motives, nj
II Democrat can forgive them who look
a upon his part as a great national or
Ic ganization. They threw away tn
70 greatest opportunity for striking vic
IF tory that the party has had for sixteel
O. years. For just five minutes the Dem
D. ocratic party was master of the Lower
s. House of Congress. Then the twenty
D. three deserted"
1T Judge Moon in his defense of hi
A. action in his jacksonville speech
a. says:
1T "Some have said that left caucu
Or of the party when this question wa
TX under consideration. This is not true
at l was not in caucus, but was in
conference, and when advised that
IN was expected to blindly follow tn
lead of one man, without knowledg
s. of what he proposed to do, and tina
W the conference was to be treated as
9. caucus, / then declined to do so, an
r. refused to permit the minority demo
t. cratic leader to dictate to me what as
s. signment I should or should not acceI
b. from the authorities of the House c
ic Representatives.
SO by Judge Moons own words, an
ut of course he puts the most favorabl