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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08
The Patterson Primary.

We publish in full this week the cal
OF the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee so that the readers may all ia.
miliarize themselves with its contents
1t is remarkable document In briei
At simply calls county unit primary to
be held in all the counties in the State
June to select party nominees for Gov
ernor, United States Senator, Supreme
Judges, Judges Court OF Civil Appeals,
Comptroller, Treasurer and Railroad
Commissioner, every branch OF which is
planned, conducted and carried out by
the State committee. The State com
mittee appoints a subcommittee which
in turn appoints the officer, judges and
clerks for each county to hold the cleo
ton. The State subcommittee also ap.
points committee OF three in each
county to receive the returns Of election
and to appoint delegates to the State con-
vention upon which devolves the selec-
ton Of the Democratic nominees.
All this is justified because the State
wide Democrats didn t allow themselves
to be swallowed up in the Democratic
caucus last year, and let Patterson con-
troll.
In other words Patterson is deter
mined by fair means or foul, arbitress;;.
and unprecedented methods, to rule and
control the State Of Tennessee. All
those who do not agree with him are
condemned to any kind Of visitation he
can punish them with.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee is composed Of Patterson mem
bers principally, twenty-one in number,
five Of these being State-widers.
So, therefore it can be seen that the
State committee, Patterson commit
tee, is in absolute control and self-con-
stituted to name the ticket, matters not
what the returns are in the primary. |
Instead of allowing the counties to vote
and select their own delegates the State
committee selects these delegates to the
State convention. The people are not
entrusted with anything. They have
no assurance at all except such as the
State Committee may be disposed to
extend that their votes will be recorded
as cast.
Now come the friends OF the Cover
nor stating that the primary law recent
ly declared unconstitutional embraced
the same character of d one-sided, arbi-
trafy call-that the county committees
were empowered with authority to name
delegates to the State convention, there
fore they are justified in doing the same
kind OF dirty work that has been CON
demned by the Supreme Court.
Because the State committee sees
corruption in the intentions of the State
widers it takes to itself the liberty OIL
making these same corrupt methods Il
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08

serve to the advantage Of the Governor
and his adherents.
Such Is the character Of our dear be-
loved Governor and his State commit
tee.
All these things Because Of the sin Of
the state-widers in not entering the
Democratic caucus. The state-widers
are boilers, squaws. traitors, anything,
in the eyes Of the Governor.
Now let's see about this great unpar-
donable sin. Who were Palmer and
Bnckner in 1896 and who we're the fol-
pwers of these notorious traitors, who
OF only walked out OF a national DEM
cratic convention but went huckstering
bout the country like a couple of
iountebanks. They went to the con-
ention and went instructed to support
ne nominees, and yet they left it and
fent out and started a campaign for the
overthrow of Democracy. Was ever
more contemplate characters than Jul
das Iscariot or Benedict Arnold Pal
mer and Buckner made it impossible
for Democratic victory ever again in
this country, and who were the follow
ers OF these counterfeits.
Did the Governor or any Of his coterie
of political allies ever refuse to vote for
the nominees Of the national Democrat
ic conventions. Did he or any of his
friends ever lend aid to that miserable
pair who sold themselves body and soul
to the Republican party and destroyed
the hopes Of Democracy in this country
Who is this man who seeks to be the
sole executor of the State Democracy,
who attributes to himself the author of
its principles and its destiny.
Pattersonian Democracy has the au-
dacity to undertake the supplanting Of
Jeffersonian Democracy. What a mon
farce. Patterson mounting
The hustings with an appeal to the pa
triotism Of Democrats that the State is
controlled by a corruptible machine
Patterson establishing a hundred times
stronger and more corruptible machine
ind mounting it with the uItimatum
hat all those who do not subscribe to
his machine are not Democrats.
Tell us that the Democrats Of Ten
lessee will follow such man. If so
We do not know the temper OF our
Democracy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08
STOMACH MISERY
GER RID OF THAT SoURNEss, GAS AND
INDIGESTION.

GER RID OF THAT SoURNEss, GAS AMI
INDIGESTION.
When your stomach is out Of order
or run down, your food doesn't digest.
1t ferments in your stomach and forms
gas which causes sourness, heartburn,
foul breath, pain at pit of stomach and
many other miserable symptoms.
Mi-o-na stomach tablets will give joy
full relief in five minutes; if taken regu-
larly for two weeks they will turn your
flabby, sour, tired-out stomach into a
sweet, energetic, perfect working one.
You can't be very strong and vigor-
GUS if your food only half digests.
Your appetite will go and nausea, dizzi-
ness, hiliousness, nervousness, sick
headache and constipation will follow.
Mi-o-na stomach tablets are small
and easy to swallow and are guaranteed
to Danish Indigestion and any or all OF
the above symptoms or money back.
Fifty cents large box. Sold by
druggists everywhere and here by the
Red Cross Drug Store.
For constipation there is no remedy
so satisfying as Booths PiIls-25 cents.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08

II the Patterson State committee had
laid aside its animosity and acted with
discretion and diplomacy it would have
left it with the people to elect their del
egates to the State convention in CON
junction with the unit plan, and then it
might have gone before the same peo-
pie with some degree of confidence in
the censure of Statewide Democrats for
not entering the caucus.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08
A Baby Show in Union City

would have many contestants, but it's
safe to say that the healthiest baby
would win the prize. No baby can be
healthy who suffers from worms, and
most babies do, unless they are kept
from them with Whites Cream Vermi-
fuge. Acts quickly, yet mildly-is its
own purgatiye. Mothers, don t attempt
to raise children without Whites Cream
Vermifuge. Price 25 cents. Sold by Red
Cross Drug Store, both stores.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08
EnR rI.nArrR

McDADE.-We are authorized to announct
G. r. McDade candidate for Floater to represeni
obion Lake and Dyer counties in the Tennes-
see General Assembly. subject to the action Of
the Democratic party
HoWARD-We are authorized TO announce S
II. Howard a candidate for Fioater to represent
the counties Of obion, Dyer and Lake in the
Tennessee General Assembly subject to the ac-
tion Of the Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08

The State-widers captured the Sulli-
van convention and the Coxites bolted.
The Patterson people had better take
their medicine If they want regularity.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08
For REPRESENTATIVE.

MooRE-We are authorized toannounce f. N
Moore, candidate for Representative from obion
County to the Lower House of the Tennessee
General Assembly, subject to the action Of the
Democratic party
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08

: FOR SENATOR.

ELL. We are authorized to announce
IITcaidwesi as candidate for the State Sen
represent obion. Weakley and Lake coun-
sies in the Senate Of the State of Tennessee in the
General Assembly. Subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08

They call the action of the State
Democratic Executive Committee SINH
lar to the electoral college plan, which
is the established method of electing a
President The electors are named by
the people whom they represent and
not by the National Democratic Execu-
tive Committee. The Patterson primary
takes the counties as a unit in the same
manner that the States are voted as
unit in Presidential elections, but takes
away from the people the right to elect
their delegates and places it in the State
committee. The plans are therefore
very far apart, the electoral college plan
being as near as possible Democratic,
while the Patterson plan is as near UNI
democratic as possible.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08

Big Muddy washed nut coal is best for
cooking. At Union City Ice & Coal Co.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-02-03
GREAT HoAxEs OF HISTORY.
Speaking Of Cook, the Cardiff Giant,
Made in Chicago, Fooled a Good
Many Persons.

From the st. Joseph News-Press.
TheFGardiff Giant. that petriied, pre-
historic man hoax, certainly turned things
upside down when it was fed to a guilt
BILE public in 1868.
w. c.. Newell. an old farmer Of Car
diff, NJ. Y, found" this specimen of an
historic age. while digging a well. The
figure lay IKE a giant at rest. with the
trunk of a cree gracefully reposing upon
Its huge breast. News of the wonderful
And spread throughout the land.
The giant made al immediate and enor-
nous stir. Examined. discussed and in
dorsed by man men of scholarly stand
ing, It went with the public as a true
specimen of a strange historic being, and
proved a big drawing card as a museum
freak.
But the Cardiff Giant suffered the mis-
fortune, that follows In the wake of pop
u~laHty-he was initiated, and the bust
ness OF taking the fake became exceed
lngly profitable. p. 7. Barnum bought
the Cardiff Giant-the real one, he claimed
land carried it about the country for the
general edification of wonder seekers.
The Cardiff Giant Is gone now, nobody
knows where. He" disappeared from
view when 1t was learned that "he' had
been manufactured In Chicago from q
block of gypsum sent from Ohio, and Sc
cretly buried In New York state to await
.'discovery'' at the hands Of a guileless
farmer.
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Hill After tho Facts.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Jim Hill, master of the railroads OF
the northwest, is n Of those rare
geniuses who combine the power to
grasp the broad perspective OF big
business with the mastery OF the most
minute details. Hill is equally at home
discussing with a locomotive engineer
the coal consumption of a freight en-
CINE on q mountain division as he liz
planning with Morgan the raising or a
hundred millions of new capital. He
watches the little details with all
eagerness that keeps every man under
him on the anxious seat.
Hills bankers in the east are con-
tent to know the monthly gross and net
earnings of Great Northern, but Hill
wants to know the freight receipts at
every station from st. Paul to Seattle.
And Hill expects every Great North
ern man to have his grasp OF details.
Very few of his men do, and the most
of them have a hard ask keeping up
: With him. He was going out over the
road in his private car n day to o
over the work on a new branc line.
The superintendent Of the division In
which the new track was being laid
came aboard the train at his division
end to greet the "old man." The first
question Hill fired at him was:
How many ties have you shipped
into the branch?"
The division superintendent knew
how many ties had been ordered, but
how many had been delivered he hadn't
the slightest idea. He believed his time
was werth too much TO the o to be
spend in counting ties-but he didn't
dare to say that to the "old man." be-
cause he knew Hill expected him to
know. So he made a quick mental cal
culation and answered as though he
had the figures at his instant COM
mand:
'This morning $4,000 had beer
shipped"
The talk ran from one thing to an
other. but the division superintendent,
kept thinking about those ties. Sup
posing the "old maj" should find out
the real figures, he would be In a pretty
fix. At the next station he slipped of
the train for a moment and sent this
wire to the man in charge of the worl
on the branch line:
IF you are asked how many ties
have been delivered, say 127, 000."
He felt easier when he reioined the
party in the presidents car. When
they reached the junction at the branch
the man Il whom he had sent the wire
came aboard.
How man. ties have you got? ?" was
one of Hills Drst questions.
'"The shipment this morning makes
1927, O00," was the instant reply.
The "old man" smiled In his curious
way, and his men never knew whether
he saw through the innocent decep-
ton.
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ETHE WILD GEESE
~ BY Stanley j. Weyman. !

was Flavia; whereupon Asgill renected,
with chagrin, that probably she was
attending upon the invalid. Payton
was at table, with the two O'Beirnes,
and three other buckeens. The Eng
lishman, amused by the discovery he
his companions; while the Irishmen,
sullen and suspicious. were not aware
how much he knew. II The McMur-
rough chose to imprison his unpopular
kinsmas, 1t was nothing to them; nor a
matter into which gentlemen eating at
his table and drinking his potheen and
claret were called upon to peer too
closely.
But for his repute as a duelist they
would have picked a quarrel with the
visitor there and then. And but for
the presence Of his -four troopers In the
back ground they might have fallen
upon him in some less regular fashion.
AS It was they sat cycling him askance;
and, without shame, were relieved
when Asgill entered. They looked to
him to clear UP the situation n put
the interloper In his right place.
I'm fearing I'm late" Asgin said.
"where'il The McMurrough be, I Won
der?" -.
"Gone to meet your friend. I should
think" Payton replied, with a sheer.
Asgiil maintained a steady face. my
friend?" he repeated. "Oh. Colonel u
livan?"
yes, your friend who vas to re-
turn today" the other retorted. Have
you seen anything Of him?" he con-
tinued. with a grin.
Asgill fixed his yes steadily on Pay
toms face. I'm fancying you have the
advantage Of me-" he said. More by
token, I'm thinking, Major, you have
seen that same friend already"
Maybe l have"
"And had a bout with him."
"Eh?"
And, faith, had the best OF the bout,
tool" Asgill continued cody, and with
his eyes fixed on the others features
as IL his one aim vas to see II he had
hit the mark. 80 mucfr h best that
I'll be CHANGING a CUES she's upstairs
at this moment, and wounded! Least
wise, / hear you and the young lady
brought him to the house between you,
and him scarcely able to use his 10
toes"
Payton, with his mouth open, glared
at the speaker In a manner that at
another time must have provoked him
to laughter.
isn't that the fact?" Asgill asked
coldly.
The fact!" the other burst forth.
mo, I'm cursed IL it is! And you know
it is not! You know as well as ]
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take. To procure these h entered the
room in which he had been confined.
AS she cast her eyes round its dismal
interior, marked the poor handful OF en-
bers that told of his long struggle with
the cold, marked the n chair which
he had ~saved-for to lie on the foo had
been death-marked the beaten path
that led from the chair to the window,
and spoke of many an hour of painful
waiting and a hope deferred she saw
the man in another, a more gentle as
pect. She had seen the heroism, she
now saw the pathos of his conduct, and
tears came afresh to her eyes. For
mel" she murmured. For me! n
how had / treated him!"
Her old grievance against his was
forgotten, wiped out of remembrance
by his sufferings. She dwelt only on
the treatment she had melted out to
him.
When they had given him to eat and
drink he assured them, smiling. that
he could walk. But when he attempted
to do so he staggered. "He will need
a stronger arm than yours" Payton
said, with a grin. May I offer mine?'
For the first time she looked at him
gratefully. Thank you," she said.
II can walk" the colonel repeated
obstinately. "A little giddy. that is ALL
But in the end he needed all the help
that both could give him. And so it
happened that a few minutes later
Luke Asgill, standing at the entrance
of the courtyard, looked along the road
and saw the three approaching, linked
in apparent amity. st
The shock was great, for James Nc
Murrough had fled. cursing, into soil
tude and the hills, taking no steps to
warn his ally. The sight struck Asgill
with the force of a bullet. Colonel John
released and in the company Of Flavia
and Payton! All his craft, all his cool
ness forsook him. He skunk out OF
sight by a back way, but not before
Payton had marked his retreat.
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do And with that he poured forth
a version of the events Of the after
noon.
When he had done. That's a strange
story" Asgill said quietly, IF it's true"
"TrueT Payton rejoined, laying his
hand on a glass and speaking in a tow
ering rage, You know it's true!"
Il know nothing about t." Asgill re-
piled with the utmost GOODNESS.
Nothing"
"And for a good reason. Sure and
I'm the last person they would be likely
to do il tot"
And you were not a party to it?'
Payton cried.
why should I be?."' Asgill rejoined.
What have / to gain by robbing the
young lady of her inheritance? I'd be
more likely to lose by 1t than gain"
lose by it? Why?"
THAT is my affair."" Asgill answered.
And he hummed:-
They tried put the comether on Judy
One, two, three, one, two. three!
Cotter and crowder and Paddy O'Hea;
For who but she's owner of Ballymar-
shame"
He made his meaning so clear that
Payton, scowling at him with his hand
on the glass as IL he meant to throw
II, Opp hlo tCJSS diiu w dIiu diiu
fell into a. gloomy study. He could not
but own the weight Of the others argu-
ment. II AsgilL was a pretender to the
Eheiress' hand" the last thought in his
mind would heicto' diyest her Of her
sAsgiii readihis thoughts. and pres
|Ahtly; II hope the wound Is not seri-
is not wounded" the Major an
!swered curtly. Meanwhile the O'Beirnes
and their fellows grinned their admira
ton. of h bear tanner; and went out
one by one. until the two men were
left together.
They sat some way apart. Paytor
brooding savagely, with his ~ on the
table; Asgill toying with the things
before him. ZACH saw the prize clear
before him: each saw the other in TIT
way. Payton cared for the girl hersel
only as a toy that had caught hi:
fancy; but his mouth watered for hel
possessions. Asgill cared little or moth
ing for the inheritance, but he swor'
that the other man should never liv,
to possess the Oma 1T Is a pity.
lPayton meditated, for with his aid,
could take the girl, willing or unwilling
She'd not be the first Irish girl who ha'
gone to her marriage across the pom
nell" While Asgill reflected that IL h,
could find Payton alone on a dark nigh
1t would not be his small sword woul'
help him or his four troopers woul'
find him! But 1t must not be at Nor
ristown.
Each owned, with reluctance, tina
the other had advantages. Asgill wa
, Irish and known to Flavia; but Pay
ton, though English. was the younger
the ~lrandsomer, the better born, and h
battered himself. that, given a littl
time, he would win, IL not by favor, b
force or fraud. But, could he hav
looked into Asgill's heart he woul
have trembled. He would have know
that. while Irish bogs were deep an
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| Copyright. 1909. by Stanley J. Weyman.)
CHAPTER XXI.-(Continued.)

CHAPTER XXI.-(Contlnueu.)
He did not at once recognize thu
man who, pale and haggard, a mere
ghost of himself, dragged himself vi
the three steps, and, exhausted by th'
effort, leaned against the doorpost. Bu'
when Colonel John spoke n tried Il
thank the girl, he knew him.
He whistled. You are Colonel Sui
livan!" he said.
'The same, sir!" Colonel John muir.
INJURED mechanically. '
Are you ILL.,"
II am not WELL" the other replied
with a sickly smile. The indignation
which he had felt during the confess
between the girl and her brother hac
been too much for his strength. :.
shall be better presently" he aided
He closed his eyes.
we should be getting him below,
Flavia said in an undertone.
PAXTON looked from to the other
He was in a fog. HAS he been here
long?" he asked. -.
Nearly four days." she replied. with
q shiver.
And nothing to eat?"
Nothing"
"The deuce! And why?' !.
She did not stay to think how much
II was wise to tell him. In her re-
pentant mood she was anxious to pour
herself out in self-reproach. I'VE
wanted him to convey some property
she said, "as we wished"
ITO your brother?"
AYE, TO him!" Then, seeing his as
constituent. 1T was mine" she added
Payton began to understand. HI
looked at her; but no. he did not under
stand now. For If the idea had beer
to constrain Colonel Sullivan to trans
fer her property to her brother, how
did her interest match with that? He
could only suppose that her brother
had coerced her, and that she had giver
him the slip and tried to release the
man-with the result he had witnessed
One thing was clear. The property
large or small, was still hers. The
major looked with a thoughtful face al
the smiling valley, with it's cabins scat
tered over the slopes, at the lake anC
the fishing boats, and the rambling
slate-roofed house with its sheds anc
peat stacks. He wondered.
No more was said at that moment
however, for Fiavia saw that Colone
Sullivan's strength was not to be re-
yived in an hour He must be assisted
to the house and cared for there. Ii
the meantime, and to lend some
strength, she was anxious to give hin
such wine and food as he could safely
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CHAPTER xxi.

THE SCENE IN THE PASSAGE.
Under the shadow of the great peat
stack, whether he had retired that
he might make up his mind before he
faced the three, Asgill cursed The Nc
Murrough with all his heart. 1t was,
It must be, through his folly n mis-
management that the thing had befall-
en-, that the prisoner had been re-
leased, that Payton had been let into
the secret.
How was he to get rid Of Payton =?
How prevent Colonel John from re-
Stunning that sway In the house which
had exercised before? How nip in the
bud that uascent sympathy, that feel
ing for him, which Flavia's. outbreaks
the night before had suggested? Oh
how, short OF all this, was he to face
either Payton or the Colonel?
In counsel with James McMurrougE
he might have arranged a plan Of ac-
ton; at Least, he would have learned
from him what Payton knew. But
James absence ruined all. In the end
after waiting some time in the vair
hope that he would appear, Asgill went
in to supper.
Colonel Sullivan was not there; III
was IN no condition to descend. Mo-