The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-07-29

VILE 16lneSS6dn, Wn6Q lUS udle anu
spite is so pronounced that it even
now ISLANDERS and libels the comrade
of our fathers and says he fought
against the women ana the children
of the South?
Brownlow Would Not Have Followed
Such Leadership.
Sanders and his gang may follow
that lead, but Walter Brownlow
would not have done so.
Brock and EARLY and the other
fawning flunkies and ~fair-haired foot
men who frisk about the Federal feed
trough and triumphantly carry off the
crumbs that fall from Newelrs hand
may follow that lead, but East Ten
nesseans and Middle Tennesseans
and West Tennesseans, who are Re
publicans for the sake of principle,
will not do SO. Why, my countGymen,
are these people so 1ntolerant? l
didn't abuse anybody when | declared
my position. Take it and read it and
show me where | used an unkind
word. But before it had time to
reach the two ends and the two sides
of the State | was pounced upon by a
molly mob of moral m%uckrakers and
machine made misfits and my motives
were questioned and / "a denounced
as a Patterson follower and a Demo-
crat.
Let me tell you. When you put up
two squads of soldiers to me and ask
me which | am going to fight WITH
my first inquiry is going to be as to
which SQUAD will remain loyal. | am
going to find out, if l can, which
crowd is the deserters and which
crowd is not, and then | am going to
Join the Regular Army.
Under the domination of Newell
Sanders the members or the Republi-
can party-one hundred thirty thou
sand of them-have no general to
command them. The battle is about
to be fought; the Republicans want
to get in it. They urge their leader
to lead them. He sees the Democrat
ic army modifying its forces. Finally
some of the old officers in the Demo
cratic army are about to be reduced
to the ranks. They mutiny, they de-
sert; a trifing squad follows them
and they become bushwhackers.
Newell Sanders meets them and they
hold a council of war. Now listen!
These deserters from the army do not
join Newell, but he joins the desert
ers, and promises them that if they
will lead while he stands behind a
tree and tells his men to shoot he will
help them capture the regiment they
deserted. He doesn't even ask them
what they are going to do when they
take the fort; he doesn't require them
to swear allegiance to the principles
for which he is fighting. He just
gets behind the tree and says: &c
on, boys"
Demand for a Leader Who Leads, Not
a Follower.
My God, for a leader who would
lead; for a General who, when this
condition arose, would not have said
GO on boys" but who would have
u~nsheathed his sword and put spurs
to his horse and said, Come on, boys
we've got them on the rum"
But they tell me that the Presiden'
wants the boilers elected. Why
What does the President of th'
United States know or care about thu
judiciary of Tennessee? l like thu
President; he is a great, splendid pa
triot and statesman. ! was for hin Il
1908 and | am for him in 1912. Blu
even he is not my political master.
We have fallen upon strange time
and strange ways indeed, if here II
sovereign Tennessee n hundred AM
thirty thousand men must bend an
bow to the President of the Unite
States and ask him how to attend
their W business.
Why, he is just a man-just tn
same kind of bone and blood an
brain and muscle and flesh that 20
are. Lord! / am so sick Of men WIN
are afraid of a man; who fawn an
whine and beg when they ought t
stand UP and look impudent and b
ready to fight.
Now, want it understood that l al
not making a fight on Federal official
in general. Many Of them-a maJo.
!, ity of them-a great majority {
them in Tennessee are splendid gel
r tlemen. Some Of them are my goo
friends. The ones l nave chastise
. today are the saucy little fellows VIII
have been saying mean things abol
me.
When one of these little bantam
t flies on my shoulder | always pull
| feather out of his tail and turn hi
1 loose. He generally gets back on h
= side of the fence and crows, but h
| voice is less threatening than befor
Enm Shots for Those Free and U