The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-10-21

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and hell for punishment, therefore. |
am a democrat and shall live and die
for democracy.
DEMOCRACY is ONLY SALVATION OF
COUNTRY.
That word democracy is the all in
all to me. 'Tis music in the sinners
ear. 'Tis life and health and peace,
and | proclaim it here and now as
the only salvation of our country from
the ever tightening coils of centra-
liked power, which means the de-
.struction Of the states of this union
and the enslavement, of the great
masses of the people.
With this creed in my heart en-
barked forty years ago on the good
ship which bears that glorious name,
Democracy" And when the light
nings of revolt light the sky and the
waves of passion sweep democrats
overheard, it has always been my mis-
sion to throw them the life line and
save them from the sharks of repub-
iicanism. And when we are sailing
on smooth seas and a mutiny arises
on the deck, 1t has always been my
prerogative to draw the horse pis-
tol OF common sense and warn the
mutinous that their success would
mean the sinking of the ship with all
On board in mid ocean. Fellow citi-
zens, / have plenty of life lines with
me to-day, and I am loaded down
with horse pistols, for in this cam.
paign we have both storm and mutiny
III Tennessee and my only object is
20 restore peace and tranquility to the
falrest land that sun ever shone p
1t is a remarkable fact that the
Newell Sanders wing, now in control
of the republican party in the state,
aided by Enloism and fusionism, for
got even to mention the public schools
OF Tennessee or the cause of educa-
ton, whether in the public schools
or the universities, in their great
platform of morality.
Have we come to this, that the par
ty of progress and enlightenment is
silent upon the most vital of all oues-
tons? Is not education the most i'm
portant Of all the industries of the
state, reaching into every heart and
into every home? But here we have
the apostles of civic righteousness. in
their eagerness to proselyte Tennessee
to H%ooperism, ignoring the poor chill
dren Of our country in their mad
rush to redistrict the state and fund
the public debt. Good Lord, deliver
us from such craftsmanship.
Mr.. Stahlman, the proprietor of the
Nashville Banner, the Honorable e. b.
Stahlman, first democratic Stahlman.
then republican Stahlman and chair.
mar of the republican executive COM
mlttee in the state in 1896, then dem
ocratic Stahlman again, and now re-
form-republican Stahlman, the great
headlight of intellectually and moral
lty, always kind and friendly to me
between campaigns, but always meet
ing me with his bosom full of SER
penis when | enter a political fight,
introduced the Newell Sanders candi-
date for governor to the audience in
Nashville not long ago, and, with ges-
lures like a windmill in pain, suueaked
out the question, which has been
warmed over and REPEATED by every
republican windmill for thirty years:
What has Bob Taylor, the buffoon,
the joker and psalm singer, ever done
that he should be elected to public
Officer This was the most unkindest
cut of all, for I have been his friend
and defender in the past. But ! will
tell you one Of the jokes l perpetrated
on Tennessee when I was governor:
| laid the foundation Of her pubic
school system, and it began to rise
in beauty and efficiency under the
magic touch of Frank M. Smith, one
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