The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-09-09


Of it.
The following named gentlemen wer,
appointed and constituted a committe,
on the selection Of dlegatees to the Stat,
convention Sept IA as follows
Geo. A. Gibbs. Jr., chairman, ]. F.
swiggart, Jas. Preuett, John Kersey,
J. B. caudle, Frank Taylor, W B. sto.
vail, I. NJ. King, G. P. calewell, T. r.
Foulks, a. Wilson, DR., Nat Morris.
The committee on platform and reso-
lutions reported and the report was read
and adopted as follows:
H Resolved by the Democrats Of Obion
/ County in mass convention assembled
at the courthouse in Union City on Sep
tember 8, 1910, in pursuance Of call
made by the anti-machine and genuine
Democratic Executive Committee of the
State Of Tennessee:
First, That we ratify and endorse the
action of the large and representative
State Democratic convention which met
in Nashville, Tenn, on May is, 1910,
in repudiating the Patterson machine
so-called State Committee and its arbi-
trary, tyrannical and undemocratic ef-
forts to throttle the will of the people
in the proper nomination OF candidates
for judges and other State officers, and
in recognizing the Democracy of the
State so far as the same was then done
Second, That we repudiate and spurn
the pretended nomination of M. r. Pat
terson as a candidate for Governor and
the other alleged nominations made for
Senator, Railroad Commissioner, Comp
troller and Treasurer by the said Patter-
son machine committee, and in the al I
legged spurious and bogus primary cleo
tion of June 4, 1910, and the action of
the Patterson convention Of June 16, T
1910, as unworthy of the endorsement
and support Of the Democrats of Ten
nessee; and we hereby declare that said i
claimants are not the real nominees of
the Democratic party for any of the said
offices for which they claim to have been
so endorsed by said spurious committee
and convention, and that the Democrats
Of Obion County will not endorse nor
be bound by such arbitrary, oppressive
and undemocratic proceedings, nor rec
ognize the action of said Patterson ma
chine committee as ever having any au-
thority Of right to act for or represent
the Democracy of the State, and we re-
pudiate all its bogus and spurious acts
and all its nominees made by it and in
pursuance of its fraudulent, arbitrary
and tyrannical methods.
Third, That we favor complete re-
Of the Democratic party of
Tennessee at the State Democratic con-
yention called to be held in the city of
Nashville on September IA, 1910, and
the continuance of the present State
Democratic Committee appointed by
Lhe convention of May Is, 1910, or the
of new State Democratic
Executive Committee by said conven-
ion, to be composed of two members
rom each Congressional district, and
lone to be appointed by the chairman
IF the convention, the said committee
o be fully authorized and empowered
o represent and act for the true and
genuine Democracy of Tennessee for
he next two years in all matters prop
,rly coming within the powers and au-
hority of such committee under Dem
,cratic usage.
Fourth, We hereby endorse Hon. B.
\. Enloe as the Democratic candidate
or reelection as Railroad Commissioner
vi w Cst lGIAIEsSCC, anu lllt uGiGSdtCo
o be appointed to represent 0bion
Jounty in the said State Democratic
at Nashville on September ,,
4, 1910, are hereby instructed to cast
he vote of Obion County for Col Enloe :
or said office.
Fifth, The delegates to said conven- J
ion are hereby authorized to take such /
elton and cast their votes in such man !
er respecting the nomination or en-
OF a candidate for Governor o
S to them may seem for the best inter- 4
st and welfare of the State OF Tennes- 7
ee, being governed by patriotic pur- A
ose to promote the general welfare and s
est interests of the State and the en- c
,rcement Of the law and the promotion
I the highest moral condition attain ri
5le but in no event shall they endorse b
+ consent to the support Of NJ r. Pat /
,rson or any other man Of like princi- I
les and record, this convention being /
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