Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-10-20
Shall These Dry
Bones Live?

The Patterson party in its Octobe
gubernatorial convention attempted t,
revive the bitter animosities engender
ed during the war between the States
1t went back forty years to find pre-
text for the survival of political ma
chine that has no defense for its exis
tence. Having nothing in common
with the interests. the rights and tn,
welfare of the people, that convention
dragged from their resting place tn
dry bones of our country's dead anC
bid them live that they might rattl
in harmony with hatred and prejudic'
and help save a decadent and totterins
machine.
Speakers went out of their way t.
bring to the aid of the nominee thu
animosities emanating from cruel wal
which nave long since been allayed
to the credit Of a magnanimous anC
reunited people.
Gait Ben Hooper, who is leading
parties in confictfor supremacy ovel
lawlessness and disorder, was held III
as an enemy to the present as we'll as
to the past generations, and those
Democrats who are supporting Hooper
were designated as traitors. Pathetic
pictures of that bloody war, with its
privations and its sufferings, were
drawn in eloquent terms, and the old
Confederate soldiers were appealed to
to remember the past. They were ask
ed to renew their rage and visit it up
on a man who was born after the war
The wrath which the spellbinders
of the Patterson aggregation had gen
Grated for the occasion and scattered
so generously to all who would par
take of it, was of the kind which NOV
ed Senator Taylor's bosom to swell
with Indignation, his eye to sparkle
with defiance, and his lips to curl
with scorn when he saw an old Con-
federate soldier wearing a Hooper but
ton, and when the outraged Senator
exclaimed:
"My God, old man; take that but
ton off"
The kind and quality and magnitude
of the Senator's wrath and that of the
bloody shirt spellbindenrs of the second
edition of the Patterson convention is
the kind that has often rolled from the
Senator'S tongue in days gone by.
1t is the kind Nominee Taylor
breathed forth when be ran for the
on pledge to vote against
Tennessee grand old war Governor,
Isham G.. Harris, for United States
Senator.
1t is the kind Nominee Taylor
breathed forth when a candidate for
Congress from the First District, and
when he lamented that he was not old
enough to serve in the Federal army,
but boosted that he carried the bread
out of his mothers kitchen and the
meat out of the smokehouse to feed the
boys on the way to Kentucky to enlist
under the ''old flag"
1t is the kind, we imagine, which
burned in the heart of the Senator
when he took the notorious Federal
scout, Dan Ellis, over his district to
prove Candidate Taylor's devotion to
he Union and hatred of the ''Rebels.
The Patterson Taylor pent up wrath,
70 conspicuous in the second edition of
he Patterson gubernatorial conven-
ion, may be somewhat similar to the
wrath displayed by Bob Taylor when
le found he could not beat that grand
Id hero, VIM. B. Bate, for the United
states Senate, when in bitterness and
despair Candidate Bob Taylor exclaim
d:
81 was born too late to be shot at |
,hilohp'
In East Tennessee Candidate Tay
ors heart was bowed down because he
vas not old enough to serve in the
'ederal army.
In Middle Tennessee he bitterly la
rented the fact that he was born too
lte to be shot at Shiloh.
Now the spellbinders Of the Patter-
crowd denominate as trait
RS those Confederate soldiers who are
that young and gallant
topper who never aspired to retire
Old Bate or defeat sold Harris"
Whence comes this mailed hand, blood
aimed in thousand war dreams and
ardened on imaginary fields of earn
GET Whence comes this dim militia
Y glory that calls to the grave to give
p its sorrows and its sufferings, and
Eggs to be sustained by the moods and
ASSIGNS of the past.
'Shall these dry bones live" in ha-
ed to serve the ambitions of men
nd harass the lives of the people, or
TALL they rest in peace?-Nashville