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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-12
Democratic Ticket.


The National Democratic Executive
Committee in its action refusing to un-
seat either Guffey or MountcastIe is gen
orally Endorsed throughout the country.
II the committee were to set up pre-
cedent OF allowing a change 10 its mem
bership every time a Democrat suspend
cd his party obligation long enough to
bolt or vote Republican ticket it would
have It's time occupied with contests and
dissensions caused by contests. This
would become more apparent as time
begins to eliminate old party align
ments. The Democratic party is chang
ing, SO with the Republican party, The
old Mason and Dixon line is fading
away and by another generation It will
be obliterated as far as practical pur-
poses are concerned. The new Demo
cratic alignment will be towards true
Democracy or direct government, the
Republican alignment with big BUSH
ness, or trusts Bryan was ridiculed
years ago when he predicted that the
fight Of tbs future would be between
capital and labor. His prediction is
about to be realized. The fight is not
altogether between capital and labor,
but it is between the progressiYes and
reactionaries, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis both aligning with the reaction
aries and Democrats and Republicans
both aligning with the progressives
Tho progressive stands for true Democ-
racy, the reaetionary for centralized
government which means ultimately
anything but Democracy The pro-
gressive believes IN equality before the
law and government Of the people, by
the people and for the people. These
were the principles enunciated by Thos.
jefferson. Abraham Lincoln stood with
the Republican organization, but every
motive and purpose which actuated his
life was Democratic The reactioparies
get their inspiration from Alexander
Hamilton who declared that the people
bedamned.
No more significant indication Of how
the lines are being drawn could be made
than the concession Of the national com
mittee that IL President Taft was re-
nominated Governor Wilson would be
the strongest man TO oppose him. This
idea prevails everywhere Taft Is con-
sidered the strongest reactionary Of all
the available Republican candidates.
His nomination is almost certain III
nominated he could control no progress
siye votes On The other hand, Gov
ernor Wilson, as the Democratic nomi-
nee, could control more OF the Repub-
lican insurgent, orprcgressiye, vote than
any other Democrat on account Of his
pronounced views and open handed fgttii
ia New Jersey. Wilson, perhaps, mighN
lose some Democratic votes, some Of
those whose interests are identical with
the big business interests, but the
losses would BY no means be as great as
his gains from the Republican party
II the Inns must be drawn, no time
ii better than the preaent Ifpostponed
the tension may be greater and the fight
more bitter. SO, it seems to rs, as far
as practical politics are concerned, the
Democratic party stands nosshow to win
with any other candidate than Governor
10 our opinion the best mau I'M
der amy circumstances and the safest man
to lead the Democratic hosts.
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Eslray Notices.

TakeR:.p md posted ii District Mum
Der Two, 0bion County. b. n A Bar
ham. one light bay horse, black manl
and tale. about Isl hands high. 6sou|
seven years old. one hind f00l white,
saddles Nalueaal eco t)ll
Taken Up and posted ii District Num-
Der Twelve. Oblon County. BY j. III
Kiliion one nisase .colofed ii5fac .ssisie,
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-12

You want CLEAN bread Then ask
Tor DAHNKEsS wrapped 10 GERM and
DUST. PROOF WRAPPERS
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-12
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-12

Soldiers Home.

To the u. d. C's and all friends Of
the Soldiers Home: The books and
magazines in our library at the Home
have been read and re-read until there
Is nothing new under the sun" and
there is nothing you could do for us that
would be more appreciated than to re-
pIenish our book shelves. Histories,
biographies, travel, adventure, novels
especially novelsare read with avidity
By all Of us, We need good history
Of tennessee and some large print Testa-
ments. There are doubtless many books
and magazines in your neighborhood
that could be secured BY asking, and
sent 70 Us BY height, would cost bui
little. viii yop not take an interest in
this matter and do something Al once
not fo-morrov3
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-12
ii nj. EEoLBRooK, Librarian.

r. S. There was lately sent to the
Homo some cloths BY somebody II
YOU know who sent si,em. and who 70.
would be glad to hear about il. Per-
haps Mrs. Breyard could tell
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Southern
Leaders

Naturally the men who have led the
Democrats in the House of Representa-
tives SO successfully under trying con-
ditions are freely mentioned at the pres
ent time as possible candidates for the
presidential nomination by the Demo
cratic Convention. These leaders are
Champ Clark, Speaker of the House,
and Oscar w. Underwood, new and
coming man.
Both are Southerners, by the way, but
in my mind there is no reason in these
days of broadening views and lessening
prejudices why Southerner should not
be nominated and elected to the presi-
Dental chair of the United States. In
fact, there are many reasons why it
should be so.'-London cable of William
Randolph Hearst IN the Neao York
american, MONDAY, September Is. 1911.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
A FALSE POSITION

Rumors generally believed to have
emanated from the camps of men who
either are or have been considered as
Democratic presidential possibilities, that
Mr.. Underwood, of Alabama, could not
commando the support of the North be-
cause of the fact that he is South
erner, are not only poppycock, pure and
simple, but they place the men of the
North in a false position in the eyes
of the people of the South and tend to
revive sectional feeling which has been
buried for many years. The effects of
such rumors are nil in the North be-
cause the people of the North know they
have not one iota of truth, but people
in the South are apt to take them more
seriously, and there is where they may
prove harmful, not only because of their
tendency to cause dissatisfaction on the
part of Southern Democrats, but be-
cause of the effect they may have in
giving rise to sectional prejudice through
false representations of conditions which
do not exist. No Northerner would
hesitate to support Mr.. Underwood be
cause he comes from the South.-Ih he
argus. Albany, New York, November
%, 1911.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12

H. An the
cereals, bread lumber
of
this Act the following articles shall be
import intot
and headers
treshng
and all
whether specifically mentioned whether
whole including
all materials
bang composed whole of
butts hemp fax Russian New Zealand Norwegian
mill
wholly
bulap material suitable for bagng sackng agricultural
products
manufactured
with without buckles
balg other commodity and for bang hay
and other agricultural products
split leather, betting leather
in
weight of cattle of the bovine including
unfinished composed wholly leather
uppers other suitable for manufac
Bbd fence wire wire rods rope
including staples
Beef and of all kinds fresh ated picked
smoked dressed undress prepared or preserved in
and meats
Buekwhea -four seoina
mddngs ofa of oatmeal and rolled and all prepared
Timber OF build
whaves sawed boards deals and
dressed boards pank deals and other lu
nadn
andan other cabinet woods
Sewing machine all thereof
Salt whether in packages
Attest Attest - SOUTH TRnBgs
$500 Clerk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
a New Leader
From the South

"The Presidents veto, of course, de-
stroyed the Free List Bill, as we'll as
all the other features of the Democratic
platform. The special session, however,
was not without far-reaching results.
Its chief accomplishments were reor-
gained Congress and a resurrected
Democratic majority under a new lead
ership 1t also emphasized the new
part which the Southern States are now
playing in national affairs. With a
Southerner as Chief Justice, Southerner
as majority leader in Congress, and
Southerners as prominent candidates for
the Democratic presidential nomination
Clark, Underwood and Wilson-the
nation is certainly more united than at
any time since the Civil War. No man
rejoices more over this changed situa-
ton than Underwood He is even more
interested in the solidarity of the forty
eight States than in the union of the
Democratic party."-Burton T. Hen
drick in McClwYe,s Mogagine, February,
1912.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Underwood Presi-
dentisl Timber

Mr.. Underwood void make an ideal
President. He is bra d-gauged, level
headed citizen; he doen't slip his cere-
bral cogs and go off t tangent as a
rabid exponent of revolutionary dogmas
in an effort to populaize himself; he is
uniformly courteous + all men; he be-
lieves in reducing the high cost of liv-
ing in this country, nj talking about it /;
he does not believe In destroying the
industries of the Unikd States while at
the same time he is Thorough believer
in the principles of tariff for revenue
only.
There is no fub-db about Mr.. I'm
derwood. He doesnf believe in shams.
He is big, brawny brainy statesman,
without his lightningrod out to attract
the Democratic nomintion for the pres
idency, and largely q that very account
he is liable to be thevery man that will
get in the way of he bolt that may
elevate him to the White House,. w
Flenner, in the Tmfs-Democrat, Mus
kegee, Okla, Octobe %, 1911.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12

and impm kind
footing with their elsewhere
of
and
world all
home
this practice The imports of these implements are in
all
so2 The of these implements have of
domestic trade
S59S 1890 $82033 1910 This foreign greatly
aided by lumber, in
of the
cultural commodities that the materials for bgng g ba
packing commodities
be available to the producers the favorable possible with
of manufacturing The BILL therefore places all materials and
including
butts hemp fax burlaPs and other materials hr suitable
made thereom,
hoop band steel for balg commodity and wire for bag
All
essentials in the transportation Of agricultural products their markets
and for this and other is unfair and
These
have served principally profits exng trusts
land combinations
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
FORAKER ON UNDERWOOD

Mr.. John Temple Graves will be in
town soon to make us speech. He
was in Birmingham the other night and
The Age-Herald printed an interview
with the former Georgian, in which that
gentleman discussed Mr.. Underwood as
a presidential candidate. Mr.. Graves
said: "Mr. Foraker used to be very Bit
terly opposed to the South, but softencd
a great deal after his elevation to the
Senate. | asked Mr.. Foraker if in case
Mr.. Underwood is nominated for Pres
ident, will it make any difference to you
that he is a Southern MANI"
Absolutely none, said Mr. Foraker.
of course, / cannot vote for him, as I
am a Republican, but il any Republican
should get Up and denounce him because
he Is from the South ] would take the
stump in Underwood's defense"
a
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
AIabama's
Candidate

Mr.. Underwood's service to the coun-
try during nine terms in the National
House of Representative has been most
distinguished, and has made his name a
household word in the homes of the
people For more than 20 years he has
been in the very front of his party's
battle line, a leader from his youth, and
ever faithful to his party's principles
and candidates. No Democrat can find
flaw in his political record; no charge
of desertion in any campaign; no accu-
sation of serving special interests can
lie against him.
His congressional colleagues respect
him for his sincerity, his high sense of
honor, his sagacity and his acknow1-
edged ability, and this in itself is an
infallible proof of his merit, for none
know so we'll the capabilities of a
statesman as those who have served
many years with him and noted his
conduct in days of peace and those of
political storm.-Cincinndt ENQUIRER,
October %, 1911.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
UNDERWOOD A UNIFYING
FORCE

The Republicans cannot agree with
his tariff views; the country, we are
sure, will never put him into the presi-
dency, but assuredly he must be con-
ceded to be the ablest, the strongest, the
most influential Democrat in Congress
to-day, and he has shown a marvellous
capacity for leadership. His party assoc
ciates stand solidly behind him, and that
could not have been said of any other
man in recent years who led the Demo-
Gratis in the House of Representatives.
The shrewd Republican politicians
who predicted that the Democrats IN
the House would be split into dozen
bitterly fighting factions in less than a
month. are now amazed at Underwood's
success as a harmonizer and uni
fvinQ force. He has succeeded where
<5-<ofnn fn:f<1 - een-r.r Is1hnlrr
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Takes Up
Underwood

The years since the Civil War have
rolled too fast and far to permit it to
be conceivable any longer that the cir
cumstances of Southern birth should
constitute in Northern judgment a dis
qualification in any degree whatever.
Both as to nomination and as to cleo
ton the Southerner will be rated in 1912
on his individual merits AS far as this
particular Southerner, Mr.. Oscar w.
Underwood, is concerned. it is agreeable
to note the absence of geography in
the regard in which he is held in all
parts of the Union.-NeaV York Sun,
1911.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12

course, as a people, to be SO interpreted.
1t is not in human nature to accord
respect, where self-respect is absent.
How, then, can we expect the remainder
of the nation to continue to respect US,
when we groyel in the dust of by
gone era, and let go by default the
rights inherent in American manhood?
For virtually half century the South
has furnished the hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the Democratic
party. 1t has, faithfully with each re-
current four years, furnished the Democ-
racy's army and its line oficers-cheer-
fully yielding command to other sections.
With a smile, it has steadily forsworn
the political loaves and fishes, content,
for the sake of the party, that they go
to doubtful States-time and again to
States most of us knew at the time were
steel-riveted Republican.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Underwood
for Resident

The argument that e lives too far
South to be available without weight.
The country has reaced that state of
union-has been so osely drawn to-
gether by railroad am telegraph-that
Alabama is brought to he door of New
York. Massachusetts, an Texas are near
neighbors and even TIL two Portlands,
of Maine and Oregon, and within easy
hailing distance of eacI other. SO far
as any feeling of sectnalism is con-
cerned, or any prejudice against the Sc
lection of Southern mn for the presi-
dency, Underwood is, ike Lincoln, a
native of K'ntus therefore as
much Northef4 Was bern
during the Co 9ss "a aHin-
hood after 'a.F zen
North and 81 IS 3 81 sS ssa. d. is
a big, brainy csursg rs n1ass Bilti-
more Sun, July 3. l9
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
TIME TO ABANDON
UNWORTHY

The most humiliating paradox in
American politics to-day is the shrink
ing attitude of some of our own people
toward the presidential possibilities of
Southern men.
The civil war, the memories of which
furnished the nursery for this indefensi-
bic sectional abasement, is SO years at
our back Ninety per cent of the Amer
lean voters who elect president re-
member this war and its dividing rancor
only as history. With outstretched
hands, having given every proof of view
ing Mason and Dixon's line as no more
a political barrier than the Mississippi
or the Rockies, the dominant generation
at the North invites the South, its pub
lie men, by right of citizenship and by
right of demonstrated ability, into full
fellowship in the nations counsels.
South Wanting in BoIdness
What has been the answer of the
South-at least, the answer that may be
interpreted by the silence or the diff
dence of hundreds of thousands of rep
resentative Southerners?
Obsessed by the ghosts of half CEN
fury ago, guilty of an embarrassment
and a self-consciousness that is nothing
short of arrant sectional cowardice,
there is a feeling among many South
erners that the wraiths of the sixties
still stand between the South and the
White House-the South and that par
ticipation in the nations voice, the ma
TONS destiny, to which the nation is
eager to admit us.
The consequences of this abnegation of
common manhood could not be more
forcefully portrayed than in the words
of the Constitutions Washington CORE
spondent, in dispatch discussing the
presidential status resulting from the
Harvey Wilson Watterson episode. IF
he" writes our correspondent, canvass
ing the possibilities of Oscar Under
wood, the brilliant Albanian, along
with other Southerners, pays the penal
ty of being a Southern man, it will be
the South and not the North to ex-
act it."
South's Political Stage Fright
That is also an accurate delineation
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Let Us Claim Our Birthright

For so years we have eaten in the
political kitchen. Consistently, we have
waxed cheerful when denied even the
dubious privilege of the second table.
And to-day, when the clock of destiny
strikes, when the door of opportunity is
wide ajar, when the North actually lives
up to that prophetic utterance in the
Senate of Ben Hill, 1--WE are back in the
house of our fathers, and we are here to
stay, thank God pa few of us are still
blushing and stammering, still wearing
political sackcloth and ashes, still up to
the old "easy mark" game of doing all
the drudgery, with none of the cakes
and ale Let's end this disgraceful
farce! We furnish, have long furnished,
the electoral votes, the powder and shot,
the munitions, of the Democratic party.
Let's assert those equal rights and privi-
leges as American citizens, as the re-
mainder of the nation fraternally bids
us to do. Let's cease the qualification
of informing the nation, by our actions,
that we cannot bring forth a man capa-
bic for the presidency. For the sec
tional cowardice, here and there mani
tested, is equivalent to that shameful
and ungrounded admission.-The Con
stitntion, Atlanta, Ca, January II, 1912
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
SECTIONAL
ABASEM ENT

of the manner in whic1y We North views
the situation. We usshderwood only
as an illustration, thou his magnificent
record as House eadsduring the spe-
clal session would, as correspondent
declares, have assurellis nomination
with sweep"-hade lived at the
North! To the NORTH makes no diff
ference where Underpd, or any other
one of the galaxy bel discussed, was
born. The representve Northerner
does not bride at neon of Bull Run
or Gettysburg. 1t renhs for the South
to develop political ge fright over
these diminishing ch%rs in our his
tory. The last smouring embers of
sectional acrimony we stamped out by
the Spanish-AmericaIwar. The last
barriers between Nortand South were
crumbled before thelchievements of
Joe Wheeler, of FITCH Lee, and of
many of the younger peration on both
sides.
The most convincinevidence of this
fact is the manner (which the nation
received the announcent of the broad
and patriotic action President Taft
in elevating Justice hite, a Confed-
crate veteran, to the Cef Justiceship of
the United States Steme Court. A
protesting snarl eosel ere and there
from the irreconcilable And the voices
most bitter in denuiation of that
Jaundice came fron-the Northern
pressl 1t is only esse al for the occa-
sional freak hrebrando rise and at
tempt to wave the ''bldy Shirt" to be
buried with ridicule, ot only by his
confreres, but as we by the news
papers of all sectionSf our common
country.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
UNDERWOOD THE fIAN

We have been hurnbugged and scared
off long enough by the bogy of North
ern prejudice against Southern candi-
date. Underwood stands for just those
things which recent Northern MAORI
ties have declared they wanna .revi-
sion of the tariff downward and the
destruction of special privilege. His
qualities of leadership have been tested
and approved. In his personality he
is solid, clean and sane, with the cour-
age of fighter and the clairvoyance OF
true reformer, and if the South pre-
sents him as her candidate and the party
ratifes her choice this fine, strong char
acter Of new day in our annals will
catch both the sentiment and the sober
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Continued from First Co1unn.)

Continued from First Coumn)
The
legislation.
of of
legislation within
well
collateral
Unrustworthness of Petitions.
percentage
often he has signed petitions rid the who presented
the average who petition.
People Suffer More From Failure of Law Enforcement Than From
Lack of Proper Legislation.
would
failure
much legislation
insist that neighbo shall jail violating the law
there evils odaJ is not in its
land justly the duties imposed Tie remedy is plain
and the clear The people should drive from the pieces Of and
responsibility the unaihf will be faithful
true the trust imposed them.
The People and the Representatives.
that the people judges Of
When that the select public official who will reflect
people in his Office and be faithful Constitution OF his
reflect the first of free government and
lmudge honesty and the intelligence o American people
liberty and freedom
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-12
Not Question of xpediency or
Discreth

In the face of theseunulative facts,
there are some in thsSouth who still
question if, ION accott of past Of
fenses," it is discreet or "expedient"
for Southern man toffer himself for
presidential honorsl We insult our
selves, we debase our hnhood, we sur
render the rights the NTH is so willing
to concede us, when We permit our