The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-09-27
For Magistrate.
The Right Man.

The commercial tries TO Jake lie WIFI
a practical, common sense view o
things, and is satisfied usually with th'
days uneventful proceedings and thu
busy disinterestedness of its patrous
and readers, but asks little indulgence
if after long period we reproduce the
very kind and unsolicited comment
made by friend of the paper, Hon
John H. Hinemon, of Morrell, Ark.
as follows:
Il have watched with pride and graft,
fcation the steady development of The
Commercial under your management.
The strong, moral tone of the paper is
specially fine. believe the mission of
a newspaper is not alone to furnish
news. 1t must not only reflect public
sentiment, but, far above that, it must
lead and mould wholesome sentiment
on all that pertains to the public good
Few editors seem to realize this as you
do and few lead out as you do.
AS you perhaps know, [ was one Of
the delegates at large from Arkansas to
the National Democratic Convention at
Baltimore. | came near sending you
two or three articles, giving an inside
view of the convention, but feared that
/ might impose on your good nature,
for you have been exceedingly kind to
me, nasmuch as you have generously
published every article that | have sent
you, and | also feared that some might
accuse me OF seeking undue notoriety
Il was a member of the very i'm
portant committee on Rules and Order
of Business, and Congressman R. L.
Henry, of Texas, and l prepared the
minority report from the committee
which was adopted, almost two to one,
by the convention, and which released
the Wilson delegates in the Ohio dele
cation and thereby started the move
ment which resulted in the nomination
of the New Jersey Governor. l was
Wilson man in a Clark delegation, and
while I was loyal to my instructions for
CLARK joined in every honorable effort
to advance the interests of Governor
Wilson. Clearly we named the best
possible candidate.
With every good wish and many
happy memories of our associations in
the golden days of long ago, am sin
cerely and cordially,
Your longtime friend,
JOHN H. HINEMoN.
We spoke of the fact that Mr.. Hine-
mon was a delegate to the convention
from the State at large at the time, and
that he was Wilson man.
We very much appreciate the kind
expressions towards The Commercial
in Mr.. Hinemon's letter. We have
watched, as well as many others of his
friends, his career with pride. John
Hinemon is a TennesSean and, more
GldQ J0dU, lOIll6I CiClAou VI OhiOu
City. He has been honored by the
citizens of Arkansas, one of the most
rapidly growing States of the West.
He has been signally honored, though
defeated for the Democratic nomination
for Governor. He emerged from that
race with more honor even than the
successful candidate, whose methods of
campaigning were not in keeping with
the conscience of man whose political
acts are as clean as his personal charac-
ter and whose life is an example of the
Hottest and best ideals.
There is no room for such man in /
a pot-house political scrimmage like
that which elected Governor Doneghay. |
But back to the subject of Presiden-
tial politics. Mr.. Hinemon saw what
every other far-seeing, fair-minded man