The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-07-11
MAKES
ANNOUNCEMENT
Continued from page y

The problem of controlling the floods
of the Mississippi river is one of local
and national importance, and when it
is recalled that the Mississippi is the
drain for all the waters of the United
States between the Allegheny range
on the east and the Rocky mountains
on the west the primary duty Of the
government is plain and imperative.
1t should, in systematic and large
way, guarantee future immunity from
inundatiOn to those immense acres of
incidentally rich land which are cap
able of returning to the store of nation
al wealth thOusand-fold more than
the cost of their protection.
The harbor at Memphis and the
strip of country from Shelby county
north and south on the western border
between the river and the hills which
has suffered great loss from floods
should receive the immediate care of
congress. Wherever these losses have
been occasioned by forcing the waters
from the other shore to the Tennessee
side, they should be compensated for;
nad it is the duty of the government
TO care for these lands in the same
way as those of Arkansas and the
Delta.
1t is neither expected nor desirable
in this announcement that l should
enter into discussion of public issues;
for these will be presented to the
people in the campaign to follow. IT
is only necessary to state that l
believe in the principles of popular
government as exemplified by demo-
cratic ideas from which so much of
the past prosperity and honor of our
country has come, and upon which so
much of its future pease and perman-
ency will depend.
The problems which press upon the
American Congress for solution, are
constantly growing in number, and
Importance They not only involve
directly the rights and welfare of the
people who created the government,
but also our relation to other world
powers with whom the expanse of
commerce and the growth of modern
civilization has brought our republic
into closer communion.
The perils which comfort us are not
found in freedom of speech or thought
of action by the people, but rather in
conditions under which they feel their
Municipalities are submerged and they
have no effective voice.
We cannot afford to haze the man
destroyed or crush his aspirations as
the unit in our laws of social organiza
ton, for we should remember it is not
the privilege of the few, but the pat
riotism of the many that upholds out
free institutions.
The candidates and the issues be
tween the two great historic partie'
have been presented to the country.
On one hand the republican party,
the creature of opportunity living IN
the favors it had to bestow, insclent II
power, strong and cohesive only in |
success now rent asunder, the victt IN
of its own miSdeeds and violated |
pledges.
On the other is the democratic party
the representative of equality befO re
the law, surviving disasters which
would have been fatal to weaker or
less patriotic organization, strong rs
ever in its long and illustrious history
and united for success.
AS its nominee for President, Wood
row Wilson is worthy of its highest
ideals and the platform appeals to all
friends of popular government as rat
Ional, progressive and responsive to
their desires.
Confidently looking forward to con-
troll of the government the democratic
party will be ready to preform its
highest mission by giving the people
what they have never had under re-
publican rule-a constitution admins
tration of impartial laws.
| shall feel grateful for your support.
Very respectfully,
MALCOLM u PA vFLTDesnN