The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-08-22
CONSTABLE JOHN TAYLOR
BADLY CUT AT KNOXVILLE
HOOPER SEES
EASY VICTORY
Says He Is Receiving Congratu-
lations Upon McMiIlin's Nom
nation and His Platform.

Nashville, Aug. l6:-Gov. Hope
had the following to say relative Il
the Democratic convention of yester
day:
81 have received many congratula
tions upon McMillin's nomination
Today I am receiving congratulations
upon his platform.
"The convention, small in numbers
and with many counties unrepresent.
ed was completely and overwhelming
ly dominated by Regular Democrats
of the Patterson -McMillin brand. ably
seconded by the Dlbrell-Cox back-tax
machine.
1.-THE great masses of the anti-Pat.
terson and anti-saloon Democrats wele
conspicuous for their absence.
''The platform contains nothing
new, strange or startling.
The plank on the back-tax laws
reminds one of the aphorism of the
French statesman, Talleyrand, who
said, 1.-THE purpose of human langu-
age is to conceal thought No inteIli-
gent business man in this state can be
induced to believe that genuine tax re-
form can be secured at the hands of
convention controlled by back-tax
attorneys and revenue agents and their
political allies, with Back-Tax Attor-
ney John I. Cox slated for speaker of
the House, Revenue Agent Parks Wor-
ley for speaker of the Senate, and
candidate for Governor who did not
dare to utter one plain and positive
thought on the subject of tax reform
in his entire canvass of the state.
"The suggested appointment of
commission to draft bills for the re-
vision of our tax laws, is not original,
as have already appointed such
commision-and no sugges stions were
whispered in my ear by back-tax at
torneys when they were named.
GAS to the various questions involv-
ed in business administration of the
State Government, will have some
thing to say later on. Suffice it to say
just now, that the man who makes
the assertion, as some did in the con-
ventlon, that my administration has
been eXtravagant, either does not
know what he is talking about or does
not care what he says.
"Most rigid economy has been prac-
ticed in every department under my
control, expenses have been reduced
revenue increased and the public serv-
ice improved. McMilin's comparative
grand totals of receipt and eXpendi-
lures during his administration and
mine are misleading and demogogical
The people will want TO know what
went with the money.
1.-Two examples will suffice. Dur
ing his last term there was spent for
public education $34S, 100. During my
term there will be spent for this pur-
pose s., ,237 ,s21.19.
"During his last term there was
spent for Confederate Pensions $780,
600. During m"term there will be ex-
pended 81 100000 for this purpose.
"lf the state were not expending
any more for schools and pensions
than was his administration, 3,0l9,-
53l could be paid into thesinking fund
for the public debt.
81 note in McMillin's speech that be
profiers his service to 'chaperon' me
of the hill. A sober Governor needs
no chaperon to look after him, and my
reelection will save the state from the
service oi the gubernatorial chaperon
for the next two years.
In this isconnection might say that
the character of speeches made in the
convention cannot win in November.
Personal vituperation without cause,
and flagrant misrepresentation of pub
lie records, are too easily met and over
come.
"The very acme of political hypoc-
ricy was reached in the convention
when Ham Patterson stood up and
spoke of Tennessee being 'disgraced
and bowling her head in shame on ac-
count OF the way in which the states
affairs have been managed by Repub-
licans and Independent Democrats.
"The people know when it was that
the state bowed her head in shame
and why. Their recollection of all the
details rs too fresh and vivid to permit
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