Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-11-01
ADDRESS TO DEMOCRATS
County Campaign Committee Reviews Political
Situation and Gives Sound Advice

ceived nothing. You merely made
a mistake based on the belief that
condition demanded a terrific rem
edy.
You have tried the medicine and
We hope you can see now that no
good can come to the state or to
| the democratic party by again
electing a republican governor.
Some of the fusion leaders tell
you that Patterson is at the bot
tom Of the trouble in this cam
paign. Others, our friend Judge
Jones, for instance, tells you that
it is the whisky plank in the dem
ocratic state platform. Really.
now, can't you see that tits neither
Can't you see that some politicians
made a mistake two years ago,
/ then made another, and another,
until finally they found it difficult,
| if not impossiblS to retrace their
steps3 Can't you see that when
they got out, and actually within
the enemy's lines, Mr.. Sanders,
with national republican money.
made it interesting for them to
keep the anmor buckled on9
4
1t is not the prohibition ques-
ton that is disrupting the demo-
cratic party.
Ham Patterson is not the de-
stroyer of the democratic party.
The real trouble lies in the fact
that many of the fusion leaders of
two years ago are too embarrassed
to come home. They are conscious
stricken and rather than apologize
they are again trying to hold you
out of the party of your father.
! Regular democrats we're sorely
annoyed two years ago when these
demagogues began dynamiting the
very foundation of the democratic
party and many of them then
stepped beyond the bounds of
propriety. That was an individual
fault and not the fault of the
party. Realizing, as they did,
that no organization, church, po-
litical party, farmers union, ban
detti, or any other, could live
without the keystone, majority
rule" principle, and seeing these
fusion leaders attacking this vital
point in our structure, naturally
many democrats got mad.
We will not review the efforts
of the state committee and others
prominent in the party's affairs to
reach some agreement with the in
| dependents last winter or follow
the events through the year.
Coming directly to the present
we present our proposition for ac-
ton next Tuesday. There is but
one democratic party in Tennessee.
The independent organization has
disbanded, leaving the field to the
democrats and republicans. Ben
Hooper, a boy uhneard Of before
Newell Sanders gave him the re-
publican nomination for governor
in exchange for the delegates he
controlled at the state convention
! in 1910, is the nominee Of the re-
publican party. Benton McMillin,
known by reputation to every citi-
zen of the state, and to more than
half of them personally; twice
governor of the state, and twenty
years in the United States congress,
is the nominee of the democratic
party.
1t has been proven that Hooper
not only steered part of the last
legislature out of the state to pre-
vent legislation, but he contributed
money to keep them out; and it
is know that he offered the ap-
pointment as warden of the ,peni-
Tertiary in exchange for vote on
his side of an issue pending in the
legislature. 1t is known that no
moral improvement has been ex-
perienced in the cities following
the enactment of the prohibition
laws and it is generally known
that that no good Of whatever kind has
come Of the Hooper administra-
ton. Why should a democrat
vote for himl
It is known that if Benton Nc
Millin's life record we're not clean
that some of the thousands of paid
employees of the republican ma
chine would find and expose the
dark spots. None have ever been
mentioned. Then why can't a
democrat vote for McMillinl
But the gubernatorial race is not
the only one to be settled next
Tuesday. We are to elect legis-
lative ticket. We learn from re-
liable sources that some former in
dependent democrats contemplate
voting for the independent candi-