The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-09-27

iouI years Iof. McMlllln never once
recommended a dollars approrria
ton for the confederate soldiers OF
their widows. The governor also
charges that McMillin, like Patter
son ignored the recommendations Of
the Confederate soldiers in the ap
pointment of the pension examining
board and allowed commission to
Maj. Guild one of the members to
lie for three years unsigned.
The governor handles without
gloves the action of Dibrell in using
the mails OF the state to exploit his
political virtues and make partisan
appeals to the Confederate soldiers,
The governor discusses in detail
his efforts to have passed anti-free
pass. and labor legislation and also
his efforts for state banking law
and for law to compel banks to
pay interest on state deposits. He
declares for compulsory primaries
and condemns the silence of the re-
gular platform on the subject Of
election laws.
But the governor Is probably at
his best when he unmakes the n.y.
pocrisy and double dealing of the
Patterson faction on the temper
ance question. He plants himself
squarely upon the platform of his
party and arraigns the faithless and
recreant officials who have encour-
aged lawlessness.
Young men, of Tennessee, with
your faces set Stowar dthe future, it
is for you to say in November wbeth-
er our state shall progress or retro
grade.
Men Of all political parties and Of
every race; men of every character
and conviction, 1t 1s within your pow
er to decide whether or not the ele-
ments of vice and lawlessness and
crime shall control this state or
whether the state shall control them.
1t is for you to prescribe the con-
ditions which shall surround your
children as the struggle onward to
manhood and womanhood.
Men of gray heads and bent
forms. men who have barred your
bosoms in defense of the state or ma
ton, men who are now loking to-
ward the sunset, it is for you to say,
and / thank God that you have said
all over this state, that our common
wealth shall not be governed by the
prejudice of bygone era, but by
principles that are eternal.
Men Of the great country COM
munities OF Tennessee, the bone and
sinew OF our grand old state, men Of
the mountains, valleys and hills,
who breathe clean air and think
clean thoughts, make yourselves felt
at the ballot box in November in be-
half 81 clean state.
Men OF the city who are strug-
Cling with the mighty problems
that have beset the cities Of every
age strong, honorable, God-fearing
men-gird on your armor, to the. end
that our modern cities shall not be-
come gnawing cancers on the body
polite, as did Sodom. Babylon. and
Rome.
Men of Tennessee Tennesseans
sons Of the men who carved this
state from the tangled wilderness, !
appeal to you for the preservation Of
that for which your ancestors fought
"a free government, founded upon
an honest ballot; appeal to you
for the enactment Of laws that will
place the rich and the powerful in
the cities upon the same plane as
the poor and the humble in the coun-
ty villages! / appeal to you to
throttle the vicious interests that
threaten our state, to rebuke the
cowardly, corrupt and contemplate
weaklings who cringe and crawl be-
fore these interests, and to serve
notice upon the world that Te1nes-
see still honors the God who pro-
claimed that righteousness ex-
alteth the nation"
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