Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-10-31
REAL ISSUES IN POINT
Measures That Are Prominent in
Hooper's Platform and Those
of the Opposition.

Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 2S.-As the
campaign for the Governorship draws
to close, it becomes more and more
evident to observers of things political
that Gov B. W. Hooper will be re-
elected by an increased majority, and
that he will have a Legislature in
sympathy with him in his fight
against the organized lawbreakers OF
the State, represented by the so called
regular wing of the Democratic party.
The so called regulars and their can
didate for Governor, Benton McMillin,
stand for the rule of the liquor trust,
for the shameful disregard of the law
that prevails in the larger cities, for
the infamous back tax machine, and
for Pattersonism. These things the
great majority of the people will not
stand for. and on the 9Th day of Nov
ember they will so announce by such
decisive vote that it will bid fair to
settle the whisky question in Tennes-
see. In all probability no political
party in this State will ever again
dare to incorporate in its platform a
declaration in favor of the open saloon
and law lessness in this State.
This liquor crowd has practically
abandoned all hope of electlng Nc
Millin Governor, and is now centering
all of it's energies and all the corrup-
tion fund that can be squeezed out of
the lawless liquor sellers toward the
election of Legislature that will re-
neal the honest election laws and the
temperance laws now on the statute
books, or failing in that, to handicap
and ..embarrass Gov. Hooper in his
efforts to enforce the laws.
McMillin and his followers have
grown desperate in their endeavor to
find some means of placing Gov. Hoop
er on hesdefensive Every effort they
have made has fallen fiat or reacted as
boomerang. McMillin's charge that
the Department of Agriculture has
been inefficiently run, that money has
been wasted, and that the officials of
that Department were incompetent, has
brought forth showing from the rec
ords that under McMillin's last two
years as Governor. the Department of
Agriculture spent SO, 400. 90 more than
it collected, while under the first year
of Gov. Hooper's administration, the
excess of receipts over expenditures
amounted to $17, 285. 98 At this ratio
under two years of Gov. Hooper's ad-
ministration, the Department of Agri-
culture will have turned into the State
Treasury as net revenue $34, 579 6.
Besides that, the Department has been
manned by efficient and capable oftic-
ials, and more has been done to ad-
vance the cause of agriculture in Ten
nessee than during all the yeals under
McMillin and Patterson, with political
parasites holding down the office
chairs, Nobody knows this better than
the Tennessee farmers.
Another charge of McMillin and his
crowd that has been exploded is that
Gov. Hooper was opposed to Confed-
crate pensions. The records in the
office of the Comptroller and the Pen
sion Bureau at Nashville show that
under McMillin's first term as Gov
ernor $500, 600 90 was expended by the
State for pensions of Confederate vet
Grams and upder Gov Hooper's first
term there was expended$l, 460, 600. 90.
Under McMillin's s administration there
was not cent spent for pensioning
Confederate widows, while under Gov.
Hooper's administration 1920, 600 90 IS
being spent for that purpose. In no
one Of his messages to the Legislature
did Gov. McMillin ever advocate the
pensioning of widows of Confederate
soldiers.
For public education there was
spent under McMillin's last term,
1884, 100. 90, and under Gov. Hoopers
first term the State is spending $2,-
937, ,62f. 10. Under Gov. Hooper's ad-
ministration, every public institution
of the State has been amply provided
for and its affairs economically ad-
ministered. The State Prison is being
conducted at profit to the State.
The issue in this campaign Is clear
cut and we'll defined. 1t is lawlessness
and organized crime against the law
and its enforcement in all sections of
the State-the city as well as the
country. On one side is Ex-Governor
McMillin, the nominee of the whiskey
wing of the Democratic party, endors-
ed and backed by the liquor trust, the
lawless saloons Of the State, and by all
other vicious elements waging fight
tn restore the open saloon. with all its
attept1ant evils, to elect Patterson to
the United States Senate, to perpetu-
Ate the back tax machine with its OPP
nression of the unfortunate poor and
10 build up political machine that
would retald the progress OF the State
for a quarter of a century II once
again In power with all it's pernicious
influence.
ON the other side is Gov. Hooper,
the nominee of the Republican party,
endorsed by the best element of the
Democratic party, by the Woman 8
Temperance Union, by every
religious paper in the State, by the
hest elements of all the citizenship,
white and black, waging fight for
law enforcement, and for business
of the States affairs;
gainst Pattersonism, against the back
tsx iniquity, against the saloon,
against the liquor trust, against law
lessness of all kinds.
THE issue could not possibly be more
clear and we'll defined, and it is in
that the people of Tennes-
sea the best citizens of all parties,
,r;ll hi, hesitate in deciding it, once and ;
Far ali. in favor of decency and the
law. ... 1..a
1osenh e. Jones of Dresden. Judge E.
7 Bullock of Jackson and Col. B A.
Enloe n of Nashville. Raiload Commits