The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-10-04

sands, as guilty as they, were never
even indicted for their violations of
law, | did not hesitate to temper JUS
tice with mercy to these unfortu-
mates.
1t is easy for those who sit in their
homes, surrounded by the comforts
of life, with freedom to come and go,
to suspect and heap meledictions
upon the man who is helping fallen
humanity at the sacrifice Of his own
ease. But, my friends, at last in
the world, where the best of us are
not all good nor the worst of us all
bad. it is much safer to err on the
side Of mercy than to err On the side
that men call justice.
He who has the power to relieve
distress and does not do so in every
proper case may escape the criticism
of the censorious, but he cannot the
~reproaches Of his own conscience.
Candidacy for Senate.
/ come before you as a Democratic
candidate for the United State Sc
nate, for the long term beginning
on the 4th of March, and my candi-
dacy is subject to the will Of the peo-
pie, to be expressed in a preferential
primary to be held on the fifth day
of November, next.
The field has been open, and the
office of United States Senator is n
that may well fill the measure of any
mans ambition.
l announced as a candidate and
two other gentlemen also entered the
primary. l asked for no favors, only
a fair deal, and an honest expression
of the peoples will.
My competitors have withdrawn
and l am left without opposition, and
if | am declared the nominee on Oc-
tober 1, as the primary plan provides
if any candidate has no opposition at
that date, | will be the nominee Of
the Democratic party, and my title
will be as clear as if the opposition
had continued and the primary had
been held.
If / should not be your choice, no
man will do more to see the will Of
the people properly recorded; and,
If I am selected, my best efforts and
whatever ability I may posses may
be given to the service Of my State
and country.
In times past the South has not
received her proportional share Of
improvements Of a public character,
nor has she been sufficiently self-as-
sertive in making her demands for
just recognition.
We need extensions Of the Rural
Free Delivery service. more and bet
ter public buildings, and enough
money appropriated, in a continuous
and definite way, to open the Cum
berland and Tennessee rivers to ma
vigation the year round.
If these streams had been located
. in a Northern State that had been
in the habit of voting the Republican
ticket, they would have long since
been opened up to continuous COM
merce, and the inexhaustible stores
of timber and mineral wealth bound
ing their shores on either side
now lying dormant and unexplored-
would have been developed and en-
tered into the trade markets Of the
world.
Then, too, the Government owes
the duty of the Mississippi River
which it can no longer neglect. Ris-
ing in the farthest North, 1t ira
verses the continent, 1t receives all
the waters from the Rocky Noun
tains on the West and the Alleganies
on the East. The flood through
which the lowlands have passed, on
both sides of the great river, from
Cairo to the Gulf, were almost in
describable. Ruin and havoc follow
ed the fearful rush of waters and the
richest portions of the United States
we're at their mercy.
These great areas of land must
be protected and reclaimed, for they
are capable of supporting not only
an enormous population, but Of re-
storing to the Government a thou
sandfold more than the cost of their
redemption.
In the steady and complex march
of modern civilization our republic Is
/, brought into daily closer communion
!. with the world powers, and questions
of international Importance will
! more and more arise, calling for the
2 highest qualities Of statesmanship
for solution.
Our guardianship Of Cuba, u &C
: QUESTION of the Philippines, prob.
/ lens growing out of the building Of
the great isthmian canal, have given
a new direction to American activi
ties and brought new duties and re-
II sponsibilities. These conditions
N whether we want them or not, have
a. forced our country from its place OF
n isolation, and we must be ready for
n any emergency which may arise.
Is A land which once grew majestic
Is trees and nutured eagles should moi
now be choked with saplings, and