Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-07-10
All But One
Go For Wilson
Republican Leader Predicts
Utah Only State Safe for
Taft, Says @. O.P.
Is Dead.

Prof. T. X. McAnally, Super
intendent of schools at Buckley,
Washington, is visiting his moth
er and other relatives in and near
Lawrenceburg. He is a brother
/ of T. +. McAnally of Loretto.
Mr.. McAnally is accompanied by
his wife and little son. They
spent ten days in Chicago
where tie Prof. was a delegate
to the Republican Convention
They also stopped for a few days
at the Democratic Convention, at
Baltimore. Speaking of the Chi
cago Convention, Prof. McAnally
said:
Grandfather was an old line
Wing, father voted for Fremont,
and during his life never scratch
ed ticket but once and that in fa'
vor of special Democratic friend
in Lawrence County. I was
rocked in a Republican cradle.
have always voted the Republi-
can ticket and expected to con-
continue to do so but if the &C
tion of the Republican Conven.
tion at Chicago was Republican
ism, | am not a Republican and
pray God to forgive any such for.
mer afhliation. From boyhood |
have been taunted by Democrats
with the persistent charges that
the Republican leaders are thieves
and robbers. | have always Bit
terly resented such thrusts, and
these controversies have resulted
in many boyhood scrap. Now /
am compelled to get down at the
confessional and in sack cloth
and ashes acknowledge that these
things are not only true. but that
the Half has not been told"
The conduct of the Repnbli-
cans at Chicago was not only dis
graceful to the party but to the
nation and to civiliza tion. The
delegates seated from Washing
ton state were no more entitled TO
sit in that conven tion than was
the Sultan of Sulu, or king Siam.
| was much grieved to find the
Hon, H. Clay Evans, whom
once enthusiastically supported,
lined up with the political brig
ands. ! should think that he,
bearing in mind a former guber-
Material contest, could appreciate
empty honors of stolen goods
1t is lamentable to compare the
disgraceful action of our Repub
lican Senator, Newell Sanders, at
Chicago with the patriotic part
played by the Hon. Luke Lea, a
Democrat at, Baltimore. AS a
Republican / blushed at the COM
parison.
Roosevelt was nominated by QUE
and a half million votes in the
prefere ntial primaries, and he had
a clear majority of 81 in the ma
tional Convention. Had he been
allowed to reap the fruits of an
honest victory his election would
have been certain, no living man
could beat him before the people
The Republican party would
have had new birth and been as
sured of politi cal supremacy for
another quarter of a century.
Theodore Roosevelt with his
added experience and growth
would have given as the greatest
administration in the history of
!, America.
1t has always been said that
the Democrats can always be de-
pended upon to do the wrong
thing at the right time. For once
this is not so--thanks to the pa
q triotism of one man.
4 The gre cate st RESPONSE
4 bllity ever thrust upon a party
J. has been placed in the hands ot
It D mocracy, and the party hat
il arisen to the occasion by nomina
II ting a great man and thereby civ
|. ing to the respectable element o
, both parties a man whom the
q can honestly and conscientiousll
,e support. In my opinion the great
/, est men in America today, are il
: the order given, Theodore Roose
: welt, William Jennings Brya
and Woodrow Wilson. / was on
- :, of the 100000 men in Chicago VIII
io demanded of Theodore RooseveI
= that he lead the new party. /
no the light of the action of the Ba
bo timore Convention, hope til
ad third party movement will no
q be dropped and the Progressi1
,Is movement thrown to Wilson.
this case | predict Woodrow Wi
son will carry every state in II
Union with the possible exec
n tion of Utah, President Tia
" and his followers are in utter di
grace before the American peop
and the Republican party with
lie proud history of half a century
the greatest political party ia h
rm torY-iS dead"