Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-11-01

To the Democrats of Carrollcounty:
Next Tuesday is regular election
day and the county democratic
campaign committee wants to ask
you to carefully consider several
things in the general political stu
alton before YOU so to the polls to
cast your vote.
First, kindly remember that our
national party is expecting each
state to come forward with it's full
democratic strength and give Will
son and Marshall every vote that
| is due them. Victory never seemed
nearer or more certain, and we
should all take part that we may
more fully enjoy the victory.
But we want 70 call every dem
Gratis attention to the fact that the
democratic party is not alone a
national organization. The ma
tional party is composed of divis-
ions, made up by state organiza-
tions, and without these state
organizations there could be no
national party.
Here in Tennessee the demo
cratic organization has been in
serious trouble for over two years;
fusion of incompatible elements
has given us a republican COVER
nor and republicans fill practically
all public offices.
We will recite none of the causes
(for there are several) which led to
this state of affairs, but will come
directly to the present and ask
your careful consideration of some
definite propositions.
While many of us regret the &C
tion OF numerous individuals within
the party, and sorely regret the
action of certain committees in au-
thorlty since our state trouble be-
gan, vet virtually all of us agree
that the only way to correct party
mistakes is to do it within the
party. Two years ago many good
democrats voted for Gov. Hooper
actually feeling that they were not
only getting some satisfaction from
the method employed to rebuke
certain men and committees, but
some actually believed that by
electing republican governor
conditions in the state would be
made better and the democratic
party would be purified.
We will not discuss the effect
our republican governor has had
on moral or general conditions in
the state, for not a voter in the
state can point out an improve
ment.
Now, to the other question: Has
the democratic party been purified
or improved by so strenuous a re-
bukel
Those in position to watch the
daily events and know the trend
Of things cannot say that it has.
Issues are as much confused as
they were five days before Bob
Taylor was defeated by Ben
Hooper.
Such leaders as Luke Lea, Gus
Enloe, Judge Bullock, G. Q. Bar
ton and others then told us chat
by giving the democratic party a
sound beating the party would
change front, adopt new principles
and write platforms in the future
that would suit everyone.
These same leaders now find
themselves in a pitiable plight.
They are ashamed of the traitor
Gus part they took in the campaign
Of 1910 that they cannot face the
old party again, SO they must, of
necessity, stay out.
Individual voters, however, are
in a different position and it is to
those that we appeal. You did not
90 from one end of the state to the
other, viflifying old gray-haired
voters who had stood by the party
for half a century. You did not
lock arms with the federal Office
holding republicans and pledge
them everything they desired il
return for a few legislative favors.
You did not abuse democratic rep
.resentatiyes in the legislature for
attending democratic caucuses and
voting for democratic nominees
for office. You did not travel over
the state and stop at the best hotels,
live in luxury and pay off old H.
nancial obligations with money
sent to Tennessee by the tariff pro-
tected republicans Of the north.
Your case is by no means like
that of those who accepted repub-
lican money for the part they
played in making Tennessee a re-
publican state and giving Tennes-
see a roek-ribbed republican in the
United States senate. You re-