The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-10-04
ON CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912

| imposed; its spiritual anguish and
moral degradation. | hate it for the
crimes it has committed, for the homes
destroyed and the 3earts broken; for
! the grief it causes womanhood, the
scalding tears, the hopes deferred, the
strangled aspirations and the burden of
want and care. I hate it for it's heart
less cruelty to the aged, infirm and
helpless; far the shadow it throws upon
the lives of children; for its monstrous
injustice to blameless little ones. 1t
ought not to find safe habitation
anywhere beneath old glory's stainless
stars
This candidate for the United States
Senate has thrown his influence over
the head, hand and heart of the chair
man of the present State Executive
Committee and the same man is acting
and has active charge as chairmrn of
the Primary Board. He is the active
partisan of Patterson in this contest
while holding the important trust of
chairman for the whole party, and as
such on all occasions should hold the
scales evenly adjusted. Not only that
Democratic eeetor for the State at
large, living in West Tennessee, has
forgotten the trust he holds for the ben
eft of all the party and has lent himself
to an effort to see that no one is elected
to the State Senate from his Senatorial
district not strictly Patterson man.
STATE COMMITTEE MEETING.
''This candidate for the United States
Senate raves about 'skullduggery, and
not content with efforts to control the
Legislature and the courts in former
days, he now demands of the candi-
date for Governor to know how he
stands on the question of the Senatorial
primary. The candidate for Governor
retorts with a decent, respectable, high
classed letter, refusing to engage in
'entangling alliances, but in less than
thirty-six hours after the publication of
the letter my old-time friend and neigh
Dor, Rice A. Pierce, manager for Nc
MilIin, gets under the strange influence
of this political hypnotist and argues
privately in the name of his chief that
certain actions should be taken to the
interest of Patterson and publicly that
he is only representing himself as a
member of the committee. That is
what the press says and what men tell
me.
Il have the idea that if the men who
believe like l do about public questions
and entertain respect for the statutes
desire political preferment that they
had better fight it out on a broader,
more comprehensive battle ground than
the restricted one set by the ex-Gover-
nor and his friends when they elimin
ated so many men from communion
in the Democratic fold by inserting a
plank on the liquor question in the
platform that makes it impossible for
us to commune with him or them. He
may rave and curse about Republican
rule and what he calls Democratic
treachery, but the fault is his, if it be
fault, that there is Republican Cover
nor in Tennessee and a Republican
United States Senator. His towering
ambition and monumental egotism that
makes him aspire to the Senate has
caused much of his and our trouble.
AS TO M'MILLIN.
"In the light of the past he had no
right to re-enter Democratic councils
with the same old methods this year
and place men under his influence in
high party trust so as to throw doubt
on their public and official acts. In the
hands of such managers and officials,
and in view of the general discomfort
with the party, l did not regard the way
open to proceed further, nor do my
friends, and therefore l got out where
can speak without being further bound
by such party fetters. | see by the press
that Judge McAlister, Mr. Woollen and
Mr.. Blake have taken the same course.
In my judgment the way to defeat Gov
Patterion is to do so in the Legislature,
primary or no primary The way to
prevent the repeal of good legislation
already on the statute book is to do it
in the Legislature, platform or no plat
form. After much thought and delib-
Grafton in an effort to be honest with
myself and people, l desire 10 say that
if Coy. McMillin intends to stand on
that liquor platform, and recommend
il to the Legislature TO be enacted into