The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1912-07-27
BENTON McMILLIN
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| wanted to pull up the big stalks. ID
! give the little ones chance.
Mr. Underwood then presented
| Candidate McMillin, who was warm.
i ~ received, and appeared quit,
pleased with the cordially Of til,
I reception.
After paying tribute To Kno,
i county and East Tennessee. Gov
ernor McMillin referred TO politics
as the greatest of all sciences. liz
said that how TO govern man anf
still leave him free is a question
that has Interested him all his life
4 Democracy, he said, is existent
with a republic, and claiming thai
there has never been a division oI
the democratic party that has moi
wrought disaster to the party, hi
/ entered into a lengthy exposition oil
the many political situations thai
/ have resulted in a split in the party
both in the state and nation. Hf
/ closed this exposition with an ap-
/ peal to democrats TO forget their
| differences and be democrats, with
out prefix or suffix.
The candidate then discussed par
licularly the most recent split iii
| the party, that of 1910 when Gov
ernor Hooper was elected He said
| that it came about over the control
of whiskey in only forty square
miles of the states territory, and
resulted in a republican administra-
ton, with republican officeholders
filling every position :" from dogpel-
ter TO governor He said that he
had come to preach concord to i
state that had been distracted; that
he came as a man who loves his
country next to his God. He pointed
to the motto Of the state Of Ken
lucky, United we stand { divided we
fall" and said that he proposed to
make that slogan of his campaign.
Governor McMillin then placed
his candidacy before the audience,
saying that ii rested on its merits.
and that he would not make war
on the other candidates, except in
sofar as they had attacked him. He
first discussed his connection with
the refunding act of 1899, denying
that it cost the loss of millions Of
dollars, and declaring that there
was not a word of truth in the
charge that it cost the state any
thing. claiming the charge to be
wholly false.
The candidate next said that Mr..
Preston had, by inference, accused
him of being Instrumental in bring
ing about the relations between the
Carnage Trust Co. and the state Of
Tennessee. Mr.. McMillin said that
his connection with the trust COM
pany ceased long before the period
to which Mr. Preston pointed in his
campaign charges. He then took up
Mr.. Preston's statement that not in
forty years had Tennessee had a
governor who had given the state
business administrations He re-
fprred to the governors during that
period, most OF whom are now dead,
and he reviewed their administra-
tons. He referred to Jno. G. Brown,
James ID. Porter, Albert S. Marks,
Peter Iurney, VIM. B. Bate and the
late Bob" Taylor There was.qll4-iItc.
a demonstration al the mention Of
the name of The late Senator Taylor.
At this point, Mr. McMillinI dis
cussed his connection with the7state
debt, and the charge that he was re-
sponsiblp for loss OF 100000 to
the state during his administrations,
claiming that on the other hand he
had saved The slate $4,000 per an
mum in interest, and said if the
charge were true, to pay all OF the
states debt would have been a loss
to the state Of six million dollars.
Mr.. McMlllin next turned his al
tention to a review of the acts off
the legislature under his admins
tratiOns, mentioning the child labor
law, The act which not only took
the child out of the factory, but
which provided for factory in
spection, claiming that he had
forced upon the statute books a
law which protected the young wo-
manhood of the state.
The speaker said that statesman
ship consists not only in studying
profoundly the conditions that exist.
but in hewing out improvements to|
the best advantage with such in
struments as are available
Attention was next turned to the
sale of the Nashville American, con-
Summated five weeks before the
close of the 1910 campaign. He read
Milton Och's resignation as manag-
ing editor of that paper when hel
found that the transaction had TAX
en- place, and after an earnest en-
deavor had failed TO have the policy
of the paper remain unchanged IN
iii the close of the campaign. Mr.
McMillin then asked with some dis
play of feeling where Mr.. Preston's
flag of leadership was and whe4y
his big guns for campaigning wefW
which he had sold in the heat Of
the last campaign. Now he says
said Mr.. McMilIin, "that he wants to-
do something for his people before
he dies
The speaker charged that the in-a
dependent democrats tried to make
deal at the last legislature anil
divide state offices between all de-
mocrats of each faction, and that a
funding board was to be named and
r. r. Preston and 4. B. Craig We're
10 be members Of the funding board.
Mr.. McMillin said that education
is one of the problems OF the state.
and that there should be more at
tention paid TO industrial education.
He said also that he believed In a
great college of technology, and
would 50 recommend to the legisla-s
ture. Lets educate our boys" he
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