The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1912-07-26
HAD HIGH ASPIRATIONS
Studied Law, Graduated, and Is Now
Leading Member Of Nashville Bar.
Served In the Legislature in 1893.
Seeks Endorsement of People
ON Progressive Platform.
BY STEWART TOWE.


High stations and places of honor in
'this busy world never come to the man
who sits and holds his hands. Activ-
.aty is the watchword that leads to am
.bition's goal. To some men it comes
early in life. TO Others it is seen only
TN the shadows of the evening.
'Forty-three years ago the subject OF
CHS sketch opened his eyes on Nash
willie. Thirty years ago he started to
dig for himself by engaging as an ex-
press messenger in the town of his ma
Givity. Honesty, integrity and thrift al
ways tell, and that is the reason the Hon.
Thomas j. Tyne of Nashville is now u
candidate for Governor of his State.
For centuries and centuries, when the
world was not as far advanced in Chris
Clan civilization as it is in these times
of peace and prosperity, might was al
ways right. To the man who slew the
greatest number of his fellow-men or
{eho won the bloodiest victory over an
adversary was given the brightest lau-
GELS. Time changed those customs un-
'til man defended his honor by dexterity
with the sword or by his excellent marks
snanship at fifteen PAGES. An eye for
m eve or tooth for tooth was still
. custom in the middle ages, but the
courts of justice have now found bet
Ger way. Differences among men are
submitted to arbitration with their fel-
fow-men as the arbiters. This is the
fairest law of the civilized world and
that class of men who daily engage
themselves in this business are counted
among the chosen. Abraham Lincoln was
one of them. Thomas Jefferson was an
other. Nearly all the great statesmen
who have distinguished themselves as
Grue Americans were at one time or an
other lawyers of some type or degree or
standing. Most of them were kind
hearted and true to the progressive
American blood that flowed in their
veins. The South has furnished as many
true statesman of this kind as has any
other section of this great country for
chat matter.
Nashville-Made.
Thomas j. Tyne is Nashville-made. He
started his career here and whatever
4 1t is now was due to his efforts while
a resident Of this city. He wanted, from
a boy up. to be lawyer, and his true
ambitions, his ability to stick, his in
tegrity, his straightforwardness, have
made him good lawyer and this, to-
gether with his standing with the Nash
willie bar, one Of the best In the South,
10 the answer to the question of why
he is a candidate for Governor.
As a citizen of Nashville his life, both
public and private, has been all that
could be asked of the most exacting.
He is publiospirited. alive to the busi-
ness, financial, social, economic and civic
life of his town. And at this time when
he is going out among the citizenship of
the State for the first instance in his
life asking for public Endorsement for
the highest State office in the gift of
the people of Tennessee it is fitting that
something should be said of his life.
Character Sketch.
Hon. Thomas j. Tyne, candidate for
Governor, is a native of Davidson Coun-
ty. He was born in Nashville Novem.
sybsr 80. 1868. His father. james w, Tyne,