Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-07-11


i Iaborer and the family of the MAJ
killed cannot recover damages
J while if the same engine under tn,
control of the same negligent en-
gineer should kin a tramp upoI
the highway, the family of tn,
tramp could recover. Nothing tt
me could be more unfair or un
reasonable and should be speed
lily remedied.
While our school system has
greatly improved, there is yet
room for great improvement.
believe the boys and girls of this
state should be also educated more
and more along practical lines. In.
stead of our free schools turning
out boys who can go to a city and
obtain a clerkship at possibly Sc
per week, by educating them in
scientific agriculture or in useful
trade pursuits they can earn from
three to six dollars per day.
There is no man in this state
who has a greater pride in the
honor and bravery of the Con-
federate soldiers than l, and am
in favor of pensioning them just
as literally as the state can af-
ford.
l have always been a Democrat
and am in thorough accord with
the platform recently adopted at
Baltimore. | believe the Demo-
cratic nominee will be elected
president. / have no political rec
ord and was never before a can
didate fer office. In this / am
unlike my distinguished compel
itors, each of whom have political
records, and / am informed that
they have in the aggregate held
office for forty-eight years, and
that they have in the aggregate
been candidates for office ninety
seven years, and yet the friends
of some. of them are saying the
people are still in debt to them.
Like the old-time building and
loan association-the more you
paid, the more you owed. Taking
this view of it, l am afraid the
debt will never be discharged. TIL
any one is in doubt as to his duty,
and would like to vote for all of
US, vote for me now, for, Judging
the future by the past, you can
vote for my competitors any time.
/ would be unfair and would
lack candor if | did not state my
individual views upon the ques-
ton of the sale Of intoxicating
liquors.
/ do now and have always be-
lieved in temperance, and it is
for me to say to this audi
ence that my habits have always
to this opinion.
My views are now and have
been that if it could be done le-
yally, this question should be han
He'd by each community affected;
,r in other words, the general
of local option, should
lpply. Different communities
would doubtless treat the ques-
ion in different ways.
Am now and have always been
n favor of prohibiting the ship
nent Of liquor into dry territory.
t is true, shipments can be made
rom other states, but why should
lot Tennessee do all she can to re-
pect the wishes Of each com
nunity on this question?
Am opposed to the whiskey in
erests or any other interests 4
nancing our political campaigns,
elieving this to be the source Of
ne Of our greatest political evils. |
/ believe the platform in refer !
nee to this, adopted by the last j
democratic gubernatorial conven- !
ion of this state, took the correct {
lew of it when it said cit she uld |
e treated purely as an economic s
nd moral question. Men in all I
olitical parties differ widely as to f
he means to be adopted and as to /
he course to be pursued in adj v
ancing the cause of temperance. |
is a question which must and i
Mould be settled by the members t
the Legislature and the voters L
this state in their election, and n
should not be an issue in gu p
ernatorial campaign" n
Except by leaving the matter to n
lie legislature there is no other t
institutional method of dealing
18th this subject except by d. d