Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-08-28
A Letter
Dallas, Texas,
August II, 1912,

ANk A9h 80 A'AAt
Editor Democrat,
Lawrenceburg, Tenn,
Dear SIR
| learn through the
columns of the Nashville Banner,
that in the August election the
entire Lawrence County Demo
cratic ticket won Although a
life long Republican, | want to
congratulate old Lawrence Coun'
ty upon the result of this election
The National Republican Con-
vention which stole the nomina.
tion for Taft at Chicago was
guilty OF the blacklist crime in
political history. A man who
accepts stolen goods is no better
than the thief The voter who
supports the recipient of such
stolen nominations is a party to
the theft and he who votes for,
L or affiliates with such a crowd is
not a good citizen. No honest
man can support the National
Republican ticket and any longer
be an honest man, and no man
can support the Republican tick
ct locally without endorsing the
greatest crime in American His
tory. The Lawrence County
election and other elections
throughout the country indicate
that the honest American voters
are going to repudiate the Re-
publican party aud its fraudulent
nominee for President as no other
party aud candidate have ever
been repudiated Either Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the greatest lead
er of men whom American soil
has yet produced, or Woodrow
Wilson, a true and worthy states
man, will be trinmphantly cleo
I ted to represent (not misrepre-
sent the American people as
their chief executive. The Re
publican party will retire, perma-
nentiy from public office in utter
disgrace and William Howard
Taft will leave the White House
with less respect OF his country
men than any other man who
ever occupied that exalted posi-
tion, In the language of Col
Roosevelt, The people shall
know the truth and the truth
shall make them free.
The country is tired of politi-
cal corruption. Both old parties
are rotten and boss-ridden.
Where one has Root the other
has a Parker, where thers is a
ABarnes in one there is a Murphy
in the other; the Cranes, the
Penroses, and Guggenheims OF
one party are equally matched
by the Ryans, the Stones. and
the Sullivans of the other. Only
in the standard bearer is the
Democratic superior to the Re-
publican party. Let us bury the
purifying remains of both these
old parties and call into power q
new party with a clean and oper
platform, an honest purpose anC
} a leader who does things.
The greatest political service
a patriotic citizen can render hi
country today is to support The
odore Roosevelt for President
those who from personal or sec
tional prejudice, feel that the,
cannon support Col. Roosevelt
may still maintain their self re
spect by voting for Woodrow
Wilson, Any man who support
Taft by his vote or otherwise /
an enemy to his country, to ordl
nary morality, and to commo
decency.
Nav the good people of on
common country regardless c
section or former political afilia
tion rally together in one gran
and united effort to bury TaftiSI
SO dee p that political corruptio
as ty pified by the modern boss
will never again rear its snak
head. In this the greatest pt
litical battle between the ma
and the dollar, in this crisis
American history, the man mo-
competent to bring order out
chaos, the man ordained by Deil
to deliver the children of lsra
out of the grasp of corpora
bondage and into the promist
land of political liberty is Thee
dore Roosevelt.
Yours truly,