The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-06-21
TROUBLE AHEAD
FOR MACHINE IN
SENATORIAL RACE
LOWER COUNTIES DO NOT TAKE
KINDLY TO T. BLEDSoE
BROWN.
DO NOT like HIS RECORD A BIT
That Salary Grab Measure VIII Not
Down and Thereby Hangs Tale.
Regular Organ, Of Lewis County, Is
Up In Arms.

Regular Organ, Of Lewis County, ID
Up In Arms.
There's trouble and a plenty of II
a brewing for the regular" or liquor
democratic machine in Maury county
which is bent on the denomination of
DR.. T Bledsoe Brown for the senate
The trouble Is in the smaller counties
of the district. Down in Perry and
Lewis the people are not taking very
kindly to the hoggishness Of the Maui
ry machine. They are insisting that
they have some rights in the matter
particularly when those are the only
counties OF the district that have Civ.
en- the machine candidates majorities
within the last six years. Six years
ago Greenlaw carried Maury county
OH temperance platform, and Greer
did the same things two years and
houi yVaio dSo' III lSUo LOWE was
the only county of the district to sup
port the machine candidate and two
years ago Perry was in the same at
titude.
There is small wonder therefore
that the people who really elect the
machine candidates are not taking
kindly to the giving the Office to Maui
~ ccurty all the time. They are ask
ing for some sort of an equitable di-
vision Of the honors.
The sentiment of the lower coun-
ties is reflected in the following edi-
torial from the Hohenwald Herald, a
rantankerous regular" organ:
"Maury county, has been very gen.
eroIs to Lewis county in the past, by
allowing her to name two state sena-
tors for the goth district since the
civil war. She has done this very
thing. And if there is anything in
the past history of Maury county that
Ishould cause her sons to look up with
lpride it is this generosity on the part
|of Meury county. Just to think that
in period of more than so years
Lewis county has had two men in the
state senate and it is all due to the
generous heartedness of Maury ccun-
ty.
NOW the people Of Lewis want to
try another of her sons in the senate,
but this time Maury cannot be so gen.
erous because she has son who has
a record that they want to endorse
yes, record, real record, one in
which this great legislative genius
from Maury voted for measure COM
molly known as the salary grab
BILL" in which more than $4,000 90
of the taxpayers money was appro-
priated to himself and the other mem
bers of tie general assembly to the
tune of 100000 each to pay them for
playing politics for IA days instead
of attending to the peoples business
in Is days. This record also SLOWS
a vote for the Hon. Tom Taylor, a
true republican, for the Office of state
treasurer instead of the democratic
nominee. Hon. belong Rice. Yet
this son Of Maury county is such a
strong regular democrat that it is i'm
possible for Lewis county to find a
man within her borders that can be-
gin to compare with him.
I'VE wonder if the democrats of the
goth senatorial district think a record
like this will please the people. If
1t We're not for this strong record
Maury county might be again con-
strained to open up her generous
heart and let Lewis county name the
man this year."