The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-08-06
P0T.METAL Us. RuRROM.


of the partisan character of Judge
Williams candidacy for the supreme
bench emphasizing the pledge he made
when appointed that he would run as
fusionist in 1914. is furnished by the
pot-metal advertisement being repro
duced in the republican weekly press
and in the columns of certain fusion
papers that are supporting Gov.
Hooper, designed to deceive republic
cans and Independents as to the atti-
tude of the regular democracy. The
following extract from this ready
print SANDER illustrates the point:
While there are, perhaps, other rea-
sons for this course on their part (the
regular democrats) their principal
objection to Judge Williams is that he
was one of the three supreme judges
who knocked out the unconstitutional
election law passed by the last legis-
lature. If this law had stood the test
of the courts, neither republicans nor
independent democrats would have
had any genuine representation in
holding the elections of the state.
They would have been turned over to
the tender mercies of the Crump- Cox
Howse gang in the large cities, and it
would probably have been ten years
before Tennessee would have seen an
other honest election :,
The whole scheme was intended to
rob all men of their rights at the
polls who might dare to oppose the
regular organization. When Judge
Williams, under his oath of office,
helped to wreck this crooked scheme,
the disappointed regular politicians
swore Vengeance against him.
No man whose campaign is being
conducted on such plane as this can
fairly claim to be either free" OF "un-
trammeled." The regular democrats
have based their objection on sound
reasons az A man who bases his
candidacy upon promise made to Sc
cure an appointment, is not free" and
when that promise contemplated as
sistance to the political fortunes OF
the appointing power, he cannot be
"untrammeled;" (2) the objection in
the election case was not to his de-
cision but to his sitting in the case al
all. He declined to sit in the Wander
bilt case simply because he was /
Methodist and in way responsible
for bringing the suit; in the election |
law case he decided an issue in which |
as an announced candidate he was
and politically interested; |
go he is the nominee of two political |
both of which were inter- |
ested in the election of partisan can
1idate for governor, and (4) his sup
porters with few exceptions are in
1ulging the kind of SANDER and abuse
Of democrats indicated in the extract |
above quoted, through partisan
press.
Judge Burrow is a clean man in
every respect, thoroughly. competent
md so free" and "untrammeled' that
ne would scOrn to make political
ticker to secure any Office. He would
lecide cases on their merit and not
hat this or that political faction
might be favored or punished.
On this issue the Midland Method
st, an organ of Methodism, hits the
point true, as against the pot-metal
press, except that it would have class
I'd Judge Williams as a democrat vo-
ing the republican ticket" 1t says:
With regard to the candidates for
supreme judge in Tennessee we do not
AXE much to the free and independ-
snt judiciary" claim That is merely
% catch votes. Both are Southern
prohibitionists and demo-
Gratis. Both are nominees of political
parties, and both stand for the en-
'orcement of the law.
We must, when we can, elect men
% the bench who are above even sus-
Dicion and to whom no faint of par
,ial favoritism attaches in the slight
EST degrees-Chattanoo Times.