The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-05-20
ROOSEVELT GREATEST LIVING man.
C. F. Boyer Believes He Should be
Republican Nominee for President.
Points Out Some of the Corruption the Court House and
Post Office Ring. Says Under Present Ruling We Do
Not Need House or Senate

The boss wanted harmony,
Yes, the very first move he made
in the present campaign was to
select a man for representative
without consulting the people.
The next step was to call his
fraudulent committee to G e tn e r
without a weeks notice The in
structions were to read and adopt
resolutions endorsing himself and
Sam R. Sells. Then came, through
their boss, their sincere regrets
that they could not endorse me.
Following this gag instructions O.
! L. McMahan came forward and
said he would be a candidate for
representative, that he could take
care of this place, along with the
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, member of the committee to
purchase books for the school
children of the state, teacher Of
public schools and member of the
hook-worm department. The boss
says he wants to give the young
men a chance. He means, | think,
that he wants to give this one
man a chance and when con-
fronted with this statement: you
have made a mistake in putting
O. L. McMahan up for us to vote
for" replied that it was the best
he could do in Cooke county"
Have we only one young man in
the good county Of Cooke whom
he could trust to do his bidding?
Our boss is very loud mouthed
about civic righteousness, tenn
perance and the enforcement of
laws. II has not been so very
long ago that he was working in
full harness for the unlawful
liquor interests" of Tennessee,
using all the financial aid and
mouth that he has in their behalf.
He has done this long since |
abandoned the cause of the
whiskey traffic Except drinking a
drop now and them and when
every effort known to human
rottenness to defeat me was used
and after his lamentable failure,
he undertakes to say what my
politics are. He says he is in fa-
vor of enforcing the laws of Ten
nessee. | think perhaps, he,
from public sentiment, is willing
to enforce the law against some
poor helpless creature who sells a
pint of mean whiskey. But how
about the enforcement of laws
under which you have spent
thousands of dollars through your
fire marshalls and penitentiary
guards and others. There has
been a man in this county for
several days ordering barrel of
beer at a time and when he could
hardly walk was on the streets
yelping for you, temperance, and
the enforcement of the laws.
Your cry for law, order and civic
righteousness must be hearlded
by somebody else besides the
court house and post office ring
before you fool the people again.
You say: Boyer, why are you
against our boss?" First, | will
say that the bosses are all the Off
spring of Satan. They are not for
the common people, but are for
themselves at the expense of the
common people. They only want
to use you as an asset at voting
time. am against Hooper's law
forbidding a poor, unfortunate
man, either white or black, from
voting because he can neither
read or write. | am against any
governor turning men out of office
when they have been elected tc
that office by the people. Hooper