The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-10-23
FIRST CT Ass MAN|S
GEN. TOM RYE SAYS
CAARLESP. HATCHER
STERLING YOUNG DEMOCRAT
BELIEVES ALL SHOULD
COME BACK TO PARTY.
He INTRODUCED The NOMINEE
Believes the Reasons for Fusion Have
Ceased to Exist and That All
Should Come Back This Fall and
Help the National Administration.

To Hon. Charles P. Hatcher, of the
local bar, fell the honor of introduce
ing Gen. Thomas C. Rye, the demo-
cratic nominee for governor, at the
opera house Tuesday afternoon. He
stated explicitly, succinctly and for
chilly the reasons why no man, who
expects to retain the title of demo-
crat, can afford not to support the
nominee this year. His remarks
were cheered to the echo.
His speech of introduction was as
follows:
-Four years ago, when many thous-
and life long democrats joined the
fusion forces, they did so for the
purpose of administering to the DEM
ocratic party a temporary defeat
which they thought 1t merited be-
cause of the manner in which the
democratic party was being controlI-
ed and manipulated by those In
charge of the machinery. Two years
later these same democrats thought
that the democratic party had not yet
learned the lesson which they meant
to teach, and SO again they joined
the fusion forces, but this alignment
was understood to be temporary and,
in fact, these democrats were told by
Gov. Hooper himself that they were
not expected to continue to vote the
republican ticket or fusion ticket,
and that he and every one else un-
derstood that fusion was temporary
and because of peculiar conditions
then existing.
This year there was a candidate
for the democratic nomination who
to accept that nomination un-
less the party platform declared for
the maintenance and enforcement of
the laws and principles for which
the independent democrats had
fought for long years. This man was
by the democratic party
and placed upon platform that
should be satisfactory to every indie
pendent democrat in the state of
Tennessee. No man who is a dem
ocrat and expects to ever return to
he democratic party and vote the
democratic ticket can refuse to vote
'or the present democratic candidate
or governor unless he believes that
candidate is not honest and does not
stand squarely upon the democratic
platform and will not do the thing he
says he will do. l believe that the
democratic platform is all the indie
pendent democrats could ask, and I
believe that the candidate for gov
,rnor stands squarely on that plat
orm and will do what he says he
will do. Even the Nashville Banner
says that it believes our candidate
s an honest and truthful man, and
low can the rest of us doubt his sim
,erity?
THE democratic administration at
Washington is pleading with the DEM
ocrats of Tennessee to place this
state again in the democratic col
INN and thus endorse the best ma
,ional administration this country
1as ever had. Governor Hooper tells
you democrats that he took no part
N national politics during the last
four years. 1t was unnecessary for
him to do so. He sent Newell San
1ers to Washington as United
States senator from the state Of Ten
nessee to do this for him.
Now that the democrats of Ten
nessee have nominated a first class
candidate with a first class charac-
ter and placed him upon a first class
platform, all first class democrats
should vote for him. That candidate
Is Gen. Thomas C. Rye, whom l now
have the honor to present to you"