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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
GERMANY'S AMBITION.

Only the Unsuitable greed and ambi-
ton of Germany is responsible for
the European war. Germany has
for many years hoped for the day
that has now come. The Empire be-
lieves that it is able to dispute with
England the premiership of the
world. 1t is jealous of the other
powers and has been busy with
money and men TO prepare for the
assertion of its proWess. The war
has been almost inevitable for more
than a decade. Of all tie PEOPLE of
Europe those of Germany alone de-
sire war. France mas prospered dur
ing forty-four years Of peace as 1t
has never before prosperei. 1t has
not been ambitious; 1t has not sought
to extend its power or influence in
Europe. The same il true Ct Eng
land. Neither power has desired
war. But it is altogether different
with the war lord OF Germany. He
believes that the army aud navy of
that power are invincible and is an
xious still further to increase his
prestige.
1t will be glorious thing for the
future peace and happiness Of all
Europe If Germany is humbled in this
war. 1t is with that nation wholly
a war Of conquest and aggression;
that is not true of France. If Ger
many should win a final victory every
opposing power would have to fight
or national existence. However,
should England join forces with
France and Russia we have little
doubt that the final outcome would
be altogether favorable for the Anglo
Saxon. In that event France should
and no doubt will have restored to
her Alsace and Lorraine. Germany's
power would BE- humbled and Eu-
rope would be assured of another
long period Of peace.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
That is right, fair and reason

inee. That is right, fair and reason
able.
Democrats Of Tennessee have not
been and are not divided upon any
national issue. They all voted for
Wilson because he received in this
state the average democratic vote
for the past fifteen years. Any effort
to divide them now is simply born of
a desire to work an advantage for
republican candidate for governor.
1t is game that is apparent to any
one.
The purpose in keeping the indie
pendents out of the primaries in the
fifth and seventh districts is to en-
courage republican and independent
democrats to make the race ON the
Hooper ticket. In neither district
will the independent-republican candi-
date have any chance of election this
year, but their candidacy would be
of immense help to Hooper. The
governor would be the beneficiary of
every dollar of campaign funds used
by the independent republican candi-
date, he would get the benefit of the
vote that. would be brought out
This is the whole purpose of the
scheme to keep independents out of
the congressional primaries.
Why this discrimination. There is
a primary in the eighth district. Why
not advise the democrats down there
to stay out and get into a row over
national questions? Why are Hous-
toms and Padgett's districts singled
out? What offenses have they com.
mitted? 1t is true that two years
ago both were independent democra-
| tic candidates, but simply because
they were denied a fair and demo
cratic deal by the congressional COM
mittees. But both made their races
as democrats. Both announced from
every stump that they were support
| ing the democratic ticket from Will
son on down.
1t is to be hoped that the scheme
to stir up strife among democrats in
national contests in the interest of
the republican candidate for COVER
nor, will not be as easily worked as
the conspirators hope. No reason
whatever exists why democrats of all
kinds should not vote in the con-
gressional primary in this district.
All are agreed upon every issue of
Importance that will come before
congress during the next two years.
No issue Of principle, embraced in
the democratic national declaration
,of faith, divides Padgett and Turn
er or Houston and Little.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07

of Maury county," no district being
given. The board knew, however,
that the candidate was a resident OF
a certain district, that voters Of that
district signed the petition and the
formalities were waived. That is as
it should be. The commissioners
should be fair and just and straight
forward. The conduct of the chair
man in Shelby county is that of a
narrow and partisan chairman, ready
to take advantage of his power.
And in the Shelby county case it
seems so unnecessary to resort to
sharp methods. 1t Is admitted that
Crumps crowd has the worst of it in
the appointment of the election off,
GERS. If the county does not have a
fair election next week the RESPONSE
oility will be wholly upon the Shout
ders of the anti-Crump faction. That
being the case broad minded and fair
men would be only too willing to
waive technicalities. If a majority
Of the voters of Shelby county, in a
fair and honest election, express a
wish to have for their sheriff a pup
pet of Mayor Crump, who, in a de-
mocracy, has a right to say them
nay? Reichman may be bad man,
worse even than Crump, but If ma
jority are determined to elect him
sheriff they should not be denied the
opportunity through any sort of leg
erdermain. This is a democracy; the
people are the rulers. We do not al
ways agree with the majority, very
often we do not, but we have yet to
dispute their right to have what they
desire in the way of officials. When
we do we will then agree that dem
ocratic government is a failure.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
INDECENT POLITICS.

Accustomed as we are in Tennes-
see these degenerate days OF bitter
factional politics, to indeoencies, to
hypocrisy and to demagogy, We do
not believe that the people were pre-
pared for the latest outrage against
every sense Of right and fairness that
was perpetrated by Candidate Coop
er when he used the private letter of
his opponent to his confidential secre-
tary as campaign document. The
letter was lost on train. A parti-
san of Cooper found 1t. 1t was clear
ly a strictly confidential and private
communication such as a man would
naturally write to his private secre-
tary. 1t was not a public document;
1t was intended alone for the eyes of
the person to whom it was addressed.
Under the circumstances, it seems to
Us, that any right thinking, clean
minded, honorable gentleman would
have promptly returned the letter to
the owner, unread. But this was not
done, the letter was given to the pub.
lie amid flourish of trumpets and
published to the world by the man
whe had no sort CT mora, right to
read its lines.
If Cooper had any chance Of cleo
ton we believe that his conduct in
this matter will utterly destroy It.
It 10 unthinkable that the democrats
of the great Hermitage district,
wherein rest the bones Of democra-
cy's patron saint, Old Hickory, would
send to congress a man guilty OF
Cooper's breach. AS matter of fact,
there is no issue between the candi-
dates. One has the Office and wants
to keep it; the other is out and wants
to get in. They are In perfect agree
ment upon state and national Ques-
lions. Byrns has served ably and ef-
fciently for six years. His expert.
ence will enable him to render yet
greater service to his constituents
and even aside from the indecent let
ter episode, he ought to be returned
to congress. We shall not be surpris-
Cd If that is the almost unanimous
verdict of his constituents.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
A HoWLiNG FARCE.

Evidently they have no higher re-
gard for human life in France than
we have in Tennessee. The result
of the Caillaux trial is just what it
would have been had the trial taken
place in one Of the counties of this
commonwealth. However, we would
have been more decorous in arriving
at the same result We would have
had more regard for the proprieties
of the occasion; our rules of evidence
would have appealed more to ones
commonsense and we would have
had better order in the court room.
In the end, however, the bloody muir
derer would have gone free and invit-
ed to kill some other offending men,
Der Of society.
While there is little difference In
the results obtained in our murder
trials and the verdicts rendered in
the same class of cases in France,
we rather prefer our method Of arriv.
ing at the result. In the recent case
in Paris the witnesses were permit
ted to harangue the jury, to bring in
matter having no relation whatever
to the merits of the case at issue.
The spectators Kissed, groaned and
applauded the witnesses much as we
/, would political orator in this coun-
try.
In the Paris case a woman without
much character, who had been the
mistress of her husband while he had
another wife, deliberately assassinat.
ed an editor who had threatened to
publish documents that would have
Inundated and embarrassed her hus-
band. She was guilty of murder in
the first degree. There was no ques.
ton about that fact, no denial Of it.,
no effort to prove self-defense or an
alibi. In England or in Virginia she
would have been promptly convicted
Of the crime Of which she was plain
ly guilty and would have been as
promptly punished.
We may have an advantage in Ten
nessee in our rules Of evidence over
the methods Of the French trial,
but the latter was doubtless less ex-
pensive. Here We would have been
weeks selecting jury and We would
then have hired high priced alienists
to prove that at the exact moment Of
the commission Of the crime the
woman was insane, although just be-
fore and just after the deed she was
perfectly rational.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07

In marked contrast with the action
of the anti-Crump machine in Mem.
phis in keeping Reichman's name on
the ballot because OF technicality,
was the course pursued by Judge
Williams in waving all foImalities
as to Burrows name on the same
ticket. Judge Williams course was
manly and should make him new
friends all over the state. II he can
not get the office he seeks through a
fair expression Of the people he does
not want 1t. What fine thing it
would be If all candidates took the
same high ground?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
SHARP PRACTICE.

We do not care rap who is elect
ed sheriff Of Shelby county, but it
strikes US that the reformers or old
Patterson crowd down there are hard
pat and in desperate straits in their
efforts to elect a sheriff If they sue
coed in keeping the name Of the op-
position candidate from the ballot
through q technically. Such meth
DDS deserve to be rebuked even If
they are urged in the name Of re
form" And by the way, almost as
many crimes have been committed
Ia the name of reform as have been
perpetrated in the name Of liberty.
It appears that Reichman, the dem
ocratic nominee, did not file his pc
tition with the chairman Of the cleo
ton. board as prescribed by the stat
ute. He did, however, file It WITH q
member Of the board. Technically
the commission may have q right to
omit his name from the printed bal
Lot but 1t is piece Of sharp practice
that no one with a sense of fair play
can approve. In this county less
than half the petitions were filed
with the chairman. Not half OF the
petitions filed at all were in conform
fly to the requirements of the stat
ute. The law requires the petition
to be addressed to the candidate,
more than half of them were address
ed to the commissioners of election.
But the commissioners waived ev-
cry technically. Where it was the
evident intention of fifteen voters to
ask a candidate to make race or
have his name on the ballot, the petit
ton was granted, no matter what
the wording might be or with whom
II wars filed. One candidate for con-
stable filed a petition to go on the
ballot as candidate for constable
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
WHY SHOULD THEY?

The Banner says that independent
democrats should keep out of the con-
gressional primaries in the fifth,
ixth and seventh districts. Why?
These are national contests, no state
or local issues are involved and we
have il from the governors most de-
voted advocates that there has been
no division among democrats Of Ten.
nessee on national issues, which h
a fact Then why should there be
division now? Is it simply that
Hooper may be benefited?
There was a split in the democra-
tic party in 1912 in the fifth and sew.
enth districts because the commit.
tees made regulations for the pri.
maries that brought in matter of
which they had no jurisdiction; they
sought to lug state issues into a ma.
tional primary. There was no split
in 1910 when the democrats were
more divided over state issues than
they are today. The committees in
the seventh and fifth districts in 1910
did not, however, recognize the party
split on state issues. They did in
1912. But this year in both districts
that objection has been removed.
Only one pledge is required and that
is to support the congressional nom
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
Twenty Years
Ago in Columbia

(The Weekly Herald, Aug. 5, 1S94.)
Judge Webb Nelson died last
week at Tracy City. He was killed
as the result Of mutiny that occur
red among the convicts at Tracy
City, being deputy warden at that
place. Two guards also lost their
lives. He served three terms as
chairman of the county court and
was a member Of the legislature at
the time of his death.
Returns indicate the election Of
Frank Boyd as attorney general Of
this circuit over J. H. Russell, the
independent candidate. Boyd's mai
ority win be not less than 1000.
The fight in Maury is close with the
result in doubt. In the Columbia
district E. D. Looney, e. E. Erwin
and T. J. Coleburne were elected
justices Of the peace and T. q. Lips
comb was elected from the city.
Love Webb and J. G. McGaw were
elected constables. At the court
house last Monday Mr.. Boyd and
Capt. RUSSELL addressed fair sized
audience in the interest of their can.
didacy for attorney general
A tally-ho party from Columbia
stormed Mr.. and Mrs. Sims Latta one
night last week. They were cordial.
ly received and Hospitality enter.
tanned.
Leslie Davis, the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Davis, had his leg
broken. He was riding horseback
when loose horse kicked him ON
tlts leg.
Tom Grove, Of the capital police OF
Washington and son Of Capt. Jno.
M. Grove, Of Rally Hill, is at home
for a visit.
A. B. Harlan has gone to Fernvale
springs for ten days.
Chaperoned by Mr.. and Mrs. Nose
Lazarus a large party of young peo-
pie enjoyed a hay ride last Wed.
nesday.
TheWednesday night whist club
was entertained last Wednesday
night by Mrs. A. Samuels. Delicious
refreshments were served.
Miss Della Calvert has been ap-
pointed teacher of the Rockdale
school.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
VOTE FOR WILLIAMS.

Regardless of your choice for
sheriff or clerk or constable on next
Thursday, vote for Williams for
supreme Judge.
Saml. C. Williams is a lawyer of
ability and citizen Of character
and integrity.
He has served for year and a
half on the highest court of the state
giving universal satisfaction to bar
and litigants.
His pre-eminent qualifications for
a Judge of the supreme court are ad-
mitted even by those who are trying
to encompass his defeat.
Judge Williams in this contest
stands for a non-partisan judiciary
just as Judges Neil and Shields and
associates stood four years ago.
Judge Williams is candidate be-
fore all the people of the state. His
announcement was an appeal direct
ito the people without the interven-
ton of any party or machine.
He is in no sense a politician, has
never been one. This Is his first
candidacy for q public ONCE. He
has no political ambition and his can
didacy is not in the interest Of any
other candidate.
Judge Williams is q democrat but
SO satisfactory has been his service
upon the bench and in such high es-
teen is he held that he has the sup.
port of republican lawyers: OF "regu-
lar" democratic lawyers, Of independ-
emit democratic lawyers and of law
yers who have no politics at all.
Our courts especially our highest
court, should not have any politics.
That is the sentiment of a majority
Of the people of this state, expressed
in 1910 by a most emphatic vote; 1t
lis sentiment that the people OF
Tennessee cannot afford to reverse at
this time. Judge Williams has not
made a partisan appeal, and he is
not responsible for any that have
been made for him.
We make no appeal for Judge VII
lians, nor would he make any fol
himself because Of his decision in
the election law suit or any Other
case. Judge Williams would have
decided the election case against the
Independents and republicans, If as
lawyer and Judge, he had been con
vinced that the other side had the
law and the constitution.
There is not a democrat or repubh
! can or independent in Maury county
who cannot with a good, clean con
science vote for Judge Williams. AL
are interested in court made OF men
like Williams He will, If elected,
be a Judge of and for all the people
He will have the ability and the cour
age and the integrity to make the
sort of jurist we all like to have
try our cases.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
GOOD WOMAN GOES
TO HER REWARD
ARs. w. A. voss, AFTER FOUR
YEARS OF ILLNESS, DIED
THIS MORNING.

Mrs. w. A. Voss, after four years
If patient suffering, died at her home
N East Ninth street this morning.
She lacked but a week of being 60
years of age.
Mrs. Voss was the mother Of .
arge family of children. She is sur
sived by her husband and the f't
owing children. Mrs. Lena Dooley, Of
Hillsboro, Texas; Austin Voss, Of #
Worth, Texas; Mrs. J. E. Lee, o.
Huntsville. Tenn; Mrs. Walter Grimm
OF Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. VIII Lancaster
diss Roberta Voss and Erwin ana
Figuers voss, Of this city. All Of
them were with her when the emo
came except the two first.
Mrs. voss was Miss Annie ELIZA
Roberts before her marriage. Hs
home was in Pulaski. She was
member Of the First Methool@
church. She was q woman Of kindly
and charitable instincts, and there
will be many who will be saddens'
by the information Of her death.
The funeral will take place ="
day afternoon at 3 o'clock at the |"
idence. Rev. w. T. Haggard, a3
aston, will be assisted by Re"
Allison Molloy, of Mt. Pleasant.
The following will act as pail Oe1
ers, T. M. voss, T. e. Lipscomb, JONI
Voss, Rush Gresham, John Cou'
and M. M. Butts.
Maury Undertaking Co., funeral Or
srsctors, In charge, H. 8. Smith, m'1
agef.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
WHITE HELD FOR
GRAND JURY ACTION

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 30.-Sam-
uel L. White, formerly city comp
t-oller, charged with the embezzle-
ment Of s14,50O, waived examination
in the police court today and was
held to the grand jury. His bond
was fixed at $4,000, in default of
which he was remanded to Jail.
White is charged with hypothe-
eating bonds of contractors deposited
with the city to insure contracts. He
is a member Of a prominent Louis
vile family.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
SCOTLANDS FOOD r
SUPPLIES SHOKi

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 6-Retail p' AN,
Of provisions advanced oo PEI had
yesterday. Stores in some '"'s ,irg
to close, as their stocks wen .,osd
low. Sugar lrefneries have 'i' =,
and grocersIare unable to OBTAIN -
Their supplies.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
SPOILED EVERYTHING.

What became Of your Uulift
Society,""
1T went to smash"
"How's that?"
why the very people we were 60
ing to uplift we're the first to rush in
and join
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07

LOOKS THAT WAY.
What's that you say?"
Every little town has a murder all
its own"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
CHATTANOOGA REVER-
SIBLE DISC PloNS

Work as well on level as III 2
lands. The upkeep and cost Oh wv. :,
alton of the Disc Pillow Is less IT,
any Moulboard Pillow made.
1t Street, Martin & Vaughan "
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
SOON OLD.

Il hear an automobile was built in
Hthfrty.dve minutes at q factory test.
Wonder If that is true?"
Yes, it is true. And went out Of
style In exactly thirteen minutes
more"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07

Nice line of Tango Pins, many pref
ty designs, many designs, at Harri-
sons and 10 Cent Store. 1t
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07
FLORAL GOSSIP.

FLORAL GOSSIP.
Il hear the lily pads" murmured
one flower.
And the hollyhocks the family
valuables," insinuated another.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-08-07

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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-08-02
Where We Get
Our Chewing Gum

ChiCe is the product of the Sapodilla Tree in
MeXiCO-a creamy white sap, that is obtained by
the natives hacking the bark of this tree in a
trough like form, it flows and CongealS-is gath
cred and sold to the shippers
1t is very sticky, catches everything that flies;
the Tropics are full of bugs, flies worms, moss,
and like fly paper this ChiCe gets it's share. Then
the natives down there are not well up on mod
ern sanitary rules, never heard of maniCurist,
and they sell this chiCle by the pound, SO even a
little fly weighs something. After the biggest
pieces of bark, moss, insects etc. have been re-
moved the gum makers hand out to you an at
ractive, highly favored, but muddy colored chew
ing gum, and let you do the rest of the refining
through your mouth.
Are you examining this muddy colored gum?
Notice the black SpeCks?-YeS, you are saving the
gum makers thousands of dollars annually by
chewing out and swallowing this filth.
Why not insist on clean, pure
chewing gum? Why not insist ON
MO-JO, the white chewing gum?
It's the only pure gum.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-08-02
REPLY

Fort Smith, Ark, July 18Th 1914.
The MO-JO Sales Company,
Fort Smith, Arb.
Gentlemen:
Replying yours of the IOh inst beg that
sold local MARKET found MOJO be
entirely foreign material and also found hat MOJO
ranked at the top in cleanliness purify and quality.
Yours truly
(Signed OTTO y MARTIN
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-08-02
Is MO-JO Chewing Gum Really
Pure and Clean?
READ THIS CORRESPONDENCE
Fort Smith, Ark, July IOth, 1914.

Fort Smith, Ark, July ION, 1914
Prof. OnO Y. Martini Analytical Chemist
City Schools Fort Smith, Ark
Dear
ago you gerry
ough Chewing which
being in among "MO-JO" VIII
you kindly of analysis ap
Piled 10 OJO and greatly obLge
Yours
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-12-04
Annual Reunion,

On Thursday, November 26, Thanks
giving. the family OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson A. Brown held their annual
reunion at the home Of Mr.. Brown, in
Silver Run. Everybody present great
ly enjoyed general good time, and
especially sumptuous Thanksgiving
dinner
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.
Nelson "A. Brown, Mrs. Savilla Maus,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. Marker and
children, Jacob and Evelyn, Mr.. and
-drs- John H. Brown and daughter,
Mabel, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver H. Brown
and daughters, Mary and Evelyn, Mr.
and Mrs George E. Smith and child
rem, Bessie and George, Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore f. Brown, MIR. and
Mrs. Oscar n. Brown and sons, Mel
son, Tobias, Wade and Preston, Mr..
and Mrs. William E. Brown, Mr.. anQ
Mrs. William f. Dutterer, Jr., and
daughter, Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
D. Brown, Bessie Y. Brown, Harry J..
Brown and George a. Brown.
James d. Mitchell, Westminster
popular photographer was present
and made picture of those present.