The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-10-16
MONDAY 4 BIG
DAY IN MARYV|LLE
General Harvey H. Hannah, Hon. JnO.
Jennings and Hon. John B. HOl-
IOway We're the Speakers.

the Prince of Peace, the Man of
Galilee.'
"Thank God that in this hour He
gave this land a Woodrow Wilson
for our president
"And while our people all over
the republic applaud this great de-
mocrat and the people of Tennes-
see look toward him as he stands
there silhouetted against the very
horizon of the worlds hope, and
yet, while the nations Of the world
look to the democracy of this re-
public to lead them to peace, the
pity of it is that Tennessee the old
Volunteer state, the land Of mem
cries and traditions. in whose breast
the ashes of Andrew Jackson and
Polk and johnson sleep; that Ten
nessee has so far forgotten her
birth-right and her traditions as to
forsake the doctrines of her fathers,
turn her back on the great presi-
dent of this country and make the
election of a partisan republican
like Ben Wade Hooper possible.
Tennessee has fallen on evil and
unhappy days. For the last six
years she has been rent in twain
by political strife and dissension.
Hypocrisy, hate and partisan bitter
ness have been on the wings of
every passing breeze; her COVER
ment has been in the hand of poll
tical adventurers; her credit prac-
tically destroyed, and her people
restless, disconted- and unhappy.
"This is the price we have had
to pay to HooperiEe Tennessee.
"Shall we, as people, continue
this intercnencine war among our
selves?
Governor Hooper as a candidate
for a third term presents pitiful
sight.
"After four years as governor he
has to take the stump with an
empty state treasury, the states
credit disgraced the open saloon
wiped out by the democratic ma
jorities in both branches of the leg
islature, and his only political asset
left him as some poor negro, or
white man, selling a pint of liquor
in some back alley, and to these
miserable bootleggers he clings
like a drowning man to straw,
for an issue in the present cam
paign. We're it not for these few
bootleggers he would be like the
play of Hamlet, with Hamlet left
out.
"The truth is, Governor Hooper
would not have every bootlegging
joint or saloon to close in Tennes-
see for anything, for this is his
political stock in trade, and if
they were to close, he would be
like Othello-his occupation would
be gone and he could no longer try
to fool the people and keep the Ii
quor question in politics in Ten
nessee.
"The truth is, my fellow citizens
and history will bear me out-the
democratic party has been the only
effective temperance party in Ten
nessee, and the only party that has
ever written a single law on the
statue books of this commonwealth
prohibiting the sale of liquor.
"When the republican party, years
ago, was in complete control of this
state, and when it had both branch
es of the legislature, the governor
and he courts, whisky was sold at
every cross road, and grog shops
fiourished in every village in every
one of the ninety-six counties in
Tennessee. You old men remember
it we'll.
"All men remember that the last
great fight between the two par
Tennessee was between Gov. Fraz-
ier, the democratic nominee, on a
temperance platform, and the Hon
Jesse Littleton, the republican can
didate, on a whisky platform. Gov
Hooper supported LiUtleton in tha,
fight.
"The truth is, fellow citizens,
Gov. Hooper from his boyhooI up,
has been supporting republican
candidates for governor on whisky
platforms. 1 wouldn't be surprised
if he didn't lead one of their ro-
cessions in Cooke county the year
the democratic nominee for COVER
! nor, Tom G. Rye, as boy making