The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-04-10
INEVITABLE RESULT.


legislature, due to hard and fast al
lance between the defenders of the
back tax grafters and the lawless liz
uor interests, forgets it's every obliga-
ton to the people of the state, leck-
lessly, wildly and defiantly violates
every rule of decency and every
canon of real democracy there can be
nos doubt that the good people Of the
state will approve any revolutionary
means taken By a minority to prevent
the consumatiCn of it's unholy and d.
abolical purposes.
Since the new alliance was form
ed for the double purpose of giving
immunity to the back tax grafters and
additional power to the liquor inter
ests the real welfare and honor of
the state have been forgotten. Ev-
cry measure that has been presented
and rushed to a vote has been born
of factional hate, venom and malice.
In no single instance has the MAORI
ty been moved by patriotic consider
atoms.
Bills to make political pawns of the
great departments of education and
agriculture and health, to put the
prison system at the mercy of the
liquor interests and the back tax
grafters, to create additional offices
to fill the Unsuitable nav of these
villainous interests, to defeat an in
vestigation Of thievery and corrup-
ton, these have all been born in hate
and revenge and every consideration
that is usually supposed to move men
in public stations, has been forgotten.
In the light of the damnable re-
coro that the new alliance has made
during it's two weeks of power there
can be no possible doubt of the re-
suit of the next election. Regular"
democracy, if it stands for and con-
dores the crimes of the legislative ma
Jority, will be forever swept from
power in Tennessee. All that is nee.
essary to insure this is clean and
honest expression of the popular will
The record made during the past two
weeks will prove a greater handicap
to the regulars" in the next campaign
than the candidacy of the unspeaka
ole Patterson in the last. However
had the plans of the regulars beer
carried to successful conclusion BY
the passage of the infamous election
law, very properly vetoed by the gov
ernor, we should have substituted the
DEGREES CT the liquor power and the
back tax machine for the will of the
people in Tennessee. Every man o.
sense knows that the party or the in
diyidual who desires an honest ex
preston of the popular will can fine
absolutely no fault with the presen
law and the present commission. /
is no use to beat the devil arount
the BUSH All know that under tn.
existing system fair elections arr
guaranteed. And that is all that an,
honest man should desire. The yer,
fact that the liquor power and tn,
back tax cumberland, masqueradins
as the regular" democracy, are dis
satisfied with the existing system i.
proof positive that it is right.
The new alliance has not been con
tent with venting it's spleen and NAL
ice upon all who have dared to dis
pute its sway, to make partisan hat,
and rancor the basis for legislation
out in putting through their nefariou
designs they have violated ever,
canon OF parliamentary aw. The,
have even threatened the speaker O
the senate because he has been hon
est, fair and incorruptible. In tn
house all semblance of pariamentar,
law and order is gone. The spealye,
who executes the will OF the bosses O
the new a)liane, has been substitute,
for the orderly processes of the Law
And yet these enemies of good go,
eminent have the audacity to tai
about the "lawlessness of the fiilibu,
terers.'
The regulars made the hegira ne,
essary They made it impossible 70
self-especting and patriotic member
to give consent to program tina
would mean ruin and humiliation fo
the state. There would have been n
hesra had the regulars exercised tn
new found power with reason with r.
sard for the rights and interests
the people and through constitution;
channels and usages. But instea
they elected to go upon a bigh earn
val of political debauch and entere
spon a program that made a hegir
Inevitable.
AGREEMENT JUSTIFIED.