Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-12-17
Third District.

Well. I notice. a paragraph appear
"a in the Re q last K relative to a
contest Iibrlf to arise in toe Xt /, G.
I isiature b tween Dyke ano wilson.
Iftee rrs.ept Demo tic leg stature
( Is builk ~ out Of the same kiuu Of
4 nolitical material now as in the days
I gone by whsu the Hon. Fl. Clay Evans
VA elected by majority OF POPULAR
votes of Tennessee for governor on the
I faea of the returns and one Peter
i Tnrrev counted IN for Governor. We
+ am kp0V this. hi is Yet fresh I
onr minds to ref TO az q meter Of
4 record. which viii b., 70 coUbt, COX
! Ell on for another decade to come.
There is some comment lsre as TO
/ what will be- the action and real out
/ come of the next democratic legisla
! ture. Some of the Usmocatic leaders
nrsdict Wilson will 90 in as slick a.
creased lightning. The Republican
! leaders are of the opinion tue legi la
ture will refuse to take any definite
! action in the matter su0 will only re-
| fer If back to the county TO be settled
| on the face of the returns and any act
! tiop taken beyond this procedure will
! he held without authority and NULL
! and void, and doubt very much after
! the returns have been counted on its
| face time and again with three diffel
emf counting and adding machines,
and county election commissioners af-
ter 40 carefully going over the returns
from every voting precinct of the
comfy. and declaring Mr.. Dykes elect
ed and issuing to him a certificate of
his election that any legislative body
will attemut for any political purpose
| TO ignore the law and 60 beyond the
! face of the returns as shown in the
comfy ofsNfarion. The legislature is
not the proper place in the outset for
contest to be filed, anyway, unle
the contestant entertaius political
| hone of that body counting bin in
ana DYKES out, Just because natural
! " he is a democrat Some democrat
| leaders claim the democratic majority
| should 60 this and majority SHOULD
vote TO seat the defeated candidate,
Wilson, and knock out Dykes. That
action would be final. Hence there
could be no appeal taken. Thus would
end the contest for all time to come.
| All who believe the democratic majrr-
ity of our Tennessee legislature is
b1ilt out of such darn stuff as that,
and believe such procedure as pre-
dicted, as some of our democratic
leaders. assert will take place, | will
ask all the republican leaders to stand
Oh their heads anu seq tue salvation
of our Tennessee legislature as she
comes sweeping by With Mayor Will
on standing on front deck. A fair
thing is sure fair and wrong things
are sure wrong, and always built on a
sandy foundation ann will never
etani Mark this paragraph and
watch my prediction Notify me of
the final result of the end of this Will
son ana Dykes contest
We'll, Ielw reporter OF the News
in persoa no here this week, and bad
short interview with him along the
line of tbs future political situation,
and from y bat | could sketch from hi>
conversation, he led me to understand
le wonl1 vote a rar ubiican ticket in
1915 for irasi6ent if things continued
as they arc, OF course | viewed him
Wita d plalged mile and always feel
stimulated to have an intrvi3W with
any man connected with new paper
50 o can So the future without bling
biase1 or rraju ictd towards any pol
itieal PARTY. and will sueek tao truth
as the history of our country recor S.
Circuit court civil divi,ion, con
venea at JASPER MONDAY Quito lot
Of eases are on toe 90 ket 10 b. dis
aoged Of Qlit4 a number Of appealed
oases vent a. from Sic j. P Courts
Of orr county Che last term of the
December grand jury piled un quite a
lot Of tru bills Of IN ictments against
a large uumber Of citizens of Marion.
Tbera witl be h Il on tue Potomac for
the offenders unler this great panic
Ju t hog roor man with 8 or 10 in
family c4n accumulate surplus enough
ahead to ray a fine AMI feed and
elotha his family, i, wonderful nnz-
zie to mo II something cont turn
u pretty soon aud sweep across tue
country in the shape of prosperity,
there viii be thousands of our rsce
forced to chop wood along the publia |
higt ways at peoples wood giles IN or
DER to get lunch to ustain life
Marx thie paragraph It just over
there It's drifting in this direction
The class Of people that suffsrs toe
great st under a panic, we all will ad-
NIT, is the laborng class and their
families, A panic like this doesn' t
hurt man who has plenty, but hurt
the other fellow who hasn't cent,
and no food or clothes It's hard, in
deed, to explain and picture out the
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