Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-09-23

er outsider to help them. The democrats OF
: tennessee are fully competent to nominate
I candidate for Senator. It is officious in the
, extreme, on the part of Senator Kern, to have
] written any such telegram. Senator Kern's
attitude toward Senator Lea, however, has
not always been as indicated in the telegram,
q II we accept common report. Indeed the atti-
/, tude OF Senator Kern and his democratic
colleagues in the Senate last winter, when
Senator Lea was in Tennessee in attendance
upon legislature, is so well known that it
got into verse, and at that time a poem was
written and published on this very subject,
which very much more accurately describes
Senator Kern's real position in the matter
than does his telegram, and the poem reads
as follows:
Said Reed to Kern; who is that chap, who's
standing over there,
The youthful looking gentleman, with quite
Drazen air;
have seen that fellow somewhere Kern,
but just who can he be?
Said Kern. to Reed; why don't YOU know
That's Lea of Tennessee.
Why so it is, said Reed to Kern; my eyes
must be to blame,
Don't tell him that | asked you, for it really
was shame.
On no, said Kern, | understand; twas not SO
very queer,
You are excusable my friend, he is so seldom
here"
Senator Lea and Labor
saw IN Senator LEAFS paper few days
ago where ne was being extoled by somebody
for being the laboring mans friend. Ger
family II any labor people believe this they
nave never examined Senator LEAFS record on
the subject of labor. If there is system
which is hateful to labor it is that system
known as the Taylor system, and yet when y
a vote was being taken in the Senate on
this system, and two votes would have de-
teated it, Senator Lea was not present, and
did not then vote for labor. IS
So, when the immigration bill was up, a
Dill In Which labor was so vitality interested
Senator Lea was too busy in other matters
to cast his vote in favor OF the laboring man.
And SO, when the question of appreciation
for the prosecution Of the trusts was up, an
amendment was offered, providing,
That no part OF this money
shall be spent in the prosecution
OF any organization or individ-
ual for entering into any combi-
nation or agreement having in
view the increasing of wages,
shortening of hours, or better
ing conditions Of labor"
but Senator Lea was too busy to be present
and vote for the laboring man on that i'm
poFtant measure.
Senator Lea next says in his speech, that
The last Congress should have enacted
and the next Congress must enact a measure :
prohibiting the transportation as interstate ,
commerce OF goods manufactured whether by
child labor or convict labor"
What is Senator LEAFS record on the chill !
dren's bureau bill? We find from the Record :
on January 81, 1912, he is recorded as mot
voting"
He declares he is in favor of the laboring =
man, and yet the record shows the following !
record on labor:
January 49,, 1912, roll call on right of pc =
tition, not voting y
January 81, 1912, children's bureau bill, not t
voting. y
February 27, 1912, investigation of Law y
renee, Mass, strike, not voting.
April 10, 1912, literacy test in immigration .
DILL not voting. !
May 81, 1912, final passage Of the eight !
hour law, not voting. :
May 27, 1918, roll call on West Virginia I
strike investigation, Kern resolution, not q
voting.
October %, 1918, seamen's bill, not voting. y
July 8, 1914, antitrust provision, sundry .
Evil bill, not voting
December 81, 1914, immigration bill, not q
voting. =
January 2, 1915, final passage of immi- . .
grafton bill, not voting.
February %, 1915, first roll call on Taylor F
scientific system of checking employees, not s
voting. y
February %, 1915, second roll call on Tay- +
or system, not voting. Il
February %, 1913, third roll call on Tay-
or system, not voting. Il
These are just some of the record votes of "
senator Lea on the question Of labor, and yet h
e claims in his speech to be the laboring
mans friend. He cannot prove it from the
ecord The only way he can prove it will !
re by getting letter or telegram from =
,nnatOr Kern olco M 10 moi 70 "
niliar with his record.
he Sum Total of Senator LEAFS Service in /,
the Senate. 81
Senator Lea has asked you democrats to
ominate him as your candidate for the Sen tt
tie to serve another six years. What is his fl
ecord? What has he done? This is the
fth year Of his service in the Senate His
ublc services during that time, as shown by
he Congressional Record, barring incense
uential matters like introduction of pension
ills and reports thereon, asking for COM
littee of the Senate to visit Knoxville, a Red
ross resolution, a District Judge bill for
Nashville which was allowed to lie dead after
IS introduction, shows the following six mat =
ers of public Importance. First, he was on 3
ne committee that tried the right Of William Il
orimer, Senator from Illinois, to retain p'
is seat in the Senate. There appears in the
congressional Record, on pages 1884 to 1888 w
that Congress, what might be termed a II
rief of the evidence, apparently made by OF
enator Lea and printed in the Record. The te
Ote expelling Lorimer was very close NJ
ublic opinion was greatly divided. Many pl
eople thought those who voted for the ex- :,
ulsion Of Lorimer were perhaps not pos "a
essed of too sound record themselves; but u
e that as it may, there was difference of eI
pinion as to his guilt, and it was an impor- Je
INT matter, and Senator Lea took part in it. 81
ONE may say that Senator Lea might have g
cen better engaged if he had put in all this ia
me that he was trying to unseat Lorimer, in We
orking for the upbuilding of the material co
lterests of Tennessee. At any rate, how W
,rmances in the Senate. IF the exnnIsion az
Infinnnr rnnann ANYTHING, To Tannncnnano to