The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-09-03
SIMS MAKES GOOD
IMPRESSION BY
MASTERLY SPEECH
CIRCUIT COURT ROOM Is WELL
FILLED TO HEAR UTTER
ANCES or HIS.
ne IS ALWAYS At HIS POST"
Is Making Race Entirely on His Re-
cord-Praises Democratic Party
and Its Achievements-Has Never
Had a Machine.

I'm eighteen years have never left
the city of Washington while con-
gress was in session to attend to my
own political interests" was the state
ment of Hon. T. w. Sims, candidate
for the democratic nomination for
senator, that provoked profound ap-
plause on Mosday afternoon. Mr..
Sims audience was one that filed
comfortably the large circuit court
F., room in the court house, and he was
frequently interrupted with applause,
especially whenever he mentioned his
staying at his post in Washington
when congress was in session. A
quiet vein of sarcasm underlay much
of his discourse. His crowd heard
him with profound interest, as he
pointed with pride to the record that
he has made in congress, and to the
achievements of the democratic par
ty.
Mr.. Sims said that he was making
the race entirely on his record and
that he intended to criticise none of
his opponents that were now in the
race, or who would in the future en-
ter it. He stated that while he wish
ed to obtain the democratic nomina.
ton, that he would not have it, if by
it he cut down the strength of the
party at the general election by one
hundred votes, he asked the support
of no man, but on the contrary desir-
that they lend their influence to the 4
support of one of his opponents.
In beginning his speech he spoke OF
the way in which the democratic par.
ty had benefited the people. He
pointed with pride to the progress
that they had made in cutting down
the tariff. He said that the demand |
had become so insistant for the down
ward revision of this that even if a
congress had been in office
that some reduction would have had I
to be made.
Mr.. Sims said that he had opposed
the democratic platform but few
times in his life, and that one of these
was on the question of the free pass
age of coastwise vessels through the
Panama canal and that his views on
this question were finally adopted by
The party Ship subsidy was another
point. He stated that the republicans
charged that the democrats had no
power. AS refutation
ne pointed to the new banking system
and said What wouldDwe do without
he present financial system in the
ace of war conditions" He said that
his was the best system that the
United States had ever had.
Mr.. Sims said that if elected to Of
ice, he intended to introduce a bill
1y the terms of which all postmas
ers were to be appointed by the post
master general, so that the President
md congress would not have to be
subjected to the petty worries that
he appointment of each postmaster
causes. His reason for doing this, he
;aid, was Because it's for the pub
ic interest"
Mr.. Sims said that often senators
become entangled in the meshes OF
,ity politics in order that they might !
'etain the support of their constitu-
,nts. "The greatest danger to the
United States at present is the great
,ity." He said that he had never liv-
ID in city where it was possible to
rave a political machine, even if he
lad wanted it." 81 don't have to at
end to a machine in my own town,
md l am not interested in the max
ng OF any one mayor or chief of po-
ice"
He said that the senior senator had
charged that he lived in Washington,
tut LEA doesn't know who lives in
No ohinutou hooauSa he's never hnpn
here" Laughter and much applause 6
ollowed this remark.
He said, "I'll get out Of this race, 9
My because the interests Of the par.
y demand 1t, and for no other reason
n the world" He said that his re- {
ord of many years service to the {
democratic party was sufficient to |
rove this statement. He stated that
is long record in congress under ev- d
ny kind of administration was all
hat could be expected Of any man. :
lie sketched his record while in con-
ress showing the numerous bills that
10 had fathered, and the large num-
er of Improvements that he had
made in national affairs.
Mr.. Sims said that he had never ]
zen beaten before the public, and a
hat he had never whispered a word v
+ written letter to the election com. I