The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-11-12
GOVERNOR RYE's REPLY.
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Gen. Thompson, would not be will
| ing to do anything to cause these
investigations to cease, for whatever
may be the result of this investiga-
ton to me personally, / hope the
State may profit by the same 1t is
proper to state here that the State
has not entirely neglected these 9TH
er places in their investigations with
reference to law enforcement, and as
the representatives of Memphis seem
to be able to locate without difficulty
law violations in other cities, we
hope to profit by such Investigations.
/ do not know, nor do l charge, that
these investigators represent any of
the interested parties in the Mem
phis litigation, nor do l care. shall
be glad to have the benefit of their
Investigations, and if conditions are
as assigned by the Mayor, / promise
that these places shall not be ignored
by the representatives of the State.
STANDS BY PLEDGES.
''If the attempt to carry out the
platform pledges made on every
stump during my campaign, and an
honest effort to make good the sol
emn promise made to the people just
at that moment preceding the taking
must result in political death, then /
shall not hesitate to hasten the de-
mise; for l would rather suffer po-
litical humiliation than to survive
on broken promises and unfulfilled
pledges. So it occurs to me that to
call a halt now would mean but
surrender of the same principle that
has made this litigation needful and
necessary and am not willing to do
that. If it be true that this litiga-
ton is disturbing conditions in Mem
phis or any other way proving dam
aging to her business progress, or
detrimental to the interests of her
citizens, / regret it, and assure you
/ would be glad to do anything |
could consistently to remedy or miti-
gate these conditions. But respect
fully submit that the States officials
acting under their oath of office,
ha
demned because of the conditions
which make it imperative they
should act. | have absolute conf
dence in the ability of the Memphis
officials to enforce the law and regret
that because of local sentiment they
have not succeeded in doing so. 1t
is also to be regretted that so many
of the good citizens have so far with
held from these officials their CO.
operation and support along lines of
law enforcement and / am glad to
know that this assistance and CO.
operation is the purpose and inten
ton of your organization. Memphis
is great city with a splendid citi-
zenship. They are progressive; they
do things; but Memphis is only a
part of great State; to be sure she
is very large and important part of
a very great State, but notwithstand-
ing this fact that the good citizens
Of Memphis must know that local
public sentiment cannot make or re-
peal laws, and that when the regu-
Iarly elected representatives of the
State speak law into existence that
law has the stamp of constituted
and must be obeyed
it meets the individual
IDEAS of particular localities or not
with assurances of high regard
for you and those associated with
you l am earnestly hoping that your
splendid organization will continue
he fight for law enforcement until
he officials will discharge their every