The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-11-05

charges.
General Hannah said that 70
twenty-five years Senator Webb ha,
: been fighting the prohibition fgh
: for this State. and was known from
shore to shore. He asked the peopl,
to compare the records of Senator
Webb with that of Governor Patter
son and say whom they had rather
held up as an example for the young
|mea eff the State to low-Senatoi
Webb or Ham Patterson.
The speaker then took up George
Berry's record from his early child
hood up to the present time, showing
the struggle he had made to rise in
the world after he had been left a
fatherless lad, when his father was
killed in raid while serving as
revenue officer for the government.
General Hannah paid high tribute
to the boy who at sixteen could
neither read nor write, and now, at
the age of thirty-three, stood out as
one of her most prominent men in
the State, as we'll as the nation, and
had become the leader of three
million men.
TRIBUTE TO BERRY.
He referred to Mr.. Berry as one
of the finest specimens of determine
ton in the State, and again asked
whom the people had rather hold up
as an example for the coming gener-
ations to follow reared
in wealth and spending his life in
debauchery, or George Berry, reared
in poverty and spending his life in
serving his fellow man.
He then took UP the attacks of the
Banner on Senator Lea,
saying that the English language
was left on crutches when it came |
TO finding words that would properly |
it as descriptive of the Banner or
Major Stahlman. He said that next |
year the Banner would come out for
| Republican for the Senate, and
it to say whether it would
support Governor Patterson if he is
The speaker said that he had very
title to say about the candidacy of
Mcclellan. He had the
highest regard for him, but the facts
re that the race is between Patter-
on and Lea.
General Hannah was very severe
n his handling of Governor Patter-
on's record as public official, chal-
enging either Governor Patterson or :
nyone else to point out a single
ublic act of the Governors with /,
ride, and again measured both Pat {
erson and Lea with the standard, !,
BY their fruits We shall know them :
From the time that the pioneers a
'om North Carolina came to Ten
essee in covered wagons and set
ed in this State, with the excep-
on of the days of reconstruction.
lie blacklist four years in our history | 1
as during the administration of
overnor Patterson. Mr.. Patterson
ade his first race for Governor in
906 with a campaign of reform
edges, including the smashing of II
lie Cox machine and the return to II
lie people the right of electing their
vn election commissioners, and in
cad of redeeming these pledges Mr.
atterson at once set about to con-
ruct more formidable and cor
Ipt political machine. But the
'eatest of all his political sins was
e disorganization and disruption of
e Democratic party in Tennessee.
But what of Senator Lea upon
HON Mr.. Patterson is visiting all
S wrath. A descendant of one of
e oldest families in the State, he II
me from the Columbia Law School ii
1906, young man of towering III
lysical manhood and intellect, a
'aduate of the Southern University
Sewanee, with the highest rank
scholarship and good fellowship,
it'll all these advantages and ac- III
to enter the support
Mr.. Patterson for Governor and
e Democratic ticket To Senator
"a, more than any other man, Gov
nor Patterson owes his nomination
that campaign. Did Mr.. Lea ever
tray Governor Patterson? Did he
er betray friend? Did he ever
tray a political trust? When Mr..
ltterson became Governor he began
gather about him, with other ele-
ents of corrupt political machine, III
e whiskey element, and growing \
1t of these conditions there formed
gang of bloody conspirators which =
suited in the assassination of Sena-
Carmack, who had espoused the
hite emblem and become the leader
the Prohibition forces in the
ate. Senator Lea was a Prohi-
zionist and was he a traitor when
took the banner from the hand