Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1916-03-01

the republican organization and tn
n cause of prohibition. 1t would be ted
s ous for me to relate the well-remem
J., bered ins ances.
= NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.
Nov as to the national committee
manshlp, ! want to express the viev
that no republican congressman nov
0 or hereafter should be elected to tina
0 place. His political interests are cen
| tered IN building up machine in hi
own district. The republican party o.
; the whole state should not be made ;
mere tail to any mans congressional
kite. Whenever this is done, mark my
: prediction, the republican party II
Tennessee Will cease to be regarded as
serious contender at the polls.
Moreover, it will engender faction
politics in the district from which
! such congressman may hail, and will
hasten his political demise.
FALL ELECTION.
IF the republicans carry Tennessee
this year they must have the substan-
tial cooperation of the national organ
lzation to prevent them from being
robbed at the polls. To get this. we
should have a united party, a strong
ticket and national committeeman
whose first interest Is the election of
a senator. To nominate a candidate
for senator and place by bis side as
national committeeman man who has
put in large part OF his time IN re-
cent years cursipg and abusing him
/, would be the supremest political folly.
WOREKD FOR HARMONY.
ITO meet this entire situation, set
out some time ago to try to procure
some harmolous arrangement that
would do justice to everybody and hurt
and humlliate nobody. My efforts In
this direction were not put forth in the
interest of any Individual or faction,
but IN the interest of the party as a
whole. spent about ten days IN this
endeavor, without avail The two
congressman having within their grasp
their midwinter 'peopleless committee
IlomInatiofis, and feeling buoyed by
their new ally, Mr.. LittIeton, seemed
disposed to yield nothing material.
81 believed, and still believe. that
the republican party will not be be-
trayed into shameless Reputation of
Its record on the liquor question. If it
does, its hide will not hold shucks in
November.
~ thought that Mr.. Sells might as
well have contented himself with his
chance of returning to congress and
perhaps going as a delegate to the ms
tional convention without conspiring to
overthrow Senattr Sanders, the man
who carried the political mud that
made him.
81 thought that Mr.. Littleton might
have considered it a high privilege to
return to the fold of the state republl-
can organization, after an absence of
about ten years, without becoming pre-
matureiy ambitious to become the bell
wether of the flock, and to crowd out
men whose loyalty to the party and all
that it stands for has never failed.
PLEA FOR SANDERS.
"lt has seemed to me that the re-
publican voters of Tennessee who
know and appreciate the distinguished
services of Senator Sanders through all
these years, and who recognize his un
sullied integrity, would still desire to
avail themselves OF his political wis
dom and experience and would not at
Tempt to humble him in his old age.
Surely even those of US who have not
always agreed with him must recog-
1ize the fact that he has spent more
time and money for his party than any
,ther man in Tennessee, and that he
has passed through 1t all without the |
smell of graft or corruption on his gar
nents. 1t IS but natural that the ,
friends of the liquor interests should
want to punish him because he made
,ossible the passage of the Webb-Ken-
ION law, but republicans should not be
made the instruments of their ven-
,eance.
HIS SENATORIAL ATTITUDE.
"As to my own attitude. have new
n declared n yself a candidate for SEN .
tor, nor will do so it the nomination
8 to be a mere empty honor. As =
natter OF course, / have deeply appre- I
lated the endorsements given me by /
ny friends in the counties that have y
ireauy held conventions.
eff am to be the nominee for sena- n
or, l ought to be delegate-at-large
0 the national convention IN order 7
hat might get IN touch with the ma n
lonal organization at the very outset. y
n recognition OF this obvious fact, | +
nnounced myself as candidate for h
elegate. II there Is anything in my "
our years record as governor, every !,
linute of which was devoted to a X
trenuous struggle with a desperate f,
olitical machine, that renders me un-
t to represent my party IN national
then shall submit to the
erdlct, but it shall be the verdict Of
le republican voters, and not of any
tile coterie of self-seeking politicians al
no would wreck the party to build n
achine. shall most vigorously
try my case to the people. 1t shall v
. given q Jury trial. q, y
APPEALS TO REPUBLICANS. e,