Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-07-07

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rett has undergone a considerable
change in his views touching long
tenures. You remember that in that
campaign, he insisted with great ear
nestness against the principle of long
tenure in Congressional office, and
made that the burden of his appeal
in his race against Mr.. Pierce. He
told the people that long tenures in
Congressional office was ''un-Ameri-
can, un-DemOcratic, and contrary to
our established institutions; that it
was destructive of the American
spirit of ambition" He reminded the
people that George Washington, the
first President of the United States,
declined election to a third term, and
that in declining a third term, Wash
ington said that long tenures in office
was contrary to the American spirit;
that it smacked too much of monarch
icalism. Mr. Garrett convinced
large majority of the Democratic
voters of this Congressional District
that he was right in his contention
against long tenure, and we earnestly
insist that Mr.. Garrett cannot now
be heard to deny the soundness of
principle which he invoked with such
earnestness, and to his own profit.
If the principle was sound then, it is
sound now. Yet, he has received, as
compensation for his services in the
Congress twenty thousand dollars
more in salary than any of his worthy
predecessors ever received. The sal
airy was five thousand dollars year
to his predecessors, but since his first
year in the Congress, the salary has
been seventy-five hundred dollars
year-fifty per cent. more than his
predecessors received. Hence, we
submit, in all earnestness, that Mr..
Garrett is in poor position to now
appeal to the people for a continual
ton of their favor. He cannot at this
time consistently deny the soundness
of the principle he invoked twelve
years ago. His only reply can be
that he has made SO good a Congress
man that he sould be made the excep-
ton to the rule. But we have observ-
ed that when a man has so fully de-
veloped the spirit of egotism that he |
reaches the conclusion that HE is the
only man who is capable of perform
ing the functions of this high office,
and that his continuation in this Of
flee is essential to the welfare and
life of the nation, that he is very like
ly to have the people say, that the
time for his retirement has come, for
it is written, pride goeth before a
fall"
But my fellow citizens, as a candi-
date for the Democratic Nomination
for Congress, and with my conception
of the honor and dignity and import
ance of the office to which | aspire,
feel it incumbent upon me that
should frankly state to the people,
whom l would represent, my position
and views upon the great national
questions that are now engaging the
thought of the American people.
Nor do | deem it essential in address,
ng the Democracy of this District,
hat l should enter into an elaborate
discussion of the fundamental princi-
1les of the Democratic party, princi-
3les with which you are familiar, and
principles for which we, as Democrats
stand. Suffice it for me to say that
am Democrat loyal to the tradi-
ions and tenets of the Democratic
PARTY; that l believe with the intensi-
" of my being that the Democratic
party stands for those things in our
rational life so essential to the preser-
yation of our cherished American in
,titutions; that l believe the Demo
ratio party is founded upon those
principles of human rights and human