The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-04-07
UNQUALIFIED APPROVAL
Is GIVEN PLATFORM ANO
CANDIDACY OF GOV. RYE
CONTINUED from. First Page,

]. l. Finney, chairman Of the COM
mittee on resolutions, reported the
following:
We, the delegates of the reunited
and militant democracy of Maury coun-
ty commissioned by direct vote of the
people to sit in the State Democratic
convention at Nashville, on May II,
next, do declare and resolve as fol-
lows:
I'VE commend, without reservation,
the wise, patriotic and statesmanlike
administration of our great president,
Woodrow Wilson. We especially en-
dorse his foreign policy as being hui
name, sound, wise and intensely Amer
lean. While preserving peace in the
midst of an almost worldwide cat
aclysm he has at the same time main
tanned inyiolate the rights of neutrals
and the honor of the nation. His
course in the submarine and armed
ship controversy with Germany meets
the unqualified approval of every pa
triotic and liberty-loving American,
and we commend his efforts to secure
the rights of American citizens at
home and abroad, on land and upon
the high seas. We heartily approve
his Mexican policy and send greetings
to the brave soldiers who are engaged
in the punitive expedition in Mexico.
Our prayers are with them.
1--WE endorse the thoroughly demo-
ratio domestic policies of the nation
al administration and point with pride
to it's magnificent record of achieve
ments. We pledge the vote of this
county to resolutions instructing the
votes of Tennessee as a unit for the
denomination of Woodrow Wilson in
! the st. Louis convention.
Gov. Tom c. Rye deserves the
hearty approval of every law-abiding
democrat of the State for the earnest
ness, the fidelity and the zeal with
which he has endeavored to carry out
and fulfill the pledges made by the
last Democratic State convention.
With a rare devotion he has consecrat-
ed himself to the task of enforcing
the laws and dissolving the corrupt
partnership existing between organized
vice and crime and lawless municipal
political machines. Under his wise
direction and leadership the democrat
ic party in Tennessee has been re
united and triumphant; party plat
forms have secured respect and
veneration never before accorded them
and the laws of the State have been
fairly and justly executed in sections
where formerly they had been a by
word and reproach. Without reserva
ton, we endorse the last State Demo
cratic platform and Gov. Rye's inter
probation thereof and all laws enacted
by the last legislature for the purpose
Of carrying that platform into effect
and we demand the enactment Of Sicl
additional legislation as Gov. Rye ma!
;, find, from an experience of two year!
as chief executive Of the State, to b,
necessary to preserve the majesty o
/ the law. We pledge the vote of Maur,
! county as unit for the denomination
of Gov. Rye and the PRONUNCIATION of
platform in harmony with his admin
istration and these declarations o
principles.
I'VE believe that party governing
> Dodies are trustees of the entire party
that their course at all times shout
: be dictated by party and not factiona
interests, and therefore only sue
democrats as subscribe to and &C
upon these broad principles of part
management should be members Q
l. party executive committees. In HoI