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

"He announced that he and Coz
gresham Sells would go as delegate
from the state-at-l Large to the nation;
convention and that Mr.. Sells woul
also be elected as national committee
man.
He further announced that torme
Governor Hooper should rot be sent a
a delegate to the national convention
and. lnterentially, that Senator San
dels should be cast into the polltIca
scrap heap.
He proclaimed his advocacy of Gov
Hooper for the nomination for senator
but obviously had arranged for him t,
have no voice IN the conduct of his owl
campaign through friend y natIona
committeeman.
"he apparently thought that it wa!
too much for the party to send its SEN
atorial candidate as delegate to the
national convention, but was entirely
proper to make one of it's congressional
candidates both delegate to the nd.
tional convention and national commit
teeman.
"He then capped the climax of his
pronouncements by stating that Con-
gresham Sells, as national committee
man, would dispense the federal pa
tronage of the state outside of tire Sec
ond district, thus in effect concedlng IN
advance that there would be no repub-
lIcan senator to attend to these mat
ters. This was only an inadvertent
confession of the fact that the election
of the state ticket was no part of the
purpose OF this new and strange COM
blnation...
s L1rTLETON Is SCORED.
Down at Chattanooga, Jesse M.
Littleton was taken into the new deal
with the understanding that he, the po-
lltlcal, Official and personal representa-
tive of the liquor interests, must make
the fight to humiliate and destroy Sen
ator Sanders, and aside from the per-
sonal qualification he would get, he
was to be made power IN the state
and given the federal pa
tronage of the third congressional dis
trlct.
"The Chattanooga Times, the thick
organ of the liquor interests,
then opened up it's batteries IN support
of the new dreibund of LIttleton, Sells
and Austin.
."ro make it appear to the cotAnon
people that | was friendly to this ar
all hands and the cook went |
to boosting me for the senatorial nom-
nation. The presumption was that |
would be such an asslnine weakling as |
20 want or accept senatorial nomlna-
lion hobbled with an organization |
boosted by political enemies and the
liquor interests.
"Thlnk, too. of the superlative gall
# a set of gentlemen that would pre-
end to desire my election as senator
md at the same time oppose my selec-
ion as delegate to the national conven
ion.
cit ia but natural that the pathway
# such combination as this should
10 strewn even at this early stage with
he wreckage Of broken obligations.
SOME DOUBLE DEALING.
Having promised to support John
V. Overall for governor they proceed
a to overlook endorsing him at Chatt.
nooga and to endorse Judge Lindsay
t Knoxville.
Then, to further complicate their
wn arrangements, LlttletOn began to
ay the wires to have himself nomi-
ated tor governor. This he will vo-
iferOusly deny, but the facts in my {
ossession are against him.
Having endorsed H. Clay Evans, OF !
for delegate to the ma ;
ional convention, to get the benefit of I
Is honarble name and strong person.
lty in that county, they oltched him
week later at Knoxville. I;
Having promised to elect J. Will
aylor as delegate to the national
onvention from the second district, 4.
nd Taylor relying on this promise and
laklng no fight, one wing of the :
reibund threw him overheard at the
lst moment and the other wing ex-
ressed to him great surprise and re-
ret. l
with only four delegates to elect }
'om the state-at-large, this combinal
on is ostensibly backing three candl- Z
ates from East Tennessee, while firm
obligated to one each from Middle
nd West Tennessee, making five in all.
OMINATED BY WHlSKEY MEN. a
LAS a forewarning of the kind Ut =
atfOrm and candidate tnat would re- =
lit from the movement, if unchecked, n
t the people take note of the fact !.
lat the delegations from Knox and
amilton counties are absolutely dom. =
ated by liquor men, many of whom :,
I'VE not voted republican ticket IN n
,ars. :,
"On the Hamilton delegation is the T.
cretary OF the democratic congress !.
onal executive committee and certain 4
ointment ex-saloonkeepers. =,
''OD the Knox delegation, there are n n
number of men formerly connected .,
th the liquor business, directly or In - ~
rectly; three men recently under IN. x
ctment for bootlegging, and the - =,
Iuor lobbyists who held ring in the - -
ses of three republican legislators -
through the session OF 1913. The ~
,ox delegation, though instructed for ~ ~
dge Lindsay, is known to very large y, NJ
favor the nomination of Littleton. =. a.
LlTTLETON A TRAITOR. bs
In this connection. let 1t be rsmem.