The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-05-12
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

Nashville the strongest ticket thai
could have been named by that party
In Tennessee. AS well-wisher OF the
democratic party, rehabilitated and re
generated, The Herald would warn the
democrats against overconfidence In
Tennessee this year Their pathway
to success is not going to be altogeth
er a prim rose path. The republicans
must be reckoned with. Assuming
that the party in national convention
acts with it's old-time prescience and
that it is organized, financed and mar
shalled as in the days when 1t was
proud to call itself the party of high
moral ideas, the while drawing its
sinews of war from the protected in
terests, it will be no easy task to elect
the democratic ticket in the state this
good year.
In the nominee for the senate the
republicans have at once their ablest,
most adroit and most popular mem
Der. He is probably the only repub-
1ican in Tennessee who could be named
for that office who would make any
appeal to democratic voters. That
Hooper has strong personal follow
ing and among democrats too, is not
TO be denied. He is an adroit and
exceedingly able politician, the ablest
that his party has known these many
years, a worthy successor of Parson
Brownlow He is campa1gner OF
ability, a master of invective, a logi-
cal and pleasing speaker. In the re-
publican Businesses of East Tennessee
he can be the most hide bound par
tisan" known; in the democratic
oasis of the West, he will be the can
didate alone of good government and
high ideals. While receiving the cor
dial support of Littleton and other
anti-prohibitionists of his own party,
he will make the welking ring with
his philippics against the whiskey
demon.
There are still some sores as the
result of the snap primary of the dem
ocrats last fall. Many of the fantas-
fically ardent prohibitionists, who
went to defeat behind Patterson, are
not altogether reconciled to McKellar's
nomination. There are some who vot
ed for Lea who still feel deep resent
ment against the Washington cabal
that did so much to retire the senator
While the democratic party is more
thoroughly united than it has been in
many years it will not do to say that
there are no sore" spots. Hooper
will be quick to detect the slightest
weakness in the armor of the opposi-
ton and able to take full advantage
Of it. He will not be elected. Never
theless he will not be merely an also
ran" He will be factor and big
factor in the contest There will
doubtless be times between now and
the ides of November next when the
republican senatorial nominee will
keep the democrats awake o'nights.
John w. Overall, the nominee for
governor, is a high class, clean, hon.
orable, Christian gentleman, and a
most successful business man. No
republican will have to offer any apol-
ogy for his nomination. He will not
be successful campaigner. He Is
not. like Hooper, gifted in writing or
speaking the language that Shakes
peare spake" He is rather plain,
lbnt altogether dependable business
man who has made success in life
and in politics and who will not take
the nomination of minority party
700 seriously. He probably does not
expect to be elected and herein he
differs from his running mate. Not
so with Hooper. He is not knowingly
going to lead any forlorn hopes. He
mas his eye fixed upon the senate He
believes, like Napoleon, that he is a
man Of destiny.
1t will be easier to defeat Overall
than Hooper, altogether the former is
q candidate for a state office. The
Sermer has many democratic friends,
but few of them will vote for him
against Rye. The latter has made
good; he has united the democratic
party. He has made good; he has
redeemed the party's pledges and to-
day commands the largest following
Of any man in the public life of the
state among the plain every day vot.
ers. The politicians do not love him,
but they dare not make war upon him.
THOU SHALT NOT KILL"
Commenting upon murder where
the plea of "unwritten law" will be