The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-06-23
To the Democrats Of the Tenth Congress
sionaI District:

| hereby announce myself aIcanddate LOT congress
for the Tenth Congressional District of Tennessee sub
iect to the action of the Democratic party in the pr-
mary of June Oath next.
lam Democrat by inheritance and from principle,
and heartily advocate all the many sound and progress
sive doctrines of the Democratic party and heartily en-
dorse all the measures of our present Democratic plat
form.
| am for the greatest navy in the world, and be-
lieve that the navy should be built rapidly as money
can build it, and that our own labor should be employed
in its construction. Some business men may oppose
this on the GROUND of the EXPENSE but this is short
sightedness for in the end it is much cheaper than
war, and manifestly safer.
am for unfolding the hands of our president in
his earnest efforts for preparedness
| believe in standing army of two hundred and
Afty thousand men, and in such compulsory military
training in our schools as will qualify our young men
for prompt military service, and prepare our country
for whatever menace or emergency may come.
say this not as war-maker, nor as one looking
to see boodshed but as one believing that the best,
and absolutely the only insurance OF peace is efficient
and conspicuous readiness for war.
am an enthusiastic advocate of good roads, as
the sures means Of encouraging agriculture and ex-
panding civilization.
AS matter of course, am for every measure that
looks to larger and better education and intel
lectual believing that whatever builds up individual
character makes for the stability of the nation. am
for infusing individual strength and vgor into our
national makeup and for that concentration of ndv
dual thought and effort that will mold national mind
purpose and destiny.
stand for the ameoration of all conditions of
labor and for increasing the opportunities and priv
leges of those who toll withtheir hands.
Every National Democratic platform for the last
thirty years has had in it an antitrust plank and there
should be special paragraph every Democratic plat
form against what we might term the o6ce-holders'
trust"
was born and reared in this district; and my af-
lection for Tennessee and her institutions is no hot
house exotic.
want 10 see civic standards raised, politics put on
higher and better plane, and the carnival OF political
dssension and corruption which has ourished to the
disgrace of our State, stopped forever.
may be met by the stale cry that others have been
as bad If so, they were wrong; and all wrongs that
follow the first, cannot make the first wrong right
| do not want to critcise anyone specifically but
do want emphacay to protest against the system OF
establishing and perpetuatng, here and elsewhere,
federal as well as state county and municipal office
holders trusts The votes of the citizens OF no state,
county or district should be prearranged for them by
he members of trust composed of few men who,
as a rule care nothing for the people the party or
anything except their own selfish ends
By what right do men of this character assume
the guardianship of the honor liberty or elective fran
chse of their fellow-citizens? Is it ahgher morality
apurer Christianity oftier patriotism unapproach
able intellectually? If none of these it must be
the modesty-pure ineffabe overwhelming modesty.
want to congratulate our people, and the people
all over the South the splendid work done for the
improvement of our evee system. The result is large
" due to the untirng work and efficient supervision OF
one of our own private citizens Whatever additional
work is to be done in this connection, if become
member of Congress, shall address myself to most
cordially.
1t is not without due elaboration that make this
announcement; but it is made after calm and careful
elaboration based upon the advice and solicitation OF
very many friends who would repose this confidence in
me. which, if it should fall my lot to receive, shall
strive to execute with fathfuness, vgor impartaty
and integrity of purpose.
Thanking you most heartily for your support and
influence, am, Sincerely yours,
THOS. c. L0ONEY.