The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-06-08
Pronunciamento.
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
There have been many announce
ments for judicial offices in the COM
ing election and the number will III
crease as the time comes for final de-
cision; some wi ii fall burdened of
their inability to keep pace with the
sentiment of the times; others will
come out believing their special fit
ness better prepares them for the
office; other announcements will of
necessity come from their opposition
to those announced.
The record of each aspirant will
be scrutinized more closely now than
before that the best men of those
announced may be chosen. Each
aspirant should weigh himself, or the
people, when facts are brought to
light after final announcement will
weigh him in the balances and he
will be found not to possess the quail
tiles demanded of this enlightened
civilization.
Will he, If elected. take the oath
that he will support the constitution
Of the United States and the State
Of Tennessee to administer the du-
ties Of his Office with fairness and
impartiality and permit each person
to be safeguarded in his pursuit or
life, liberty and happiness? Fully
imbued with the spirit of fairness
and impartiality should be a condi-
tion precedent to judicial preferment.
The person. who obtains judicial
recognition with the avowed purpose
of arraigning race against race, peo-
pie against people, Is most PERM
cious enemy to society and worker
of iniquity among men. Having TAX
en- the oath prescribed for such a
position and willfuily violate it to the
hurt of any class or people is moral
perjury. The legal perjurer Is sent
to the penitentiary to eXpiate his
crime, the moral perjurer harbors
in his mind the Nervousness Of his
act until combine punishment is
meted by just God in his admins
tration of retr:butive justice.
We can i'll afford to show favor ani
laxity to one and tyranny and op
preston to another and call it jus
tice. Such a condition prevents f;
full development of all people ant
retards healthy advancement TIL,
objects sought to our American IDEAL
can only be attained by fair ant
Impartial enforcement of the law.
My people are striving to presen
to the world the best that is within
them and will live, thrive and pros
per under any just standard.
Unless those who strive for politi
cal honor and preferment are actu
ated by the higher and nobler vii
tues of mankind in their promulga
tion and enforcement of the laws, tn
migratory movement, which has TAX
en- such a pronounced form, will con
tinue to point that there will no
be a sufficiency of my people to SUP
ply the most urgent demands.
happy and contented Poop e is no
migratory. Remove the cause and tn
effect will not exist.
We can i'll afford to cater to foreigl
immigration as the customs, habits
modes of life and demeanor of tn
foreign element i'll comports with tn
established servant class. New rela
tionships must of necessity be estaf
lished, which in the final analyst
will require much time to the hur
and injury of the hiring classes
Many years of intimate business re
ationship have taught the respectiv
people to know the one, the othe
J and under proper conditions each ca
} busy himself with general advance
ment The unsettled and restles
!, condition existing among my peopl
and it is more pronounced anon
the laboring classes. the bone an
J sinew of our industrial progress,
, chargeable to the lack of proper ciN
ic, legal, educational and commercial
facilities.
A man has less incentive to wor
: and accumu ate when by connivanc
the labors of many years can be tai
en- from him in day with no adt
qrate redress.
When life exists at suffrance, it il
affords one to prepare to live. Tn
chain, as we have been taught, is n
stronger than its weakest linl
strengthen the weakest link and tn
chain will of necessity becom
, stronger.
Aspirants, weigh yourselves in tn
, light of justice, honor and fair-pla
to all mankind, remembering that
is "HE" that made us and not we
OURSELVES. If you are unwillin!
TO be thus judged. it would be bette
, that you had not announced, sti / BET
ter that you had not been born, be
cause, if elected, you would not cor
tribute anything to the general stor
of human knowledge, but would de
tract therefrom.
R. L. MAYFIFLD,
41O Cedar Street