The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-08-17
Goes Before the Voters Of Nash
Vile With Appeal For
Support
MAKES CANDID STATEMENT
Record As Business Man and
Citizen FOrCibly PreSsnte For
the Public CsnSidera ion
ANNOUNCES HTS PLATFORM

To the People of Nashville:
| am candidate subject to you
suffrage, for the office of Commission
err of Waterworks, Streetcleaning ant
Workhouse, and believing that tn,
voters are entitled to a frank an(
candid statement of views and prin
ciples from their candidate, declar,
and pledge myself to the followin.
principles:
l. While l recognize that party pol
itics will not be test of eligibility
and fitness in a municipal contest
and as this, I will state that, i
elected, the democratic principle o.
equal rights to all and special privl
leges to none, shall be the governing
principle Of my official conduct, and
in support of this pledge l point tC
the record of my life, both as a party
man and as eXemplified in my per
sonal and business career.
,. Eight years ago l was a candi
date before the people for the Board
of Public Works (the title under
which our city's governing body was
then legally designated and although
defeated on the face of the returns
by few votes, the conduct of the
election, and especially the counting
of the ballots in several of the
wards, was such as almost to cOnClu.
sively indicate the presence of gross
frauds and irregularities, without
which my election would have been
conclusively assured by a decisive
majority, Against the protests of
friends and supporters, and indeed of
many who had opposed me in my am
bition and who had cast their ballots
against me, | declined as a good De
mocrat to contest the election, and
thus embroil the city and people In
a disturbing and expensive contest. I
elected to prefer Vindication at the
hands of the people at some future
date. and that vindication | now seek
and confidently expect from your bal,
lots at the ensuing election.
;, My party record, as we'll as my
record as a citizen and business man,
is open to you, and | invite its in
Spection. | was originally a mechan
c and for four years worked at the
bench, but for the past twenty years
nave been engaged in the merchantile
business in Nashville. | have been
engaged ana interested in industries
which have given employment to
abOr and helped upbuild and de-
telop our city. was for eight con-
3ecutiye terms president of the Retail
irocerS' Association, and am now a !
director in that and other business
whose aim and endeavor
is the upbuilding of Nashville and
The prosperity of its citizenship.
4. From my early boyhood l have
been the consistent friend of labor,
md have never had a connection or
Exercised an influence over any bust
ness in which labor was not recos-
liZed and its rights and interest pro
.ected. During the American Rail
way Union strike, commonly known
as the Debs' strike, furnished money
and provisions to the men out of EN-
Dloyment and materially assisted In
the adjustment of the trouble and
the reinstatement of the men to their
lpllllGl PUSH pllSs anu NllN LIN NlNf
later in the local cotton mill strike
in conjunction with The Lame Mil
ler.' the late Maj. John j. Mccain
5. | initiated the fight now pending
in our courts and in the forum of
public opinion against what is com.
as The Ice Trust"
Having called to my notice the policy
Of this monopoly in the matter oil
short weights and excessive charges
and its probable further encroaCh-
ments on the rights of the helpless
public | called the matter
10 the attention Of the Retail GrocerS'
Association, and vigorously pressed the
tight, with the result that there is
now pending against the officials of
the company indictments charging
violations of the Antitrust laws and
n Hill in orr Thancerv Court looking
to the annullment of the charter Of
the offending corporation.
c. If elected. | shall do all and
everything in my power to conserve
the interest of the taxpayer of the
city, and while an advocate of the
progressive Improvement and the
proper and necessary maintenance of
our citys streets, schools, parks and
other utilities, yet advocate retrench,
ment and reform in the financial man
aement of our city extravaganza
should be throttled, expenditures wise
iy and conservativelv retrenched, use.
less offices abolished, the rate of tax
alton diminished, our bonded indebt-
edness decreased, thus re-establishing
the financial prestige of Nashville
once so high, and inviting new citi.
zenship to our midst instead of driv,
ing from us to other communities
cur own people, as admittedly the
policy now pursued is doing.
Pledged to these principles, and tn
the enforcement of all laws and
prompt, efficient and courteous ad.
ministration of the duties of the of.
flee, announce myself a candidate
for the Commissionership of Water,
works, Streetcleaning and Workhouse,
subject to the Democratic primary,
and respectfully ask your vote and
influence.
Very respectfully,