Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-07-04
]. M. GROVE
ANNOUNCES FUR
COUNTY CLERK
TO THE VOTERS OF GRANGER
COUNTY:

TO THE VOTERS OF GRANGER
COUNTY:
Dear Friends:-
! announce myself as a candidate
for the Office of County Court Clerk
to be voted Tor in the August Elec-
ton to be held in Granger County
on the first Thursday in August 1918,
next. In making this announcement
desire to refer briefly to the fol-
lowing matters:
| have already held the office as
gift from you for three consecu-
tive terms, or will have done so when
my present term expires; in addition
to this ! have held other Offices of
trust in Granger County and other
places; in fact, have spent the best
years of my life in the service of
Granger County and her people; and
whether or not | have served you
creditably, satisfactorily, faithfully
and honestly. | will leave for you
to say; whether or not | have ser
you for the loaves and fishes. | will
leave the answer to you; whether or
not have borne your burdens as an
official or rendered you personal SER
vice as individuals worth commencing
leave entirely for you to answer;
whether or not | have served one
man to the exclusion of another, or a
set of men, you know and | ask you
to answer.
1t has come to me that my oppo-
nent, apart from the fact that he
wants the Office himself, is worried
because have held Office, as he says,
too long already, and in answer to
this will say, that l admit his argu-
ment, and have so stated to hundreds
of my friends as my reason for not
being a candidate any more, and that
! should be allowed to retire; but my
many friends knowing these facts
seem not to think so, and have soil
cited me by petition in which hun
dreds have signed, and each individ-
ual signing said paper knows wheth-
er or not he signed it or authorized
his name to be signed thereto, and
for what purpose. My opponent in
his announcement says that he is the
regular republican nominee of the re-
publican party for Granger County;
if the republican party is composed
of the republicans Of Granger Coun-
ty, and | believe it is, then | deny
that my opponent is the regular nom
inee of the republican party; if he
means that the republican party of
Granger County consist of the two
self constituted bosses who DONNA
ted said convention that nominated
him, then | concede that he is the
nominee Of the bosses. 7as not
present at said meeting out have
been informed by others that the ac-
tions of these two self constituted
bosses at the first convention which
my opponent claims nominated him
were so over bearing and dictatorial
that a large part of the delegates
present retired from the convention
hall rather than submit to being out
ragged in such high handed manner
by the two bosses. After a part of
the delegates had retired from the
convention hall on account of the
treatment received by them, my in
former tells me that. my opponent
was put in nomination by one of his
big bosses and declared nominated by
the other. All the delegates in the
first convention were honest and fair
men and ] am satisfied that they
would done the right thing if they
had been allowed to do so by the two
big bosses.
understand that my opponent and
his two bosses charge me with being
bolter and an independent candi-
date; If ! understand what the word
bolter means | could not be bolter
because my name was not submitted
to the big bosses to be operated on,
and if | am an independent candidate
Independent of what? Of the re-
publican party of Granger County,
| am not; if the term means to be
Independent of the two bosses, then
| am Independent of the bosses and
not of the people; if it means that
am independent of the republicans
of Granger County, my answer is,
~ AM NOT"
Because hundreds of republicans in
Granger County, including a number
of the delegates from my opponents
convention, along with number of
other honest voters of Granger Coun-