The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-02
CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR SAYS
HIS OPPONENT is NOT KNOWN
BY THE VOTERS.
ATTACKS SHIELDS RECORD
Governor Heard by Large Crowd at
Courthouse and Makes Good impress.
slon-Stahman and Verhine Cases
Reviewed in His Address.

tom Z. Rye Monday presented hi
claims for the Democratic nomina
ton for United States senator an,
challenged his opponent Senator Joh'
K. Shields to pursue the same polio.
in his campaign. He said that th'
senior senator had never told the pao
pie how he had been elevated to TIL
high office he now holds, and tina
he had never come before the people
to ask them for their support. Gov
Rye asked how many people in Ten
nesee had ever seen or had ever
heard the. voice. of Senator Shields
during his long career in public life
He challenged the record of tn,
senior senator as supporter of the
president and read reports of senate
proceedings showing that upon mum
erous occasions the senior senat u
had opposed the president or had been
absent when important war measures
were being considered.
| Notwithstanding Senator Shields
plea that he could not come before
| the people in this campaign because
he is compelled to stay at his post Ci
duty in Washington, Gov. Rye said
that the senator is not in Washington
now and has not been for some time,
but is at his headquarters in Nashville
directing the work of mis- hired men
who are going up and down the state
organizing for him. The governor
said that he hoped when this great
constitutional lawyer, the man whom
his supporters say is the greatest con
stitutional lawyer in the isenate,f gets
back to Washington he will find the
constitution still intact notwithstand-
ing his long absence.
Hon. w. T. Galloway, three times
elected representative to the General
Assembly from Maury county, 1907,
1909, 1911, introduced Governor Rye.
Mr.. Galloway said in part
Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great
pleasure to me to introduce to you the
speaker who is here today to speak
in the behalf of his candidacy for the
U. S. Senatorship. Governor Rye will
tell you why he should be elected to
the United States Senate, but | want
to tell you why am for him and why
| think he deserves your votes.
when Governor Rye made the
race for Governor and was elected
the whole state and especially the
Democratic party was rent asunder.
And through his course as Governor
he has restored harmony in the par
ty and practically to the entire state.
He has made good every promise, AMI
while it might not have been expected
by some that he woul literally carry
out the policies he advocated, yet he
did it, and the wisdom of this course
is apparent in the result. 1t is to be
regretted that the same commenda-
ton cannot be bestowed upon his OPP
ponent, John X. Shields, for from the
time that he bolted the party nomi
nees and made the race for free and
untrammeled judiciary, until the pres
ent time, he has never been true to
anything or anybody, except to John
X. Shields Not even to his govern
ment, his party or his president, and
this lamentable condition in which
Governor Rye found all parties in the
state of Tennessee was directly due
to the political chicanery of the Sen
ior Senator. Hence it is with pleas
ure that | support Governor Rye and
with equal pleasure that l vote
against Senator John X. Shields"
The audience that heard Gov. Rye |
was sympathetic in its consideration of
what he had to say, and frequently
his remarks were punctuated by ap-
plause. There were many women IN
the audience, mothers and sisters of
who joined the men in the
applause of the governors arraign
nent of Senator Shields for having
used the power of his office to get a
hazard proof" job for rich drafted
nan, thing which the governor said
le himself had never done and would
never do. He briefly related what he
said were the facts in the row noted
yerbine case from Obion county.
Gov. Rye was especially vigorous
n his denunciation of Senator
Shields for having defended upon the
loor of the senate Maj. f. B. Stahl-
nan, owner and publisher of the
Nashville Banner, who, the governor
declared, was German born sympa-
hizer and had insulted the president.
Gov. Rye speaking of mis- own rec
I'D as governor, said that lie had IN.
leavored to fulfill his pledges to the I
,eople when he was elected by the
party the first time and
hen was reelected. He said that he
banked God that the Crump element {
n Memphis was opposed to him, be-
ause he had driven the lawless ele-