The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-07-23
What Has Harmonious?
TO THE REPUBLICANS
OF GREENE COUNTY

VI N2aNAaAAANA@ A<2FA@AN
want to ask you, in answer to a
letter Judge Harmon has writer,
and sent out broadcast to the republi-
cans Of Greene county, what he has
done for you, and for the republican
party; and what the Hon. Sam R.
Sells has done for the republican par
w? Now, Judge Harmon, be franI
and be honest with with your people
-your home people-as you call
them in your appeal for their support
to save you from the inevitable de-
feat now confronting you, and, In
substance admitted in your letter.
We will ask you, Judge Harmon,
what have you done for the republi-
can party of this county, or for the
State? You, according to your own
admission, have been holding offc /;
for the last twenty-four years. You
have drawn an amount Of money
equal to 100000, for this service,
You have never made a republican
speech, nor have you contributed a
dollar toward the cause of the party
in Greene county. except when yol
have been a candidate yourself.
You-now in Che last ditch of your
present struggle for a continuation
in office, are appealing to the repub-
licans of the county, and saying, "you
know me, and feel that my own peo-
pie should stand by me; and / feel
confident they will" Now be hon
est, and be truthful with your people,
as you call them, what have you done
for "my people?" Who have you
assisted in politics, and what have
you really done for the republican
party and its advancement? When
the court house was full Of demo-
crats, holding the most, if not all the
offices in the county, what did you
do and what were you doing at that
timer Now, Mr.. Harmon, you have
not given single reason in your let
ter for asking the republican voters
Of this county for their support, 9th
er than that you want to 60 to Con-
gress and that they are "my peo-
lple." You have not been frank
enough to say that the Hon. Sam r,
Sells was the father of the election
laws which has made it possible to
rehsbilitate the court house with re,
Ipublicans. While Mr.. Sells was
working in the interest of honest
elections and better government,
what were you doing? And why are
you now issuing your daily letters
and circulars vilifying and abusing
him and trying to make the republi-
cans believe he has been a blank as
a public offcialf If you will be
honest in what you say in your let
ter; if you will tell the people that
Mr.. Sells has supported every move
toward good government in Tennes-
4 see during the past fifteen years. II
YOU will tell the people that Mr.
Sells has secured for the people OF
this district $685. in the building
of roads; if you will tell the people
Of this district that Mr.. Sells has Sc
cured purchases Of land in connec-
ton with the Forest Reserve--more
than 100000; if you will tell the
people of this district that Mr.. Sells
has secured since he has been in Con.
gress hundreds Of pensions for the
Civil war and Spanish-American war
soldiers; and no better proof of this
latter statement can be had than the
statement of the soldiers and the wild
ows themselves. Let them rise up in
the twelve counties and speak fol-
| themselves. If you will tell the peo-
pie that Mr.. Sells has had an appro-
priatlon for two public building sites
enc for Hawkins county and one for
Carter county. If you will tell the
people that Mr.Sells is member Of
two important committees of the
the House, that of Roads and Pen.
sions, being the ranking member on
the Committee of Pensions, and by
reason Of his position on this commit.
tee, will become chairman Of same
when the republicans Of the House
get control again, And it may b.
well to add that this committee, for !
long time in the future, will be one
Of the most important committees o.
the House; as nearly every family il
the country viii be more or less af
fected in the war, and from this com
mittee all pension legislation viii
originate.
AS above stated, Mr.. Sells, by rea
son of his being the ranking republi