Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-07-11

Who is my opponent anyway? He
is the man who has been in office in
the court house at Rutledge for about
forty years. He is now serving his
Twelfth year as county court clerk
and regardless of the fact that he has
Ialready drawn over $20,000.O0 os fees
from this office, he tries to make you
believe that he has served you be-
cause he loves you. If you will only
add to this $20,000.00 all that he has
drawn off of the public for the war;
ious other offices he admits that he
has held, then you certainly can see
THAT he does love the "Loaves and
fishes"
| Friends and voters: | am glad to
admit, as he charges, that | am the
Molasasses candidate" | am one of
the Pap's boys who has made several
Scraps" on corn bread and Classes.
have not been so fortunate as my
opponent. When | was thus at work
on farm when boy he was being
trained up in office at Rutledge under
his father and grand father. Now
can't you begin to see why is is so
hard to get the calf to turn the tit
loose?
He states in his announcement that
his many friends have petitioned him
to become candidate. Now friends,
listen to the facts in this matter.
here charge and can prove that he had
these petitions prepared himself in
which he petitioned the people to ask
him to become candidate again, af-
ter he had promised the people in his
last race that he would not be a can
, ldidate this time and has repeatedly
told the people he would not run. He
Isent these petitions broad cast over
) the county by hand and by mail in
: (which he wrote letters asking the
, people to petition him to become a
; candidate. He says in his petition that
! | it is to the best interest of ourselves
: and the people of said county for him
/ Ito be reelected, and that it would be
4 detrimental for a change to be made
a der present existing conditions pre-
Ivailing. Does he mean by ourselves,
t him and the old guard? Then if he
t Idoes, / agree with him; but if he
e Imeans all the people and tax payers
d lof the county then | must say that
n a change is what is needed. What
t do you say about it tax peyers
S Would it be detrimental to the tax
: lpayers of the county to have a
n lchange? Why do they hate so bad
l to give up this Office that has been
: in the same factional political family
/ for twenty four years? Do the peo-
L Iple have any idea? If you do, say SC
r and tell your neighbors why.
IS, | charge that the parties who car
r ried his petitions around took adj
" vantage of the people and secured
a many signatures under the pretenst
le that he was the only available can
e. didate. Many of the people at thai
n time did not know that / had beer
le nominated for this Office, because hi
'e sent the petitions out on Monday fol
re lowing the convention on Saturday
: Many of those who did sign have al
IL ready informed me that they did no
IL consider that binding on them, sine,
~ they now understand that | am th
III regular republican nominee, and wa
oi at the time he sent out his petitions
y My opponent tries to make it stron,
y in his letter that he is not independ
~ ent of the republican party. | charg
'e that he is independent of everythin
!" except few republican and fe,
democratic bosses. He is running a
:" their solicitations. | charge that tn
= republican bosses of his old tim
= standbys are to line up their follow
Sio III Vic SOuHCy lOT LlIl ana m
y ticket, and that the few democrat
partner bosses in Rutledge are t
: line up the democrats of the count
. for him on account of valuable SCI
=, - vice already rendered and to be rel
~ dered in the future. What say yo
:. country democrats? Will you be d,
~ livered in that way? l am trustin
!. : my claim in the hands of the repul
~ licans who believe in voting for IL
nominee, and to the democrats in Il
=. county who believe in helping
=, bring about change in the cond
~ tions of affairs in Granger Count
IA My opponent charges that l at OF
;, time retired from the postofice f,
y . reasons well known to the public.
,ld wish to say in reply that the publ
bo also knows that it was a polite
aal frame up worked up by few of h
old crowd of political bosses for the pu
II pose of ousting me in order that Of
md of his now big bosses might be a
lev pointed post master at that time, b