The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-03-01
For Representative.

Esq. s. r. Bratton announces thi
week as candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination and reelection tt
represent Obion County in the Gen
eral Assembly of Tennessee at III
next session.
1t is hardly necessary to offer al
introduction of Mr.. Bratton to the
people of Obion County. He is prob.
ably as well known as the man who
told us when we first entered bust.
ness in Union City that his business
was known to larger number Of
people than the number of subscrib-
ers to The Commercial. We had ask
ed him for some advertising. But in
brief, Mr.. Bratton is remembered as
Marshal of Union City and one of
the best police officers we ever had.
From that he took to farming and
made one of the best. He then
broke into the County Court and
everybody knows whit he has done
in taking care of the countys mon
ey, finally causing the audit and a
more business-like system. Whatever
he is, there is no backbone lacking,
but he is careful how he uses it.
We next find our fellow-citizen in
the Legislature, and about the first
thing he tackled was to lead a revolt
against the looting of the State
treasury-to fry the fat out of what
was known as the miscellaneous ap-
preparation bill. This bill included
a great deal of pork" including fat
salaries, etc. Mr.. Bratton was very
strong in his support of the amend
ment to the school law restoring the
ninth and tenth grades to the rural
schools; the support of the bill 70
raise the pension of the Confederate
soldiers from ten to fifteen dollars
month, which made no change in
the taxes on account of the dimin-
ishing ranks. He was member of
the committee from West Tennessee
to draft q road law for the State
complying with the provisions of the
Federal statutes to supplement the
State fund for the Improvement of
public highways. A road tax of ten
cents was levied for this purpose
and the revenues from the Govern
ment duplicated this amount avail
able for road purposes in Tennessee.
Mr.. Bratton was author of bill to
make the second offense of bootleg |
ging felony, and il this law is en-
forced Tennessee will soon be dry. |
He supported bill to move the In
dustrial School to the Herbert Do
main, State reservation near Knox |
vile, in opposition to a scheme to
buy more land in Davidson County |
for the school. He was co-author
with Bond and Cameron of bill
providing that the Clerks of the
County Courts be authorized to col
lect the auto tax for the use and |
benefit of the respective counties as
a road fund. He supported the bill
to prevent any firm or person from
selling anti-hog cholera serum until
authorized by the Federal Govern
ment. He also voted for the anti
fee bill, which applied to counties of
$4,000 and upwards. abolishing the
fee system in those counties. One of
the things which met his opposition
was the appropriation of $4,000
for the State and Tri-State Fairs,
which is wholly unwarranted.
There are many other good points
in Mr.. Bratton's record, but we pre-
sumo these will suffice at present.
They should by all means recon-
mend him favorably to any of the
voters who may not be familiar with
his work. Mr.. Bratton made the
Democratic platform basis of his
service to the people of his State
and county, and the party he sus-
tanned in its pledges.
There is one thing for which every
citizen in Union City is indebted to
Sam Brattor, and no title could con-
fer more honor to his name than his
work here in the days gone by. 1t