The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-07-26

My friends, It had not occurred 20 me
that I had iD any way attracted the
special attention OF the President OF the
United States so that be should address
@ message peculiarly 10 me But since
] am advised by such eminent authority
that the President was addressing me,
and knowing his keen insight and pro-
phetic vision, IL may be worth while TO
/ emphasize the statement made in the
above quotation.
Politics lis adjourned" Yes, my
friends, politics Is adjourned so that both
Houses of Congress shah be filed with
men who, I'm their hearts, are true and
viii bear the acid test OF loyalty,
whether they be Democrats or Repub-
leans,
Inconsistency Emphasized
The election viii go to those who
think the least Of it," For months and
months the senior Senator has been
prosecuting his campaign for recollection
through the press and his personal rep
IesentatiNes, ably aided and assisted 10y
Federal oiliceholders. If politics is ad-
j3uued, why all this activity on the
part OF the senior Senator's representa-
tives? Why don't they go home2 II
policies Is adjourned, why doesn't the
press which, with one notable exception.
so tar as / know, nave lOyaily and ably
given unstinted support to the admins
tratloH from the time the first war cloud
appeared upon the American horizon
down to the present time, continue it's
splendid fight for complete victory and
eternal peace and leave politics alone?
Why waste so much energy and effort
time and space in advising the people Of
the Importance and necessity of elect
ing a candidate they claim is already
e'ccted2 IF my entrance into the race
has not disturbed or in any way inter-
lered with a well-arranged and carefully
planned campaign by which the senior
senator hopes to succeed himself. why
indulge in so much criticism? II the
senator is inyincible and no one can
Wrest from him the toga he wears why
SO much ado about it? And above al,
II he has established the reputation
claimed for him. why not let him run his
CWn race? Why seek to burden the
President and elect in his name candi-
date whose cause he has never espoused
and, in my Judgment. whose cause he
VIII never espouse, even though the Con-
Ftitutiou that immortal document, so
well established as the charter of our
safety, may tOpple and fan for want of
MS sustaining power and encouraging
presence?
If politics is adjourned, why don't the
Federal otliceholders, ostensibly engaged
IN the business Of the government, go
back to the places Of their business and
render more service for Uncle Sam and
If Dolitics is adjourned, why doesn't
the adjournment affect the friends Of the
senior Senator as well rs myself? Bv !
what rule of INTERPRETATION or strained |
construction can they insist that this |
statement applies alone to me and nv
tricnds and certain other candidates and |
their friends? Should we go home while /
they and their allies go into executive /
session for political purposes?
Duty of Citizens
If there ever was a time in the history !
OF the country when all true and loyal !
men should interest themselves. not in I
lactional politics that disturb and distract !
the public mind, but the politics that |
will carry them to the polls to exercise /
thelr right as free men by voting for
from the lowest to the high
est office, men who are known to be |
honest, conscientious patriotic citizens,
that time il now.
BY the declaration. Politics is adj
iourned," no right-thinking man would
insist that our great President intended
TO convey the idea that the coming cleo
ton should be turned over to the poiiti-
7al CRATER and machinist who play the
game alone for selfish purposes. who I
are but little or nothing for the future
u our boys across the waters and mani
est but little interest in our splendid
utilization, which we are striving to
- 1870 llOllI lllE IItllGu HdIu OF German
If II be true that the election will come
o those who think least of it, then there
s chance for me to win | can truth
ully say up to the time of my public an
'ouncement for the Senate. on the 28th of
Way no living man, no matter how close
o me personally or politically. was
authorized to go over the State, or at any
ime or place proclaim my candidacy in
IN effort to secure a vote or effect an or
for my benefit
While ] was attending to my official
luties, giving my time and energies to the
responsibilities devolving upon me as an
ficial, repeat that for months activities
n the senior Senator's political camp wera
videnced on every hand, even while the
iod of battle seemed to frown uDon our
'oYs in the trenches, who. with our brave
nd courageous allies, were facing the
dvancing columns Of overwhelming num-
ers on fields of carnage, even when the
NIGEL OF death, with pen Of blood, was
ecording the names Of our own sons on
he Ron of Honor Notwithstanding this ,,
act and the fact that politics is adj
1nrned," an army Of political patriots mo-
fized for specific purpose, it's man ,
over carefully selected with view of eff :
cheney in the art of political warfare, :
zen who have thoroughly mastered the :
official methods of their commander-in-
htef, men Of experience, who thoroughly =
nderstand and know how to play the
anne, men thoroughly in accord with the :
lethods to be employed in order to win /;
any cost, this army, with well-regu- !.
tied movements, In obedience to specific y
rders have marched to and fro from one =
nd Of the State to the other. and today :,
hey are more active, more energetic 2
nan ever in executing the orders Of the !,
anior Senator, as they march under his II
olitical flag to the music of Politics is
djourned."
Subsidized Shields Organs a
They have constituted themselves the .
eepers Of the political conscience Of a II
ltrotic citizenship; they have promul- v
lted the rules by which your patriotism :"
I'd mine must be judged; they are the c
NJ constituted advisers of the intelli- g
ent citizenship Of a great State, and II
cir propaganda is presented to the vot- O.
$ Of the State through the columns of
subsidized press.
Why al this cry Of adjournment Of poll ?,
les and of high treason to oppose the e.
nior Senator? My fellow citizens, it is .
thing but the camoufage Of one of the v
ost adroit, weiI-organized and skilfufly 81
aimed movements to stiffe the voice OF q
e people that was ever launched in this a
ate. 1t was the purpose of this great
'utical machine to deprive you of an ~,
'portunity to express the choice Of your !,
-rtY. It Is the people that they fear, u
Id they had rugged this machine to hand N
G senior Senator an endorsement, and Fl
ace the brand of the Democratic party q,
his aspirations without allowing his "
Sc to go before the people, and behind 8,
all lies a deliberate and well-pEanned g,
rpose to construct a political machine ~
which it is proposed to control politics m
Tennessee, dominate it's political ma
ineTy, and fill all public Offices, both m
ate and Federal y,
Why should the senior Senator fear to ~
n under a primary plan that was de- al
med by, built for, and will be operated n
his friends? It is significant that in 7
crying opposition to the senior Sem ".
Or his friends used the names of n
ngressmen Moon, Burns and other bf