Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1918-10-31


time the people are called on to elect
a United States Senator, Congress
man, Governor, R. R. Commissioner,
State Senator and a Representative
in the General Assembly.
In this election the Democrats have
nominees for all these Offices, and
some of them have Republican oppon-
ents, therefore, it is important that
the Democrats take heed and fail not
to go to the polls next Tuesday and
cast their votes for the democratic
nominees.
In the race for United States SEN
ator the Democratic nominee, John
K. Shields, is opposed by a Repubh-
can candidate. In the race for Gov
ernor the Democratic nominee, Judge
A H Roberts, is opposed by a Re
publican candidate. In the race for
Railroad Commissioner, Harvey HI.
Hannah, the Democratic candidate, is
opposed by Republican. So it can
be readily seen that it is very i'm
portant that all Smith county Demo
Gratis be at the polls on November
5th and cast their votes for their NOM
inees. 1t sure that all the Republi
cans will be there to vote for their
men.
appeal to the people to support him
throughout the remainder of the war
with loyal Democrats, and this appeal
makes it doubly important that you
go to the election and cast your vote
for John K. Shields, the Democratic
nominee for United States Senator.
Judge Albert II. Roberts, who is the
Democratic nominee for Governor, is
one of our own men and we all want
to go to the polls and cast our votes
for him. He is being strongly oppos-
ed by the Republican nominee, and it
is I'D to the Democrats to go to the
polls and make his election sure.
Harvey H. Hannah, the Democratic
candidate for R. r. Commissioner, al
so has a strong Republican opponent,
and we should see to it that he gets
all the votes of the Democrats IN
Smith county.
Judge Cordell Hull, the Democratic
nominee for Congress; Lon McFar-
land of Lebanon, our Democratic NOM
! inee for State Senator; and Billy Will
son, our Democratic nominee for
Representative, have no opposition,
but when we go to vote we should
see that their names are on the ballot.
A struggle throughout the whole
United States is now on between the
Democrats and Republicans for sup
remacy in the next Congress, and
President Wilson has sent out an APP
peal to the people to stand by him
and help him bring this war to a
victorious conclusion. You all know
I that a President can do but little
with an opposing congress, and with
this in view the people of Tennessee
should send John K. Shields back to
Washington as United States Sena-
( tor.
| In issuing this appeal to the people
to support him in this campaign,
/ President Wilson is doing nothing but
/ right, and is doing just what Abraham
/ Lincoln and Mckinley did under the
1 same circumstances when they were
+ President Read below what these
/ ex-Presidents and other prominent
Republicans have said in the past:
I LincOln's Advice To War Critics.
Lincoln was no enemy of worth
while criticism. But when a man told
/ him something was wrong, he wanted
4 that same man to tell him also how
/ to make it right. He always objected
/ to criticism that was merely objection
the criticism of the professional
crouch (of which we have plenty in
the present war just as he had IN the
! Civil War;; and here is what he said
to such critics:
Gentlemen, suppose all the proper
ty you are worth was in gold, and you
had put it in the hands of Boldin, the
tight-ropewalker, to carry across the
Niagara River on a rope. Would
you shake the cable and keep shout
ing out to him: 'Blondin, stand up g
little raighter-Blondin, stoop g
little more to the north-lean a little
more to the south?' No; you would
hold your breath as well as your tong
ne, and keep your hands off until he
was safely over.
"The government is carrying ar
immense weight in this war. Untold
treasures are in its hands. 1t is do
ing the very best it can. Don't bad
ger it. Keep silence and We'll get
you safely across"
Roosevelt in 1898.
Remember that whether you vii
or not, your votes this year will b.
viewed by the nations in Europ'
from one standpoint only. They vii
draw no line distinctions. A refusa
to sustain the President this year will
in their eyes, be read as a refusal t.
sustain the war and to sustain thu
efforts of our peace commission
to secure the fruits of war. Such ;