Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-07-04
A Little Boiling Now
And Then, Good For
The Best OF Party
Men

WI ILuilOIs
| read f. E. Creswell's article in
your paper scoring H. M. Rankin for
running before the voters in August
for Attorney General, and l "smole"
big smile to think how short mind
ed he is about such things. Mr..
Creswells statement says: as this
the same man who submitted to a
republican primary and was defeated
by me and he entered no contest 2"
But what about Mr.. Creswell? Isn't
he the same man that submitted to
a Republican Senatorial Convention
two years ago and was defeated by
John B. Waters, and entered no
contest" He must be the same Ores
we'll, and he then bolted the regular
republican convention and made the
race after being defeated, calling on
party factions to support him to de-
feat the Republican Nominee, and he
cannot show single law that was
made by him-all he done was to
ride back and farth on free passes,
and vote himself extra pay as fire
Commissioner, more than the law
fixes, when a good and qualified
man would not have cost as much
as Creswell did. His article says
them that voted for him in the pri-
mary "braved the inclement wealth
err" to vote for him. Sewer County
has about four thousand republican
voters, but only e little over one
fourth of them "braved" enough to
go and vote and part of them had
to go, if they got the reward that
was promised them. The other three
thousand men who stayed at home
or voted for Rankin will be pretty
sure to vote like free men in August.
No doubt he got the votes of many
good men as choice, others actua-
ted by fractional policies and some
by "luese." When Mr.. Creswell was
a candidate for senator up to the day
of the convention and when he found
that he would be defeated he "hiked"
off to Nashville or some other town
to fiv to run on in the regular cleo
ton, Was there any "perfdity"
(Whatever that word means) in that
when he "disregarded" the action of
the regular republican convention
and went before the voters in No
vember? Now Mr.. Rankin's claim
vote buying and stealing and fraud
in the count and returnes of votes
in the primary, and he like Mr.. Cres-
we'll two years ago, comes before the
people--be it willing for the three
thousand men in Sewer County who
did not vote in the primary to have
a chance to vote for their choice at
the regular election. Mr.. Creswell
says, "Had he defeated me one vote
would be found supporting him."
Why didn't he do that way two years
ago when Waters defeated him in
the senatorial convention? Was he
not a "Bolter" then? And was that
convention considered by him as
''scrap of paper?" He pitches into
Rankin for not contesting the nomi-,
nation. Did he contest the nonina-
ton for senator in 1916, or did he
fail to stand by his promises, or did
he run before the people, rallying
fractional republicans to support
him? Was anything said then a
bout a contest? And now after the
fractional committee refused to hear
contest, he cries Contest" "Con-
test" A contest before that COM
mittee would have been worse than
folly. Rankin's only way or place to
contest is before the free voters in
the general election, and this he is
doing. Rankin is no more "Bol-
ter" now than Creswell was q .
ter" in 1916. Some times and under
some circumstances it is reght and
proper to be bolter, but it is mighty
inconsistent for a bolter in 1915 to
denounce bolter in 1918. Makes all
the difference "whose OK is gored."
VOTER.
-Montgomery's indicator.
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