The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1920-05-28
SHIELDS SCORED
IN DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION HERE
Scathing Denunciation of Senior Sem
ator When Democrats Gather
in Mass Meet.
TRAVIS, WELDON, COOPER
GET LOCAL ENDORSEMENT
Executive Committee Is Reorganized;
Women Get Representation On
Committees.

| The outstanding feature of the
county Democratic convention held
at the court house in Paris on last
Saturday was the almost unanimous
condemnation Of Senator John K.
Shields for his position upon the
peace treaty and his opposition to
| the policies of President Wilson.
Heated argument ensued for while,
| and Hon. A. B. Lamb and Colonel
o. G. Barton appealed vigorously for
the Shields clause to be eliminated,
but to no avail. Determination had
grown to proportions; the night be-
| fore the opposition to Senator Shields
"smelled mouse"=-it came to their
ears that a resolution was going to
be put through endorsing the senior
senator, and the opposition came in
throngs to down it, and put over a
resolution to the contrary. Aside
from the time taken up in the appeal
! of the Shields leaders, the purpose Of
the amalgamation succeeded.
| So enthusiastic were the anti
Shields forceS, including more than
an hundred employees of the L. & N.
railroad shops, that one of those as
sembled with them, c. c. Miller, Of
fered an anti-Roberts verbal resolu-
tion. 1t followed pointed question
by Col. Barton after his Shields ar
gument had failed to carry, when he
wanted to know "why don't you con-
denim Governor Roberts" Mr.. Mil
ler was soon to his feet with a res.
olution, "That the administration of
| Governor A. H. Roberts be condemn
ed as unwise, undemocratic and ex-
travagant." When it was seconded
by Parkhill, and placed to vote it
carried.
w. d. Cooper was made temporary
chairman of the meeting when it was
called to order by T. B. Gardner,
chairman Of the old executive COM
mittee, and John R. Rison, Jr., was
made temporary secretary. Subse-
quently the temporary organization
was made permanent.
Immediately upon calling the meet
ing to order and selecting the tenn
porary chairman, etc., S. P. Fitzhugh
was on his feet to offer the resolution
which among other things condemned
Senator Shields. The resolution in
its entirety follows:
Be it resolved, by the Democrats of
Henry County, assembled in mass
Injecting on this the 22nd day of May,
1920, that we do hereby reaffirm our
faith and adherence in the time hon.
ored principles of our party, and that
we do hereby endorse the entire adj
ministration of President Woodrow
Wilson, including the Versailles
Treaty of Peace and the League of
Nations, as presented by the Presi-
dent to the United States Senate for
ratification, and that we sincerely de-
plore that fact that said Treaty of
Peace and League of Nations was
not ratified Immediately upon pre-
sentation to the United States Sen
ate, which, in our opinion, would have
done so much to stabilize business
conditions throughout the country,
and to bring permanent and honora-
BILE peace to the world.
| Be it further resolved, that we do
hereby express our disapproyal and
condemnation of the action of Senae
| tor John K. Shields in voting for the
Knox resolution introduced in the
United States Senate relative to the
Treaty of Peace and League of Ma
tions, and in opposing the ratification
of the Treaty Of Peace and League
of Nations as presented to the Uni
ted States by the Honorable Wood
row Wilson, President of the United
| States.
Be it further resolved, that we do
hereby endorse the record and ad-
ministration Of DIR. f. A. Travis, az
our direct Representative in the
House of Representatives of the last
General Assembly, and that we do
hereby endorse the record and ad-
ministration of Honorable w. E.
Weldon, our Floterial Representative
from this Floterial District, in the
House of Representatives of the last
General Assembly; and believing that
both Of said parties should be re-
elected to again serve in the same
capacity in the next General Assem-
bly, of Tennessee, we therefore en-
dorse each of them as o candidate to
succeed himself in said official ca
pacity.
Believing also, that the Honorable
| w. d. Cooper would make an able
and honest representative of this
Senatorial District in the Senate of
the next General Assembly Of this
| state, it is therefore further resolved
that we do hereby call upon him to
qualify as a candidate and make the
race for State Senator from this Sen
atorial District, and pledge ilim oul
active and loyal support in that be.
half.
Be it further resolved, that all
known white Democratic citizens
both male and female, of this county
be. and they are hereby made duly
accredited delegates to the State
:. Convention at Nashville, Tennessee
to be held on June 8, 1920, and that
they vote as a unit on all questions
coming before said Convention.
i Be it further resolved, that we d.
! hereby instruct said delegates to thu
Nashville Convention to supper
Senator K. D. McKellar, Col. Harr,
s. Berry, Mrs. Guilford Dudley ant
Mrs. George Fort Milton delegates
: from the state at large to the Sal
Francisco Convention.
II Be it further resolved, that sal,
delegates to the Nashville Convention
, are hereby instructed to vote for ant
Isupport Hon. Claude Bushart, Hon