The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-28
II Moon For "a Years WY Not
Williams For Awhile?
Facts Pertaining to Congressional Race


with the present and the future than they
are with the past in this Congressional race.
The advertisements appearing in the daily
papers here and the papers throughout the,
District are written by man who is pro-
fessiOnal advertising writer. He knows lit
tie of this District and the information he
serves us is full of inaccuracies. For exam
pie, Congressman David j. Lewis, of Cum
berland, Md, is given credit as being the
Father of the Parcel Post Law. All well read
people know this. s~..4.N .%y
Again, my opponent had little to do with
the passage of the good roads bill apprOpri-
ating two hundred millions. This is known
as the Bankhead Bill. 1t passed the Senate
in one form, the House in another form and
as is required by rules of Congress, Con-
ferees from the Senate and House Commit
tees having charge of the Bill were appoint
ed to harmonic these differences. Con- !,
gresham Moon was one of the three con-
ferees of the House by virtue of his position
on the House Committee and all he had to
do was to help harmonic the differences in :
the Senate and House Bills and make report
back to Senate and House accordingly.
And so it is with several claims made by
this professional advertiser whose usual du-
ties call him to write patent medicine or sure
corn cure advertisements and not about gov
ernmental matters.
Twill not, even for the office of Congress
man, take one wreath from the brow OF my
opponent. Ihave not criticized him and
have assumed he has made a good Congress-
man. He has been there for twenty-fOur
years and it is perfectly natural in that time
he would have accomplished many things.
Certainly he possessed ample opportunity.
These advertisements claim he has pro-
cured some eight or ten millions of dollars
for the Tennessee river. Let us assume this
is true. Who has this benefited? Has it
benefited our River traffic one cent? Has it
benefited the people of this Congressional
District one dollar?
1t has not. You can talk to old Tennessee
river men and they will tell you the dredging
and channelling done on the river between
Chattanooga and Pin Hook has lessened the
use of the river and made it more difficult to
run boats between these points. The same
condition. am advised, exists in the river
going south.
This river improvement business here has
led some of our representatives at Wash
ington to neglect other and more pressing
needs of this Congressional District, and if
elected to Congress shall stand first for TAX
ing care of these other needs and let the river
improvements wait awhile. am not against
improving the rivers and harbors, but am
against placing all the money of the govern
ment collected for internal improvements in
the water ways.
This District would be most benefited by sys-
tenn of public highways. One half the money spent
the Tennessee river the past quarter of century
would have built concrete or other durable and
permanent highway to every community throughout |
this Congressional District.
We are now facing shortage of farm produc- |
ton. We will face it more acutely in the coming
quarter of century. We produce farming stuff
here because this is great agricultural district.
Railroads and rivers do not reach all sections of this
District but system of highways will When built, |
the farming productions can be trucked to railroad
points for shipment and to centers of population for
use.
BY these improvements we will make rural life |
more allurng and thus induce of the youth to
remain the farm and thereby increase farm pro- |
auctions hundred fold. !
Cities depend on the country for something to |
eat and the building of a net work of permanent |