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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
HOW ONE MAN SEES IT.
Prominent East Tennessee Citizen Speaks
on the Political Situation

The editor of the Chronicle re.
Gently received a letter from a prom
inent East Tennessee citizen on a
business matter and he incidentally
had the following to say of the po-
litcal situation:
"If the politicians had kept out
of it, Lowden would have received
the Tennessee vote at Chicago 1
feel confident three out of every four
men / have heard express themsel-
yes were for Lowden. l was for him
from the start, but am pleased with
! Harding. He belongs to the great
middle class-the best people on
earth-has fine sense, cool judg-
ment, a business statesman with no
skeletons in the closet and no autoc-
racy in his makeup. -~.,
"The pendulum is going to swing
back to keep our government as
originally planned: A republic, not
monarchy, not a one-man govern
ment, but a government of, for and
by the people, government where
congress passes laws and sends them
to the president to be signed, if he
thinks proper and vetoes them if he
thinks them improper, then the con-
gress will pass them anyhow, if two
thirds of the membership think the
laws should be passed.
"It was not the design of the faith
ers of our government that the pres
ident should order or direct the con-
gress to pass the laws according to
his pattern. That is the spirit of alb
solute monarchy-the kind that has
crept in upon the American people.
"Now, d United States Senator
must not and can7iott have any will
or mind of his own and maintain his
respectability in party councils.
"But the pedulum is going to
swing back to the old and safe land
marks.
Coolidge strengthens the ticket
with all law-abiding people.
"Last May Governor Harding
made speech in Boston in which he
embraced the true situation more
completely than any utterance 1
have heard or read as coming from
one. He said:
"America's present need is
not heroics, but healing; not
nostrums, but normality; not
revolution, but restoration;
not agitation, but adjustment;
not surgery, but serenity; not
the dramatic, but the dispass--
ionate; not experiment, but
equipoise; not submergance IN
internationally, but sustain
ment of triumphant national
ity." ~ 3
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07

Cotton might become much cheaper
II some ingenious inventor would de-
wise a mechanical means for picking
1.-THE work of picking being the cost
ly item, in time and labor.
There are cotton-picking machines
on the market, but none of them is
very satisfactory. One of them oper-
ates on the principle Of a vacuum
cleaner sucking the bolls off the plants
through rubber tubes. Another util-
ICES steel bristles for entangling the
bo1ls
When a really practical contrivance
for the purpose is obtainable, an aver
age farm family in the South will be
able to produce forty bales of cotton
in a season, instead of seven bales.-
New York Times.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
GOV. COX NOMINATED

Gov. James /. Cox, of Ohio, received
the necessary two thirds in the demo-
cratic convention at San Francisco, yes
terday, on the forty-fourth ballot. Up
to the time OF going to press word had
not been received who his running
mate is to be, but men from east, west
and center of the country are being
considered, but chances for Tyson, Of
Tennessee, are not regarded good.
Gov Cox has three times been cho-
sen governor of Ohio and is generally
considered the strongest man the DEM
pcrats could name.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
CRAB ORCHARD

Mrs. ]. M. Millican, of lockwood
has been visiting relatives ant
friends here the past two weeks.
Miss Jessie Rose is home for he
vacation. She has been teaching d
Sandersville, Ca, for several terms
Rev. W. L. Patton, of jefferson
City, was shaking hands with trends
here Wednesday and Thursday.
Miss Mary Haley is visiting hel
sister, Mrs, R. F, Rose,
Mrs. ]. G. Newman, of Johnson
City, is visiting her sister, Mrs. W
]. Brooks, who is very sick with heart
trouble.
Miss Lelit Hembree is very sick at
this tine with appendicitis. She will
go to Chamberlain hospital for an
operation soon.
W. A. Baker was called to Camp
Taylor, KY, Thursday as a witness
in a revenue case.
Miss Gladys and Edith Dixon, of
Crossville, were visiting Mildred
Dickerson last week.
Prof. A. S. Gill, of New York, ar
rived here Wednesday to spend the
summer.
P. O. Dickerson made business
trip to lockwood last week.
G. L. Hill went to Nashville We'd
nesday on business trip.
Mrs. G.. w. Vitatoe and children,
of Nashville, are here visiting rela-
tives and friends.
Misses Susie and Lizzie DeRossett
were visiting Miss Leila Hembree
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. D. V. Hatfield died at her
home in lockwood Sunday, June
9th. The remains were brought
here and funeral services held in the
Baptist church, where she had been
member for about SO years. DR..
Snow and S. w. Rose, of Crossville,
conducted the services, after which
the remains were laid away in the
Haley Grove cemetery. Among the
out-of-town relatives and friends
present were: G. A. Haley and
family, Mrs. Martha Rhea, Mrs. ).
H. Beason, U. S. Rose, N. D, Walker
and family, Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. J.
H. Snow, Of Crossville; Walter Pow
ell, Mrs VIM. Kindrick and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Lephew, Mr.. and Mrs. Al
fred Green and Miss Elizabeth Hat
field, of Rockwood; Mrs. Martin Hat
field, Of Hartman; William Hatfield
of White county; Miss Mary Haley,
of Chattanooga. Mrs. Hatfield was
born here January, 1848, and had
lived here until about two years ago,
when she moved to lockwood. Ev-
eryone in this community knew and
loved her.
July 5th. XYZ.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
"FARM AND HOME SHORT
COURSE"

The date for the Short Cou"e
for the farmers and families
will be July the 23rd, Oath, Friday
and Saturday at the Tennessee Pol
itecnic Institute, Cookeville, Tenn.
There has been a splendid pro-
gram planned so as to help everyone
who will attend this short course,
and l am sure that it will be a great
treat to the farmers and their fami-
lies to attend this short course as it
will be very instructive as well as in
spirational. The speakers for the
short course will be the leading edu-
Gators of the state, so lets plan to at
tend this meeting for two days, it
will be good outing just after the
busy farm season is over and it will
do US good to get out for couple
of days and forget some of our wor-
ries. For further information write
W. G. Almonds, County Agent,
Cookeville, Tenn.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
PURCHASE ORDERED
No Doubt Remains as to Meadow Creek
Falls HY" Prodiect.

The following taken from a Nash
vile daily paper makes plain the fac
that the "Y" camp at Meadaw Creel
Falls is sure go and that things will
assume an air of marked activity
soon:
Full plans were made for the Y
M. c. A. summer camp to be situated
in the Cumberland Mountains, about
five miles southwest of Crossville, at
the first meeting of the statewide
camp committee, held recently al
the home of Jesse NJ. Overton. TIE
committee authorized the buying of
all equipment necessary to the op-
Grafton of this camp.
The committee, composed of J. NJ.
Overton, A. B. Richardson, John E..
Edgerton, Senator Webb, H. c.
Hibbs, K, G. Hardcastle, c. w. Rush,
George e. Bennie, c. W. Wallace,
and H. G. Hart, plan to make this
camp the greatest boys camp in
North America. The camp site will
eventually include about 80 acres,
with a lake of about 100 acres to
be made by the building of a dam.
The movement has met with the un-
qualified approval of Ernest Thomp-
son Seton, head of the Woodcraft
League of North America.
The plans are to have no city
bungalow, and yet no rude shacks
at the cap. Buildings artistically
construct of logs cut from the
camp sit will be made by the boys
and men :; 10 camp there. In June,
July and August, the camp will be
conducted for boys from IL years
and over, and in May and September
business men will be allowed an p
portunity to recreate. The camp di-
rector will be r. H. Morrow, of Chi
cago.
Besides the purely recreational
features, the camp will have training
courses for boys and men desiring
to do any kind of Y. M. c. A. work.
"A cOIllilllIee VI tWehIy-OilC iiC'
from all over the state was appoint
ed yesterday, and these men will aid
in the perfection of the plans of the
local committee.
Some boys are already on the spot,
and about forty more will leave Ju-
ly 6. The woodcraft feature will
be stressed for those who visit the
camp, everything possible to be made
from materials gathered in and
about camp.
Ten thousand dollars has been ap-
propriated for immediate needs in
starting the work and arranging f3r
the few who are expecting to use
the camp this year.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
XIII a Million Prairie Dous.

Complete determination of what was
considered one of the largest prairie
dog towns" in the West has been re-
ported to the predatory animal In
spector's office at Phoenix, Ariz., by
the Chirieahua Cattle company Of Co.
chuise county, southeastern Arizona.
More than 100000 prairie dogs
were estimated to have lived on the
company's ranch Of more than 10000
acres until the management started an
offensive campaign against them. Now
their vast honeycombs Of underground
burrows are utterly deserted, the COM
pany reported.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
COUGHT MOONSHINIkG
Clifford Oaks Caught at Still Near Dor
ton and Bound to Court

Friday afternoon Deputy Sheritfs
J. H. Henry and Henry Turner and
| CITY Marshal V. C. Lyles arrested
Cliffard Oaks at his still, bout a
mile northwest of Dorton, some five
miles east of Crossville. He was
tried before Esq. o. B, Rector and
bound to court under bond of $3.50
and is now in Jail, having failed to
make bond when this was written.
1t seems Marshal Lyles and Henry
-Tuerner located the still, which con-
sisted of a few tubs and about 60
gallons of still beer ready for still
ing. They watched the still for sew
eral hours when they saw Oaks COM
ing with a copper still on his should
er, which he intended to substitute
for a more Grade affair he had been
using. He was accompanied by a
Bukhart lad about ten years old.
As he reached the point where the
still beer and equipment was located
the officers covered him with their
guns and placed him under arrest.
The Burkhart boy ran and they had
a lively foot race to catch him,
which they finally did.
The still beer was destroyed and |
the equipment was brought to town
an dturned over to Sheriff Garrison.
Oaks is unmarried and is about %
years of age. He is the son of J.
NJ. Oaks, and a cripple, having lost
one arm some years ago from gum
shot wound.
The Burkhart lad was turned
oose and not brought before the
court as he was only a child and ev-
dently did not realize that what he
vas doing was in violation of the
aw.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07

The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Christian church will meet next
Wednesday afternoon, July IA, with
Mrs. Dell West.
]. L. Turner was here from Clifty
Monday.
HI. Dunbar was home from Deer
Lodge for the weekend.
J. F. Mcbride and D. M. Swice-
good have both qualified for Consta-
bic for the First District. They are
both young men, qualified for the
place and we see no reason why the
people should not elect them to the
office they seek.
Rev. J. w. Davenport, wife and
little son, of Thirnsby, Alabama
were in town Monday on their return
home after visiting with friends in
Seouatchie Valley. Mrs. Davenport
and little son had been in the Valley
for about month, but Rev. DaVen-
port was there for only week VS.
iting.
Mrs. John c. Burnett left Monday
to see her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. M.
Handy, near Rhea Springs, who is
very sick with fux.
S. R. Rose was over from Grab
Orchard Monday looking after busi-
ness.
w. E. Reed brought some very fine
early peaches to town Monday and
was so kind as to remefber the edi-
tor with some handsome ones. They
were well ripened, plump and very
Juicy; a most excellent fruit.
Miss Pearl Moore, of Nashville,
is her visiting her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Garrison, and 9TH
er relatives and friends.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
A VOICE FROM FENTRESS
"OId Hickory" Conatser Tells Of Achieve
mentS Of Fe1treSs' Sons.

One of the most picturesque ant
popular citizens of Fentress county
the home of Alvin York, is "Olc
Hickory" Conatzer. A volume collC
be written of his life and sayings
a--d its perusal would be worth any
mans while. "Old Hickory" lives
at Pail Mall. is neighborhood friend
of Sergt. York, ana is proud OF
what he did during his military SER
vice. But he is proud, too, of the
achievements of other Fentress
countians, and in a recent communi-
cation to his home paper gives an in
teresting record of some of their
achievements. The communication
follows:
I am one of the oldest men in
Fentress county, and what / write is
true. 1t can be proven by history
if there are any Of the readers that
have any doubt about it.
There was a company of Confed-
crate soldiers made up in Fentress
county in 1861. They were the
flower of the county, and they are all
dead except one, met him at York's
wedding. I'll not mention any name.
If am called upon l can give the
names. 1t was a Fentress county
boy that belonged to the Fifth Ken
lucky cavalry, that fired the first shot
at the battle of Stones river. 1t
was a Fentress county boy that be-
longed to the Eighth Tennessee Con-
federate Cavalry that fired the first
shot at the battle of Chicaumauga.
1t was a Fentress county boy that
belonged to the Eighth Kentucky
infantry, that planted the first nag
on Lookout Mountain. I'm writing
this from memory for the good OF
my friends in Fentres county. The
Fentress boy that fired the first shot
at the battle of Chicamauga is buried
in the cemetery at jamestown. l
looked at his tomb yesterday, ana
tears came in my eyes. 1t was q
Fentress county boy that shed the
first blood on French soil for the
liberty of the world. 1t was Fen.
tress county boy that is the hero OF
the world war, whose name IS Wen
known. and we are all proud OF MN.
We are proud of our boys whose
fame has spread throughout the
world. 1t was a Fentre55 county
bow who crawled four miles through
mo Mans Land" in the nie t to tie
a wire to preserve the com,1unlca-
tion of the American troop under
fire. 1t was Fentresss county boy
that was working a machine T1n and
called to another Fentress county
boy: Sergeant this gun is Getting
so hot | can't shoot her" lie says:
"Damn the gun; shoot her until you
burn her up" 1t was two tentress
county boys that crawled under
wire fence and crawled out into mo
Mans Land" and brought back two
wounded comrades, and one of them
was dead when they got back to our
lines with them, and the bloc" of his
dead comrade is now on the back OF |
his raincoat, and he won't have IL
washed out. He takes it as one OF |
the greatest honors of his life to
preserve it as a relic Of his, dead
comrade. We are proud OF our
bows: they are all descendants OF the
men who fought the battle of Kings
mountain.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07

He said he had been sleeping where
he was arrested for a week or longer.
The place where he was arrested is
about twenty miles south of Cross
vile. The crime with which he was
charged was committed in this couri-
ty. He was caught five weeks to-
day from the time he is said to have
killed Hughlin Price.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07

Kent Jarvis, of Webster Grove,
Mo-, was here the first of the week
looking after his 900-acre tract of
land lying a few miles north of town.
Mrs. Dora A. Guthie, who had ben
visiting with friends at Livingston, ar
rived home Monday. She was ac-
companied by her daughter, Mrs. Ell
mo Langford and two children.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-07-07
His Bit.

Ex-Buck-Gotta job at last.
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carrying samples for a salesman
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matter where the authority under the
 constitution was theirs and not his.
 | The senators performed their duty
 faithfully. We approve their conduct and
 honor their courage and fidelity. and we pledge the coming republican administra- ! ton to such agreement with the other na- tions of the world as shall meet the full duty of America to civilization and hu- manity in accordance with American ideals and without surrendering the right of the American people to exercIse its 1 judgment and it's power in favor of justice and peace. Pointing to it's history and relying upon it's fundamental prin- ciples. we declare that the republican party has the generous courage and con- structive ability to end executive usurpa- tion and restore constitutional govern ment to fulfill our world obligations with
 out sacrificing our national independence. to raise the national standard of educa- ton, health and general welfare, and to re-establish a peace-time administration and to substitute economy and efficiency
 Cor extravaganza and chaos; to restore and maintain the national credit; to re- form unequal and burdensome taxes; to free business from arbitrary and unneces- sary official control; to suppress disloy- alty without denial of justice; to repeat the arrogant challenge of any class, and to maintain a government of all the peO- ple as entrusted with government for some of the people; and finally, to allay unrest suspicion and strife, and to se- cure the cooperation and unity of all citizens in the solution of the complex problems of the day, to the end that our country. happy and prosperous, proud | of it's mast. sure of itself and it's institu- tions may look forward with confidence to the future.
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courts. and which shall secure instant and general international conference whenever peace shall be threatened by political action. so that the nations pledged to do and insist upon what IS just and fair may exercise their in fluence and power for the prevention Of war
 We believe that all this can be done without the compromise of national in- dependence. without depriving the people of the United States in advance of the right to establish for themselves what is just and fair. where the occasion arises. and without involving them as participants and not as peacemakers in a multitude of quarrels, the merits of which they are unable to judge.
 The covenant signed by the President at Paris failed signally to accomplish this pun pose. and contained stipulations not only intolerable for an independent peo- ple but certain to produce the injustice, hostility and controversy among nations which it proposed to prevent.
 That covenant repudiated to degree wholly unnecessary and unjustifiable, the Ime-honored policy in favor of peace toi- lowed by Washington and Jefferson and Monroe, and pursued by all American ad- ministrators for more than a century, and it ignored the universal sentiment of America for generations past in favor of international law and arbitration, and it rested the hope of the future upon mere expediency and negotiation.
 The unfortunate insistence of the Pres ident upon having shown a way with out any change, and without any regard to the opinion of a majority of the Sen ate which shares with him in the treaty. making power. and the Presidents e. rand that the treaty should be ratified without any modificat tion, created sit uation in which senators were required to vote upon their consciences and their oaths in recording their judgment upon the treaty as it was presented or sub ,,o;t to +be commands of a dictator in a
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SOCIAL PROGRESS

The supreme duty of the nation is the conservation of human resources through an enligntened measure O; social and industrial justice Although the federal jurisdiction over social problems is limited, they affect the welfare and interests of the nation a a whole We pledge the republican party to the solution of these problems
 through national and state legislation in accordance with the best progress
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We condemn the democratic adminis- tration for failure impartially to en-
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The republican party stands for agree ment among the nations to preserve the peace of the world We believe tnae such an international association must be based upon international justice, and must provide methods which shall man. tain the rule of public right by develop
 ment of law and the decision of impartial
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Prevention of unreasonable profits by exercise of public economy and stimulation of private thrift and by revision of war-imposed taxes unsuited to peace time economy. PROFITEERING
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PART EIGHT LAW AND ORDER

The equality of all citizens under the law has always been a policy Of the republican party.
 Without obedience to law and main tenance of order our American insti- tutions must perish. Our laws must be impartially enforced and speedy justice should be secured.
 PUBLIC ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
 We favor liberal appropriations in CO., operation with the states for the con- struction of highways. which will bring about a reduction in transportation costs, better marketing of farm products, im- provement in rural postal delivery as we'll as meet the needs of military de- fense.
 In determining the proportion of federal aid for road construction among the states, the sums lost in taxation to the respective states by the setting apart of large portions of their area as forest res- ervations, should be considered as con- trolling factor.
 Conservation is republican policy. It
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE

We welcome women into full partici-
 patton in the affairs of government
 and the activities of the republican
 party. We earnestly hope that repub- lican legislatures in states which have not yet acted upon the suffrage amend ment will ratify the am mendment, to the
 end that all of the women of the na- tion of voting age may participate in the election of 1920 which is so i'm portant to the welfare of our coun- frzy
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PART SEVEN INTERNATIONAL TARIFF AND
 TRADE

The uncertain and unsettled conditions of international balances and the aonor- maj economic and trade situation ot the world, and the impossibility Of forecast ing accurately even the near future, pre- cude the formulation of dehnite pro .ran1ne to meet conditions year hence
 Eut the republican party reafflrmed US belief in the protractive principle, ana pledge itself to revision of the tarilt as soon as conditions shall make 1t neces- sary for the preservation of the home market for American labor, agriculture
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REORGANIZATION OF FEDERAL DEP PARTMENTS ANn RIIREAlIS

We advocate a thorough investigation of the present organization of the federal departments and bureaus. with a view to securing consolidation, a more busi- ness like distribution of functions, the elimination of duplication, delays and overlapping of work and the establish ment of an up-to-date and efficient ad- ministrative organization.
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C. o. ?. PLATFROM TEXT

employees, and to the raising of tho standard of individual efficiency.
 THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET
 We congratulate the republican Congress on the enactment of a law providing for the establishment of an executive budget as a necessary in strument for sound and businessliks administration of the national finances; and we condemn the vote ot the President which defeated this great financial reform.