Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-07-16
WILL RESENT TIE ISLANDER


Citizens of Weakley county, will
as they should, resent the recent
SANDER hurled at four of this coun-
tvs most reputable and heightened
gentlemen-W. w. House, W. T.
Murphy, Esq. Lee Elliott and Y. Y.
Phillips-by Mr.. Crabtree, candidate
for governor.
Crabtree, in an interview given
out to his partisan papers the other
day, insinuated rather than specifi-
cally charged, these gentlemen with
grating in the matter of road CON
tracing. Cra5tree is making his
campaign upon what he terms a fair
and equitable basis for the people,
whom he claims have not been dealt
with fairly by the Roberts admins
stration; he is citizen and tax
payer of the state, and if he has any
information Of any wrong-doing III
connection with >TenneAsee's great
rooad building scheme, then he as a
citizen and tax payer ought to come
squarely out in the open, put his
citizen and tax payer ought to come
squarely oout in the open, put his
finger on the case and demand le-
gal prosecution. If he does not
have sufficient information to do
this, then he ought to keep his mouth
shut and not give publicity to mat
ter which he knows nothing about.
He has no right to insinuate that
they have been guilty of wrong
doing for the sole purpose Of making
votes for himself and destroying
Gov. Roberts. A real capable man
wouldn't do it.
Gov. Roberts is not a part of the
state highway commission and is in
no way responsible for what that
commission does, and even if there
were charges to be preferred against
the highway commission those
charges would have no place in the
present gubernatorial campaign to
determine the fitness Of Roberts or
Crabtree for the place.
The Enterprise has known and
dealt extensively with Murphy,
House and Elliott and has known
Phillips for twenty-five years.
They are honorable, worthy gentle
men. They are splendid business
men, all of whom have been before
the public for years and years and
no charge Of wrong-doing has ever
been preferred against them or any
of them. Esq. Elliott made very
flattering race for trustee in this
county several years ago, coming
within Just few votes of leading
the ticket. He made this race among
the people he had known and dealt
with all his life. They had conf
dence in him. which confidence was
shown by the splendid vote received.
At his home town of Martin he re-
ceived almost the solid vote Of the
people he had been reared among.
Mr.. House has held office in this
county and stands high in the es-
TEEN Of its citizens-and the Enter
prise firmly believes they will resent
the Crabtree insinuation cast upon
these four excellent citizens of
Weakley county.
The Enterprise had not intended
to take a part in this gubernatorial
fight, but since one of the candi-
dates seeking the democratic nomi-
nation for governor deigns to SLAM
der four of our most worthy citi-
zens we propose resenting it. Crab
tree would not only tear down our
splendid taxing laws, but he would
destroy our excellent system of
building highways. Every school
boy in Tennessee knows this state
is far and away behind sister states
in the matter of highway facilities,
and yet just as we get started to-
ward building good roads man pops
up from Chattanooga and would de-
stroy the whole system without of
fering, las in the case of his Oppo-
sition to the tax lawsw) any sugges-
ton for anything better.
The truth of the whole matter is