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Possibly at no time has Tennessee
needed a man of ability and courage
of convictions for governor more
than now, and the sensible thing for
Democrats to do is to put up Gov.
Roberts and re-elect him without op..
position. Gov. Roberts is man OF
ability and has the courage of his
convictions. He started a work that
no other governor has had the cour-
a0e to tackle-that Of tax reform
which. under the present Republic
can administration was practically
annulled. Possibly no Democrat
could have been elected governor
under the conditions of the last
election, but one can be elected next
wear. and Roberts should be the
man. Let the party leaders start a
Roberts eampaign-Sparta News.
The Democrats Of Tennessee COM
mitted an egregious blunder last
year in throwing Gov. Roberts over
board and putting a Republican in
the gubernatorial office, and the
best way for the party to retrieve
It's fortunes in this state would be
Ia nut Gov. Roberts up for their
candidate next year without oppo-
sition and re-elect him by an old
fashioned Democratic majority, Gov.
Roberts fully demonstrated his fit
ness for the office in the term he
served. The party can not do bet-
ter than to send him back to finish
the work of tax reform which he SO
auspiciously began. McMinnville
Southern Standard.
Mr.. Ford's offer for the Muscle
Shoals plant, which the congress
and the government were presum-
ably prepared to scrap and to
charge to the loss column Of the
governments ledger, stands as the
best, and, in fact, only serious and
responsible proposal made for the
plant, as officially announced two
DAYS ago. If the Chicago Tribune
and those whose interests it may be
serving in its efforts to fly-blow and
defeat the Ford deal have nothing
better to offer, for the sake Of SIM
ole candor and decency they should
shut up. The public should be pro-
tected from such puerile insults to
it's intelligence. Knoxville Sentinel
The unsympathetic and heartless
authorities at Knoxville are compell-
ing the ladies to tell their age when
they appear to register as voters.
That is entirely unnecessary. If I
the applicant replies that she is over
81 she is entitled to register, and
when she applies for poll tax ex-
enption all she will have to say is
that she is over So Not m.ny may
apply for exen psions, but at any
rate they now know what it takes
to constitute an exemption.--Chat-
tanooga Times.
Youth must have his way, but it
doesn't seem right to one who has
followed his victories for years to
see the name of Pop Geers mention
ed so seldom among the winners oni
the grand circuit. Geers is a Ten
nessean, has driven for more than
half century and his honesty has
never been questioned. He has BEEN
and is a credit to the harness racing
game. - Knoxville Journal and Tri-
bune.
The Ranner has finally become
suspicious that Secretary Weeks is
delaying the acceptance of the Hen /
ry Ford offer through sectional rea-
sons. The Guardian told you when
the offer was made public that Ford
would never be permitted to invest
his millions in the South if Weeks
and his New England compatriots
could prevent it-Tullahoma Guard
ian.
That Knoxville mob has it's coun-
5erpart in Massachusetts,. At Barn
stable, in that state, 200 men and
with weapons and ropes at
tempted to get at three negroes
charged with highway robbery and
assault on white woman
n the Buzzard Bay vicinity. which
goes to prove there is nothing Sec
5ional in these outrages upon law
ind rder.-Nashville Banner.
Men who believe in the enfran- I
,hising Of women for the good they /
thought this new lot of voters would
10 in their selections of officers and !
he great benefits that would likely ,
'edound to the protection Of the !
lome, are more than pleased with
he fine record our new vo ers have
made up to this time, Humboldt i
COURIER Chronicle. !
Henry Ford's Detroit, Toledo &
ronton Railroad proposes to reduce
he freight rate on coal, against
which the North West Virginia Coal o
Association has protested to the '
Commerce Commission. v
We have seen no protest from the
poor devils" who have to buy and '
urn the coal.-Lexington Progress.
While the great force Of an awak-
ned public sentiment is directed :,
oai11st tho h0Otlaoper the ynl1vdarar .