The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-02-24
NUMBER q
JUDGE S. +. WILSON
MENTIONED FOR GOVERNOR.

A special from jackson 10 the Ten
nessean last Monday, stated that
Presiding Judge S. F, Wilson, of the
Court of Civil Appeals, who has re-
eeived large number Of letters from
prominent Democrats all over the
State urging him 70 enter the race
for the gubernatorial nomination,
made the emphatic statement that he
void not enter into q contest but
would accept the nomination If ten
dered him by the convention in
Nashville.
II will not be . party to any prop
osition whereby strife will be engen-
dered IN the party ranks. stated
Judge Wilson, "hnd that Is just what
q Democratic primary viii do. Con-
didates face each other onsthe stump.
Personal hatred begun in such .
movement serves to defeat the party
nominees. ! believe we ought to have
an old fashioned Democratic conven-
tion in Nashville, name our standard
bearer, write our platform and unite
against the common enemy.
"ltis going to take that to win. For
ALI Taylor is strong, and | doubt
very much whether we Democrats are
going to be abld to beat him. Certain
It is that we must present. very sol
id front. ] do not believe we can win
| If we enter into primary.
II am astounded at the contempt
ible cowardice of our politicians"
continued Judge Wilson. "If they have
any convictions they are afraid to ex-
press them. The people are getting
tired of this sort of thing. They want
a candidate to have some backbone
and some convictions. Why some of
our political leaders are afraid of
their, shadow"
"We have too much group govern
ment. We have the labor bloc, the
farm bloc, the capitalist bloc, and
each is after legislation for its own
common good, to the absolute exclu-
sion of the welfare of the whole peo-
Pile. We are drifting into govern
ment of Capitalization and consolida-
tion which will in the end destroy rep
resentative government and nullify
| the very principles upon which this
nation was established. We are rap
II idly losing our states rights. We are
yielding too much to the Federal
| IGovernment. If we keep drifting thus
there will be no such thing as local
self-government,
why don't some of our Candidates
come out in the open and array them
Qselyes sohdly against such move
|Iments III they have convictions
why don't they7express them? l des-
pise the contemplate cowardice that
is being shown. We, as Democrats,
ought to fight group government. We
ought to stand by those grand old
principles Of Democracy so well de-
fined by our forefathers."
Judge Wilson was nominee of the
low-taX wing of the Democratic party
for governor back in 1880. He is III
years old but still vigorous. He is a
Confederate veteran, having lost an
arm at Shiloh. Judge Wilson stated
that he was in no wise seeking the
nomination, but if rendered him he
would accept it, pull off his coat, roll
up his sleeves and go after the Re-
publicans with hammer and tongs."
Judge Wilson is presiding justice
of the appellate court of which body
he has long been a member.
We can add that if Judge Will
son were in the governors office,
things would be heard and things
done that have not happened in Ten
nessee in long time-if ever.