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DR. E. M. LONG
DENTIST
Over White Be Burchard V Drug
Store, Union, Gty, Tenn.
Telephone
Office 144-2. Residence 144-3
DR. E. M. LONG
DENTIST
Over White At Burchard't Drug
Store, Union Gty, Tenn." ii '
' Telelphones
Office 144-2; Residence 144.3
RCIA
Union City Commercial, established 1890 .
West Tennessee Courier, established 1897 Consolidated September 1,197
UNION CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1915.
VOL. 23, NO. 50.
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Cherry -Moss
Gs'Siisi Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Grain, Hay and Field Seeds
CLOVER
Alsike, Alfalfa, Red Top, Timothy
Blue Grass, Orchard Grass
and all kinds of Field Seed
HAY AND CORN
Corn Chops, Bran, Gats,' Cotton Seed
Meal and Hulls .
and all kinds of Feed.
Union City, Tenn.
Telephone No. J
, A drug store should keep goods up to date just the same
as a dry goods store. Scientific research is constantly discov
ering new things. So deal with us and you will deal with a
progressive drug store. We will not allow our customers to
buy something they ought not to have. It takes knowing how
to be a good druggist. Our knowledge and experience is at
the service of our customers. .
WITMr!ri?OTVT, Telephone
NOW IS THE TIME TO
YOUR.
Clover, Red Top
Timothy, and
Other Field Seed
We Carry the Best the market affords.
PRICES RIGHT. TERMS CASH.
We have a full line of
Buggies, Wagons
Farming Implements
The Celebrated Deering Disc Harrows, Bind
ers, Mowers, and Rakes; I. H. C. Engines and
Mills. It will pay you to see us before you buy.
Tisdale & JacEtson
Deering Building
SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
MAYOR AND ALDERMEN
With Reference to Location of Depot
and Bootlegging.
Pursuant to a call for a special
meeting of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen of Union City to act on a
compromise of the depot proposition,
a bootlegging ordinance and a hear
ing to cost not less than $25,000 on
the approval of the State Railroad
Commission, and located outside of
the Church street lines, the people
of Union City, through their accred
ited representatives, agreeing that
for a period of not less than ten
years no dejnand shall be made for
a grade crossing on said street, and
providing that if the said railroad
companies object to the agreement
herein set forth, the committee to
CRUSADE AGAINST MOR-
MONISM IN AMERICA
National Reform Association in a
Great Work.
The Mormon Kingdom violates the
covenants which it made to procure
amnesty for its law-breaking proph
et and priests ; statehood for the ter-
rltnripa In urJiiMi Ito npnnln !..,!. i that their
take steps at once to push the pas
ing before the Interstate Commerce saf of th h11 condemning and op- restoration of formerly escheated
Commission with reference to a raise r 6 u D1,1CBl' ao "elt!LOiore or
In coal rates. thA fnllnwlnp- twab,!- dere1- The vote waa 4 to 3 in favor
ines were had: of the compromise.
At a meeting in Nashville, in An ordinance was submitted pro
Burdick, of this city
viding for an enlargement of the
property; and the full favor of na
tional law sentiment.
The Mormon Kingdom teaches
polygamy; its prophet and priests
practice polygamy.
The Mormon Kingdom misuses its
which J. f!
' I nifir lnnrn 1 .. 1 ,
was Dresent with President. . J. H."1' lovvo LU ""ui-iu me recent
, . .. . aCI.S or rnfi l.pls latnro nrmrM n
reyion, judge uiaude waller ana 7, " trust funds to promote crime and
H. McDonald, of the N., C. & St. L. ' 'MU,tu,H1 011 lne sniP" treason
Railwav Co.. overture wr ma.d mB"L ul "Uuurs in me stare, a regis
hv Mr. RnrHii-lr nn a h.1. nf . ' ul ettl;" Buipuiem on tne DOOKS Ot
tne corporation or Union City and
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promise whereby the people of Union
City might have a new passenger
station built and located outside of
the Church street lines without re
sort to an act of the Legislature
forcing the opening of said street
over the railroad tracks, and the fol
lowing is a memorandum authorized
by Mr. Peyton and signed by him:
At conference in my office in
Nashville this afternoon, at which
Judge Claude Waller, Mr. Hunter
McDonald and Mr. J.- C. Burdick
were present, there was a discussion
with a view to reaching some basis
for an agreement to which the town
of Union City, the Mobile & Ohio
and Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis Railroad Companies might he
me names 01 parties to whom con
signed. The ordinance was approv
ed and its provisions will be put into
effect at once.
A notice having been given that
railroad tariffs on coal to Tennessee
points would be increased 15 cents
a ton, the board went on record to
The Mormon Kingdom sets itself
up as a temporal kingdom.
The Mormon Kingdom already has
acquired political control of or ap
preciable influence in eleven States
of the Union.
The Mormon Kingdom purpose is
to overthrow this republic and es
tablish here a polygamous empire.
To check this Mormon Kingdom
that effect.
o crprooainn on1 f r nrnnf Avnf lnn
protest against the raise and to par- ia a ,.
ticipate in the hearings before the Tuot f , ,. ,
Interstate Commission at Memphis to Li,- nT v, , , ,t . .
(Ut the Mormon Kingdom and its priests
shall be made to keep the pledge
they gave to the United States.
The pressure of law, the pressure
of publicity, the pressure of national
opinion may be well concentrated
upon that correction.
The National Reform Association
FELONY OF NIGHTRIDING
to
Unanimously Favored by House
Fifteen Year Sentence.
The "Nightriding" bill, which makes
come parties, that would make it nightriding in Tennessee a felony and has consecrated its energies to th
provides a penitentiary sentence of fif
teen years, was unanimously passed by
the House of Representatives Monday
afternoon. The Senate has already
passed the measure
This was the only general bill of in
terest passed by the House, while the
Senate passed the bill allowing women
sion and to the citizens of Union to become notaries public.
City, including radical improvement -A-flood of more than a hundred bills ing of the property which was re
in existing station and moving it di- were introduced in both bodies. Sev- stored to the Mormon Kingdom in
rectly backward so as to give a plat- eral general bills granting women the trust; and a proceeding to dissolve
form twenty feet wide between the right to vote for all officials of the the Mormon Kingdom property trus
tracks of the Mobile & Ohio and the State, nation and muuieirjalitv were teeship as a combination in restraint
XT-U ..ill - "!. - ii n 1 I J a i.i
i,aBI1iiie. umumiuoga s be. i,ouis introduced bv Kenresentafive Frant ul lraue-
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West, of Knovvillfi Anntho, !-.,. 1U- An oraer y Ule Postofflce de
unnecessary to further contend
about the location of a passenger
station at Union City.
Conclusion was reached that the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Railway would be willing to agree
to the construction of a station
in accordance with plans hith
erto shown to the Railroad Commis
cause. And it has adopted the fol
lowing as the program which it will
respectfully urge upon the govern
ment and the people of the United
States:
I. A constitutional amendment
forbid polygamy and polygamous liv
ing.
II. A proceeding by the depart
ment of justice to force an account
Railroads and the station.
Mr. Peyton asked Judge Waller if ; ,..,. ;...i 1 1 r, partment withholding the privileges
......... t.r,f K ,j J 1 Of the mail from tho Mnrmrm Iflno
. sentative J. L. Levine, of Chattanooea. L ... T. 7
" uuiii aim no lBByuusium uiuciais, SO
the terms of which the town of . U1 w long us they teach the crime of
an agreement could
that would be legally binding, under Tf . ,. ' , ' , --"iJ-th.
trm, nf wh, ?' ieS the sale of cigarettes to
Union City could be prevented from &Dd makeS rt a feIony t0 sell to polygamy
in the future attempting to force a "1,UUI8- iv. A refusal by each House of
grade crossing over the tracks of the A Ietter 'rom w- J- ryan, Secretary Congress to seat any man who pays
two railroads, if the railroad com- of btate, was read, expressing his regret Political allegiance to the Mormon
panies agreed to build the station tnat be will be unable to speak before KlnSdom or is elected by its power,
entirely clear of Church street', the Legislature. V. A refusal by the President to
Judge Waller was not prepared to Among the imnortant measure intm. appoint any man to anv federal of-
express final Judg&ent on this point, duced Monday WPr th fniin,ir,. fice who P8 Political allegiance to
but expressed the opinion very p,m: ,, n .
strongly that if the people of the . 6 , " ' w"" ul a olillB VI. Political opposition by all
town of Union City, through their commisslon of public printing; pro- Christian patriots to any candidate
accredited representatives, agreed m"s Ulu sal 01 lleron; to prevent wno is Known to be an ally of the
that no such demand would be made tuberculosis; making itunlawful to con- Mormon Kingdom in politics or who
that in his judgment the railroad duct a mock auction sale; providing for wI11 not Pledge himself to this pro
coirmanifis mierlit. count, with per. the reeistration of lobhvist.s in flip T.erio. gram
tainty on immunity from further ef- nature and providing more stringent
forts to force a grade crossing for at regulations for the purity of elections.
least twenty-five years; whereupon
I indicated my willingness to agree Road Bonds Froposed
lv, uuuu V"c DiaLiuu uuujiutj ui ule Hickman. Kv.. March fi Ppti-
street, provided the Mobile & Ohio Hons have he cirrnintpri ti,o M!l
Railroad Company would agree to week throughout the various mag-
tVt enmA hut w Ann A I . .
"," Aii.cocu m upiuiuiiMsterial districts of this county ask-
that the disadvantages to the Mobile inff the Countv .liide-P tn raii 0
& Ohio Railroad Companv
mwiiuft y cue yui puae ul as-
manifestly so great that I did not certaining the 'wish of the voters of
believe that they would become par- this county on the proposition of
ties to such an agreement. bondine- th ,.ntv in ti,.
Both Judge Waller and Mr. Mc- ann nnn t k i 1....,.
Donald expressed the opinion, in Lravei roads ovpr thtx pm,ntv aJZyery Pamist, under pain of ex
-l. - t-o.. . . p . . , I fifim mnniQtiAii u i
wmcu mr. r-eyion was in accora.tnat these petitions will be presented to
not only were the disadvantages to day to Countv Jud R .t stohr
the Mobile & Ohio Company so great The present plans are to have a vote
as to forbid their accepting this 0n this Question on Satnrrtav Mo
proposition, but that should the sta- 22, 1915. The petition circulated solemnized- and all the polygamous
And this correction must be con
tinuously applied until the Mormon
Kingdom fulfills its covenant with
the country; and until the Mormon
Kingdom repairs, so far as possible,
the evil which its promise-breaking
has wrought.
Specifically:
1. The Mormon Kingdom should
cease the teaching of polygamy. It
should exclude the pretended revela
tion and all claim for polygamy from
its books of doctrine.
2. The Kinirdom sh on Id rnmncl
communication to cease his unlawful
relations, and to make a just provis
ion for the Wives and children.
3. All the polygamous marriages
. We condemn the assumption, which
Mormon priests promote and shallow
observers adopt, that - a crusade
against crime must attack industry,
or "thrift, or happiness, or content
ment, or piety or any form of vir
tue. The most hurtful enemy to the
Mormons is he who assumes that the
perpetuation of their good qualities
and deeds is dependent upon the
offences of their prophet; that their
industry is the creature of his greed;
freedom subsists in his
tyranny, that their virtues can be
maintained only by his polygamy;
and that their religion dissolves
when he obeys the law.
Christian missionaries may find it
easier to convert Mormonism after
the correction of Mormonism; easier
to convert the educated, law-abiding
and loyal Mormon after the correc
tion of the fanatical, law-breaking
and treasonable Mormon. It is even
possible that after the correction,
there will be less need for conver
sion. For our part, we would have the
Mormon Church and people right
eously enjoy their freedom of faith
in this republic. Living the coven
ant to which they pledged their hon
or, no Christian hand will be raised
agaist them. Freed from the offen
ces and the burden of the offenders,
that have roused the just indigna
tion of their betrayed country, they
will develop the best that is within
their human mass. If their system
can survive the eradication of its
priestly crimes and criminals, it will
take its place among the conven
tional faiths of mankind. But it will
have ceased to be the Mormonism
which now invades the' rights and
affronts the civilization of this
Christian land.
There are many sects. There is
but one Christ. In His Great Day
the differences may fall away from
faiths. And all who will to share in
His salvation may unite as brothers
in His worship.
There are many powers in our na
tion. There is but one sovereignty.
As long as our citizenry must ex
press their will through government
and must hold their rights under its
rule, there can be no invasion of its
supremacy. Any further attempt .
to Eiibstitute Mormonism for our
government we must resist. Against
any present substitution we must
wage a crusade.
We owe that duty to ourselves.
We owe it to Christ, the Ruler of all.
Robert E. Polk.
Hickman, Ky., March 7. Robert
E. Polk, well-known man of Hick-.
man, died at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. Henry McMullin, yesterday,
after several weeks' illness, and in
terment will be held this afternoon
at the Poplar Grove Cemetery. He
was 70 years old, had lived just .
south of Hickman for many years,
and well known throughout that sec
tion. For some time he had been
residing here with his daughter,
Mrs. McMullin. He is survived by
four daughters and two sons.
children born, since the last date of
legitimization, should be publicly
Hnn hp an hllilt th. nannla rP TTnlnn I .
ijuuu nere was signed nn rie-ht at nnn hp.
City would find that the travel of inj? met with much -nth,mpm if
tne pudiic wouia De so greatly In- this is carried it. will p-Ivp 91 n np0 reg,sterea Dv the Kingdom and it
convenienced, by reason of the im- of good hard road . F u should assume, a definite responsi-
proper location of the depot, that and the tax will not hp in.r.c, v blllty for th 'uture of the women
they would regret the action taken
for all time to come.
Mr. Peyton, in a previous conver
sation with Mr. Burdick, to-day in
dicated his willingness to stand by
the proposition he made last summer
for the building of an underpass,
provided the city of Union City and
the Mobile & Ohio and Nashville,
Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad
Companies could enter into an agree
ment each to bear one-third of the
cost of such construction.
J. H. PEYTON.
March 3. 1915.
Considerable discussion' of the sub
ject was had, but the vote was final
ly taken on an amended proposition
that the railroad companies should
be bound t'o an agreement for plans
and specifications of a depot build-
reason of voting the bonds, as the
people are now paying the limit on
this tax. There is a present road
fund of $15,000 a year for the coun
ij s roaos, plus the minimum of
$12,000 which we get from the
State fund, which will pay off the
bonded indebtedness.allowing $5,000
for maintenance and repairs of each
year. In addition ,if this issue is
carried, it is said the State will turn
over to the county the special auto
mobile license, amounting to an.
proximately $1,500 a year.
You cannot have eood fruit with
out spraying your trees, but vou
must also use good pumps and lime
sulphur solution. Buy anywhere but
WEHMAN'S is a mighty good place
to get t he best.
and their offspring.
4. The Kingdom should withdraw
from commerce. It should take its
poor from the public almshouses and
make them the beneficiaries of the
properties which they created and
which the government restored.
5. The Kingdom should cease to
inculcate disloyalty and vengeance;
cease its usurpation of civil powers;
keep its ruling hierarchs from civil
office; and set its people free in politics.
In this crusade for these holy ends.
there is no 'attack on religion. No
person wilj suffer a wrong.
All that is good in Mormon com
munity life will be preserved. The
industry, the thrift, the fraternity
all the admirable things will be as
forceful then as now.
$1,000 Bond.
Tiptonville, Tenn., March 8. Af
ter postponing the trial three sepa
rate times, the trial of John Roy
Riley, charged with shooting with
intent to kill, was held before Es
quires Knott and Murdock at Ridge-
ten miles south of Tiptonville.
Riley claimed self-defense, but the
Magistrates bound him over to Cir
cuit Court, and fixed his bond at
1,000, which was made, Riley, on
January 10, shot and dangerously
ounded John Wray, near Hatha
ay. He then made his escape, but
was captured within a short time at
Madisonville, Ky., and brought back
to Lake County and made bond for
his appearance at a preliminary
trial. Owing to the severe wound of
Wray, the trial was postponed from
time to time.
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