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THE COMMERCIAL
Marshall & Baird, Union City, Tens
Entered at the post office at Union City. Ten
naaee, as second-class mail matter. ,
FRIDAY, JULY 19. 1918.
Democratic Ticket
Chancellor V. H. HOI.MES
Circuit Judge R. A. KiKINS
County Judtre JOEL B. WADDELt,
Attorney General THOS. O. MORRIS
County Court Clerk R. H. BOND
Circuit Court Clerk THURMAN TAI.IEY
County Trustee T. J. EASl ERWOOD
County Register R. B. MILNKR
Sheriff-). M. HICKMAN
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For State Senate.
C M.D WELt,. We are authorized to announce
D. P. Caldwell a candidate for the Senate
branch of the Tennessee General Assembly, to
represent the counties of Weakley, Obion and
Lake, subject to the action of the Democratic
party.
For Representative.
B1ATTON. We are authorised to announce S.
R. Bratton, Esq., as a candidate for represen
tative from Obion County in the Tennessee
General Assembly, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
HOWARD We are authorized to announce J, A.
Howard, Esq., as a candidate for represents
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eral Assembly, subject to the action of the
Democratic primary, Thursday, Aug. 1, 1918.
For Floater.
G3IFFIN. We are authorized to announce Dr.
J. Frank Griffin as a candidate for Floterial
Representative in the Tennessee General As
sembly, to represent the counties of Dyer,
Lake and Obion, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
HAWKINS. We are authorized to announce
John M. Hawkins, of Lake County, as a candi
date for Floterial Representative from the coun
ties of Dyer, ake and Obion in the Tennessee
General Assembly, subject to the action of the
Democratic party in the primary election Thurs
day, August 1, 1918.
Said of Stahlman.
We are publishing the following
extract from Governor Rye's speech
at Chattanooga, the opening of the
Governor's campaign for the U. S.
Senate. This has reference altogeth
er to the record of E. B. Stahlman,
editor and owner of the Nashville
Banner, and the Governor has in
corporated it in his speech for the
reason that Mr. Stahlman is support
ing Mr. Shields thru the Banner for
the Senate. According to Governor
Rye, the Congressional. Record,
which should be an accurate record
of the Senate and House proceedings,
has covered up or eliminated that
part of the record which shows Mr.
Stahlman to be an enemy alien. As
far as Mr. Stahlman is personally
concerned it is a very small matter.
Ho is of German birth, pro German
in sympathy and outspoken until
conditions forced him into the back
ground. He is not even capable of
running a true American newspaper,
. much less a Democratic paper. And
as far as the latter is concerned he
has never proposed to conduct a
Democratic paper. Many years ago
he was the chief political lobbyist of
the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co.
He held the fortunes of Nashville in
the palm of his hand. It was com
mon knowledge in Naahville that any
citizen could get a pa3S from Mr.
Stahlman to travel on any of his
lines and others fraternizing.
Years after this Mr. Stahlman got
mixed up as a lobbyist in Congress
at Washington in the collection of a
war claim of some $400,000 for the
Methodist Church South. According
to Senator Bate and others Mr. Stahl
man was pledged not to participate
personally in this claim. Senator
Bate refused to proceed with the
matter until this plcdgo was made by
Mr. Stahlman. But tho result was
that Mr. Stahlman received as com
pensation for his work about one
third of the claim, or about $133,000.
This enabled him afterwards to be
come owner of the Banner and to
further his Insatiate ambition to in
fluence and control everything
around him. This is the Stahlman
who is supporting Senator Shields, a
Democrat, for the United States
'what' for, most anyone could lay a
guess! The Congressional Record,
which has been made to whitewash
Mr. Stahlman, is said to be franked
by the Senator for political purposes.
In other words, he is using the mails,
postage free, for his personal cam
paign. Now a word about Governor Rye.
There has been a good deal said
about his inability to fill the impor
tant office of Senator of the United
States. Of course it will be under
stood that much of this is gratuitous.
It is offered not so much to bemoan
the decadence of statemanship as it
Is to exhibit a nervous anxiety about
the election of Mr. Shields. Gov
ernor Rye was what Is known as a
regular, and he is still somewhat
cordially hated for that reason, but
he happened to bo a regular who
proved his sincerity when he pledged
to do everything in his power for
Jaw enforcement. . Many of the old
whisky regulars followed him, think
ing, as has been usual with many
candidates, that he would disregard
his platform pledges, but they were
treated to one of the llvest shake ups
the whisky people in the State have
ever experienced.' The lawless , ele
ment of Memphis was especially
shaken with a ground swell of law
enforcement, and the Governor was
the man who had the ability and
backbone to do it. He meant what
he said in the campaign. He is
honest, and an honest man in poli
tics sometimes stands isolated and
neglected, and even derided because
forsooth he is not politically shrewd
Governor Rye also made one of the
boldest stands ever attempted to
stem the onrush of legislative ap
propriations and plunder. He plead
for tax reform and internal economy
but it was a high tide which neither
he nor any Governor had the power
to control. He came to the capitol
and made a personal appeal, but the
clamor of false propaganda prevailed
against dispasrionate reason. Gov
ernor Rye was overruled as any other
man would have been, and hence
the condition of Tennessee finances.
The General Assembly, and not Gov
ernor Rye, is responsible for these
conditions.
This paper does not admit that
Governor Rye is a man of ordinary
ability. On the contrary ho has -ex
hibited marks of distinguished abili
ity. There is not a more polished
speaker in the State. There is not
another man who commands a more
fluent English. There is not a bet
ter orator in the State. He is a law
yer, and his record as Attorney Gen
eral in his home district is one of the
best in the State. He may not be
entitled to the same judicial weieht
accorded to the senior Senator, but
the people of Tennessee have the ut
most confidence in Governor . Rye's
integrity.
Here is a very potential brief of
Governor Rye: He is in the first
place a patriot devoting his energies
and abilities to forward the work of
the Administration in its war meas
ures. He is in perfect synmathv and
accord with the President in prose
cuting the war to a successful fin
ish. Governor Rye is openly, avow
edly and aggressively a nation-wide
prohibitionist; he is for woman's
suffrage by national amendment,
and he is otherwise a man whose
convictions are in keeping with a
progressive nationalism and a purer
and better democracy.
One more. word: This paper has
never been asked by tho Governor
nor any of his friends for its bud
port, and this article is not written
for the purpose of placing the paper
in the attitude of a Rye organ. It
is merely a' defense of the Governor
of Tennessee from unjust criticism.
Here is what Governor Rye had to
say of Mr. Stahlman:
"Those of you who are on the
mailing list of the senior Senator
have been lately receiving a part of
the Congressional Record, purporting
to contain a transcript of the Stahl
man case, and I will warn you in ad
vance that what you are receiving is
only that portion of the history of
E. B. Stahlman that Stahlman and
Shields deem it necessary for you to
know.
"As the senior Senator is making
this an issue in this campaign and
as it is an issue of his making inso
far as I am concerned, I must meet
this issue and give you the reason
why I do not approve the course of
the senior Senator on this matter
"Maj. Stahlman was born in Ger
many, and has lived since childhood
in this country, prospering under
our institutions and enjoying the
protection of our laws and our free
government. Never to this good day
has he renounced his allegiance to
Germany; never has he performed
one act to sever the ties that bind
him to the German Kaiser, and that
he has lived this way, with full
knowledge, is. proven by his own
statement that he at one time start
ed to have himself naturalized and
then abandoned his application.
''There are many of foreign birth
living among us who have been loyal
to our country in this struggle, but
E. B. Stahlman is not that number
Thru the columns of his newspaper
he preached German propaganda.
poisoning the minds of our people
and assailing the President and the
Administration by. every statement
and innuendo short of actual treason.
"When you read of the exemption
of Stahlman remember that he was
not required to bear arms or to do
nate his property for the protection
of the country that has shielded and
protected and prospered him all his
life, and that he had spat upon in
her time of danger. He was only re
quired to register and observe cer
tain harmless regulations that had
been ordered to be observed by Ger
man citizens so that a lurking band
of traitors and assassins in this coun
try should not be permitted to work
treason against our government at
home and our soldiers in a foreign
land. But, Stahlman was a protege
of the senior Senator. He could ap
peal to a higher court than the fed
eral authorities In his own district.
He had a newspaper that could sup
port Shields, and so Shields, your
Senator and mine, stood sponsor for
Stahlman for many months and of
ficially espoused his cause, with the
result that he was exempted from
the operation of the law Conrress
had passed regulating the conduct of
alien enemies and for the protection
of the loyal citizens of our country.
The brand of an American citizen.
thru the efforts of the senior Senator,
was placed on this man to cover his
sins of the past and hia conduct of
the future by the aid of a record
now admitted to be incorrect. And
now Stahlman is undertaking to ful
fill his part of this bargain and have
Shields re-elected. I accept this is
sue so widely advertised by the sen
ior Senator and in the name of the
loyal people of this State of all
parties I protest against this unholy
alliance. If Shields, thru his power
as a Senator, had exempted from the
battle line the son of one poor widow
in Tennessee, it would have been
wrong, but it would have been one
of those acts of mercy beyond the
pale of public disapproval. But, I
deny that the cloak of a Senator can
be properly used to protect a Ger
man sympathizer. In the name of
the people I repudiate this bargain.
I say let Stahlman pay his lawyer
himself. Shields was not hired by
the people to take the Stahlman case.
and he shall not saddle Stahlman's
debt on the fathers and mothers of
our boys who have not been 'exempt
ed, but who are standing on the
blood-stained soil of France to main
tain the government that Stahlman
has slandered and that Shields has
used for his own selfish purpose."
The speaker then turned to the
senior Senator's record in the Senate
and severely criticized his action on
various measures and especially some
of that which he said the President
advocated.
If You Were Blind,
What Would You Dot
Would you want to sit with hands
folded, in an enforced idleness that
lengthened the minutes into hours.
the hours into days, the days into
weeks? Would you want to feel an
absolute dependence on someone
else, be they relatives, friends or
strangers?
No, you wouldn't want such a lot
to be yours. Nobody would. But
what are we doing to encourage the
blind of our State to keep their fing
ers and brains employed, and to
minimize their sense of helplessness?
If two men, the one blind, the
other sighted, should come to you
simultaneously, to sell wares of their
own making, of equal quality and
worth, would it be charity to give
the preference to the wares offered
by the blind man, or would it not be
an act of simple Justice, a recogni
tion of the greater cost in values of
human effort and; skill? Is it not
worth something to know that the
will and spirit of man can "carry
on," even under the weight of
heavy darkness?
Most blind men who beg do so be
cause the world thinks they cannot
live without it, and they cannot as
long as the world persists in think
ing they can't. But the alms we
give is the stone we substitute for
the bread of independence they
crave. Can we not revise our point
of view and by wise patronage en
courage the blind in the pursuit of
the trades and occupations possible
for them?
Herewith you will find a list of
articles that can be furnished you by
the blind of Tennessee thru this com
mission. We are their selling agents
and your purchasing agents, serving
without commissions, since the State
of Tennessee provides for the support
or the agency.
You owe it to yourself to let us
have an early order.
Piano tuning, re-making of mat
tresses, re-caning of chairs, house
brooms, hearth brooms, and whisk
brooms, rugs, suitable for bath
rooms, bed rooms, sun parlors and
porches, well made, attractive per
cale aprons of various patterns,
dainty, hand-made, lace trimmed.
dimity aprons, crochet baby cans.
crochet boudoir caps, crochet yokes
for gowns or corset covers, crochet
garters, tea towels, sheets (only a
few, good quality and cxceptionallv
iow price), crochet centeroleces and
doilies, crochet or knitted bed room
slippers, crochet edging, for pillow
cases or bath towels, by yard or
piece, tatting edge, by yard or piece,
tatting trimmed handkerchiefs, table
runners, dresser scarfs.
For further particulars, address.
Miss Sue S. White, Executive Secre
tary, Nashville, Tenn. Or call
phone, Main 4834.
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Just a tablespoon!" ul of GRAND
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soap in water. That takes the
place of all the chipping, slicing
and rubbing that you do now
whenever you wash or clean.
And you save soap. You know
just how much to use.
Isn't it simple? What woman would
put up with the fust and bother of
bar soap lying around and wasting
away, when the can now have this
marvelous powdrd soap. .
GRANDMA'S Powdered Soap
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J CI L Y.
I July is the longest month in the year. So we can do
more than in any other month more for our nation,
more for our fellow man and more for ourselves. So let
us get busy. Get up early in the morning, call Grissom
for anything you want to eat.
WE HAVE IT ALL.
J Everything in Groceries and everything inMeats.
No flies on our goods. Everything kept sanitary and
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J Eggs, Vegetables and many other things kept in
cold storage. So call us and get the freshest of everything.
Three Phones
Union City.
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Real Estate and Insurance
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Life, Health and Accident or Fire, placed in the best com
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If you want to sell your farm or house and lot we can furnish
the buyer. We handle property on a commission basis only
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Tire Repairing
Casings and Tubes Vulcanized. We
Fix Punctures at once. 0URiSti&ettservice
R. S. WATSON
.With Union City Garage.
Telephone Troubles
BELL Telephone employees are con
stantly trying to prevent trouble of any
kind in the workings of the equip
ment, and to repair such troubles as soon
as possible after they occur.
Subscribers are asked to report trouble
immediately, and to exercise a reasonable
patience while it is being cleared.
If you do not see a man actually
working on your telephone, it does not
mean that you are not receiving proper
attention.
The difficulty may be. at the switch
board, in the cable or at any one of sev
eral other places. Two or three men may
be at work hunting it down.
It is always our first consideration to
"clear troubles promptly. - .
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BOX 211, UNION CTTY, TENNESSEE.
Meeting of Reynolds Packing Co.
.The directors of the Reynolds
Packing Company met Monday, July
15, in regular session. A report was
made of the condition of tho plant,
which was considered very satisfac
tory, when much of the time was
consumed In building. The .first
piano were to remodel the old plant,
but that idea was soon abandoned
and a modern new plant out and out
was built. The company has already
commenced to show up on tho profit
side of the ledger, which i3 a splen
did showing for the first year. There
is a great opportunity and great
possibilities for this new company.
They should increase the capital
stock at once to from fire to ten
times the present amount.
Great Steer Feeding.
Mississippi not only has advanced
into the position of tho leading cattle
feeding State of the South in the last
year or two, but with the marketing
of the King Aberdeen-Angus steers
at the East St. Louis market on July
2 set a new all-section all-time rec
ord for that market that puts this
State ahead of many of the great
corn belt States of the North. The
19 head of Steers marketed by Joe J.
King, of Tallahatchie County, Mis
sissippi, sold for the new all-time
"top" of tho market $17.70 per
hundred pounds. Weighing as they
did 1,285 pounds they brought
$227.45 per head.
Were this an isolated record for
Mississippi steers, it might not be so
conclusive, but it is not. On July
6, W. H. Hurdle, Holly Spring, Miss.,
topped the St. Loui3 market with 70
head of Aberdeen-Angu3 steers that
sold for $17.25 a hundred pounds,
without a single animal being cut
out to make a record price. This
was also the "top" of the market,
and a new record for Mississippi
bred and fed steers on any market.
for the King steers were bred on the
Ames Plantation in Tennessee, giv
ing both States a clam to the hon
ors. Mr. Hurdle has had the honor
of "topping" the East St. Louis
market with his Aberdeen-Angus
steers for the last five years, getting
both the day's top and a new South
ern record each year until the King
steers beat his this year.
Only a week before the King steers
were marketed, Tennessee Aberdeen
Angus steers set a top mark at
17.10, a new record for Tennessee:
and but a few weeks ago, Mississip
pi experiment station steer sold for
a new Southern record of $17.15,
Aberdeen-Angus steers being in this
record lot as will.
Paul J. Rainey, of Cotton Plant,
Miss., the big game hunter who
gained renown in the African Jun
gles, Is now stocking his plantations
with Aberdeen-Angus cows and bulls
with the idea of developing it into
one of the leading baby beef making
farms in America. He recently
bought 20 head of registered Aberdeen-Angus
bulls of C. D. and E. F.
Caldwell, Burlington Junction, Mo.,
at $400 a head to grade up his na
tive stock and produce the thick,
beefy calves that the markets de
mand and pay a premium for.
DR. JAKE H. PARK
DENTIST
Office: Room I, Naillinp- Building
TELEPHONE 136
UNION CITY, TENNESSEE
DR. I. GLOSSON
VETERINARIAN
Phone 12. Main and Third Sts.
UNION CITY. TENN.
DR. A. J. TAYLOR
Veterinary Surgeon
Cumberland Phone 544. Rural Phone 240
Uthce at Houaer Stable
UNION CITY. TENN.
THE MILLING HOSPITAL
THIRD YEAR
A Modem Surgical Institution.
Graduate Nuraei in Attendance.
DR. W. A. NAILUNG .Surgeon
MRS. L. E. ROOECKER R. N.. . . . . .Supt
Union City, Tenn. Phone4l.
3. C. BURDICK
Wholesale and Retail
Reelfoot Lake and
Mississippi River
Fish Game
Oysters in Season.
New location, East Main Street
Phone 185 UNION CITY, TENN