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DR. E. M. LONG
DENTIST
Over Wetiman's Hardware Store
Union City, Teqn.
Telephone
Office 144, Residence 595-J
DR. E. M. LONG
DENTIST
Over Wehman'a Hardware Stor
Union City, Tenn.
Telelphonea
Office 144; Residence 595-J
MMERCIA
Union City Commercial. M , ConlKlidate(, September 1. 1897 .
West Tennessee Conner, established 1897 i
UNION CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919.
VOL. 27, NO. 49
IE
MR. WATTERSON DISCUSSES ASSASSINS
AND THIRD TERM FOR PRESIDENT
From the I)uisille Courier-Journal.
Miami. , Fla., Feb. 21. Henry
Watterson was seen at his hotel and
asked to say something about the at
tempt upon, tho life of Clemenceau,
Premier of France.
"I am well acquainted," he laugh
, Ingly remarked, "with the aosassins
of history. Of those that Blew Caesar
I learned a deal in my school days
and between Ravesac, -who did the
business for Henry of Navarre, and
Booth and Gulteau, my familiar
knoweldge seems almost ct first hand
One night at Chamberlains, in Wash
ington, George Corkhill, tho District
Attorney who was prosecuting the
murderer of Garfield, said to me
'You will never fully understand this
case until you havo sat by me thru
one day's proceedings in court.' Next
day I did this.
"Never have I passed five hours in
a theater so filled with thrill3. I
occupied a seat betwixt Corkhill and
Scovalli, Guiteau's brother-in-law
and voluntary attorney. I say 'vol-
. untarv' because from the first Gui-
teau rejected him and vilely abused
him. vociferously insisting upon be
ing his own lawyer.
"From the moment Guitcau entered
tho trial room it was a theatrical ex
travaganza. He was in irons, sand
wiched between two Deputy Sheriffs,
came in shouting like a madman, and
began at once railing at the Judge
the Jury and tho audience. A very
necessary rule had been established
that when he interposed, whatever
was being said or done automatically
stopped. Then, when ho coased, the
case went on again as if nothing had
happened.
GUITEAU MOST LOATHSOME.
"Only Scovalli interposed between
me and Guitatt and I had an excellent
opportunity to see, hear and size him
up. In visago and voico he was the
meanest crecture I fcavo, cither, in life
or in dreams, encountered. He had
the face and intorr.tions of a demon.
Everything about him was loath
some. I cannot doubt that hio crim
inal colleagues of hiotory were of
the same category and kidney.
"I have never taken much account
of Joan of Arc except as an inspired
lunptic. Charlotte Corday was only
a trifle less so. Wilkes Booth I knew.
He was drunk, had been drunk all
once a plain talk about this "third
term business, he frankly admitting
that he desired a re-election in 1908
and ingeniously defending it. They
all do. "1 am inclined to 'think that
Jackson did. We know that Grant
did, and I am sure Cleveland did. We
owe a great debt to Washington, for
if a third why not a fourth term?
And then 'for life' after tho manner
of the Caesars and Cromwells of his
tory, and especially the Latin-Amerl
cans, Bolivar, Rosas and Diaz.
THE GRANT THIRD-TERM PLAN
"Away back in 1873, after a din
ner, Mr. Blaine took me into his den
and told me that it was no longar
a surmise, but a fact, that the group
abput Gen. Grant, who had Just been
re-elected by an overwhelming ma
jority, was maneuvering for a third
term. It wa3 startling, Incredible
Returning to my hotel, I caw a light
still burning in the room of Senator
Morton, of Indiana, and rapping at
the door I was bidden to enter. With
out mentioning how it had reached
mo, I put the proposition to him.
'Certainly,' ho said, 'it 13 true.
The next day, in a letter to the
Courier-Journal, I reduced what I
had heard to writing. Reading this
over, it seemed so sensational that I
added a closing paragraph, meant to
qualify what I had written and to
imply that I had not gone crazy
'Thcco things,' I wrote, 'may sound
queer to the car of the country. They
may have visited mo in my dreams,
they may, indeed, have ccmc to me
betwix.t the sherry and the cham
pagne, but neverthclecs I do aver
that they arc buzzing about here in
the minds of many very serious and
not unimportant persons.'
"Never wa3 a poor, well-intention
ed scribe so berated and ridiculed as
I, never a simple newsgatherer so
discredited, Democratic and Repub
lican newspapers yeing,wi,th pne an
oher which could say crosscst thing3
and laugh loudest. One sentence ea
pecially caught the newspaper rial
bilities of tho time, and it was many
a year berore the phrase, "between
the sherry and the champagne,'
ceased to pursue me. That any pa
triotic American, twice elevated to
tho presidency, could want a third
term, could have the hardihood to
seek one, was inconceivable. My let-
term, this proceeding will surely de
feat us unless indeed the country is
headed downward and the sense of
Republican simplicity and Demo
cratic principles is wholly lost from
the national character.
COUNTRY NOT. READY FOR MAS
TER. "This I do not believe. As frivo
lous and cranky a3 the times may be,
as historically unread the masses of
the people, there is enough of the
old leaven to raise a modicum of pa
trlotic dough around, about election
days, and the country is not Just
ready for a master, having rejected
the man on horseback and retired the
stuffed prophet years and years ago,
"Such lessons aro lost, however, on
ambitious men. Each thinks he will
prove the exception. Meanwhile, the
rule laid down by Washington, and
followed by Jefferson and Jackson
will hold fast as long as the people
retain their perspectives of. Integrity
and proportion, their love of liberty
and their appreciation of tho safe and
decorous in public life."
"Who is there to beet Wilson?
the reporter asked.
"Why, Pershing," sententiously
replied the editor.
INVESTIGATE FISH
AND GAME OFFIGE
Legislative Committee to Look Into
Affairs of Game and Fish.
that winter, completely muddled and ter was an insult to Gen. Grant and
perverted by brandy, tho inheritant
of mad and bad blood. Czolgocz, the
slayer of MpKinley, and tho assassin
- of the Empress Elizabeth and Felix
Faure were clearly insane, I dare
say it will bo found that the poor
wretch1 who has made tho attempt
on the life of Clemenceau is little
better than an idiot. All the same he
should be carted to the Place de la
Concorde as better men have been
before him."
"To-morrow is tho 2 2d of Feb
ruary," the reporter put in, "Wash
ington's birthdr.y is our second Dec
Inratiou of Indepcndenco day. The
Courier-Journal would like you to
say something about it and about the
political situation, with especial ref
erence to the doings of Congress, the
foreign journey and coming return of
President Wilson."
, "I cannot help thinking," Mr. Wat
terson replied, "that the great Je
hovah, who, old Ethan Allen inti-
f mated, stood behind tho Continental
Congress, stand3 behind the Congress
of tho United States, since the Sixty
fifth Congress is about to adjourn
and the Sixty-sixth, which will pres
ently assemble, is Republican.
AS TO WILSON ADMINISTRATION.
"The autocratic character, I will
not say designs, for I do not know, of
the Wilson Administration appear to
me to be in need not merely of re
buke, but of check. Either the Presi
dent bas quite lost his bearings, or
else he is visionary, again I will not
say vain, enough to believe he can
compass what wes denied to Grant
and Cleveland, a third-term in the
.White House. In my opinion, noth
ing else, or less, could havo prompt
ed, impelled the foreign exploitation.
As fond as he seems of breaking pre
cedents, I do not believo he can suc
cessfully violate the precedent set by
-Washington. Unless tho people are
wholly degenerate, ripe, and ready to
be buncoed out of ' their liberties,
they will forbid this first step toward
life tenure, which a third term would
fpreahadow.
"Theodore Roosevelt and I had
proof of my own lack of intelligence
and restraint. They lammed me,
laughed at me, good and strong.
I protest that in ascribing third-
term ambitions and aims to Woodrow
Wilson, I wrote in no personally
hostile spirit, but I confess myself
as a plain, old-fashioned, an Ameri
can citizen, a patriotic man from
'way back' as affronted, incensed by
the. presidential 'goings on' in for
eign lands.
"No sovereign could carry it with
a higher hand. No absolute monarch
could be more royally puffed up and
feted. It was bound to be so France
bled whito, England 'all in,' Amer
ica arrived at the rescue in tho nick
of time, was ascribed to Wilson and
only to Wilson.
AMERICA WAITED TOO LONG.
"Truth to say, we should never
have waited so long. Instantly after
the Lusitania we should have run up
the flag and rushed to tho colors. I
earnestly urged this. I suspect that
Mr. Wilson and most of our public
men were looking to tho presidential
election ahead, Secretly pfraid of the
German-American vote. We finally
wont in because the politicians
thought they oould no longer afford
to stay out, because it were political
ly dangerous longer to wait. But
nothing can excuse, or should ever
forgive,, the dereliction of the Presi
dent in quitting his post of duty in
the National Capital at such a time
and hieing to the arena of European
activity. It could have been planned
for none other thrn personal exploi
tation, to be converted into political
capital. .
Mr Wilson seems one of those
who believe that nothing can be well
done unless it be done by himself.
It is not an uncommon failing with
energetic men. But, in a case like
this, there can bo little, if any,' room
to doubt that it was, ina sense, the
love of display, congenial as well as
timely assertion of power, the grati
fication of a certain passion for the
unusual Judgment, because, taking it
for granted that he is after a third
The committee appointed to in
vestigate tho department of game
and fish, and the offlce of State game
and flsh warden Friday, met at the
capitol and organized by electing
Senator D. P. Caldwell, chairman;
Representative W. A Dunlap, secre
tary.
After the organization of the com
mute, Chairman Caldwell announced
that in his opinion, tho work of the
commltte was most important, be
cause a bill had been introduced to
abolish tho department of game and
flsh, and-the office of State" game and
fish warden, and that if tho commit
tee performed its duty well, they
wouia not only investigate tho re
ceipts and disbursements of the de
partment, but would also investigate
all of the workings of tho depart-
ment.
At the conclusion of the chairman's
address, a motion was made that a
Eub-committoo be appointed to in
vestigate the work of the department
in the establishment of a fish hatch
ery at Elkmont, Tenn. This sub
committee is composed of Repre
sentatives James A. Howcrd and W.
A. Dunlap, and Senator J. W. Rice,
of Dover.
The chairman also appointed a sub
committee composed of Senator Houk
and Representatives Wilson and Grif
fin, to thoroly examine the books of
the department. The chairman was
added to this sub-commlttce. In ad
ditlon to investigating tho State farm
at Glendale Park, and tho rearing of
pheasants at other places, this sub
committee was also instructed to find
out whether or not the bureau of
biological survey and the bureau of
fisheries were receiving the necessary
co-operation from the department of
game and fish in this State, and to
inquire into the manner of protecting
game and fish in other States of the
Union.
The entire committee was request
ed by the chairman to meet in Union
City on March 19, and to go in a
body to Reolfoot Lake and investi
gate the conditions on the lake; and
especially whether or not the pro
posed improvements on Reelfoot Lake
should be made, and what other im
provements, if any, suggested by the
department, should bo made; and to
determine whether the State's hold
ings . at Reelfoot Lake have been
properly safeguarded, and whether
another survey should bo made to
properly locate and establish the
lines of the State's property.
It was recognizod by the commit
tee that Reelfoot Lake is ono of 'the
most important assets of the State of
Tennessee, and that it is the duty of
the committee to make a thoro in
vestigation of everything In connec
tion with the lake, and tho manner
in which the laws had been enforced
on the lake.
The members of the , committee
seemed to be imbued with the ideas
expressed by . Chairman Caldwell,
that a thoro investigation ought to
be made into all the workings and
activities of the department.
The committee would bo glad to
("Gone But Not Forgotten."
From Commanding Officer, 27th
Company to Mrs. Margaret E. Walk
er, Union City, Tenn. My Dear Mrs.
Walker: For myself and on behalf
of the members of this command, I
wish to extend to you our heartfelt
sympathy in tho loss of your son. In
this your great hour of bereavement
we keenly sorrow.
0 your Bon.we havo always felt
proud; his loyalty to noble ideals,
obedience to the commands of God,
sacrificing efforts toward his follow
comrades and ptrict sobriety, have
endeared him to all his brothers in
arms. '.We fool in the loss of him
the Joss of a noble son of America.
While nothing will ever take away
the sorrow and grief you must feel
at so great a loss, tho though of
those, words indelibly written on the
hearts or ail of U3 may, we trust,
help to lighten the burden, "Gone
but hot forgotten." .
I beg to remain,
Cordially yours,
' . SECOND LIEUTENANT.
U. S. Marine Corps, 27th Co., San
tiago, D. R., Jan. 20.
FELIX W. MOORE
Union City, Tenn.
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HENRY & HENRY, of Hickman. Ky.
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Fire Sunday Morning.
Fire broke out in the stables and
barn at the homo of R. J. McAdoo on
Fifth street la3t Monday morning at
4 o'clock. Tho Ford coupe was in
the fire and a total loss. Tho horses
belonging to tho McAdoo Coal Co.
got loose and gave pome trouble. The
local fire company, howevor, were on
time an saved ' the buildings and
prevented a spread of the fire.
Brunswick Stew.
The ladies of the Baptist Church
vill serve a Brunswick stew dinner
in one of the buildings on First street
on the first Monday in March. Every
body, take notice and call on the
ladies for lunch.
have suggestions from all lovers of
wild life in the State in order that
a comprehensive report may be made
to the General Assembly. Public
hearings by the committee will be
announced later.--NashviU Banner.
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