PISTOLS AND POLITICIANS.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 692, 4 October 1913, Page 6

PISTOLS AND POLITICIANS.

Terrible Times In Tennessee. THESE are still fine picturesque patches in the somewhat arid waste of American politics. The Gover* nor of Tennessee is trying to force two anti-liquor fulls through the Legislature,

and people conoerned with, the liquor interest object to the forcing process. So far, the obstructors have managed to keep the House without a quorum. The Governor's retaliation, or the manner of- it;-is quite deliriously American. He. has taken armed Warders .from the gaols and posted them about the House arid lobbies to keep members in their .place. As against this move, the Mayor of Nashville, has sent armed police to see that members are not coerced. So that we iavc the spectacle of politics in an atmosphere of war and violence. The Opposition is making obstructive speeches and waving 'revolvers. Onr Opposition merely indulges -in mild ' badinage and talks about brown bread. But we are not picturesque. "We are inyeterately respectable.-