Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — STANDS FOR LAW AND ORDER [ARTICLE]

STANDS FOR LAW AND ORDER

Tennessee Governor Notifies Law-De-fiers Tnat Their Depredations Must Cease. Union City, Teitn.. Nov. 13 Before an audience assembled from all parts of Obion rounty, and which filled all available space in the circuit court room, Governor Patterson delivered • telling speech on law and order, addressing himself especially to the Reelfoot lake night rider outrages.' It was an unhesitating notification to the law-defying elements that their depredations must cease, and a summons to every patriotfc citizen to give his assistance to the machinery set in motion to punish the, raurelere.s of Quentin Rankin. Governor Pattersou ha* recently received warnings through the mail not to come to Obion county again, but he walked unmolested from li!s train to the cunrtroomlkud returned.