This is the very reason for the 2nd amendment and with out it the rest don’t matter. Men are corrupt and politicians are the worst — it is very bad to give them too much and they are all ready over the line!
Paul Cantrell — a vicious, corrupt Democrat of the Huey Long style — had been elected the sheriff of McMinn County, Tennessee in 1936, 1938 and 1940, all through good old-fashioned voter fraud. He’d left the office of sheriff to serve in the Tennessee state senate for two years, putting Pat Mansfield, one of his associates, in his stead.
However, by 1946, Cantrell decided he wanted the sinecure back.
Veterans of World War II returning to McMinn County, meanwhile, had ideas of their own. They decided to run Knox Henry, a former GI, as a candidate to clean up county government. Other GIs ran against Cantrell’s political machine in an Aug. 1 primary election.
In the 1940s South, winning the Democrat nomination was tantamount to winning the election, so the stakes were high. Cantrell knew this, so he sent out 200 deputized “poll watchers” to beat anyone who tried to interrupt the…
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