The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-03
CURRENT EVENTS.


Judge Flippin, ofthe Memphis Criminal
Court, has sent his resignation to Governor
Porter, to lake effect on the LIST day of Janu-
airy, 1916. Judge Flippin has made an envia-
bic reputation as an able and efficient Judge
He was formerly a citizen of Columbia.
The veteran Col. w. W. Gates has discon-
tinued the Henderson advocate, and is going
to publish, in his old home, Jackson, a week
" and tri-weel1ly journal to be called the
Wing Banner, which viii be issued about the
lst ofDecember. Col. Gates is a high-toned
and courteous gentleman, and has had a
long experience in the craft We wish him
abundant success.
p. DOnan is sole editor of the Sentinel.
published at Raleigh, y. c. How he hap
pened 10 get way round there among the
tar-heels is more than we can tell. In his
line he is without a rival-his style is a
cross between BrownIow and Brick Pome-
roy. But it is lively We understand he is
stirring up the dry bones over there. He is
She young man who did not marry in Maui
~ County. Tine Courier Journal calls him
pat" but this is incorrect; his name is the
same as that Of the largest church in the
world.
Columbia s to be honored during the
Centennial year oflS76. First comes the an
nual meeting Of the Tennessee Press Associ-
alton, which will assemble here in June,
and partake of the Inequalities of our town.
The Association has many brilliant and fas-
cinating men, and our people look forward
with pleasure to the meeting. One young
lady has expressed desire to make the ae-
quaintance of the talented poet-editor, DR..
r. L. c. White-nOt aware, possibly, of his
that viii be-when DIR. White, Gen. Bullock,
and Gen. Doak meet. The other meeting
will be the Annual Conference of the NJ. f.
Church. Now, these are important occa-
siOns, when representative men from all
parts of the State viii examine and criticise
our town let us be ready to bear the criti-
cism. We ought to build a good town hall,
and finish the NJ. F. Churcn.
The disgraceful Emma Mine fraud has
come 10 surface. The five million dollars
were raised in England for this concern,
mainly on the strength of the name of our
Minister to England. Gen. Schenck The
five million dollars was all expended except
ten or fifteen thousand dollars, and the En-
glish people are investigating the scheme,
and particularly severe on those connected
with IL. 1t viii be remembered that our
Minister was snubbed by the English arts.
tocracy severa' years ago, cn account OF
his connection with this disgraceful affair
President Grants immediate friend.
seem to have bad faculty of getting into
such grapes, and, the worst of all, he never
deserts them. America stands disgraced, in
the person of her minister, before the great
est nation of the old world. Anybody but
Grant would call Schenck home, and con-
sign him TO the disgrace he so justly de-
serves. Such is the fruit Of Grantism
The Forty-Fourth Congress will com.
mence its first session on next Monday. In
many respects this Congress is the most in.
teresting one since the war. 1t is the first
one since 1861 that the Democratic party has
not been in hopeless minority. Now that
party has a large majority in the Lower
House, and are in condition TO hold the Sem
ate in awe and to hold the small RepubIi.
can majority to a strict accountability The
all absorbing question which now nils the
public mind, is the election of Speaker OF
the House. Although there are a number OF
distinguished Democrats named in cOnnec-
ton with the position, the race is evidently
between Kerr, OF Indiana, and Sam J. Ran
dall, of Pennsylvania. Randall displayed
considerable skill last winter in the House
at the head of the Democratic delegation, in
defeating the odious Force Bill, which the
AAtpubllCsiilS tileitl Ittl 10 NIlNe through the
House, which gave him conspicuous proni-
nence before the country; otherwise he has
not been very prominent, and is really not
regarded as man above second-rate ability.
Kerr, on the other hand, is one of the ablest
mon in the House, and of commanding in
flucnce with the party and country, and
would be a strong card in the great centen-
NAL presidential race. With such man as
Thomas f. Bayard at the head of the ticket,
and NJ. c. Kerr as Speaker of the House. the
Democratic party would make a splendid
start for the winning post. Kerr evidently
has the inside track so far, although his enc
mics are trying very hard to identify him
with the soft money Ohio movement, but
this will not hurt him. On the other hand,
the last few days has developed the suspic-
ion, at least, of a bargain between Ran
dali and Tom Scott ON the Texas Pacific
Railroad job which is looming up into
prominence, and is very damaging to Ran
dall's prospects. The Democratic party will
fight very shy ofthiS Pacific Railroad scheme
which Scott & Co. viii try very hard to carry
through The next Congress, and if this coali-
tion between Randall and Scott should be
proved on them, Kerr will win easily.