The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-23
Our Governors.

Al the lnauSuTdIlOu mOuuoy Wv
Taylor laid down the cares of State in
a very felicitous speech. Robt. has
not been as dignified at all times as
he might, and he has been altogether
too handy with his pardoning pen,
and he kinder straddled Mr.. Blair's
bill, once upon time; but taken all
in all he leaves a record about equal
to the most of them. He leaves the
States credit and the States finances,
and it's schools and it's charitable
institutions all in better shape than
he found them. A great many hard
things were said about him during
his first administration; those he has
answered successfully as only an
honest man can-by living them
down. And one thing no man who
knows him will doubt; that is, his
heart Is in the right place. He leaves
his high position with a great many
admirers and a great many more
! friends-one of whom we are which
and we follow him with our best
wishes. His temperament, his
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bine to bring him before the public
again, and on the stump, before the
people, he has not his equal in Ten
nessee; and it matters not what he
starts for or who he starts against, he
will be "hard colt to curry"
Gov. Buchanan is nothing of an
orator and has the good sense not to
attempt it. He read his address from
manuscript, and it is a very plain,
practical, sensible, democratic docu-
ment. If he ever favored the Wis
iOnary sub-treasury scheme he has
already discovered the error of his
way, as is plainly demonstrated when
he laws down the sound doctrine that
1.-The Jeffersonian non-interferance
theory of government is the wisest,
leaving people to be happy in their
own way, without undertaking to dc
for them what they can better do fol-
themselves"
His enemies aud the epemies to the
democratic party, who charged he
was an enemy to corporations, and
hoped for his downfall in that he
would start war against them, car
find little consolation in the sound
and conservative views he expresses
Upon the development Of the re-
sources of the state, he says:
Estate policy under my administra:
ton will welcome all capital and
labor that come to identify them
I selves with the best interests OF the
State in the development of its re-
sources. While the abuse Of aggre'
gated wealth is the curse of the ma
Ltion and the power of moneyed mo-
{ nopoly threatens to override the liber
ties of the people, yet the proper use
ings. Corporations made up of in
dividual citizens properly associated
D under corporate power reach result;
3 in the development of the State,
wealth that individual effort could
> never accomplish, and should be pro
tected in their just rights by the
:, strongest security guaranteed by law
But when corporations have grown
mighty, and by undue combination
reach out for unjust power, reckless
of the oppression of the weak, they
), should be held in check by the law
s stern command "thus far shalt thou
! 90 and no further" The law-makeri
;, Of the State and nation should checl
u their defiant and aggressive steps
d upon the rights of the people.
:: Upon the development of the re
: sources of the State and upon tn,
:, uninterrupted action of the law o
supply and demand in the distribu
, ton of its products depend the ma
e terial prosperity of the State. UpoI
4 the material prosperity depends thu
!, welfare of the masses OF its people
= not only financially, but intellectual,
d and morally. Upon this depends thu
e extension and further development o
), our educational system. 1t is thu
States policy to foster with care thi
! well-laid system until the land shall
i be dotted over with houses of learn
il ing and knowledge may be the in
q heritance of every child. In proper
!, ton as illiteracy ceases crime viii
cease, and the blessings of reading
n thinking, intelligent people will fol
low"