The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-13
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ity in this county, and it is your fault
if Ocalaism instead of Democracy
prevails. All that Democracy needs
in this county is that Democrats will
work for their principles and not
allow the Ocalaites to win votes by
playing upon the preiudices, cupidity
and ignorance of what is generally
known as the floating vote.
Democrats ought tO-and must if
they hope to win-sacrifice some of
their time to this cause.
However busy they may be next
Monday, the Turney men must come
to Columbia and help organize Tur-
ney Club. Don't leave this work for
a few to do; it is no more their bu i
ness than yours. Don't think there
will be enough without you, and that
you won't be missed. Too many may
reason the same way, and if everybody
should there would be no meeting at
all.
Not only come yourself, but bring
all the Turney men of your neighbOr-
hood with you. Go to see them; rea-
son with them; tell them the i'm
portance of organization, and of work
after organization. Instead of COM
planning over what is, or grieving over
what might have been; and instead
of denOuncing Buchanan and his Sc
cret political society abettors, and
swearing you will not support him
even if he is nominated, turn out to
help defeat him while yet there is
time; for, after he gets the nOmina-
ton you cannot beat him if you would,
and you ought not to if you could. AS
the Democratic nominee he is entitled
claims to be Democrat. More than
that, no man ought to vote in the pri-
maries unless he intends to, and has
fully made up his mind to support
the nominee of the convention, who
ever he may be. 1t is undemocratic
and unfair to try to defeat any man
i'm primary election or convention
and then refuse to support him after
he has fairly won the nomination.
We hope all Democrats will remain
in the ranks, but if any man has made
up his mind not to support Judge
Turney or Gov. Buchanan, in case one
or the other of them should receive
the nomination, then in all fairness
that man ought not to participate in
the primaries.
However, while we believe in this
rule, and would like to see it enforced
strictly according to the letter, we do
not believe in any partial enforcement
of it. If Mr.. Buchanan's Third party
maries, then the doors should be
thrown wide open to the Turney men,
and let any and everybody in.
This is a diversion, however, from
our subject. Our remarks were in
tended strictly for Judge Turney's
friends, and our purpose was to inspire
them with proper sense of their pO-
litical duties.
Gov. Buchanan has not as many
friends in this county as Judge Tur-
ney, but they are more active. The
Governors Coal Oil Inspector for
Maury, Mr.. w. O. WitherspoOn-we
say it to his credit-has done more
work towards organizing this county
for Buchanan, than all the TurGey
men combined have done in the in
terest of their candidate.
Organization is as necessary in pol
itics as in war. With secret societies
holding their meetings in the country
districts at night in Mr.. Buchanan's
interest with office-holders and office
seekers, riding the country over and
electiOneering for him by day; call
ing him "the poor mans friend" the
farmers Governor" talking straight
Democracy to some and straight Oca-
laism to others, and committing Buch-
anan first to one and then to the other,
rs the occasion may suit; manufact-
uring all sorts of rubbish about Judge !
Turney being a corporation lawyer"
and "whisky-head," and leaving UNI
said the truth that Gov. Buchanan,
since he has been Governor, attended |
a club meeting in Nashville and got |
so beastly drunk and behaved so dis |
that he was the talk of the |
city and was denounced from the pull !
pit by one of the leading Nashville |
livines; leaving unsaid the truth, |
that at the recent Nashville races the |
Chief Executive of Tennessee could |
be seen almost every day eXcitedly |
Glowing his way through the molly |
crowd of race-horse touts and eXcit-
edly and publicly putting UP some of
his unconstitutional perquisites and
playing the poOl-bOXes for who lasts
.he longest With Mr.. Buchanan's
friends working night and day, some
IF them fairly, honOrably and in the
light some of them unfairly, dishOn-
)rably and in the dark, and with no
and no work on the Tur
ley side, the Ocalaites would carry
he county.
But the Turney men are in the ma
Ority, and if they will come here
and organize and go to work,
hey can carry majority of the dis
ricts of this county. If they do not,
hey will have only themselves to
blame.
THE MAN OF DESTINY.
\ man guided by destiny is not :