The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-18
Prof. Williams, of Goodwin, lets
the Cat Out Of the Wallet.
\ Letter Lost and Found 6iYeS the
Whole Scheme Away.
No Man Can Longer be DeCeived-A
Voter \ -sainst Democracy is a Will
full Abettor OfEepubIican-
ism.

We clip the following from the
Nashville American of last Friday:
Their hand is shown.
1.-The leaders of the Peoples party
are in league with the Republicans.
"This is not a matter OF any sur
prise to the Democrats who have
kept up fully with the progress of
events, but to the rank and file ii will
be ~ bomDshell.
Here is the way the thing got out.
A letter was written from the Peo-
ple's party headquarters to one
Thomas 5. Williams, at Columbia. a
professor. The letter plainly stated
that deal had been made between
the Peoples party committee and
the Republican Committee. Prof.
Williams went to Dickson County to
organize a third party club. He sue
ceeded in getting eight men. The
next morning a part of the above
mentioned letter was found on the
floor OF the schOOl-hOuse where the
meeting was held. 1t reads ss fol-
, lows:
Headquarters Peoples Party of
Tennessee, J. H. Mcdowell, Chair
msn; l.. X. Taylor. SecretaTy-Nash-
vile, Sept. ., 1S92.-Prof. Thomas S.
Williams, Columbia, Tenn.,-Dear Sir
and Bro: | want to get you to make
a list of appointments in your county
at once. Get out posters and have
stuck up so as to insure crowd and
speak and organize Peoples party
clubs. For every day you speak and
organize l will give you 50 a day for,
say ten days. Send in your reports
of clubs twice a week. AT end of ten
days, if you have succeeded in organ
| izing, | will make arrangements to
keep you in the field until election.
| We want good, effective workers, and
| believe you will make one. Brother
| WitherspoOn writes me you are will
| ing to make the effort. The State
Republican Executive Committee
! promise to give us the solid Republic
can vote for Representative, FlOater,
Senator and Congress in your county
and district. So, you see, we can
elect all if our people will organize at
once and put out ticket. The Iegis-
lators put cut by the Turneyites are
all instructed for Bate for United
| States Senator, who is bitter OppO-
nent of our financial demands. If we
! lose" Here the letter breaks of
| Oh nf n
it having been lost.
The finder of the letter was J. J
Hadly, a school teacher. He turned
it over Thursday to CO2gres sman \
n. Cox, along with the following
affidavit: Dickson, Tenn, Oct. l3
Personally appeared before G. W.
| Larkins, Justice of the Peace of Dick-
son County, of the Fourth district OF
said county, ]. J. Hadley, with whom
1 am personally acquainted, and
makes oath that on the 4th day OF
October a man calling himself Will
Jams and proposing to organize Third
party or Peoples party clubs, came tc
my schoOl-hOuse at night aid made
a talk and organized such a club. Thi'
was October +, at night. The DeXt
morning l went to the schOOl-hOuse
where l was teaching and where
Williams had EIGde his speech and
found the following letter on the floor
where Williams spoke. l delivered
the letter to y. y. Cox on October l;
ct Dickson. }. J. HADLEY.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
this October -, 1892.
G. w. LARKINS, J. Pr
Congressman Cox gave the letter tC
Congressman Washington al Dick
son Thursday and Mr.. Washington
read it last night during his speed
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