The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-02
.r-,nenber WHO came in lust thei1.

1 ex member who came in Just then.
"Stop itF' he replied. "How cab
stop it when Tn ono Of the ID cow
ards myselfr'
Congress, however, Is hardly to blame,
for it is too large body to act wisely or
we'll Just as our presidential conVen-
tions are lately, and if we continue at
the same rate, the great national fight
hereafter will not be to see who will be
elected president, but what town will
have the convention.
Those who have not read the open let
ter written this summer by Andrew D.
White, q Republican, to Patrick A. Col
Inns, Democrat, Of Boston, ought to
get It and read It. Dow hold presiden-
tial conventions for the purpose Of nom
mating the best man or for the purpose
OF farming out the lemonade privileges
to p herd Of yaps and yahoos who can
yell down the wisest sentiments, and sp-
plaud and expectorate and delay the
convention, and then go back to the
asylums again to wait for another con-
ventionS
Four or five pure minded men, with
no political principles. should get to-
getber and talk this matter over.
could get away during the month of
October. Prior to that shall be busy
here on the place.
Alabama has just had very heated
fight over tho governorship, and the fol-
lowing, printed during the campaign in
the Birmingham Age-Herald, shows that
man IN Alabama without lineage
has no business TO run for governor:
ACTIVITY. MONROE COUNTY, Ala.
/ am o Jones man, but having heard our
BILE governor was the Issue OF German rail-
road engineer and an Italian fruit woman OF
Charleston. and being unable to answer such
an argument, weak as 1t Is, for God knows
such an issue could be a. honorable as any
other, provided IL was legitimate, write you
TO give me the facts IN the case.
SO please give as full and complete a sketch
of Governor Jones up 70 his thtrtieth year 0s
possible, stating antecedent OF both his father
and his mother In full, who they were and
where they came from. Some say they came
from tho mountains Of Tennessee. am going
TO try to make some votes in hero where the
Alliance, however, is very strong. One-hAn a
column Of Governor Us gencaolOgy would
make hundreds of votes. Yours for the bolt.
SUBSCRIBER
How Governor Jones ran In Activity
| have not yet heard. but if Subscriber"
got in a half column of genealogy no
doubt hundreds of votes were made
there.
We should try this fall to keep poll
tics pure believe we can. The disa-
greeable things were said before, when
the same candidates were before the
people for their suffrages. Pleasant
little items of personal character have
been printed and now wo are ready to
enter into the campaign and each strive
to make the wavering voter understand
matters regarding the tariff. which we
do not understand ourselves
Need / add that believe there will be
o pure ballot in the south2 Should there
be fraud in my neighborhood, especially
fraud that will cut down our vote, will
write piece for the paper about it.
South Carolina has law which IN
derstand requires the voter to present
his registration ticket at the polls, and
that is his identification. That is his
letter Of introduction, his right to ex-
ercise the right of franchise, and there
can be no going behind it.
Several years ago q large circus sX-