The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-13
FIGURES WILL LIE.

Table-making has grown to be quite
an art. The Turney papers make fig
ures that make him a hun dred votes
ahead. The Buchanan papers knock
these figures down, reverse them and
put the Governor ahead. Then the
mugwump comes along and keeps
fright in the middle of the road" So
exactly in the middle that he will not
pick up county on either side if
there happens to be a crOaker any
where to cry don't"
Our esteemed Ocalaite organ, the
Current, is fair enough in its figures
as far as it goes, but it only goes half
way. The compiler got tired about
the time the Turney counties began
to be heard from and stopped count
ing at a convenient time for Mr..
Buchanan. The Currents table gives
Mr.. Buchanan 9534, Turney $50. But
in this table the following counties
are left out, tO-wit: BledsOe, BlOunt,
Carroll, Claiborne, Cumberland, De-
Kalb, Hardeman, Madison, Pickett,
Sewer, Shelby, Stewart, Sumner, Tip
ton, TrOusdale and Van Buren,. These
counties will cast DDS votes for Judge
Turney and 81 for Buchanan. Add
these to the Currents table and the
result will be: Turney 2931a, Buch-
anan 1861. All these counties have
acted, and the HERALD's estimate,
as will be seen from "a table in another
column, comes in a fraction Of agree
ing with the Currents estimate, eX-
oept that the Current got tired and
stopped just as the Turney news be-
gan to come in the strongest.
Our neighbOr will grow more weary
as the days lengthen.
But the funniest thing is our said
to-be-enlarged What-is-it. He gives
it by spurts and jumps. What his
figures would show if boiled down
and corrected, is a sum somebody else
with more leisure may figure out.
This keep in the middle of the
road" table manages to please both
sides-or rather to oppose neither
by having Gov. Buchanan and Judge |
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Turney POS, Buchanan pa. In order
to do so he leaves out the counties of
BledsOe, BlOunt, Carroll, Madison,
Stewart and TrOusdale. These cOun-
ties have all acted, and there is no
contest over them. They will give
Judge Turney 1913 votes and Gov.
ia. Being little uneven
in their distribution of votes is per-
laps why our neighbOr left them out:
He also divides in half the Tip:On
vote. There is no reason for this, eX-
sept to keep in the middle of the
-oad." The Buchanan men have long
since abandoned the fight for Upton;
Is II votes were instructed and will be
EAST as a unit for TuTnPy. We have :,
his information direct from Upton
county man, who ran on the Buch-
man ticket for delegate. He admits
lis defeat, like a man aud a Demo-
rat that he ia, and says the BAptiste
,olt amounted 10 nothing more than
pure bluff.
Our esteemed contemporary, for
easons we cannot dlVlne, taxes up
aeksOn and Cannon Counties. aud
'uts the first i'm the TuFney column,
he second in the Buchanan column. 4
This is all very we'll according to the
keep in the middle OF the road" rule,
ut as a matter of fact neither of
hese counties have acted yet. Jack !
on will not act until the Alb OF q
august. The Cannon County con-
ention will be held July 2 We hope,
IT the sake OF our neighboF, these
ounties will %keep in the middle of j
Ie road" viii CD, being interpreted,
eans sstrRddSR of the fence. |,
The HERALII's table has been oom- b
led from ths best information to be .
,tained. we have kept o book Il