The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-26
BOB NJ ALE.
Their Joint Entertainment to
Begin October IA Bit
of Hi2tOKu.

of History.
From the johnson City (Tenn.) Comet.
The forthcoming joint Arabian
nights entertainment of the Hons
Alf and Bob Taylor is to be the
most unique thing ever put upor
thespian boards. There has not yet
been the word coined in our Ian
guage to tell what it is. The word
lecture suggests dry rot, and it is q
SANDER and shame upon this per.
Torrance to call it by any such
sober name. The joint theme is to
be "Yankee Doodle and Dixie, >
with ALT as Doodle" and Bob as
E'Dixle." The two sections of the
country, the two sentiments involv.
ed, the two political and social in
dividualities, the two racial charac.
teristics, the two peoples and the
two countries, both one, are to be
held up side by side. Two of the
most mastery artists that ever
adorned platform are to go upon
the American stage, and before all
the people paint picture of Yam
keedom and Rebellion. Either
one of these gentlemen, sedate
statesmen that they are, can rival
Booth or Mccullough in tragedy,
Sol Smith Russell or Joe Jefferson
in comedy, Marx Twain or Bill
Nye in wit and waggery, Chauncey
Depew in happy after-dinner talk,
and they have in them epitomized
two generations of profound and
mastery orators.
Nat G. Taylor, a graduate of
Princeton, and one of the most fin
ished platform orators this country
ever saw, was married to the sister
of Landon @. Haynes, the Confed-
crate congressman, without a peer
himself, except in his distinguished
brOther-in-law, upon the rostrum
whose impromtu after dinner tri-
butte to East Tennessee, delivered
at Jackson, Miss, in response to a
pleasant taunt from General Forrest,
belongs to the classics-the most
beautiful and complete descriptive
word-paiuting in the language.
There is where Bob and ALT came
from, and they honor and equal
their ancestry.
They represent in their persons
history and politics, the subjects
they are to handle. Their father
was a Wing and a Union man,
their uncle a democrat and a rebel,
ALI republican and Bob a demo-
crat-both violent partisans. All
four of them have represented the
same district in congress, but the
most unique political melange ever
concocted was brewed for the gu
bernatorial contest in Tennessee
eight years ago. The republicans
nominated Alf, the prohibitionists
offered the nomination to the father
and he was in the act of accepting
when the democrats nominated Bob.
The old gentleman then retired.
The canvass of Alf and Bob Taylor
for the goyernorship of Tennessee
is without parallel, not only on
account of the relationship, but be-
cause it was the most brilliant and
flashing political contest ever waged
in this country. The whole State
was afame, and they were followed
all over the country with bands and
professions and cavalcades in such
clamor of enthusiasm, that the
battle of the roses will be for
ever red letter incident in Tennes-
see history.
l have read parts of each of the
double tragic performance, and my
word for it, it will be most brilliant
melange of oratory, tragedy, come
dy, music and word pictures from
life, dressed up in the gorgeous
garb of fambuoyant rhetoric and
reasoning that ever was put
upon the boards. And through it
all will run theme, a motif, con-
ceived in statesmanic wisdom and
expressed in patriotic fervor that
will work wonders in bringing
'EYankee Doodle and Dixie" into |
more harmonious and fraternal re-
lationship. They begin October
/ at Nashville, will make swing
through the South and then invade
the East, and then it will be rev.
citation to the Easterners-a two
man forensic entertainment that
will comprise the best and the cream
OF all, and run the full gamut of
shows from the pulpit to the green
room.
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