The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-07-11
"OUR BOB" And ALI.
"Iankee Doodle" and Dixie" With All sS
Doodle and Bob IS Dixie.
The Most Brilliant Pyrotechnical
Melange of Oratory, Tragedy.
Comedy, Music and Word
Pictures From Life Ever
Put Upon theBoards.
FROM our Nashyllle correspondent.

From Our Nashville Correspondent.
The forthcoming joiut Arabian
Nights entertainment OF the Hons
AT and Bob Taylor is to be the most
unique thing ever put upon the thes
plan boards. There has not yet been
the word coined in our language to
tell what it is. The word "lecture"
suggests dry rot, and it is sllnder
and a shame upon this performance
to call it by any such sober name.
The joint theme is TO be yankee
Doodle and Dixie" with All as Doodle
and Bob as Dixie" The two sections
OF country, the two sentiments in.
lived, the two political and social in
dividualities, the two racial character
istics, the two peoples and the two
countries, both one, are to be held up
side by side. Two Of the most mas
terly artists that ever adorned plat
form are to go upon the American
stage and before all the people paint q
picture OF YaDkeedom and Rebeld om,
Either one of these gentlemen, sedate
statesmen that they are, can rival
Booth or Mccullough in tragedy, Sol.
Smith Russell or Joe Jefferson in com.
edy Mark Twain and 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. 6. Taylor, q graduate ofPrinee-
ton, and one Of the most finished plat:
form orators this country ever saw,
was married to the sister of Landon O.
Haynes, the Coz Liederate congressman,
without q peer himaslf, except ip his
distinguished brother-in.law upon The
rostrum, whose impromptu aiter-din'
ner tribute to East Tennessee, dellv'
cred at Jackson, Miss, in response to
a pleasant taunt from Gen. Forrest
belongs to the classice-the most
beautiful and complete ascriptive
word-painting in the language. TheFf
is where All and Bob 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 q
Whig and Union man, their uncle .
Democrat and arebei, ALI a Republican
and Bob a Democrat--boih violent
partisans. All four q thsm have rep
resented the same district in Congress
but the most unique political melangt
ever concocted was brewed for ths
gpbernstorial eontest in TenAegaet
eight years ago. The Republican,
nominated All, the Prohibitionists OF
iered the nomination to the isthej
and he was in the act OF accepting
when the Democrats nominated Bob
The old gentleman then retired. Th'
canvass OF Bob and Alf Taylo
for the goyernorship ip Fennesse
is without parallel, not only on acco9n
OF the relationship, but because il wa
the most brilliant and flashing politi
oal contest ever waged in this country
The whole State was afiame and the
I. were followed all over the countr,
: with bands and PROFESSIONS and cava
! cades in such clamor of enthusiasm
6 that the Battle OF f'the Eoses will b
forever . red letter incident in Ter
!, nessee history.
I have read parts Of each of Vi
double tragic periormance, apd m
word for il, it will be the most brillial
pyFotechnical melange Of oratory, ira
edy, comedy, music and word pietur'
from life, dressed up in the gorgeol
garb Of tlamboyant rhetoric and reasol
ing that ever was put upon the board
And through il all viii run them
motif, conceived in statesman
wisdom and expressed in patriot
: feryor that win work wonders
bringing Yankee Doodle and Pix
into more harmonioua and irateYn
relationship. They begin October
at Nashville, will make swil
through The South and then ipVa'
: the Rast, and 1t will be new revel
ton to the E sterners-a two man
rensic entertainment that will col
n prise the best and the cream OF O
and run the full gamut OF shows fro
the pulpit to The green room.
Speaking OF "dry rot" that's Mas
vile now with everybody of cooliI
u. at the springs and mountains, exce
a few Of US twoIers But speaking
II "dry," ! know ] touch tender spot
p. your learned readers anatomy,
ID. some of the ones I know OF them |
y y always as "dry as hone." and a!ohl
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