The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-04-17
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
For Sherif-LOVE WEBB.
For Trustee-J. Il. CRANBERRY.
ZOE AND HIS FRIENDS.

BOB AND HIS FRIENDS.
The Nashville American states
that it is in position to say, ION
absolutely unquestioned authority,
that Gov. Taylor is still for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to |. He has always
contended and still contends that
silver should be remonetized and
placed back as it was before 1873"
If Bob has lost the art of speech
and has adopted the American as
his mouthpiece, then in the name of
Democracy let's hunt another man.
The very fact that Gov. Taylor in
his silence and the American seem
to be getting close together, is mat
ter sufficient to give the honest
Democratic free silver voter, pause.
1t begins to look like Bob is a
rank gutter, and that though he APP
parently had the race won in an
easy canter, he will yet be beaten
under the wire.
The HERALD is not only opposed
to any man who won't take the peo-
pie into his confidence, who refrains
from speaking what he thinks, but
we are much inclined to seriously
doubt the sincerity and honest con-
viction of the man-whoever he may
he-who has to be begged or driven
to tell what he feels.
Gov. TaylOr's conduct has at least
been notice sufficient to put the free
silver Democrats on guard, and if
they ignore the warning and nomi-
nate him, and after the nomination
he still refuses to talk, and another
Kentucky Waterloo overtakes them,
these hero wOrshippers, who put
weak and hating man above a great
and overshadowing principle, will
have themselves and no one else to
blame.
The HERALD regrets to say this
much against Gov. Taylor and his
candidacy, for personally we are
fond of the man. But politically we
are opposed to any man for any
office who pursues the cowardly, say
nothing policy he is pursuing.
We at least hope that Maury
County will not be caught in the
trap.
The American further says: 1.-The
efforts of some newspapers to create
a doubt as to eX-Gov. Robert L.
Taylor's position on the all-absorb-
ing financial question, has naturally
incensed good many Of that gentle
mans close personal friends"
That is the usual way with n man
and his friends when they are made
overmuch of. They soon begin to
feel that they have fed on meat too
good for other folks, and their choler
rises at the merest suggestion that
they must walk or talk with the
common herd. "Incensed,n indeed 1!
When politician gets too high to
answer the people, he needs to be
taken down notch or two.
In this same article the American
says they are Crying to drag him
into squabble over a question with
the settlement of which he has moth
ing to do Maybe he hasn't. But
the people have. And they are 60
ing to put men in office who are Of
their way of thinking; men who
have convictions, and who have the
courage of their convictions, and
who are not afraid to talk.
Or else the people have done a
deal of talking for nothing. They
have been saying, with one accord
goldites and silverites-that every
man must talk; that they would
vote for no man who didn't. Now if
they forget what they have prom
ised themselves, and nominate Bob
Taylor whether or no, let their sins
be upon their own heads; they may
expect other politicians to follow the
example he has set and won by, for
there is no more reason why he
should remain silent than others.