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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THERE are some people who think
there is no use in muzzling dog I'M
til he has bitten and killed some
body. There are others who think
the muzzle is intended to prevent
the biting, not to punish the dog for
having done it. There are some peo-
pie who seem to think foxes and
birds abound in the town. There are
others who think they should be
hunted in the country, and the dogs
banished to the hunting grounds.
There are some people who think the
barking of a dog is sweeter music
far than the notes from an Eolean
harp. There are others-especially
the bed-ridden, the sick and the
nervous, who not only think, but
feel and know that'the constantyelp-
ing of dogs at their doors, is an in
tolerable nuisance. There are some
people who prefer the companion
ship of dogs, to that of people. And
there are others who can easily ac-
count for this seemingly strange con-
geniality. In short, there are all
sorts of folks in this world; some of
whom, in the wise dispensation of
Providence much will be required,
and otherwise, otherwise. But after
all, the Board Of Aldermen have or
dered that all dogs-no particular
class, no eXceptions-must be muz-
zled or kept off the streets. Now
this board has made a reputation for
enforcing its laws, and we hope they
will not tire in well doing. SO far
there seems to have been good deal
of dilatoriness in issuing the circu-
lars the Mayor was ordered to issue,
and the police seem to be allowing
the dog owners their own time to
put on the muzzles. We wish once
more and again to remind our
friends, the police, that they are not
the judgeS but the servants of the
law, and it is their duty to obey.
They have no right to know one dog
or one dogs owner from another,
and neither they nor the Mayor nor
any single alderman has any power
or legal right to make any excep-
tions. 1t is a very popular thing
just now to enforce the laws against
gambling and Sunday tipping. And
it is very easy to enforce a popular
law. And we hope these laws will
always be popular. But what is of
paramount Importance is the enforce
ment of law-not one law or two
laws or popular Lawsuit law be-
cause it is law. When this senti-
ment grows strong enough to be
called popular, then the rights of all
the people will be protected against
the foolish fads of few.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
'RAH FOR OLD KAINTUCK
Louisville is the Only Gold Spot
Left.
The State Convention Overwhelmingly
for Silver-They Instruct for Black
burn for President

The county conventions to select
delegates to the State convention
were held in Kentucky last Satur-
day. The State went more than
three to one for Joe Blackburn and
free silver.
The State convention closed its
labors last night. The first test vote
was for temporary chairman, when
Bronston, the silver candidate, de-
feated Humphreys, the goldite, by a
vote of 69l to 206.
Blackburn and Hardin were the
heroes of the occasion. The dele
gates are instructed to vote for
Blackburn for President, and if he
should be nominated and elected,
Hardin is slated for the Senate.
A part of the platform reads as
follows:
1--WE favor bimetallism, and to
that end we demand the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver at the ratio of 16 to l as stand
ard money, with equal legal tender
power independent of the action or
advice of any other nation. SIS.
1--WE hold that the Secretary of the
Treasury should exercise the legal
right to redeem all coin obligations
in gold and silver, as may be more
convenient, and we are opposed to
the issuance of bonds in time of
peace for the maintenance of the
gold reserve or for any other pur-
pose.
I'VE are opposed to the national
banking system and to any enlarge
ment of its powers, and opposed to
any contraction of the currency by
the retirement of greenbacks or
otherwise.
1--WE are for tariff for revenue
only
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE Nashville newspapers, Sc
called, are amiable old gossips, all
of them; they merely tell what is
told them, without spirit or malice,
after padding it sufficiently to fill
their space. They allow young
man from neighboring town, in
vited to their tournament, to be
unceremoniously kicked out, with
out ever a word of protest or apology
Like Nashville generally, they are
run in narrow rut, for Nashville
and Nashville only.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
Called to Meet in Columbia on Tuesday,
August 18.


August 10.
Pursuant to call issued by w. A.
Stewart, Chairman, the members OF
the Seventh Congressional Democratic
Committee met in Columbia, Tennessee,
on the Dist day of May, 1896, (all the
members being present except Capt,
by regular proxy, Hon. Frank Boyd,
and passed the following resolutions; to-
wit:
RESOLVED, |, BY the Democratic EXecu-
tive Committee of the Seventh Congress.
sional District, in meeting regularly called,
at the Bethel House, Columbia, this May
2lst, 1895, that convention be and the same
is called to meet at Columbia on Tuesday
August 49, 1896, at u o'clock M, for the pur-
pose of nominating "A Democratic candidate
for the Fifty-Fifth Congress from the Sew
enth Congressional District.
RESOLVED, 2, That primary elections be
held on Thursday, August g. 1896, i'll each
civil district in the Seventh Congressional
District between the hours of a. m. and
4 p. m, under the direction OF the respec-
tive members of this Committee for their
respective counties to select delegates di-
rect to this convention, and that said dele
gates will meet at Columbia on August Is
1896, at 10 o'clock a. m. for organization
and we recommendation no proxies be al
lowed.
RESOLVED, 3, That none but Democrats
be allowed to vote in said primary elections
for said delegates, and the delegates SC
elected will nominate Democratic candi-
date for the F'iftyF Fifth Congress from the
Seventh Congressional District.
Therefore, by order of said Commit
tee, a convention to nominate candi.
date for Congress will be held at Column
bia on the 18th day of August, 1896, and
delegates elected thereto as directed in
said resolutions.
w. A. STEWART, Chairman.
JAS. H. PARRISH, Secretary.
Columbia, Tenn, May 2lst, 1896.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE race question disturbed the
General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church at Memphis, last
week, causing warm and animated
discussions. The trouble came up
on complaint of Elder Ensloe, OF
South Carolina against the action OF
the Synod of South Carolina in con-
demning the presbytery of Charles
ton for declining to receive a negro
under its care for study in the Tusca.
loosa Institute for the ministry
When the roll was called each men,
Der of the court gave his vote ver-
bally to sustain, not to sustain, or
sustain in part the complaint
against the Synod. The vote was
as follows: Not to sustain, ll9, to
sustain, 18; to sustain in part, g.
The colored brother thus gained his
point before the Assembly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
TENNESSEE.

Our friend Floyd, of the Chatta-
nooga News, wakes eloquent; hear
him:
"What a wonderfully vigorous old cen
tenarian was that who celebrated her
birthday yesterday! The downy fresh.
ness of youth is yet upon every beauti.
fully rounded outline of her fair face
and she stands to-day pulsating with
the energy of her lustiest years.
"A hundred well-spent years are be-
hind her-yet they are but the prelude
to thousand more that are to pass be-
hind her as she marches in the van of
progress and civilization.
"Just within the border line which
marks the meeting of frigid north and
the sunny south, she stretches the di-
Versified riches OF an inland empire
from the blue peaks of her eastern
mountains to the father of waters upon
her western verge.
"Untold riches lie wrapped in her TO-
cund soil waiting the touch of busy
hands to bring them forth and speed
them to the markets of the world. Her
two great rivers sweep ever onward to
the sea, past mine, and forge, and work
shop, and farm, and the steel girdings
of her railways bind into commercial
comradeship the lumberman of the
Great Smokes and the planter of the
Shelby bottoms.
Commercial Memphis upon her west,
ern border, proud Nashville adjoining
her Cumberland hills, busy Chattanooga
sending the echoes of her workshops
by day and the glare of her furnaces by
night into her sister commonwealth OF
Georgia and Alabama, and Knoxville,
stretched in dignifed repose, the Rip
Van Wrinkle of her Eastern Catskills-
what diadem is this to crown our
skittish maiden of an hundred years
"LOng may she wave! May hel
shadow never grow lessw
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
THE ORPHANS HOME.

Its Present Status and the Reasons
Why.
EDITOR HERALD:-As a member
of the Committee on Ministerial
Relief, to which was referred the
matter of the Orphans Home, al
the late General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church at
Birmingham, Ala, | have been
asked for information as to why the
location of the Home at Columbia,
Tenn, was not approved, and what
is its present status.
In reply l would say, that it was
conceded by almost everyone that,
so far as position was concerned, the
location at Columbia was eminently
fit and proper, and would have a
money value in excess of any place
named but the fatal defect was in
the unbusinesslike character of the
proposition from Columbia and
Richland Presbytery, inasmuch as
it did not appear that anyone was
legally bound for the ten thousand
dollars, nor what part of that was
required to pay for the site.
On the other hand, the proposition
from McMinnville, Tenn, was per-
fectly clear and in legal form, offer
ing a site of five acres in the city, on
which school building costing
from $4,000 to $4,000 stands, on the
sole condition that the Assembly as
sumo debt of $4,7OO; and four citi-
zens of the town signed a written
obligation to pay $500 of this.
Some of the friends of the Column
bia location took the ground that
the assembly could do nothing but
accept the action of the committee
locating there as final; whilst others
maintained that the authority con-
ferred on the committee was in Ian
guage too vague and not sufficiently
clear to take from the Assembly its
right to disapprove of the location.
The latter view prevailed.
1t is due to the committee locating
the Home at Columbia to say, that
at the time Columbia was selected
there was and had been no PROPOSE
ton from McMinnville.
The present condition of the affair
is, that new committee of five
consisting of j. NJ. Cant of Nash
vile, j. 7. d. Kinds, of Lebanon,
Tenn, j. +. Clarke, of Russellville,
KY, H. H. Norman, of Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, and II. L. Cate, of
Cleveland, Tenn.-has been appoint
ed to receive bids for location from
all parts of the church, and report
the same, together with such rec
concentrations as they may deem
best, to the next General Assembly,
to meet in Chicago, May, 1897.
l would say to the citizens of CO.
lumbia, that perhaps it is in all re-
spects fortunate that the Home was
not located here at this time, unless
it could have been done with the
hearty and enthusiastic support of
the entire denomination. Could this
have been secured, it would indeed
have been an Orphans Home ;
otherwise it might have been only a
Cumberland Presbyterian POorhOuse
for Orphans-a thing we do not
want.
OF course, if Columbia desires its
location still, it is in perfect order
for her to make any proposition she
wishes within the time specified,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE people vote a Congressman
five thousand dollars a year to at
tend to their Washington business
for them, then the Congressman vote
a salary of one hundred dollars a
month out of the peoples money to
clerks to do the Congressman's
work. That's why the HERALD
calls for cleaner, better men for
public office. A man may be all
right on the money question, the
tariff question, the force bill ques-
ton, ETC., but to make representa-
tive for the people he should be a
man of sobriety, good morals and
upright life. A man who lives right
will vote right. A man who lives
wrong may vote right sometimes,
but cannot safely be relied upon.
Hence the necessity for good men in
all public offices.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
MIR. MONTAGUE wITHDRAws.

+ Acknowledgement Frank Boyd
received letter yesterday from his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Montague OF
Pulaski, announcing his withdrawal
from the Congressional race. This
simplities matters very much, and
unless other entries come in will
prevent the threatened dead lock in
the convention, as there are now
only two candidates in the field-Col
Cox and Capt. Whitthorne-and one
or the other must get the majority.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

The Nashville American, that
tatterdemalion with a pedigree
spotted and old, admits, with an ex.
ceedingly wry face, that "the indi.
cations for silver supremacy in the
National Convention grow stronger
and a declaration by the convention
that silver recommendation shall be
the chief plank in the platform OF
the party now seems reasonably
certain
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
vi v

Nerves are weak, many people say,
and yet they do not seem to know
that they are literally starving their
nerves. Weak, pale, thin blood can
not give proper sustenance - that IS
why you are nervous, tired, exhausted
The cure for this condition is to
purify, vitalize and enrich your blood
Take Hoods Sarsaparilla fairly and
faithfully, and the rich, red blood,
which it makes, will soon feed the
nerves the elements of true strength
they require; they will cease their agi-
tation and will resume their proper
place = being under the control in
stead of controlling the brain and
body. Read Miss Bartley's letter:
81 want to express my gratitude for
what Hoods Sarsaparilla has done for
me. My health has been very poor for
three years, due to trouble with my
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE narrow gauge people con-
trolled the Prohibition convention
at Pittsburg, last week. They gave
the Woman's Suffrage black eye
and rejected free silver. Joshua P
lowering is nominal ed for president
The overwhelming defeat of the sill
yer forces prevented the presenta
ton of the name of Charles Bentley
of Nebraska, the broad gauge can
didate for president, and also caused
a large sized bolt. Even the state
chairmen were among the boilers,
and twenty-four states were repre-
sented. The new party has been
named the National party, and its
motto is "Home Protection. f"
Among the prominent boilers are
Helen NJ. Cougar, of Indianapolis
ex-Gov. st. John; r. S. Thompson,
of Ohio, editor of the New Era
John Lloyd Thomas, of New York,
and L. B. Logan, of Ohio.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

with the absolute certainty that her
position, lying as she does near the
corners of Elk, Lebanon and Rich
land Presbyteries, containing 1900
members, together with the climate,
healthfulness of the place, the beauty
and fertility of the surrounding
country, will give her from ten to
twenty thousand dollars advantage
in the competition.
w. II. GALLOWAY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE Nashville papers have been
terribly short on news this week.
They have been nothing more nor
less than Centennial advertising
circulars. Judging by the little
respect they pay to the news for
their out-of-town readers, their lists
must be very short; and such pro-
vincialism as they have shown this
week will surely make them shorter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
RAINS, THE DRUGGIST.

Miss KATE FIELD, perhaps the
best known woman newspaper writ
er in the world, died at Honolulu
last week, where she had gone for
her health. She was an ornament
to her profession and an honor to
her sex.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
august Election.
For Sherif-LOVE WEBB.
For Trustee-J. u. CRANBERRY.
Convention Dates,

State Republican Convention, at Nash
vile, August II
National Republican Convention at
st. Louis, June Is.
National Democratic Convention at
Chicago, JULY.
National Populist Convention at St.
Louis, July p.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE Senate has passed the Butler
bill, providing that bonds cannot be
issued except with the consent of
Congress. The Senate is evidently
suspicious of Cleveland and Car
Isle.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

ONLY few weeks more and then
everybody will shed their coats and
the campaign will begin. We are
thinking that man will need I'M
limited good humor to carry him
through the present campaign.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

The silver men are getting to-
gether. They have bolted the
National Prohibition party, and will
vote with the Democrats if the Chi
cage platform reads right. This is
the beginning of the land slide. The
silver sentiment will sweep this
country next November.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE new national prohibition
party elected the following officers:
Samuel Dickie, of Michigan, Chair
man; James A. Tate, of Tennessee,
Vice-C Chairman; w. T. Wardwen,
New York, Secretary; S. D. Hast
ings, Wisconsin, Treasurer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

Hon. RoBT, l.. TAYLOR will take
the stump on or about the 10th of
July, and will make fifteen speeches,
five in each grand division of the
state, before the August election.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THAT was scurvy trick the Bat
tie Abbey managers in Nashville
played on Jake Harlan, the boy
knight of Columbia. Both by gen.
eral and special invitation they
had invited and urged him to come
there and ride in their tournament.
He finally consented, and went to
the expense and trouble of sending
his horse there. But after he and
his horse reached the grounds
some Nashville dude objected
and called Jake a professional
and the managers ruled him off.
That is about the size of Nash
vile, and they will doubtless run
their great Centennial fake after the
same pattern. 1t will all be done to
boom Nashville and to please Nash
Williams, and in the prize ring an
outsider will have just about as
much show as Jake had for the
Battle Abbey tournament prize.
However, some people like to be
fooled and humbugged and skinned,
and the Nashville Centennial of
1897 will afford them a most excel
lent opportunity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE Nashville papers have been
advertising for weeks that the
Marine Band would be one of the
attractions at their Centennial open
ing. Never once did they say that
it would cost you so cents to hear
the concert. The deluded people
found that ought after they got
there. That is but the beginning of
the catch penny games the patriotic
Centennialites will play upon their
country cousins.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

To MAKE assurance doubly sure,
the silver advocates should hire I'M
Gle Josiah to make a sound money
speech before the Chicago Conven-
ton. That would quell all opposi-
ton to the silver plank.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE President, in his veto of the
river and harbor bill, intimated
that it was full of jobs. Already the
appropriations by this Congress have
reached 81 ,O02 100000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

NASHVILLE folks are now talking
about what it "would have been,
but for the rain" Some eighteen
months from now they will be talk
ing about what Nashville might
have been if their Centennial fake
hadn't been failure.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

BEWARE bunco steerer, when he
wants to do you favor. Moral F:
Keep your weather eye on the Cum
berland Telephone Co. If you ac-
cept their gifts now, and assist them
in freezing out the Citizens Tele-
phone Co., they will in time turn
and reDd you.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
Kidneys

was nervous, had pains in my back. l
cannot tell what suffered. My eyesight
became affected and was so Respondent
1 did not have any interest in life. had
two physicians, but my complaints be-
came worse. Twas told that was affected
with Brlght's disease. A relative urged
me to try Hoods Sarsaparilla. did SO
and in a short time l began to notice a
change in my condition. Things began
to appear brighter, my eyes improved and
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

A nice cottage conveniently loca-
ted, containing 8 rooms, garden, sta
BILE room Tor 8 horses, COW shed, car
riage house; price reduced from
$3.50 to $40 per month. Apply to
iune5-2t w. J. EMBRY & Co.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

Miss HELEN GOULD has con-
tributed one hundred thousand dol
lars to aid the sufferers from the st.
Louis cyclone. A noble act.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

JOSIAH PATTERSON made sound
money speeches in Kentucky last
week; hence the free silver victory
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THERE is nothing the matter W it'll
Kentucky. It's all right.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

THE House has passed the river
and harbor bill, over the Presidents
veto
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05
BLAND and BoIES.

SILVER DICK BLAND is the name
to conjure with.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

Its Present Status and the Reasons
Why.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

FOR COURT OF CHANoERY APPEALS.
Hon. S. f. WILSON, or sumner.
Hon. r.. NJ. BARTON, OF Hamilton
Hon. NJ. NJ. NEIL, OF Gibson.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Out OF the County. .................... lbs.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-06-05

Entered at the post-offlce at Columbia, Ten
nessee as second-class mail matter.
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.

November Electlon.l
FOR GOVERNOR.
ROBERT l.. TAYLOR,
of Washington County.