The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-11-27
SLANDERERS CALLED DOWN
Prominent Citizens Meet In Nash
And Call For Proof.
Demand an Invt stigatiOn of the Election
to Refute the Foul SANDER Repub-
Leans Are Sending out.

A meeting of representative clti-
Zens of Tennessee met at the Max
we'll House in Nashville last Tues
day to discuss the ISLANDERS being so
widely circulated against the peo-
pie of Tennessee by the Nashville
Banner and other partisan Repub-
lican newspapers, in connection
with the recent Presidential cleo
ton. DR.. w. j. Murray was made
Chairman, and on motion, appoint
ed committee, consisting of Col.
A. S. Colyar, Hon. b. A. Enloe,
Judge w. T. Murray, Col. w. w.
Smith and Hon. Thomas Tyne, to
draft resolutions expressing the
sense of the meeting. The COM
mittee retired, and after a time re-
ported the following resolutions,
which, after final discussion, were
unanimously adopted:
"The good name of Tennessee has
been most foully aspersed by repeat
ed publications in the New York
papers, especially the New York
Post, the New York Sun, the Mail
and Express, and other papers, and
by publications emanating from
men in high position like j. Sterling
Morton, Secretary of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and which
charges have been widely circulated
in all parts of the United States to
the effect that the Democratic party
in Tennessee had perpetrated whole
sale frauds in the late election. Be-
lieving these charges to be ground
less, and feeling keenly the indig-
nifty, and realizing that such charges
must be based on information fur
nished by Tennessee Republicans,
more concerned about their own
pledges to carry the State in con-
sideration of money advanced, than
they were about the good name OF
the State, we will not silently and
with craven spirit submit to the
insult. The good name Of Tennes-
see is dear to US, and there never
was stain cast upon her proud
escutcheon until the Republican
party conceived the thought OF
changing her politics by the use Of
money.
"Feeling as citizens of Tennessee
that the SANDER is doubly grevious
because of the shame and disgrace
put upon the State by the un.
precedented use of money to de-
feat the Democratic party in the
late election, and that in all proba-
bility the men who used the money
sent here to by up the State are the
very men who are now the origi.
majors of this whole SANDER; there.
fore, as citizens of Tennessee
though the State is put on the de-
fensive by these vile ISLANDERS which
have been so widely circulated, we
shall insist that the good people OF
the State, especially the Democratic
party, assume the aggressive, and
we demand that the Republican
party shall make good its threat to
contest the election of Hon. r. L.
Taylor to the Office of Governor, or
stand convicted at the bar of public
opinion of willfully and maliciously
slanderlng the good name of the
State. Should that party demand
an investigation in accordance with
law, it will give the opportunity for
judicial comparison of the relative
fairness of the two parties in cleo
tions in this State, and it will enable
US by proper proceeding to expose
in all its hideousness the vast sums
of money drawn from abroad to cor
rupt the ballot-box of Tennessee.
1--WE denounce as UNANIMOUSLY
false the wholesale character of the
charges brought against the integri-
ty of the late election in this State,
though the unparalleled use of money
by the Republicans in the attempt
to buy the result undoubtedly made
it the most corrupt election ever
held in this State.
"A. S. CoLYAR.
''B. A. ENLOE.
"W. II. MURRAY.
"W. w. SMITH.
THOMAS J. TYNE"
Hon. w. J. Whitthorne moved
that the committee which reported
the resolutions be directed to pre-
sent them to the State Democratic
Executive Committee at its meeting
to be held in this city next Monday
The meeting then adjourned.
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