Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-15
ROB. VERSUS BOB.

ly funny to see the Democratic organs
set up and knock down their men of
And especially those organs
who haven't 1.-THE courage of their con
victions," which while advocating
sound money and the gold standard
are espousing with insane vehemence
and enthusiasm the candidacy of q
gentleman for Governor who is one of
the most impetuous, reckless and rabid
free silverites in the whole country.
They would have the whole world be.
lieve that the Republican newspapers
have inaugurated a campaign of sour.
rility, defamation and the most ma.
lignant persecution against Bob Taylor.
We hardly think that Bob Taylor
has a bitter enemy in the Republican
ranks-one who would do him the
slightest injury. In fact all he is to.
day he owes to the Republican and not
to the Democratic party. He would
still be an undiscovered genius had it
not been for a d~isgraceful and now a
deplored disruption of the Republican
ranks in rs. He was a pure accident
then and he has been the willing and
delighted victim of pure luck ever
since.
THE head and front of the offend.
ing' is that the Republican papers tell
the truth in detailing the circumstsn.
ces that brought Bob into the field.
Some of his most intimate friends pri
vately admit "the circumstancesn with
out reserve and deplore hts alignment
with his present company. 1t grieves
the "organs"th the Republican press
asserts and proves that Bob's candi.
dacy is purely and strictly machine
made of the very latest brand and
variety; that he is c~onsorting and aft.
liating with the vicious and disrepu-
table banditti who invaded the sanctity
of the bollot box and stole the O V
ereign right of the people of Tennessee;
and that he is the apologist, defender,
champion and favorite of the old rot.
ting leper who is luxuriating upon the
usufruct OF these %stupendous and in
defensible crimes.
Without protest OF objection Bob
allowed the convention to put upon
him the shirt of N~essus-(and from the
way he capers and boasts it is an exact
ft)-notwithstanding he had assured
his lifelong friend and supporter,
Comptroller Harris, that he was "out
of politics." that he was in no sense a
candidate, that he would not accept
the nomination if rendered him on a
silver platter, that he was for him and
would make speeches in his interest.
Bob says that upon the face of the
returns Evans was elected to Congress
in the Chattanooga District and that
as the Executive of the State he could
not go behind the returns and give the
certificate of election to Evans com.
petitor without committing perjury.
This is strong language but we quote
him with religious precision. Bob
says his decision in this famous case
was in accord with the counsel of the
most eminent lawyers of the State.
Unquestionably he took a bold, indie.
pendent, heroic stand for the right and
in the face of a vicious and corrupt
mob of Democratic partisans surging
and bowling around him for the pur.
pose OF intimidating, terrorizing and
driving him, a Ia Turney, Vertrees &
Co., into the commission of q gigantic
crime. We honor him for the act.
Had Bob maintained the same indie
pendence and lofty scorn of the de.
bauchees who have stepped the State
in a saturnalia of crime, when the
temptations and enticements of a later
period overlook him, his political in
tegrity would now be unsullied.
H. G. Evans was elected Governor
over Pete Turney ON H FACE OF THE
RETURNS. This is the contention of the
Republicans. Everybody knows it.
The honest Democrats admit it and de-
nounce Turney as n fraud and usurper.
The Legislature disfranchised a suff.
cient number of Republicans in strong
Republican counties to change the re-
suit. The Legislature went behind the
returns, and according to Bob Taylor's
logic every member who voted to
count in" the old bloated wreck of
winchester committed perjury. The
analogy between the two cases cited
a not be laughed and sneered out of
~countenance by so fascinating a hu-
morist and positive a genius as even
Bob Taylor himself.
In his present attitude-which we
will not say is one of compromise and
humiliation for fear of calling down
upon our devoted pate the fiery indig-
nation of the organs, Bob c~ontroyerts
himself. He asks the sufrrages of the
people ON a platform heartily" en-.
dorsing and applauding a man who
holds an Office to which he was not
elected ON H FACE OF THE RETURNS.
a platform that gloriies "the perjury"
involved in going behind the returns.
which Bob himself has openly, private.
ly and officially denounced in no
measured and uncertain terms.
OF the purity and integrity of Bob's
private life there can be no question.
He is o ma whom BODY likes and