The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-05
rae MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN.

In the heat of discussion, the
true issues of this campaign must not
be ide-tracked, lost sight of or for
gotten. 1t is evidently the purpose
of the Peepuls Party, through their
organ and their orators, to rile the
Reformers and hide the real issues
beneath a campaign of elimination
and recrimination. But the Re-
formers, individually and collect
lively, should decline to be riled just
at present. 1t is never wise to do
what your enemy wants you to do.
Some of the slanderous charges
made against certain individuals,
are too contemplate to be noticed,
and particularly so when the source
is considered. Others of them are
of such character that they de-
serve to be denounced, and we are
advised will be at the proper time
by the proper parties.
But at the present time the Re-
formers, both as individuals and as
Party, have more pressing and
important work to do. They have
at issue great moral principle;
they have at stake the public morals
of Columbia and its good name and
the prosperity and happiness of its
people. They should endure for a
season the taunts and slurs and
ISLANDERS heaped upon them because
of their prominence in good cause,
and at a more convenient season re-
dress any personal wrongs or in
suits they may have been subjected
to.
At the same time the Reformers
we think, should be more active,
more positive and more aggressive
than they are, in refuting charges
and campaign stories that may
effect the election.
Mr.. Leonhard Hughes, their
chairman and leading elector, seems
to take especial delight in CRITICS
ing the HERALD and its editor
Whether he does this from any per-
sonal spite he may have against the
HERALD or its editor, or whether he
does it to please his crowd, we dc
not know; neither do we care, sc
long as Mr.. Hughes will confine
himself to facts. But when Mr.
Hughes states that the HERALD
under its present manager, has evel
endorsed betting on horse racing oil
chicken lighting, he does not con
fine himself to facts. The facts are
that the HERALD, at the time tC
which the enthusiastic young pee
pulls champion perhaps alludes, die
give it's influence to the Maury
County Fair and the kite shaped
track, where gambling was licensed
and allowed. But ut that very time
the HERALD took strong edtoria
grounds against gambling of any
and all kinds at these places, anG
said, "lf, in order to promote and
encourage the raising and develop
ment of fine, fast horses, it is neces
sary to raise race of gamblers, the
race horse business had better be
stopped These are the facts, and
Mr.. Hughes is welcome to use them
to his hearts content.
Mr.. Hughes has also said, in on
of his speeches, that the issue twt
years ago, was to reduce the city
expenses, and that 1.-THE HERALI
then did not contain one word abou
the whiskey men," To show how
grossly Mr.. Hughes misstates thi
phase of the campaign two year
ago, we quote from the HERALD
editorial columns of that year.
The HERALD of October IS, 1896
said:
"The gamblers and Sunday tippler
have not succeeded yet in making NJ
their ticket. Several reputable gentle
men nave Deeu dppTOdCneu anu II
quested to run, but have declined 4
cohort with that crowd. f. Sew
eral of the merchants who sell whiskel
are for the Reform, because they, a
one of them expressed it, "want sobe
officers to protect them from drunken
rowdies."
Mr.. Lazarus was the man VIII
made that remark, and he made
more than once.
The HERALD of October %, 1885,
contained the following:
alderman Cox says that if there
any gambling going on, or Sunday tip
pling, neither he nor the police kno,
It. That is precisely what the peopl
are complaining of, official blindness
The HERALD believes that Sunday tiT
ping and selling to minors is wronl
aud that gambling is wrong"
The HERALD Of Nov. 8, 1895, says
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