The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-05
Candidates on the Peepul's"
Ticket Open the Campaign.
They Spoke to a Good. Sized Gathering
at GhOlStOn's Hall Last
Monday Night.
LeOnhard Hughes, the New Chair
man, was the Orator of the Occa-
sion-The True Issue Is Let
Severely Alone.

The candidates on the Peepul's
ticket formally opened their cam
paign at Gholston's Hall last Mon
day night. " |Ntl
Leonhard Hughes was the leading
speaker for the occasion. He open
ed his speech by saying, that, by
virtue of being chairman of the
working committee of the Peepul's
Party, he would make a few re-
marks, aud then introduce the cam
didates, who would also make ad-
dresses, 1t had been stated, he said,
that these men were the hired agents
of the whisky ring; but he branded
the statement as utterly untrue.
Then Mr. Hughes sailed into the
HERALD and the police force. He
knew his crowd, and knew that in
an anti-reform crowd, made up
largely of whiskey dealers, and more
largely still of whiskey drinkers, the
most popular thing to do was to lam
bast the HERALD and the police
force. He charged that the HER
AID had thrown scurrilous criti-
cisms at men in Columbia, when its
editor knew he was over-stepping
the rights of the press. And he
charged that 1t was a comparatively
late thinglfor the HERALD to be so
good that it had heretofore favored
race tracks and chicken fighting,
and betting on the same; and for
these reasons he thought the editor
of the HERALD was not competent
to tell mothers how to raise their
boys.
He stated that w. J. Andrews and
others had taken a bill up to the
1 Legislature. and in that bill it was
asked that the voters of Columbia
should have the right to vote for
aldermen in their respective wards
only, the Reformers, he said, OPP
posed this bill, saying it would in
sure the election of negro alder
men in two of the wards. He asked
the colored men present if they
would vote for a party who were
trying to crush them out.
He said that two years ago the
Reformers started out with promises
to reduce the city's expenses, and
the HERALD then did not contain
one word about the whiskey men,
Mr. Hughes talked at some length,
crticising the police, referring to a
letter written by w. d. Cameron
and also to the investigation of the
city's books, and several other
names and matters, more or less
immaterial. He said if he had the
voice he would talk longer, but un-
der the circumstance he would give
way to the candidates.
Mr.. Hughes remarks were highly
appreciated by his audience. Every
thrust he made at the HERALD OF
the police or the Reform party OIL
any individual connected with it
was yociferously applauded.
Mr.. Yoest Came Next.
Mr.. -Yoest, the Peepul's candidate
for Mayor, was then called for, anC
promptly came forward. His ap
pearance was greeted with lou(
cheering.
Mr.. Yoest also had his grievanc,
against the HERALD and its naughty
editor. The HERALD had asked, h,
said, "who brought out Yoest?p III,
hadn't asked Lander's consent, ht
said and didn't intend to; but III
had been petitioned by 200 citizens
of Columbia asking him to make the
, race. 1t had been said by somt
, that he was brought out by the
whiskey men; but that was a lie
Loud applause. And it was a1st
asked who brought out the candi
dates for Aldermen on the Peepul'
ticket. He had himself, he said
asked most of the gentlemen t.
, make the race. When Mr.. Yoes
, had concluded his remarks,
Mr.. A. A. Hodge,
. candidate for Alderman from tn
third ward, took the stand. MI
Z Hodge said that he had bee
a accused of being brought out by tn
y whiskey men; but whoever said S
. 2 was "a liar, scoundrel and a dirt
3 puppy" Loud applause.l
4 Mr.. Lazarus,
= candidate for Alderman from tn
third ward, came next. His frs
few remarks were devoted to eX
planning how he voted to abolis
the Board of Education. He was
y friend to the peepul. 1t had ais
= been said that Mr.. Lazarus wa
brought out by the whiskey mel
. but the man who says / was, tell
y lie," said Mr.. Lazarus. Lou
. applausel.
!, Mr.. Abbott,
|. candidate for Alderman from fir.
d ward, spokeinext. He said he ha
e not been living here long, and didn
n know much about the questions /
l. issue. but would do the best h
could, If elected. "Any person." h
d said "who SAYS was induced
e run by the whiskey men, is a liza
g and the truth is not in him." Lou
v applauseh
d Capt. st. Ledger White,
10 candidate for Alderman from IL
n Second Ward, was introduced b
" Chair Hnnhas 20 Is,r