The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
Gov. Tay1or's Speech.

| ennesSee'S chief executive de
livered the following speech at the
Exposition Saturday, September IL,
Nashville Day"
"Ladies and Gentlemen - Our
matchless Centennial jubilee, spark.
ling with laughter and song. mur.
mering with the music of bands
bubbling with the gleeful babble of
happy humanity; ripping with the
hum of machinery, dashing in the
sunshine and splashing in the shad-
ows, still rolls on like the bright
waters of peaceful stream winding
its way to the sea.
"And 1t bears upon it's Shining
bosom the folsom of beauty and the
foam of mirth and merriment.
"Many squadron of gaudv
craft flying and Tutoring emblems
OF liberty and peace, has fioated bv.
with siIken sails and joyous crews,
like phantOni ships on a river of
dreams.
"But today the flagship Nash
vile, freighted with fraternal love
and bright hopes and sweet memo
rles and cordoned by painted keels
of pleasure, gaily leads the van, the
talrest galley of the fleet.
The women upon her deck are
queens, beautiful as Cleopatra and
chaste as Caesars wife. Her men
are kings susceptible as Mark An
tony, but brave as Caesar.
"Nashville is the Alexander of
the Cumberland, the Rome of the
Volunteer State, the Athens of the
Southern half of North America.
"She is the cradle of orators, the |
home of statesmen, the paradise of |
newspaper editors in whose columns
every morning the blood of Able is
On the hands of Cain and every af-
.ernoon the Banner is hoisted and
here are fragments of governors
md other outlaws by the Baskette.
And the American gets there Just
he same.
Nashville is the central city of
he central state of the Central
south, and she produces the best of
verything that is great and gIori-
us.
"She is the nursery of blooded
OrseS. L have read the biographies {
the swiftest racers in the world r
lat were fleet as the wind. But i,
ne sons and daughters of Luke
blackburn and Iroquois can say to
lie wind what Uncle Rastus said to t
lie rabbit: "Git out of de way {
eah an let somebody run what r
in rum"
"Her politicians are also reckless :
wind, and with a good purse 7
ing on the wire a flash of light b
ng is an OK team. 9
81 have seen magicians shake "
lpty bags and 10! in the twinkIing >,
an eye they were full of gold. / ! !
arveled much at this, until | u
lrned that a Nashville politician IL
n shake full bag and To-! in the u
lnkling of an eye it is empty. o.
'In view of what / know of .,
uthern opportunities | wonder Fl
the famous words of Horace W
eeley, 600 West, young man!' dt
nder still more that he did not L
to the ancient back-number m
lticians: $50 South, Methusa- 4,
and run for Office ~
IF you ask me what Nashville
ever done that was great, an. an
er that it is the only city in the 10,
rid that has ever had an Andrew TO
kson and James K. Polk. And 70
the only city in history that ~
lnaugurated worlds fair on
own hook and triumphed just as
Hickory triumphed by the
Ter of his own genius and en-
7.
Tennessee and the South will spe
a golden harvest of rich re- knc
from this Exposition and the you
es of Thomas and Lewis and of this
he splendid corps of men and n
len who have wrought with ing
n will be the synonyms of cour- mis-
and success to the rising gen. wou
ons. He,
ct us all rejoice in this triumph,
let us not forget that it is only
prophecy of the glorious pos {.