The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-22
THEY ARE
THE "PEEPUL. y
The "AntiS" Select a Full Ticket
With YOest For Mayor,
And on Motion of the Would. BE
Mayor, it is Called the "PeO-
ple's Ticket"
A Cut and Dried and Very Farclcal
Affair, Run by the Candidates
And For the Can
didates.

The anti-reformers have organized
for action. They had a meeting in
the courthouse last Saturday night,
and put forth their ticket for Mayor
and Aldermen, naming it the "PeO-
ple's Ticket"
After repeated ringings of the city
bell and loud calls by st. Ledger
White, the lusty auctioneer, (and
himself an avowed candidate),
fair-siZed crowd was gotten together
in the Circuit Court room; but, as
all the voting was done by acelama-
ton, the exact number of voters
present in sympathy with their
cause cannot be given. A large per-
were supporters of the reform ticket
or persons who had merely dropped
in to see the menagerie.
| The meeting was called to order
| by st. Ledger White, who nomi-
mated Frank Cox for Chairman.
Mr.. Cox was unanimously elected
and took the chair. In few words
he stated the purpose of the meet
ing, saying that they had come to-
gether to select candidates for
Mayor and Aldermen who were free
from rings, cliques, sham and hum
buggery.n John Jackson was made
Secretary.
f. Yoest, who had several weeks
before announced himself as an in
dependent candidate for Mayor,
arose and addressed the audience.
He stated that for the past twenty
five years the people had been in the
habit of putting forward and elect
ing men of their own choice, but
they had departed from that time
houoreG custom and candidates
were now selected by committees. -
A trial of this method for two years
had convinced them that the old way
was the right way. He denounced
the DOrtch law as infamous, as it de-
prived some people Of the right of
voting, and, on account of this law,
candidates had to be nominated by
an organized party, or else their
names would not be printed on the
regular election ticket. He was not
in the race for himself and was not
running in the interest OF anybody.
He then read a set Of resolutions
which stated in effect, that they
were tired of this machine method
of nominating men; they favored a
more Just and equitable disposition
of the peoples money, reduction
of the salaries of City Marshall and
J police, and more just cOmpensa-
ton for the work of day laborers OF
the city. These resolutions were
adopted.
Mr.. Yoest said that he had an.
nounced himself as an independent
candidate, but that he would steI
aside for anyone else whom they
should see fit to nominate, and Inc
felt authorized to say the same fol
the other candidates. .....
Then came the most interesting
part the meeting-the making o
the ticket. Mr.. Yoest was again il
D evidence on the floor, with slip o
paper in his hand, on which were
; written the names of the candidates
7 He made the somewhat humorous
D not to say preposterous, statemen
q that "he wouldn't say the ticket wa
made up, for it wasn't causing, M
doubt, vague speculations in the
minds of some as to how q full
e ticket could be gotten up and pre-
: sented to the meeting, without il
6 some manner being "made up
: The ticket was read as follows, tn
: prospective candidate for Mayo
5 himself doing the reading:
: For Mayor-E. Yoest.
For Aldermen, First Ward-A. H
Abbott, B. F.'Davis.
y Second Ward-St. Ledger White
= Chas. Small.
= Third Ward-D. Lazarus, A. A
Hodge.
Fourth Ward-Pleas Massey, Geo
Craft.
j. Other nominations were called foI
l. with all the straight-faced solemnit.
- the occasion required, though a
. iacredulous smile played over tn
10 faces Of half the audience; but othe
r bosoms painting with ambition
T. stayed their ardor, and the "un
made" ticket-which, by som
mysterious power of cohesion ha
|, gotten itself together, with jus
d enough names and not one too man
J. was endorsed as read, and 1t
leaky bark launched into the cam
paign to do battle with the Reforr
Party. Then, of course, 1t had I
, have name; and, as the people ha
- had such big part in making it, tn
IL ubiquitous Mr. Yoest suggested tina
2. he and his eight companions b
+ named the Peoples Ticket" And
the mover of the motion being tn
: prima facie daddy of the thing,
It was ehristened according to hi
l. wishes.
# Speech making was then in orde
!. Cries were made for Yoest, VIII
D. spared the rafters Of the rookery an
+ stilled the tumult by promptly com
l. ing forward. Coming forward
i Que thing Mr.. Yoest is not at a
backward about. He had mad
" pretty good speech already, b
said, and would not say much now