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

These are but few extracts from
very much of what we had to say at
the time, but sufficient to show that
the lines were drawn then just as
they are now, and that the HER
AIDS position then was just as it is
now. We furnish Mr.. Hughes with
the facts, and will be very glad if he
uses them in every speech he makes.
The same gentleman says that the
editor of the HERALD has not raised
any children yet. and may not be as
capable as he thinks himself. That
is true. With the environments
thrown around boy in Columbia,
it is a most difficult task indeed to
raise boy right, and some most eX-
cellent parents have made miser-
able failures in this most sacred and
responsible work; and that is why
the editor of the HERALD is so anX-
ious to have the environments
changed.
Mr.. Hughes and all the candidates
have denounced as false the charge
that the Peepul's ticket was brought
out by the whiskey ring, but they
have never explained who did bring
it out. 1t was not brought out by
the courthouse meeting; it was out
before that-the majority of the
candidates, at least-and was simply
endorsed by that meeting. Their
candidate for Mayor says he has a
petition signed by 200 citizens, ask
ing him to run. Who are they?
Why not publish their names and
occupations? How many of them
are laborers, how many loafers? If
you have the list, and if you are not
ashamed of it, publish it.
Then again, what has become of
the whiskey rings ticket? II can
not be denied that they intended to
put out one. Certainly it will not
be denied that two months ago they
were saying that they would get out
ticket against the Reform Board.
Why have they not done SO? Why
have they thrown their solid, en-
thusiastic support to the Peepul's
ticket? How does it happen that
Mr.. Yoest and his ticket suits them
so we'll? What is that ticket for,
that it pleases them? What is ii
against, that it pleases them? These
are fair questions, and pertinent to
the issues of this campaign, and we
call for a direct, honest, candid an
swer.
IL will be no answer to say, as Mr.
Yoest has already said, that 1t Is
none Of the HERALD's business. II
is true that Mr.. Yoest, az he says, il
running, without the HERALD's
consent. And it is also true that il
he ever gets any office during his
natural life he will get it without
the HERALD's consent. But that Is
neither here nor there. The peepu
want to know why these PeepuFs
Party candidates are running, anC
why the whiskey ring is supporting
them?
And again, when the whiskey
ring concluded not to put out thei
ticket, how did it happen that nom
of their members went to any of thu
Reform candidates? How did i
happen thai all Of them went to al
of the Peepul's Party? Was it un
Z derstood that they should, and if so
why? Was it because the Reform
Board passed the ten o'clock law
and have they any assurance o
hope that the Peepul's Party ticke
will repeal that law? Was it be
cause the Reform Board enforced
the Sunday law, and have they an.
assurance or hope that the Peepur
/, Party ticket will not enforce tina
law? Was it because they hope tt
defeat some of the present polio
force, and if so why do they want t.
defeat these officers? Is it for doinl
their duty or neglecting their duty
And who will they put in thei
places? &
We cannot begin to touch upon al
that has been said or done by tn
Peepul's Party people this week
In another place in this paper yol
can find extracts from thei
q speeches. How they have rallied a
. men for their professions of moral
and religion, sparing neither TIN
, Mems MONDAY Prayer Meeting no
Z some of the pastors; and nothing
was so sure to elicit riotous applaus
as some. reference at "the hypo
. critics. the immaculate angel,
the i'd rascals," etc. When on
of their colored speakers ASSERTED
that nine-tenths of the human fam
: lily were "whiskey drinkers" an
that they would soon have Zone Q
p the d-dest fights here ever seen,
!. he was loudly applauded. Whe
o another one of their colored speaker