El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-21
BOB TAYLOR
1t Is Possible That He Will Visit FL
paso Next Winter As He Has
planned For a Lecture Tour In


Texas.
A Lockhart, Texas, dispatch sayi
that Governor Bob Taylor OF Ten
nessee will tour the lecture field o.
Texas the ensuing season.
Mr.. M. G, Jeffrey, secretary OF tne
Lockhart Lyceum association, has re-
ceived letter from the private secre.
tary of Governor Taylor. saying thai
he would give Lockhart a date in Feb.
ruary with his new lecture, Love,
Laughter and Song"
Governor Taylor is considered one OF
the best entertainers on the lecture
platform today and his eloquence riv-
ais that of Ingersoll.
After his term as governor OF Zen :
nessee expired few years ago, he en-
tered the field as lecturer AMI made q
barrel of money. Three years ago
when the democratic party was IN ex-
tremtties for strong candidate Tor
governor, the nomination was tender
ed to Taylor again, but he declined,
saving that he could not afford to give
up his lectures, paying $15. 600 to S2O,-
900 annually, for the governors office,
paying 81 900. Taylor was nominated,
however, against his will, and then de-
cided to run for the good of the party,
defeating 81. Clay Evans. During the
campaign Taylor, who had been severe
ly criticised for too freely exerting his
power, announced that if
elected he would continue to pardon
criminals just as before, and he kept
bis word, sometimes liberating five ard
six a day,
Ex-Governor Taylor some time ago
paid the following tribute to Bob In
gersoll:
81 sat in a great theatre at the ma
tional capital. 1t was thronged with
youth and beauty-old age and wisdom.
[ saw man, the image of his God,
stand upon the stage and I heard him
speak. His gestures were the perfec-
ton of grace, his voice was music, 'and
his language was more beautiful than
any had ever heard from mortal lips.
He painted picture after picture OF the
pleasures and jobs and sympathies OF
home. He enthroned love and preach
ed the gospel of humanity like an an
gel. Then 1 saw him dip his brush in
The ink of moral blackness and blot out
the beautiful pictures he had painted:
[ saw him stab love dead at his feet. 1
saw him blot out the stars and the sun,
and leave humanity and the universe
In eternal darkness and eternal death.
saw him, like the serpent of old, worm
himself into the paradise of human
hearts and by his seductive elo-
Iuence and subtle devices of sophistry
meet his fatal venom, under whose
blight its flowers faded, its music was
rushed, its sunshine was darkened, and
he soul was left desert waste with
,nly the new made graves of faith and
lope. saw him like lawless, erratic
meteor, without an orbit, sweep across
he intellectual sky, brilliant only in
Is friction with the indestructible and
ternal truths of God. That man was
he arch angel of modern infidelity and
said: How true is the Holy Writ |
7hich declared the fool has said in his !
cart there is no Cod Tell me not.
b infidel there is no risen Christ!
What intelligence less than God, that
rives the throbbing engine of the hu-
Ian heart with ceaseless, tireless
troke, sending the crimson streams of
Ife bounding and circling through
very vein and artery. Whence and
that, If not God is this mystery we call
hind? What is it that thinks and feels
nd knows and acts? Oh, who can deny
be divinity that stirs within US? God
, ovarUwhora ,,