The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-02
SENATOR TURLEY
WITHDRAWS
Will Not be a Candidate
for Reelection.
WHO WILL BE HIS SUCCESSOR !
Congressman Carmack and Governor Nc.
The Formers Chances for Election.

MEMPHIS, May 28.-Hon. Thomas
B. Turley will not be a candidate
for re-election to the United States
senate. He has made up his mind
on that point to that effect, and has
so informed some of his most inti-
mate personal and political friends.
For several months rumors to that
effect have been going the rounds in
the State press, but it was not until
yesterday that Senator Turley made
public announcement of his int =
tions. Yesterday a reporter for The
Commercial Appeal asked him, as
had been done several times before,
whether or not he had anything to
say for publication as to the rumors
of his not again being candidate.
II have determined" was his re-
ply, mot to again ask for the posi-
ton. Some time since l received a
letter from Hon. Charles G. Parker,
of Shelbyville, a former member of
the State Senate, asking that he be
informed what my future political
course would be, and the following
letter to him gives both my determ-
ination and the reasons which have
induced me to that conclusion:
MEMPHIS, Tenn,
May 10, 1899.
"Dedr Sjr:-Referring to your letters
of December II, 1898, and May 4, 1899, and
my reply to the former under date of
December 15, 1898, in which l wrote you
that, before making any public an
nouncement of my course with refer
ence to offering again for the senator
81, r ,.tt 90 hnA
| final conclusion on the subject:
~ have determined not to again ask
for the position. The chiefreas which
influences me to this conclusion is that
| am unwilling to devote the latter por-
tion of my life to u constant struggle
for office. have always felt that the
citizen who Is once chosen by his fellow.
citizens to fill an honorable office is not
entitled simply by that fact to ask il
again and again at their hands.
"And | know myself too we'll to be-
services in the Senate are necessary tC
the welfare of our State. Tennessee has
many sons better fitted for the place
than am /.
81 was selected to serve the State for
definite period. l feel that it is my
duty to give the best l am capable of tC
that service for the time for which
| was CHOSEN; out mat III is equally my
duty, at the end of that time, to return
the office to the people who gave it, anC
not to seek it again.
| "AnOther reason is that the life anC
duties of private citizen are more con
genial to me than the sponsibilities O
so exalted an office. AS you know,
have passed my whole life in Memphis
and my associations here at home arr
so pleasant that l do otfeel like giving
them up. | know that l will be happier
and more contented in practicing my
profession here among the people whC
have known me from my bOyhood, anC
in performing the duties which are al
ways at hand and pressing on one who
has as many ties as l have here at homt
than / would be even If / succeeded il
obtaining all the honors that can COM
to one in public life.
81 fully appreciate the great respOnsi
bilities which attach to the place and
hope | have met them and that / may
continue, until my term is ended, t.
meet them in way to satisfy the peo
pie who have been so kind and partia
to me. If, when my term is out, l hav
not disappointed my State, 1 shall b.
fully satisfied.
81 shall always feel that / owe deb
to the people of Tennessee which 1 Cal
never repay, and to you especially will
1 always feel grateful for the interes
you have taken in me and my fortunes
"(Signed) THos. B. TURLEY.
"Hon. Chas. Parker, Shelbyville, Tenn.