The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-04-27
SUCCESSFUL POLITICIANS.


fully and efficiently served God and
his constituents. both az the same
time.-Spring Hill News
Whether our esteemed contempt.
rary means the above as an argu-
ment against christian men entering
politics, or whether 1t is the plain
tive cry Of disappointed Estates
man out of job" We are not pre-
pared to say. Neither do we know
the set our friend has trained with
during the active years of his politi-
cal past, or what he would consider
"successful politician" But If the
Editor OF the News means that he
has never met a man who could
faithfully and Efficiently serve God
and his constituents both at the same
time we beg the privilege of intro
ducing him to few who have been
successful" enough to hold office
and please their constituents, with
out compromising their manhood by
a single act of reproach to their
moral or christian characters.
We will begin at the first rung of
the ladder and climb up.
John Latta, at present deputy
sheriff, has held Office perhaps for
more conse cutive years than any
man in this county. We challenge
any man to say that he has ever
strayed in the least from the straight
and narrow way of honest rectitude
and christian living.
Our late Register, Familiarity and
affectionately known as Uncle
Billy Dick McKennon" was elected
to office as often as he asked, and
died in the service of the people as
he did in the service of his Master,
and as true to both as ever man was
to anything.
The majority of our present county
officials are conscientious, christian
men, rendering faithful and eff
cient service to their constituents
and their God both at the same
time"
Further back perhaps than oul
friend the Editor of the News car
remember, in critical time in the
history of the Democratic party in
this state; when the occasion de
manded "tall men, sun crowned, ;
known for their probity, integrity
and christian fidelity, the politicians
went to Ewell Farm and called fol
is Master, and took him against hi
will and made him law-mak er
And no man has ever yet said tina
Major Campbell Brown was "ineffi
cient" or "unfaithful," either to hi
constituents or his God.
Our esteemed contemporary, W,
presume, has "yet to meet" Col
John +. House of Clarksville.
man who after serving ten or twelv
years in the House of Congress, re
tired of his own will, and has sine
then more than once refused to oc
cupy the Governors chair. A maj
as simple in faith as he is strong II
intellect; as powerful In prayer as b
is eloquent in argument; no less
christian than statesman. /
would pay our friend richly well t
make pilgrimage to see him, no,
in the evening of his life, and not
the peaceful quiet of man who ha
served himself, his generation, hi
constituents and his God, with eff
cient faithfulness.
And while there he should not fai
to visit the resting place of Senate
James E. Bailey, than whom Ter
nessee never furnished a ripe
scholar or purer man; whose privat
walk and public life was withou
even the suggestion of any sort {
inebriety or immortality, and who's
success in life is a rebuke to an
such sentiment as the News sue
gests.
We might dwell longer upon Tel
nesseeans and Maury ccuntiani
living and dead, but drawing to
conclusion we will mention ex- Pos
master-General John Wapamake
Sunday school Superintendent, VIII
takes his religion with him into h
business, into his politics, into hi
life. Which has held the highe
position in politics; which hi
achieved the greater success in bus
ness; which enjoys more the respec
admiration and esteem of the worlC
which has been the most "succes
ful" man, John Wanamaker {
Matthew Stanley Quay?
William Mckinley! Has he m
been a fairly successful politician!
a man who has been a leader
men for years and years! A ma
WHO has stood before the public +,
aqaarter of a century, a target (,
the criticism of a partisan pres
DiI you ever read or hear that !