The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-10-05
FRIENDLY WORDS OF ADVICE.

The MI Pleasant Chronicle, one
Of Major Whitthorne's strongest
champions in the recent primary
election, in its issue of this date, con-
tains an able editorial of nearly two
columns in length. from when We
copy the following:
at Is one of the privileges of friend
ship to offer words of advice to "A friend
whose welfare see ms to be in imminent
peril. It's also within the bounds o.
those privileges to disregard such adj
vice; reject II absolutely, and rush
heedessIy on to disaster and rain. But
it is the duty Of friendship at least to
sound the note of warning, and if pos
sIble, avert the calamity.
''FOr this reason, and under this eX-
cuse, The Chronicle wishes TO address a
few earnest remarks, prompted in all
kindness and sincerity of purpose, to
Major w. j. Whitthorne. We hope
that 1t may cause him to stop and re-
fleet, aud maybe his better judgment
Will yet come to his rescue before he
makes the final leap.
ut is currently reported, and we have
the best of reasons 10 believe it is true,
That Major Whtthorne is seriously
contemplating bolt from the decision
of the rece congressional primary,
au1 running AS an independent candi-
date Tor Congress.
That such course would be suicidal
tneI is no reasonable doubt 1t would,
If pursued, ruin him forever politically,
and al aspiration that he ever
cherished would be wrecked beyond
hope. 1t is time, therefore, when the
real and sensible friends of Major Whit
thorne should come forward and save
him from the fawning tlatterers who
are tempting him to forsake his party
and its nominee. He is besieged by a
coterie of fool friends and scheming
Republicans, who are doing everything
III their power to pu l. him into the race.
They are singing sweet songs in his ear,
and trying to make him believe he
can be elected by running independ-
"But let him be not deceived. There
is absolutely no earthly chance of his
defeating the democratic nominee. Ne
suffer no fear on that point, but it is to
save, If possible, the bitter pangs of
most humiliating defeat to Major Whit
thorne that we speak. Granting that
Major Whitthorne could carry Maury
county. there is not another county in
| the district he could carry, except the
Republican county of Wayne. He must
know that when he comes before the
| people with the endorsement of the Re.
| publican party written across his back,
| IL then becomes matter of choice be-
tween Repu blicanism and Democracy
and upon these lines every democrat in
the district will stick to the nominee.
There is absolutely no doubt of Mr..
Pddgetts election, and the "last
chance" of which we now hear is not
any chance at ali. We warn Major
| Whitthorne to beware Of Republican
fiattery. They care nothing for him,
ana have nothing in common with him.
Their only desire is to use him for their
own partisan advantage.
"Let not the ignorant and unwise talk
of excited friends persuade him to be-
lleve he has an opportunity. We
know that jor Whitthorne cannot
receive one fourth of the votes as an in
day of this month.
| Ute Chronicle is a better friend to
Major WhitthoIne than those fawning
sycophants who would wreck him on
tho shoals of party desertion. 1t sup
ported him with ballot, influence and
work in the recent primary, and would
have been glad to have seen him victor
ious. But when he went down in defeat
it become our duty, and it become Maj
or " hitthorne's duty, to support the
nominee
Let the gallant old warrior not sulk
or abandon the srand old party. He is a
noble hero who gave the best years of
his young life to the Lost Cause = and
the strength of his mature manhood for
the honor and glory Of our reunited
country, and never shirked in time of
battle. Let him stay true to the old
ship of Zion; let HIM fight as his fathers
fought before him. on the quarterback
of the old frigate Constitution; and as
she moves out to sea under command of
the great captain Bryan, and flying the
flag OF human liberty and the old Repub.
lie, to engage and overthrow the pirate
ship of Hanna and the horde of Repub-
l1can mOunte banks who would destroy
the government and build an empire in
its ruins, may the voices of the past
summon the Major back to his duty!
"Along the lines the watchwOrd has
been passed for hai mony. Will Major
WhitthCrpe sound discordant note
now? Will the brother of that great
Democrat, w. c. Whitthorne, desert tC
the enemy now? Nay, rather, let him
do his duty. There may yet be better
reward for him. But there is not, and
cannot be, any reward in the Repu blican
party, either of office or of honor