The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-10-16
THE FRAZIER FROST.

heavily upon some OF the Governor 8
personal and political friends Our
friend Romine of the Pulaski Citizen
among the number.
Mr.. Romine gets swfully high and
mighty in the last issue Of his paper
and thinks he don't know a thing or
two, if the Herald's report OF the
Frazier reception was true. Well
nerbaps IT Is none too early for Brother
Romine to pegin to realize thst
peradventure there is thing or two
he does not know all about.
He premises by saying that ne
thought he knew the people OF Msury
o ,unty pretty well, but, If the Herald
Is right, we are mistaken. 1.-The
citizens OF Naury county, he says
''were under no obligation to invite the
Governor If they did not want him. "
They did not want him and did not
invite. him. Not only Mr.. Romine
but others seem to have entirely over
looked that fact. He was no more the
invited guest of Maury county than
President Roosevelt upon one
memorable OCCASION, was the invited
guest of Memphis. And yet the
Roosevelt incident greatly tlcklod
some of our very distinguished and
super sensitive friends who now grow
hot in the collar ana red in the face at
the mere mention of the Frazier frost.
lin the second place, says the
Citizen, 1.-THE Governor was Under no
obligations TO come to Columbia upon
this occasion. Certainly not; and he
should have mad more discretion.
sin the thiro place, continues our
contemporary, this was q social, not a
political occesion-a time for good
cheer, not for the settlement of ola
grudges That point Is very we'll
taken; but all that the people AID, all
the Herald ever said they did, was to
maintain a dignltied and cold reserve.
They didn't have to applaud and wave
their hsndkerchiefs If they didn t
want to, and they didn't want to.
1--WE suspect the editor of the Herald
mlstook the cause and meaning of the
conditions on the opening day" Oh,
no. we didn't. Somebody told you
that, Romine, out 1t Is not true.
Facts are stubborn things; and nc
amount of soft soap or whitewash can
rub them out. The floats would have
materialized ana the demonstration
would have been seen and heard fol
almost any other public man in len
nessee except James B. Frazier. Thai
ia the plain, unauthorized, un'
vanished truth. We are sorry If II
loses this town and county your gooc
opinion, for in all sincerity the
Herald esteems for Its people youl
good OPINION. We are sorry II the
confession that, personally. the frost
was greatly to our liking, shall forfel
the kind regard in which the Citizer
has been wont to hold the Herald
But facts are facts, friend Romine
ana the fact is the good people of Co
umbia-not to a man, but by large
majority, froze the Governor witt
their cola, stony stare. and. (don t yo'
tell anybody about IT. but it was jus
exactly according to our liking-ai
polite excuses and genteel vaneerini
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
rhe Governor had, as the CitizeI
says, an unquestionable right to vet
the Dispensary bill. Great as the dis
appointment was, Columbia might hav
forgiven him that. But no one know
better than the editor Of the Citizel
the powerful influence of the Ad
minlstration against the second Column
b,a bill Mr.. Romine was TREND t
both those bills. He espoused tn
cause Of the Dispensary with cage
interest, believing 1t to be an expert
ment worth the trial. and was NOR
relied upon BY Capt. Llpscomo' WI
had the bill IN charge, tnan any othe
man IN the House. And when tn
second bill-the bill for me extensio
Of the Adams Jaw, was ON Its hns
passage in the House, his alertness o
the floor with a parliamentary motion
saved the day. And the friends q
those measures will always be- grateful
to HIM for his valiant services. An
ifW. b. Romine had lead the process
sion the first day Of the fair, ther
would have been no semblance of
frost. We promise him that. But MI
Romine knows. and no man know
better than he, the frost, the col
and blightiug frost, the Administers
non, at the very outset, threw. upo
that bill. Mr.. Rom,ne was one OF tn
nrst Of Its friends to see and prediC
the defeat of that nil. and he know
the reasons why. 1t would perhap
be more proper for him to set fort
those reasons than for .ne Herald &