The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-07-16

Those who so against him will soon
find out why am for him. I am not
ready to so to the senate yet. Haven't
money enough, but l am heNping it up
in this political sense awful fast now.
I don't want to 60 to the senate this
time. | am like the drunk fellow who
staggered around and held to the door,
and said he would jump into his bed
the next time it came around. | am
for Senator Bate this time. All 1 want
to do in this race is to stagger around,
and keep my feet, so that / can Jump
into the bed the next time it comes
around. Seriously, l see no reason
why this old man, rich in years and
honor, should be turned out at this
time if he wants to stay in. | would
have defeated him several years ago, if
l could, but bless your life, honey, as
the old negro woman says, we were
both younger then than we are now.
The time has passed now to defeat
Senator Bate. He has grown old and
with the weight of years come the SEN
timent of war, which is the strongest
in the sentiment of any people. | went
against Shiloh once, but l will never
do it again. / am converted; the SEN
timents of war are stronger than the
sentiments of peace, Senator Bate is
a much stronget candidate now than
ever, and whatever / can do for him |
will do. / would not mind having the
honor of succeeding him, but 1t is a
case of after you my dear CASTOR with
me, and | can wait till the old man
retires. I used to think if | did not
get my young and heated blood into the
senate chamber at once the whole
country would go to the bow-wows, but
| have got over that, and the longer l
put of my race the less | am inclined
i to crowd out an old man who has been
Just as good democrat as the country
ever produced, and a brave and hon
ored soldier as we'll. You can tell them
| am for Bate, first, last and all the
time. | have had several representa-
tives from headquarters to come to me
and try to tell me what big mistake |
was making for being for Bate. I can't
see it that way. The only mistake |
ever made was runninga gains him IN
1892 and l don't care to repeat it. "
When asked for an interview Mr..
Taylor pulled off his hat and exposed
his bare frontal to the zephyrs which
blow through the Southern station at
times. He gave his hearers merry
twinkle of the eye and said:
81 reckon I can. About all an ex-
politician can do is to get interviewed.
That's the only way the poor fellows
have of keeping the people from get
ting them. We would I'll have been
deep beneath oblivion's dark wave, po-
litically, if it had not been for the
kindness of the newspaper reporters
who come to our rescue. They used
to know us when we were in our glory,
and are too charitable to pass us by
now that we are reposing on the shelf,
may be, forever. We poor old fellows
live in the future, and the newspapers
are after that kind of news, so | sup
pose we can play into each other's hands
in that way. About all that is left to
an ex-politician is the past and the fu-
ture. Mankind in general lives in
memory OF hope. The presentis never
appreciated He'll lies between hope
and memory, so the old politician tries
to avoid hell, as much as possible He
can tell you what has been and what
he is expecting but the present is not
so fresh on mis- mind. y" Knoxville
Journal and Tribune.