The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-09
GOV. FRAZIER AND
MR.. LITTLETON
Open the Joint Campaign at Jack
son Monday.
THE ADAMS LAW AN ISSUE.
Littleton Repudiates 1t and Frazier Endorses
It, and Thereby Scores Heavily Against
His Opponent.

Jackson, Tenn, Sept. 6.-The Stat
5 gubernatorial campaign between Gov
! ernor Frazier, the Democratic nomine
to succeed himself, and the Hon. JESSE
Littleton, Republican nominee, opened
here yesterday under suspicious circum
stances. The city made holiday of the
occasion; the country people from
Madison end surrounding counties
came in numbers, 80 that the speakers
faced an audience of several thousand
people.
Courteous and close attention was
given both speakers, but no great en-
thusiasm was shown until the rejoinders,
when the audience. which was largely
democratic, cheered the Governor to
the echo when he scored his p ,blican
opponent rather heavily.
LITTLETON WE'LL RECEIVED.
/ The republican nominee for Governor,
though he faced democratic audience,
was well received, and many of his
sullies of wit and repartee at the ex-
pense of the Governor and the Demo
| cratic party we're so clever that they
elected laughter and applause even from
his opponents. He confined his assault
on the election laws principally to quot
ing from Ledgerwood's Knox County
manifestoes, and to declaration that
their principle was at variance with the
local government plank in the Ma
tional Democratic platform.
lie criticised the school book law,
although he was not nearly SO caustic
Or bitter IN his arraignment of this act
as he has heretofore been He de-
clared that the books IF the first four
grades cost more now than they did
before the passage of the uniform act.
He also charged that four of the mem
bers of the sub-commission had COM
mitted themselves in letter, to the
State Superintendent of Georgia on the
new books adopted. before their appoint
ment, but stated that he did not believe
Gov. Frazier had knowledge OF such |
fact at the time Of their appointment. |
de attacked the fertilizer inspection law /
along the line of the Rutledge speech.
It was in his discussion of the Univer- !
sity of Tennessee, however, that he al
hered more closely to the text of the
speech than upon any other
issue He declared that he was willing
and ready to stand by his charges and
to prove them; that because the officers
Of that institution we're his political
friends and associates made no differ
ence, and he declared with emphasis
that if his father was running the in
,titution he would continue to denounce
& as a fraud and make war on it's pres
,pt management
REPUDIATES ADAMS Law.
Mr.. Littleton emphatically repudiated
L In olnry A.
is that .sthe Governor can have all the {
reuit for the enactment of the Adams {
aw. / certainly want none OF it.
He declared his opposition to the four
ear term proposition and attacked the
arvis law and Railroad Commission
ct. He stated that the race question
vas a sectional and not political issue;
hat the Eastern Democrats and Eastern
took the same view OF it.
Ie charged that Cleveland had, as Gov
rpor of New York, signed bill for the
o. education of the races, and that his
,ews on the subject had undergone
pch changes since he came in contact
18th the Southern people that he had
ctually forgotten that he had signed
,e bill He deprecated any effort to
rrav preiudice against the negro and
as heartily applauded BY the colored
ontingent.
CHEERS FOR FRAZIER.
II was during the ten-minute rejoin-
ar Of the Democratic standard-bearer
ut the audience gave it's closest atten-
m and was aroused to the highest
tch of enthusiasm. He replied TO
,ttletop's charge that the government
Tennessee was being administered by
machine by declaring that the people
the Democratic machine,
hile Bose ,Brownlow was the whole
ow in the Republican machine. he
ought cheers from the Democrats
hen he declared that Brownlow had
reed a nominee on his party for Gov
nor who could not carry his own Con
essional district in the convention
,ich nominated him.
The Governors hit of the day, was
ored. however, when he called at
ot;on TO the fact that although his
nanant had exhibited his vocabulary
Pronunciation OF the Election. Com
ss;an law. Mr.. Littleton had been
, uciy by Tim one OF the Election
=, rn;ssioners 10 Franklin County and
8 - nov serving in that capacity and
= !. y, A. cont;nne to do 30, as he knew
'u ILL.,, Ia not be elected Governor, and
= WA his only opportunity to get co
III. The Governor then demonssrat-