The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-23

GOVERNOR FRAZIER
addressed a Splendid Audience
AT the opera House
IN COLUMBIA LAST SATURDAY.
He Males Fine Showing of What
The Democratic Party Has
Done for Tennessee.
IN COLUMBIA LAST SATURDAY

The crowd had come last Saturday
to hear joint debate between the
Democratic and Republican candidates
fol- Governor, and were greatly dis
appointed that Mr.. Littleton-the
Republican flag bearer was not present,
he being absent on account OF very
sore throat.
f'ut, though disappointed crowd in
the outset il was a highly entertained
crowd. and. from Democratic stand
point, greatly pleased one at the
conclusion of Governor Frazier S
address.
In his resume of the history of the
two political parties in Tennessee, the
Governor, in his Speech goes back a
little further than the Republicans
like to. He begins with the closing OF
the war and taxes in the Brownlow
regime, and those black and brutal
days of Reconstruction, when the Re-
publlcans held full sway in Tennessee
and under their dynasty black heels
were on white necks all over the South,
and the best blood of the land was for
hidden the use of the ballot.
His opponent, the Governor said,
plead the statute of limitation on this
dark chapter in the states history,
but he did not think the plea good
one. And he doubted If the Republl-
can party OF today was any better than
the Republican party of the sixties.
1t was only few short years ago
when this same old Republican party,
with its heart full of inherited hate
for the South. attempted the Force
Bill, which was an effort to place the
voting hoo his of the South under
guard of Federal bayonets, in the
ands of Republican deputy mar
halls, whose duty would be to dis
cipline the South ON election day in
the special interest of the colored
brother.
Governor Frazier didn t, but If had |
known he might shave added a Bit of
local history right there. Col. Archi-
bald Hughes, the present Republican |
for Congress from this dis
riot. in joint debate with Colonel Cox !
while that Force Bill proposition was
pending in Congress, had the etfronte1y
n that same Opera House where the
Governor was speaking. to give his
unqualified endorsement to that in
amous measure.
Governor Frazier took up the finan-
,ial records of the two parties, and
made by contrast q ost favorable
howing for the Democrats. He JUST
led the election laws by Republican
'recedent abroad, and the experience
f good works at home. He showed
" actual figures how the text book
aw saved thousands of dollars to the
aIents of the State. He showed how,
without any raise OF the tax rate, a
ew penitentiary had been huilt, the
confederate veterans cared for, the
ubllc school fund increase, and the
ublic debt decreased.
His platform, he said, endorsed the
dams law, and he stood upon his plat
0rm. He was not whiskey drinker,
Q said. neither was he an EXTREMIST
n the whiskey question. The Adams
wv. he SAID, was the growth OF expert
tents and experience. If the present
wv, an extension of the old law,
roved satisfactory and the people
anted to further extend it. they
lould be allowed to do SO; if it prov
failure and the people wanted it
'pealed they would repeal it. He
vitted his opponent for being out
harmony with his platform, and
i'd he was going over the state try
g to carry water on one shoulder
I'd whiskey on the other.
In justification of his free use of the
lrdoning power he said he had rather
I on the side of mercy than against
and said that so long as the state
fused OF tailed to furnish
for youthful criminals,
J would pardon children as fast AS
ey were sent there. The Opera House
as crowded from pit to dome, stand
8 room being at premium. and
Q large audience punctuated with
squent applause the salient features
the address.