The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-11-24

term would be to have shame and dis
honor upon his head; how he begged
them whatever may have heen his Ell
rors or mistakes not to blight the life
and ruin the prospects of q young man
at the beginning Of his career. They
VIII remember how many of his oppo-
nents softened under this plea and
finally yielded him the second ter m
with the gentle admonition to go and
sin no more.
but while those who have inspired
the. oppositIOn to my reelection openly
avow that they are waging against me
campaign of personal revenge and of
personal hatred, while they have de-
clared their purpose to accomplish my
political destruction, l beg leave to say
that | am conscious of having done
no man wrong and | beg no man s
pardon. have no plea to make ex-
cept in the name of Justice and fair
play to a brother Democrat whose
grandfathers were soldiers under Old
ickory, and who is Democrat not
only by conviction from his manhood
but by helitance from his cradle.
While have reminded you of the I'm
memorial practice of the Democratic
party with respect to the second term,
there is no pratice. no rule and no rea-
son that should restrain you from visit
ting the full measure of your wrath
and scorn upon the public servant
whom you have weighed in the balance
and found wanting. If [ have been
false to my duty, it | have been faith
fc fV,r
the commission | bear, then let fall
upon my head the full severity of your
judgment, untempeIed by mercy.
But what act of omission or COM
mission does my opponent lay at my
door! What issue does he make with
any part of my Iecori? None what
ever. On the contrary, one OF his
chief reasons for refusing to engage
with me in debate is that he can maze
no issue with me upon any of the
public question with which | have had
to deal.
ATTITUDE TOWARD PRESIDENT.
Fellow citizens, you have may discov-
cred errors in abundance in my public
record, but | beg leave to suggest that
you will not improve the situation by
selecting man to think and act for
you who cannot discover with a mi
croscope that which Is visible to your
naked eye. You may think that my
conduct is deserving of rebuke; but
if so you are very unfortunately situa-
ted, because you cannot condemn my
record without condemnIng my dis
tingulshed competitor, who, has honor
od n xuirh his hi u oOprOuai
But, my friends, there are some peo-
pie who are seeking to erect a new
standard of public service and public
duty. 1t is now asserted that | ought
to be defeated, not because | have
done anything to deserve the condem-
nation of my own people, but because,
as 1t is recklessly and gIatultiously as
sumed, such a result would be pleasing
to man who for only two out of the
six years of the next Senatorial term
will be President of the United States
The astonishing claim IS put for
ward that you must choose your Sena
tor to suit the supposed taste of who
ever happens to be President of the
United States. No matter how faith
full how laborious how void of offense
he may have been in your service, if
he has not found favor in the eyes
of the Chief Executive he must be
bound and led to the altar as pro-
pitiatory sacrifice to that offended
deity.
AT THE PEOPLES JUDGMENT
SEAT.
"This is the doctrine pIoclai med to
the sons of siIes who fought at Kings
Mountain and at New Orleans that
their descendants might be selfgov
erning, free men: who hazed through
the tIactless wilos a pathway for CIV.
ilIZation; who hewed the logs of the
wilderness to build their rude bat i'm
perlsnable temple, ana Dedicated it to
liberty forever and forever, | am
willing to be tried by any test that is
proper for Iennessean and a Demo
Graf. 10 whom do | owe my duty
and to whom am | responsib BILE? stand
at the people s judgement seat where
| ought to be judged | apnesl to the
staIwaIt ana unteT1itied Democracy
| appeal to the yoemanTy of that
proud old state which holds in her
bosom the ashes OF Old Hickory and
among whose people his spirits abroad,
wherein have | failed in my duty to
you? Wherein have | been false to my
trust? Pat your finger upon the pub
lie act or public utterance which you
ask he PEOPLE u condemn. Show
them single Instance in which their
rights or interests have suffered
any act OF omission of mine.
| am willing to pay as have always
paid pr per Difference to the President
of til, United States and the high office
ne holds. But | am the servant of the