The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-10-13
CONGRESSMAN A. 0. STANLEY, OF
." KENTUCKY, BUTTS IN"
Every Saloon Keeper in Nashville, Save
One, Working Like Beavers
For Cur Bob.

sooner than is usually the case will
young Senator'S.
NOW as to the other PROPOSE
tiun, why should Gov. Taylor be sem
to the Senate? | can find in him M
qualification for the place, and he i:
past the growing age He hasn't de
veloped any since | first knew him, 2.
years ago. No one ever claimed thai
he is a states nan. 1t is notorious thai
he IS no business man. /; he is ar
orator his OratOry is NOT of the kind
that could command attention in the
Senate. No one would listen there to
either his jokes or his tlorid periods
He is a man of cheerful temperament
with fine faculty of entertaining a
popular audience. His ability To relate
anecdotes, his grimaces and funny
acting make him an irresistible miIth-
prOvoker on the platform but | know
of no solid nplishment that he
possesses He is no more qualified for
J the Senate than ne would be to make
constitutional argument before the
Supreme Court.
"A man neither able nor brilliant
can sometimes serve his State in the
Senate in practical way, but if a
Senator is not calculated to shine in
the Senate Chamter he should at least
have that business assiduity that
would render him of practical use to
bis constituents; but Gov. Taylor is
Ms much lacking in business qualliica-
ton as he is in craftsmanship. he
could exert no force on the floor OF the
Senate and Q youlo be or little value
as the States business agent at the
National Capitol.
WHAT HE STATE OWES HIM.
At this junctuIe one of the men
seated at the restaurant table suggested
that the state owes Gov. Taylor D
Senatorship as recOmpense for past
services.
THAT is absurd calculated the
fist speaker; ''tne state has already
honored him beyond his merits and
the obligation is all on his side. No
one can POINT to anything he did in
Congress or the Governor g Office that
entities him to reward or public graft
tude His record in Office was very
ordinary. Several ex-Governols could
better claim Senatorship on the
score of service done the State, than
Taylor can.
The second speaker then referred to
the sacrifice he said Governor Taylor
made in Iellnquishiug the remunera
tive lecture field to become Governor
in 1896.
ooh, l see" rejoined the first
speaker, "you mean to say that the
democratic party owes him a Senator
ship. That is a more illogical propo
sitIon still. The party dId him the
exceptional honor of making him three
times Governor. He can't discount the
compliment by saying that he con-
descended to accept it. Besides, he
made no pecuniaIv sacrifice. He con-
tinued to lecture and drew So 600 in
salary for the two years in Office. But
think how ridiculous II would be to
give man one Office as a reward for
the alleged sacrifice in having ac
cepted another, when the two offices
ale almost, if not quite equal in honor
aud with little differences In salary.
Gov. Taylor is now imposing on him
self more arduous campaign than
that he made In 1896, and is bearing
the expense personally.
"By the way. does the Governor
intend should he don the toga OF a
grave and reverend Senator, to con-
tlnue to so about the country giving
these alleged lectures about mo onshine
and Uncle Rastus?'
''At any rate. said the second
speaker, me saved the democratic
party in 1896. )"
''How do you make that, said the
first speakeI, "'when he ran behind |
the party ticket in the campaign of that
year,"
A JOKE THAT FITS.
They got off a joke at the Bijou
that fits Bob Taylor's case. = SAID a
man | met on the street after the mat.
lnee.
Lows that? inquired.
"Well, you know, said ne, Bob
clai ms that the party owes him the
because be accepted the
Governor office for third term. At
the theatre this afternoon fellow
went up to stage lunch counter,
picked up AN apple asked the price
md was toll 1t was five cents. he
,hen picked up pie and was told that
also was worth five cents He handed
back the apple and started off with the
,le without paying for 1t.
Hey, there said the man behind
he counter, you haven't paid for that
lie
Why, said the other, L gave you
he apple
But you didn't pay for the apple,
vas the rejolnder.
4 didn't want the apple, said the
nan with the pie
1t seems to me that Bob is trying to
.et senatorial pie on the credit of the
apple he said he didn't
want.
THE TAYLOR MACH VT.
l repeated to one of Ser stor Car
nack's friends whom l ct IN the
'ulane lobby the other night the state