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

I fortunes. You are here tonight cslml
aud impartially to review the record o
my public service, to weigh the objec
ton to my candidacy, and to deternmin
whether 1 have deserved the appellatiol
of good and faithful or of "wicke'
and slothful servant.
HOPED FOR JOINT DEBATE.
81 nau hoped and expected to appea
in company with my distinguished com
petItor, that We might, in each others
presence, face to face with the people
present eur candidacy for this high anC
honorable office, It was but a short
while ago that my honorable adversary
was going about the State breathing GU
threatenings and slaughter and exciting
the imagination of the people with ex-
pectation OF a hair storm that was &C
redden the atmosphere like the glow Of
the aurora borealis. But as the Hon
orsble Bob Acres long since informed
US, valor will come and go. NV com.
petitor has reconsidered his ferocious in
tentlon. He has refused to act as an at
traction for my benefit and to draw
crows for me to speak to, and in this
AAio0i USING Culol BOuCg hofO OOOh VIM
PEELED to do the best | could. think,
however, | may congratulate myself that
| am not altogether dependent upon the
charity of my distinguished competitor
to get hearing from the people of Ten.
nessee.
After debating briefly with the per
sonal differences between himself and
Mr.. Tay lor, which have been reviewed at
| hxyk he q
the past few months. Senator Carmack
continued as follows:
NO SCRAP OF EVIDENCE.
"But each of Us has had his say
through the newspapers; we have con-
Quoted our joint debate, so far as these
particular issues are concerned, in the
public press. 1t is to be supposed that
in The quietude of his chamber, surround
cd by able advisers, with ample time for
elaboration and preparation, Gov. Tay-
Tor has made as complete an answer and
as complete statement of his own case
as could have been made upon the stump.
| Ii he is satisfied with the record, | am.
l have published every word of it in
pamphlet form, his letters as well as
mine, without one word of comment, and
| am willing for the people to read each
mans statement of his own case and
| judge for themselves upon which side
lies the truth and justice of this contro-
versy. | beg leave to challenge attention
to this fact-in all of Gov Taylor's Bit
ter and acrimonious contributions to the
literature of this campaign, in all that
has been publicly written or publicly
said, there does not stand one scrap or
| syllable OF evidence. or even the SEM
| blance OF an accusation from any respon-
sible source to connect me with anything
but the most honest, open and straight
| forward politics from the beginning of
my public career TO the present hour.
"While these accusations we're stage
whispered from county to county and
from neighborhood to neighborhood,
from the very moment that | called this
controversy into the open, every one OF
my accusers became as dumb as an oys-
ter, and as silent as the grave. There is
not one of the m all who has risen pub
| licly to assert the accusations he has
privately made.
with this statement and the publica-
ton Of the correspondence between Gov.
Taylor aud myself am ready to dismiss
these personalities from the campaign,
and If they be brought back into it, it
will be the fault of my competitor, and
not mine.
DEMOCRATIC CUSTOM.
"While as a Senatar have tried to
be servant of all the people, have a
right to remind you that | was elected by
Democrats as Democrat, and by the
principles and platform of the Demo.
cratic party have right to be judged.
This was the rule and standard which
you yourselves established for my pub
lie conduct, and by that rule and stand
ard you must measure my fidelity to
my trust.
"As Democrat have right to re.
mind you that it has been the time-hon-
ored practice of the Democratic party to
give the endorsement of second term
to the public official who, in his first
term, has rendered honorable and faith
full service. The first term is period of
probation the candidate for reelection
simply submits to the people whether or
not he has retained their confidence and
esteem. Independent of all considera-
tions of political ambition, of all honors
that 90 with the office itself. every pub
lie man has natural desire to receive
the commentator OF his constituents,
aud natural snx ETY. not to be BRANDED
with their condemnation and rebuke So,
whenever public man is opposed for
reelection to second telm the OPP
POSITION is usually based upon some
defect in his record, some failure in
the performance of his public duties
OUR BOB IS" SECOND NOMI-
NATION.
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for second term as Governor he was
opposed by many leading Democrats of
the State, Inclu ling some who are now
his foremost champions, who believed.
tightly OF wrongly, that he had not
heen true to his own pledges ard to tue
principles of his party Those who
attended that memorable convention
will remempe how Gov Taylor plead
ed with individual delegates that to
deny him the indoIseme It of second
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