The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-09-29
BOB TAYLOR MAKES REPLY
But Still Refuses To Meet Carmack In
Joint Debate
CLAIMS He MADE PROMPT, VERBAL REPLY
MADE PROMPT,
To DR.. Folks Inquiry AS To His Stand On
The Hepburn-Dolliver Bill.

tx Governor Bob Taylor has writer
the following reply TO Senator Carmack'
csustic, open letter, which appeared il
the leading papers of the State Fri
day:
Nashville, Tenn, Sept. "a, 1905. :
Hon. E. w. Carmack Nashville
Tenn. Dear Sir: Your open letter O
Sept. %, addressed to me thIougl
the public press, would be passed b
unnuticed for the same It ason that
declined your proposition for a Joint
discussion, but for the fact that it j.
so luIld with your proven bal bao
humor and your usual solphurou,
method of personal assault upon all
who have the audacity to stand in the
way of your amnitiOn as to blind you
70 common fairness and plain facts.
1t is so foreign to the religion of peace
and love, which you have been e.
recently preaching in school house and
grove and in the tabernacle of the
Lord that feel 1t Is my Christian duty
TO exhort you to be calm and consistent
and practice what you preach, LIPS
that are eloquent with the appeals for
temperance and morality and righteous
ness today must not flame with in
temperate speech and become the bat
teres of bitterness tomorrow.
II is perfectly apparent to me, and
believe to all the people of Tennessee,
that your uncalled for letter, which |
have carefully read. is nothing more
mol less than an appeal to the sympg-
thy of the chNtcn, the temperance ele-
ment of the Safe and the OLD Confed-
crate soldier III your behalf, and an
arttul effort by insinus tiOn and arRu-
ment to array them against me; and
thus you hope to turn the tide of popu.
lar sentiment, which you realize is
now so Overwhelmingly against you.
| have been humble member of the
church for twenty-five years but /
have never put on the livery of heaven
for political purposes. have heen a
temperate man all my life, but have
not waited for the opportunity of a
political campaign to make myself Its
champion and bright particular star
Eighteen years ago, as Governor, /
signed the bill submitting constitu
|tlonal amendment to the people for
|Iatficatlon, prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of spirituous liquors
IN Tennessee, and, as 1itiZ9n. |
voted for the amendment at the polls.
must beg your pardon for failure
TO consult you as to the exact date
when | should reply to the letter of
Dr. Folk and Rev. James Burrow,
with reference to my position on the
|DolliveIH Hepburn bill, but since you
ARE 20 s0licitOus on this subject l
lam happy to inform you that not less
than twenty four hours after l received
the letter IN question, | cent for my
Friend buIIow, the Secretary OF the
|Antl-SaIoon League, and notified him
FULLY and without reserve that l fav-
pred the passage of the bill, and that |
would say SO over my signature al an
faIy day.
Your cruel and gIoundless charge
fhat | cooled on Gen. Bate, and your
still more ridiculous Insinuatlon that
\ plotted.to defeat him, are unworthy
Pf the distinguished Senator from Ten
Iessse. ! sounded the keynote OF Sena-
Or Bates eampign in these words:
Remember Shiloh. / was for him
10 the ind, and no one knows this bet
Ter than yourself. Through all my
humble public life L have been loyal to
the Confederate soldiers of my State.
AS Governor / recommended and
igned the bill to purchase the Her nd
page and build a Confederate Soldiers !
home, where the helpless and the old
might he fed, not with the "bltter /
bread of contemptuous charity. but
Eith sweet loaves from the hands of
|ove and gratitude, and where they
hight find shelter from the storms OF
|te And ever since. all along the
journey | have contributed my share of
|weat and meney to soften the pillows
md smoothe the paths of tne living, !
md to build monuments to the dead.
Your char ge that urged your friend.