The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-07-14

gait is running away" Whereas CAR
mack had the gift of sarcasm and in
vective. Taylor is known as THE Apos-
tie of Sunshine" He has a quaint,
original way of saying things.
Early in the campaign the writer OBJ
tanned an interview with him that, be-
cause of its unusually interesting word
ing, was copied widely. Taylor had
again adopted his white rose as his
campaign emblem, and Carmack's
friends at once chose the red rose. In
an interview Taylor was asked if he
would meet Carmack in joint debate.
He told story in answer to the ques-
tion as his version of what would hap-
pen. Everybody knows that Bob Tay-
lor is bald headed, while Carmack's
locks are fiery red. Taylor told the
story of two cats fighting. They fought
so hard that they went straight up,
and hair was falling for two days at
terward. He suggested that if he and
Carmack should get together they
would go straight up and red hair
would fall. This caused a laugh to go
all over the State, and Carmack issued
Il formal challenge to Taylor to meet
him in joint debate. People thought
that Taylor would accept him. but he
didn't. He replied that he had nothing
to debate with a good democrat: that
he had always been willing to meet the
common enemy, republicans. but he
didn't care to argue questions with a
democrat.
Carmack. stung by the refusal of
Taylor to meet him, dubbed him "The
Knight of the White Feather" and
Taylor at once added the white feather
to his campaign symbols. Taylor add
ed in an interview that he did not care
about drawing crowds for Carmack to
speak to. and this again put the laugh
on the Senator. Taylor in return for
being dubbed a knight Of the White
Feather" dubbed Carmack a Knight
Of the Red Feather" and later on
changed this to knight of the Ruff1ed
Feathers" when Carmack showed some
| anger. In the interview already re-
ferred to Taylor was asked to say
something about his embems. He said
that his white rose was the emblem
of purity, and that his white feather
was sign that he was flying straight
to Washington. where for the next six
years he would roost under the dome
of the Capitol
At all of the Taylor meetings his
supporters appeared bedecked with
white roses and white feathers. and
old Confederate soldiers declared that
they We're willing for the first time in
their lives to "show the white feather"
Bob Taylor said that he gloried in his
| white feather. and quoted what Henry
of Navarro said to his men to follow
where his white plume showed in the
thickest of the fighting. In his speech
already hear the music of the Senate
doors as they swung ajar to allow
| his admission to q seat in that body
For imagination. for allegorica and
metaphorical speech, Taylor is a top
| notcher.
1t came to Taylor's ears that Car
| mack had said that the best elements
| favored his election. while only the
| fools and hillbillies" were for Taylor.
Taylor took this up and never let it
go, using it to his own advantage ev-
erywhere Taylor, in addition to speak
| ing all over the State, lectured for
many churches, as he has always done
! in the past. He has helped to build
hundreds of churches. remove church
debts and erect monuments. and de-
clared that his Sweat was in almost
every Confederate monument in Ten
nessee" when Carmack accused him of
the Feds and Confeds. Carmack also
took up the lecture platform, and de-
| livered one of the finest lectures ever
heard in the State on Character" be-
fore the Y. NJ. c. A. in every city and
town of any size, usually on Sunday
This lecture no doubt made him thou
sands of votes. Taylor said that Car
mack was putting on the livery OF
heaven" for political purposes. He al
SO criticised Carmack for his caustic
utterances at the st. Louis convention
against William Jennings Bryan For
some reason that appears strange both
the prohibition people and the liquor
interests We're lined up behind Taylor
and both seemed to have it in for Car
mack.
One thing which operated agains,
Taylor in his recent race was his
| more or less checkered domestic life
which began so happily. His first wife
a Miss Beard, of Ashevile N. c.. died
in this city ten years ago. Up to hel
death Governor Taylor's domestic life
had been happy. He had three growr
daughters and two little sons by his
first marriage. Not four years ago, tt
prominent lady Of Alabama while or
his lecture tour. She was q widow
. | with two ch;ldran Tha;r ,,oorr;o,7 1;f.