The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-05-04
IAN APPEAL
TO REASON
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answer to this question, and ever
one of you know what it is.
l frequently hear this statemen
made. Well l believe Carmack woul
make the best senator, but we low
Our Bob" and we owe him a deb
of gratitude for saving the State il
1896. There never was a more orrone
GUS thought or idea to get hold of u
than this; it is foolish and absurd
the idea of US, the State of Tennee
see, owing either Senator Carmack @
Ex-Gov. Taylor anything whatever il
more than l can explain; but you sa.
Gov Taylor saved the State in 1896.
tell you the contrary that the STATE
saved Gov Taylor in 1896, and tina
by a very small plurality. You sa!
he quit a $4,000 JOB to take the pool
little governors Office of Tenn. ant
save the party from defeat.
l ask you if it would not be very
inconsistent in the people of Tenn. tC
again take him away from a $4,000
job and give him the poor little salary
which the senator draws and send
him to a city like Washington, where
it would cost so much more to live
than it did in Nashville, where the
governor declared out of his own
mouth in the town Of Franklin that
all the poor governors, of the State of
Tenn. got were the banquets he at
tended.
Now, if there were any just claims
by either one Of these aspirants as to
debts and obligations which the State
owes them, think Carmack has the
better of it, for he can claim from
precedent and custom, that the state
has heretofore sent her senators back
to Washington and in fact has kept
them there till they died or became
physically unable to go longer.
Liu hot SChtct nan - UIG III IuC
senate after he had seen more than
three score and ten years? While he
was a grand old man and feared not
to do his duty, While his memory
shall ever have sacred place in the
hearts of Tennesseans. While
would not desecrate one flower upon
MS grave of memory, nor pluck one
leather from his plume of honor, yet
dare say in all sincerity and honesty
with all due respect to his name, that
re in the strength of his mind and
zenith Of his glory was never superior
o Senator Ed. w. Carmaek.
Did not Senator Bate die in the
senate after he had lived beyond his
hree score and ten years? Though
le is knighted in our memory as the
zero of Shiloh. Though we shall
lever cease to love him as long as the
,lood Of Confederate sires pulsates
n the bosoms OF Tennes5eans.
Though we would not cast even q
ICON day shadow upon his memory,
Tor would we drop one blot of evil
bought upon his fame and good name,
-et say unto you in all earnestness,
u all sincerity and in all honesty,
With all due respect to his service, |
hat he was never truer to his trust, |
lie was never more faithful to his
riends, he was never more delighted |
Il his duty he was never more persis- !
ent in his purpose, he was never |
core formidable to his foes than Sen /
tor z. W. Carmack.
Then | ask you gentlemen why in !
he name Of justice and fairplay, !
hould we break a time-hcnored GUS t
ON and precedent, by turning down ,
ne of the brightest young senator's !
;hich Tenn. has ever had and a peer !
( the greatest men Of the nation? |
10 Damascus blade was ever truer to |
he champion of the lists, than Ed.
Y. Carmack has been to the princi-
les of Thos. Jefferson and the inter
st of his people. No needle of the
lariner's compass is truer to the
orth pole than E. w Carmack is to
he people of the South.
Upon one occasion when the Saw
our was upon the earth teaching his
reat lessons of truth, the Pharasees
ecoming envious and jealous Of him,
ct about to kill him and he asked
lem for which one of the good works
his father which he had shown
lem did they stone him. Now / ask 7
on gentlemen in the same language, /
II which one of the good works of
erviee which Senator Carmack has
US in the senate of the Uni
cd States do you stone him and polit
ally Kill him?
Suppose il were true and we did
We Gov Taylor a debt of gratitude.
oppose it were true and some former
me in the history of this state we