The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-05-11

anxiety now, and that Is to get my
Democratic friends to the polls, and
keep the Republicans from voting. I
am confident that my supporters will
go. They have displayed, they are
displaying, zeal, a courage, a deter
mination, which have aroused my
deepest gratitude, and which, If shown
at the polls on the last day of the
struggle, will triumphantly elect me.
The campaign has lasted eighteen
months, it is true but the real battle
will be fought between the hours of
nine and four on Saturday, May II.
l know that the friends who have
stood by me in all these months, with
increasing numbers and splendid 10y
atty, will not permit themselves to go
to sleep now, but will pick up their
fints and go to the front with courage
and hopefulness, and uphold my cause
and protect my interests by their bal
lots and watchfulness at the polls.
hope that you will consider these
final words Of gratitude and Of good
cheer as a direct appeal to you, as nv
proven friend, to go to the polls on
election day, and stay there until
they close. May ask you to make an
engagement with two or three of your
nearest Carmack neighbors to go to-
gether with you to the polls on cleo
ton day? The candidate whose sup
porters are most active, as well as
most numerous, will win this fight.
This is the heart and kernel of the
situation. Press 1t home to your
realization and act upon it.
The purity of the ballot box should
be sacredly guarded; and know that
every friend of mine will both sub
scribe to this declaration and defend
1t. 1 want every Democrat in Ten
nessee to have full, fair and free OPP
portunity to record his vote in this
Democratic primary, whether he be
my supporter or an opponent. But
, the election of next Saturday is a
great council of the Democratic party
of Tennessee, and no Republican
should be permitted to participate in
it. Throughout the State many Re-
publicans are noisily advocating the
election of Governor Taylor, and de-
claring purpose to vote for him; and
my friends in every section have for
months been warning me that must
be on guard against this Republican
menace. I urge you to stand an or
derby but courteous guard over the
ballot box, and to see to it that no Re-
publican casts his ballot. l do not
want any Republican in Tennessee to
cast his vote for me in this Democrat
ic primary; nor, on the other hand, am
willing that Governor Taylor should
be the beneficiary of Republican sup
port. Only by watchfulness on the
part of my friends can this danger be
averted. Under the rules laid down
by the State Executive Committee,
only known Democrats" are to be
permitted to vote in the senatorial pri-
mary on May IL. Wherever a person
who is not known Democrat" at
tempts to vote, he should be prompt
ly challenged.
l would remind you that duty to the
Democratic party, even apart from
your generous interest in myself, sug-
gests that you go to the polls and ex-
ert your personal influence in behalf
of an absolutely fair and free election.
We have fought the good fight to-
gether. l have appeared at the judg-
ment seat of the Democratic party of
Tennessee. defended my record, pro-
claimed my creed, and solicited its
approval I have stood forth in the
MONDAY light of truth and of candor;
l have hidden no secrets; have utter
ed no ISLANDERS; l have practiced no
My heart today is full
of the strongest and warmest graft
tude which the human soul can know,
for the thousands and tens of thous-
ands of the just and generous Demo
cratic manhood of Tennessee who
have heard my cause and have pro-
claimed their allegiance.
can see VICTORY written along
the horizon as the sun sets on the 18th
of May. That message will mean far
more to me than the mere accomplish
ment of an ambition. If l know my
heart Alright, it will come to me with
all the power of divine decree that
all the remaining years of my life
shall not only be marked by an mex
pressible gratitude to the Democracy
Of Tennessee, but shall be animated
with an inner and abiding purpose to
ledicate every power of my being,
every aspiration of my nature, to the
service of the great commonwealth
which has honored me.
Very truly yours,