The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-05-04

+ certainly could not have come from
one who lived his early life as a la
borer upon farm at an age when the
whole Taylor family were drawing sal
aries from the Government at Wash
| ington.'
The DibreIl Matter.
Senator Carmack took up the
charges with respect to Gen. Dibrell
and Gov. .Taylor's reply. He said that
! for some months Gov Taylor had been
assailing him in the bitterest terms
with the charge of having stabbed
J his friend and benefactor, Mr.. Bryan,
/ in the back, and that Gov Taylor had
done this without the slightest pro-
vocation or excuse.
| Gov. Taylor now says that the work
ingmen will remember the scurrilous
language Carmack had used concern
! ing Mr. Hearst. The workingmen will
not remember anything of the kind"
said Mr.. Carmack, and neither does
Gov. Taylor. There are people, how
ever, who will not fail to remember that
Gov Taylor was the friend of neither
of these gentlemen when he needed
their friendship. There are people
who will remember that he expressed
himself as being sick and tired of
Bryan; that he charged Mr.. Bryan
with deliberately trying to destroy
the Democratic party for his own sell
ffsh purpose.
Il have borne with Gov Taylor's
vindictive and g~atutious attacks upon
me in this matter" said Mr. Carmack,
until patience have ceased to be
virtue 1t is not pleasant for a self
respecting man to hear himself charg-
cd day after day and week after week
with base and black ingratitude, and
with playing the Part of an assassin
by stabbing his friend in the back.
Yet all this | have borne from Gov.
Taylor without retaliation because |
wished to keep as far as possible, all
bitterness out of the campaign. For
months l have refrained from using
the facts in my possession for no
other reason than this. When at last
human nature could endure these
gross insults no longer, l resented
Gov. Taylor's false charges by telling
the plain truth. / made my statement
as to Gov. T3ylor's treashery to Gen
Dibrell upon the authority of his sons,
w r. Dibrell and JEFF Dibrell who
gave it to me as they received it from
the lips OF their father. | made this
statement publicly on the 18th day Of
April, in the town of Sparta. | repeat
ed it again in my speech at Nashville
on the 18th day of April / still repeat
it upon their authozitX and upon the
authority of T. w. Ewing, of Giles
and there are more witnesses if more
are needed. Did these gentlemen utter
base and gratuitous falsehood? That
the truth, and Gen. Dibrell himself
told the truth, Gov. Taylor was in
poverty and restitution, and after he
had obtained that Office through Gen
Dibrell's help, he turned upon him,
defeated the last ambition Of his life,
and sent him heart-broken to the
grave.
What defense does Gov. Taylor
make? He makes the sons the vic
TINS of his abuse as he made the faith
er the victim of his ingratitude.
Gov. Taylor makes a tremendous
attack upon my veracity by saying
that Gen. Dibrell was not even a mem
Der of Congress when he was appoint
ed Pension Agent My statement was
that Gen. Dibrell was serving his last
term in Congress-. AS matter of
fact his term of office closed on the
4th day of March, 1885; but Cleveland
was elected in November, 1884, and
Gov Taylor did not wait for the in.
auguration to begin his efforts to Sc
cure Federal appointment. He pa
rades the fact that Senators Harris
and Jackson endorsed him for the
place as though that were an answer
TO the statement that their indorse-
ment was secured through the inter
cession OF Gen. DibreH.
DbreII Helped Taylor
Il think every fair-minded man will
say that the proof is absolute and com
plete that Gov. Taylor did seek the
help of Gen. Dibren to secure the pen
sion agency; that he procured it
through his help, and that he sol
emily promised Gen Dibrell to sup
port him for Governor But Cover
nor Taylor now declares that he was
not candidate; that he was nomina-
ted by spontaneous uprising of the
people in spite of his refusal to be
candidate. and in spite of the fact that
he himself favored the nomination of