The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-05-11
THE HERALD S NEW PRESS.

sion from my lips. You have never
replied to this challenge.
The Primary Date.
you have charged that / had the
date for the primaries fixed by the
State Committee in May so as to keep
the farmers from the polls. l showed
that l tried hard to get you to enter
into signed agreement with me to
have the primaries on the day of the
November election, and that you your
self insisted that they should he held
prior to the meeting of the State Con-
vention.
Il showed that your representatives
on the subcommittee which reported
the resolutions Joined in unanimous
report in favor of May IL, that your
personal representative, Gen. Bran
don, declared it entirely satisfactory,
and that you yourself wrote, I gladly
and cheerfully accept the action of
the committee in fixing May IL as the
date of the primary
These are issues of fact which you
yourself have raised.
Stabbed Gen. Dibrell.
In replying to your groundless
charge that l had stabbed my friend
and benefactor, Mr.. Bryan, in the
back, asserted that you had done
the very thing that you had falsely
charged against me; that after you
had gone on your knees to Gen. Dbl
rell and through his help had obtained
lucrative Office in the time of your
restitution and distress, and had
pledged him your support for Cover
nor, you put the knife into his vitals
while he was putting bread into your
mouth / leave 1t to each mans judg-
ment whether your unsupported de-
NAL can stand against the statements
of Gen. Dibrells sons, and that of
Hon. 2. w. Ewing, of Pulaski.
Taylor Against Bryan.
I'm replying to your charge about
Mr. Bryan, l charged that you had de-
clared that you were sick and tired of
Bryan, and accused him of trying to
wreck the Democratic party for his
own selfish purposes. You permitted
me to repeat this charge every day for
four months without denial See Chat
tanooga speech as published in Nash
vile Banner and Chattanooga papers
Jan. 4.
Taylor and Bate.
More than six months ago, when
you were boiling with indignation
over the outrage to Bates memory
and seeking by innuendo to connect
me with it, publicly charged in an
open letter, that you were personally
conducting a campaign by telegraph
to succeed him, before his remains
had left the city of Washington. You
have never denied the charge. See
my letter, page 6, of pamphlet con-
tanning open correspondence between
us.
And Still Another.
More than six months ago l pub
licly charged in an open letter, that
you yourself had planned the election
of Frazier as Bates successor, when
the latter should die or retire; that
you had held conferences with friends
of mine and yours and had sought
to draw me into a combination to pro-
mote this very object. You have per-
mitted this public statement to go
See my letter on page
of same pamphlet
Abandoned Bate.
more than six months ago, in
another letter, Ipublicly charged that
you had begged my friends to write
me to come to Bates rescue in Shell
by County-though you yourself had
abandoned him-and told him that if
McMillin's friends sought to take re-
venge upon me, you would sound your :
horn and call your friends to my aid
but that what you actually did was
to offer yourself as an instrument of
in the hands of those who ]
had vowed my destruction for doing (
the very thing you had begged me to
10. This accusation you have never s
lenied. See my letters, pages and |
l3, of same pamphlet
Il leave it to the candid judgment
If honest men to say which of us has
lealt fairly with the facts. I have not
made a single charge against you that
S not true You have not made a
single one against me that is" 8