The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-04-27
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with the highest honor in the gift
of that distinguished and repre-,
sentative assemblage will from this
day occupy a foremost position
among bis countrymen. He won
this high prize against many odds,
without utilizing the usual meth
ODDS of canvassing, without estab-
fishing a corps of workers, with
out leaving the city of his resi-
dence or mlpgling with his fellows,
without soliciting any organized
support or seeking to rally his
friends; without any species of
manipulation, not even in attend
ance on the convention which was
to rule upon his fortunes, a young
man opposed by gentlemen of high
intellectual merit, honored and
trusted partisans, active, ambitious
and alert, his friends altogether
unorganlzed, even at the hour of
entering the council chamber, he
was borne forward on an irresisti-
bic wave of popular favor to be-
come the standard bearer of his
party. No man of his years has
ever in the history of Tennessee
achieved such a tribute. He pos
sessed bis soul with patience, and
with malice toward none awaited
the verdict.
1.-THE unselfish nature of the man
can be seen at a glance in the fol-
lowing telegram sent yesterday
from Knoxville to warm friend
here after the convention had adj
iourned for dinner. He was in
formed of the situation, and at
once replied with dispatch which
read a follows:
Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. r.
]. l.. Peavey: Don't let my friends
be rash. Don't let my candidacy
interfere with good feeling and
harmony. Do not hold me on to
defeat any other candidate. Tell
the boys to be cool and conserva-
tive. | do not want the nomina-
ton at the expense of bitterness
and bad blood.
9 ROBERT l.. TAYLOR.
els it strange that the high
standard of manhood and patriot
ism which this method breathes
should have bound to the possessor
with hooks of steel tho men who
supported him. Bob Taylor was
the candidate of the Democracy
of the State at large. His nomi-
nation was not the result of in
trigue, but was the necessary con-
sequence of superior general
Thus out of his own paper
acquit myself of his charge.
"My competitor makes another
false charge-that / chose as my
chief friend in my race for Con-
gress an old Yankee bushwhacker,
and afterwards rewarded him with
an Office over an old Confederate
soldier. / was a boy running for
Congress in the mountains where
the bitterness of war still fingered.
DAN ELLIS EPISODE.
"My chief advisers and friends
In that campaign were five Confed
crate soldiers VIM. ID. Haynes,
Chas. J. St. John, John Allison,
). j. kirkpatrick and Obion q.
King. Judge Allison is now your
Chancellor and can attest the truth
now assert. VIM. d. Haynes
vas chairman of the said commit
ZEE. The first named two of these
went themselves to Dan
Ellis, an ex.Federal soldier noted
'or his desperate courage, man
Who had piloted some 1000 men
through the Confederate lines to
DIN the Federal army, and they |
made an agreement with him that
( be would accompany me and see
hat I had a hearing and fair play, /
nd that If he would work for the !
Democratic party and try to induce I
lis comrades to vote the Demo
ratio ticket, when it was over they {