The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-27
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AROUSE DIVlDEDAGAlNSTI F
The Herald's report OF Monday,
mass meeting was objected to from
several sources; and we are not sur
prised. Where there is so much con
fusion and so little order, and so few
of the many know what is really beiae
done or said, we are not surprised
that people from one position or stand
point do not see and hear as people
in other positions see and hear. Our
reporter We think came about as near
seeing and hearing just what took
place as any one man there; and that
he reported it as he saw and heard it,
there is no question.
Mr.. Thos. PEBBLES says he did not
say there were three factions" OF
democrats present, and that he made
no reference to "uninstructed Demo
Gratis" Our reporter thinks he did:
but If he did Mr.. PEBBLES says it was
lapsus linguae; that he had no in
tention of reviving or keeping alive
that old difference between the Patter-
son and the "uninstructed" demo-
Gratis; and we are sure of Mr.. PEBBLES
sincerity in this. He says, also, that
he made no reference to Legislative"
candidates; that some one else inter-
Jected that remark, and the reporter
1nnnrnnrnfnh int Ii
There was so much interfering"
that we think that highly probable.
When it comes to the adjournment
proposition, We despair of giving any
report that all will agree to. There
were several motions made to adjourn
One was to adjourn until after the
August election; another one was to
adjourn until the frs Monday in
September; and a third one was to
adjourn sine die, with every democrat
present pledged to go to work to sup
port all democratic nominees. Which
OF these several motions was put bv
the chair, there is a wide divergence
OF opinion, and we cannot undertake
to say. When the Chairman and men
who were standing in five feet of him
looking right up into his face. cannot
agree which motion he put and which
motion prevailed, of course it is mere
matter of opinion as towhat was done
We submit, that when democrats
Will behave themselves in decency and
order, their proceedings will always be
reported fairly and correctly by the
Heald but until they learn how TO
have some decorum at their meetings
they should not expect their proceed
ngs to read smooth and nice and har-
monious. And we submit another
proposition: That if they cannot meet
and confer and counsel together as :,
brethren should, they had better not
meet at all. Such meetings as Mon
days mass meeting, hurts the party !
as a whole, and does not help any (
individual.
The. great trouble is, that what 1T |
tie is left eof&hs. Democratic party, mot
only in this county, but in the State,
is in the hands OF those who are
either after the loaves and fishes
themselves, or are working for the
special interest of some special friend. /
Party principles, party interests, love
Of party, seems to be a forgotten or
abandoned virtue, while selfish inter-
ests for the favored few rules the
party and the day. And of course j
that makes factions, and factions make
and disorder.
In Democratic councils, none but !
Democrats should be allowed; and the
only true test of mans democracy is [
his support of democratic nominees.
1t is not a question of what he was,
but what he is. A man may have \
been Democrat all his life until this
good moment; but IL he is supporting \
or Republican nominees I
now, he is either Republican or an Y
Independent: he is not a Democrat;
and he should affiliate, if he wishes \
to affiliate with any party, with the q
party he is supporting; not with the
party whose nominees he is not sup X
porting. Until that is DONE until that
plain sensible rule is enforced there N