The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-29
SENATOR cARMAcK ANSWERS
ISLANDERS CIRCULATED BY
ALExl2gR AT JACKSON.
LATTER COVERS UNDER BLOWS
Red Predominates at The First
Appointment in West
Tennessee.
10y SAMUEL }. sTocKAR0-)
I'm Nashville Tennessean.)

was ready for a good dinner and he
ate ravenously of the splendid feast
the unterrifed democrats of old Mad
ison prepared for him.
With the tables and everything dec
GRATED in red, the wolf fell on the
viands and devoured them with as
much eclat as if it had been Thanks
giving day. Lamb, of course, was the
chief item of the menu, but 1t played
out before the wolf had gotten
through, and he had to go back to
real old Ham. This he did, and by
the time the spread was over he had
gotten away with about all the Ham
there was on the table.
Disposes of Alexander.
Not only did he make quick disposal
of Ham and Lamb, but, still unsatis-
fed, waded into Mr.. Alexander of this
place, and what he did to him was all
sufficient. Mr. Alexander it will be
remembered, is the man who charged
that when the battle was on last year
to rid Jackson of saloons Senator Car
mack "shirked his duty, lurked around
Nashville" and refused to come to
Jackson and make a speech for the
temperance people.
Senator Carmack promised last
Wednesday at Waverly that when he
got to Jackson he would tell the peo-
pie the truth, and Mr.. Alexander
therefore had fair warning. Though
privately admitting that he had talked
too much, he still refused to stand
from under, and so the blow fell full
upon him here today with terrific
force. Even his best friends were
sorry for him, for Senator Carmack |
proved his charges so absolutely with |
out foundation that no man who re-
CARDS the truth can henceforth afford |
to repeat them.
Mr. Alexander sat on the rear of the
platform, being member of the gov
errors reception committee. When
Senator Carmack reached the liquor I
question and took up Alexander's
charge, he said:
81 have been reliably informed that
Mr.. Alexander has confessed that he
made statements attributed to him
without having knowledge of fmpor-
tant facts, and that he now admits he
did me an injustice"
Mr.. Alexander leaned over to r. F.
Spraggins and whispered: Il wonder
to what he refers?"
Alexander Makes Admissions.
Mr. Alexander and Mr. Spraggins
held frequent brief. consultations in
the rear of the press table. The for
mer stated to the newspaper man that
he had not admitted" that he had
done the senator an injustice, but he
said he would admit that he had made
his statement without knowing all the
facts. +,
Well knowing all the facts, will
YOU now admit that you did him an
iriustice?' he was asked by news
paper man.
q do not care to answer that" an
swered Mr.. Alexander. g,
Later, after consulting with Mr..
Mr. Alexander said he had :,
not meant to say that he did not care
% answer the question in the way he
had been quoted, but when the news :
PAPER man pressed him to say square
Y and directly whether or not he
would admit he had done the senator
IN injustice Mr.. Alexander, after much
hesitation and consultation with his :
riend, Mr.. Spraggins, decided to .
stand by his statement" :,
MIR. Alexander had the air about him
If a conscientious man who wanted to
ectify a wrong, but was too stubborn
o do 1t in the only way it could have =,
,een done. He is citizen of Jackson -
nd has the respect of the people, but =,
lie allowed himself to he placed in an :,
Ugly position here today =.
Senator Carmack's explanation of
Why he did net fill his appointment in
ackson was complete and convincing, -
nd the manner in which it was re-
eiyed by the audience showed that
o had swept Alexander's charges
way like chaff, in the minds OF the
ntire audience. Va
Il was the unanimous verdict Of ey- by
'v man who heard Senator Carmack's be
.uch that he had convicted Alexan- da
r OF misrepresentation Even Alex
d.r.s friends confessed that his he
barge chat Senator Carmack had la
hraod his duty" had fallen to the sill
round. flo