The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-10-28
CHARGES OF THE
REGULARS THROWN
OUT BY SOLDIERS
NEWSPAPER CALLS ON THEM TO
RETURN CROSSES or HONOR
HAS STIRRED SOME UP.
PARIS PARTISAN is ANSWERED
Old Confederate Soldiers Issue State
ment Which Sets Forth Their Posi-
ton in Terms That Cannot Be Mis-
tsken-His Letter Published.

, tsken-Hts Letter published.
! PARIS, Tenn, October 26.-In las
weeks issue of the Partisan, the oil
, Confederates who are for Hope
we're condemned for this, and wer
appealed to return their crosses o
} honor to the U. d. C. If they woult
vote for the Republican nominee TO
Governor, the suggestion being mad,
that if the Daughters had dreamed
that they would desert the ole
South" those crosses would neVel
have been given them.
This article has been the occasion
Of much discussion among some Of
the veterans of the camp here, and
the question of holding an indignation
meeting on next Saturday has been
agitated. In the meantime a repre-
sentative farmer veteran who holds
a responsible position in the farmers
union, has responded to the article,
and his letter will appear In the col
umns of the Paris Post Intelligencer
tomorrow. The following is the let
ter as it will appear in the Post-Intel-
ligencer:
AT the request of some comrdaes
Iwant to say in reply to those SO call
ed regulars who so much fear we
will disgrace the cross we wear:
When / was a mere lad, not quite
IL years old, babe good by to home
and friends and al THAT a boy holds
near and dear on earth, farewell to as
good mother as ever prayed for her
boy, and cast my lot beneath that
flag which was so sadly and reluct-
antly. laid away in defeat, but thank
God, not in disgrace, at Appomattox.
my father, an elder brother who
to-day sleeps in an unmarked grave,
and a young brother. all fought be-
meath the same flag. Every relative
l had on Gods footstool, so far as
known to me, both by consanguinity /!
and affinity to the seventh degree, |
fought for or sympathized with the |
same flag. l would not, for any con-
by act, deed or word OF |
mine, detract from the glory to which |
The deeds of the Confederate entitle
him, nor would l take one flower f"om
he wreath of fame that will be woven
or him by the sweet and beautiful
of the future who will queen
t through the South. Why should
We vote the straight Democratic
icket, since we are indebted to them
or the fact that we are to-day repre-
ented in the United States Senate
y two men whose fathers laugh their l
to detest, despise and abb c
or the flag under which we fought? It
Why should we vote with the Q
rowd that no longer than last June
lrned down the only Confederate t
eteran who asked a place on their 8
cket, but did elect man who sery- c
/ in Hearst's, the most disrepuIable q
ederal regiment that raided the p
outh? n
why should we vote with the d
'owd that no longer than last Aug II
It turned down the next to, the last Il
le of the boys who wore the gray, tJ
hold ONCE in Henry County, and nc
led his place with young man none ell
whose ancestors names appear on al
e muster roll Of any Confederate ca
mpany, and fill three-ffths of the tv
Ices in Henry County with des- re
ndants of those who never raised III
nd In defense fthe South IN the DIR
ur of distress
why not vote with the crowd who tn
We three Confederates a place on ca
,ir ticket, and honored one of te'
IN, that old one-armed hero, who an
t his arm at Chickamauga and spill die
his blood again | nvirginia bat :
lg for the South, by the biggest bly,
@ OF any man on the ticket? mir
Smoke this, and II 1t isn't strong fay
ugh We will make 1t a little tw'
,nger. (Signed.) The Last Con- the
crate from Henry County 10 Get for
me-" OF
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