The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-10-21

Johnson City, Tenn, Oct. 17.-Fbl-
lowing is the address Of Senator r.
L. Taylor, opening his campaign for
the governorship Of Tennessee and to
save democracy from defeat:
Fellow citizens, come to you to-
day with harmonica in my mouth,
with an Give branch in one hand and
bowie knife in the other, and with
heart full of good will to my fellow
man, provided that my fellowman
votes for me for governor. am not
a candidate for glory, for my people
have given me all the halo that any
poor soul ought to wish for in this
world, but impelled by as pure a mo-
tive as ever heaved in human breast,
I have received in my humble hand
by the unanimous voice OF the great
est convention that ever assembled In
The state. the standard of democracy
and Of the people, and unfurl II to-
day with all that it means and all that
1T meant in the past, glorified, as 1t
IS, by the love and devotion of the no
hest spirits our country has ever
Known unfurl it above the heads
Of those who love it and in the facs
of those who would trail 1t in the dust.
When say bring message of
reace and good will, I do not mean
that the standard of democracy is a
flag Of truce to men in high places
who have dishonored it and who are
attemrting to deliver my state to the
Newell Sanders wing of the republl-
cen party. For my shield is polished
and my spear is sharpened for them
and warn them now that I will
fight them under its ample folds to
the last ditch. will fight them until
death for its triumph and for the
PRINCIPLES it represents am for
peace to the rank and file of the peo-
rle, but l am for war to the hilt with
Hooperism and Enloism.
Our state is crying for peace and
there is no peace and there never will
bo reace again in Tennessee until
these ambitious politicians in both
parties are put to the sword Of popu-
lar condemnation and buried forever
IN oblivion.
CHARGED WITH LEADING THE LAwLEss
ELEMENT
They tell me that I am leading the
lawIoss element in Tennessee, and
t'eir candidate for governor has d =
clared to my own people that | have
never beeu on the moral side Of any
question. Great God, must I submit
to a blow like this from such a source?
And yet I must have charity, for in
the estimation Of Hooper there is
nothing moral that is democratic, and
there is nothing immoral that is re-
publican.
rtunately for the republican
rarity of Tennessee. Mr.. Hooper is not
as recordless as they thought he was
when they nominated him for govern
or of Tennessee.
Fellow citizens, my life is full Of
mistakes and blunders: so is the life
of every man that Is horn OF woman,
but l have grown gray in the midst
of my Teople. | have reached the 0c-
tober of life with these old men who
look me in the face, and they knew
whether this candidate of morality Is
telling the truth or slandering his
fellow man. have not always
wolFed in the straight and narrow
poth. Wfo among you all has never
worbled out of Il? There is only oEs
man in Tennessee who has not, and
that is Ben Hooper. This glorious
snirit has already sprouted his wings
to be an ANGEL. I think Mr.. HOOPER
MEANS we'll l think he is sincere for
this trip only when he protests his lore
ard devotion for tr" old confederate
soldier. but since len did he changer
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