The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-11-04
COUNTY
HEARS BEN HOOPER
IN A SNOW STORM
FORMER STRONGHOLD OF THt
PATTERsoN-TAYLoR MACHINE
GIVES A BIG RECEPTION.
CROWD TWICE SIZE OF TAIlORS
Liquor Candidate Greeted Only By
500 While Law Enforcement Man
Gets About 2.ooo-smalI Boys HIr
ed to Shout for catsut Bob.

F. DICKSON. Tenn. Oct 2S-SucA .
demonstration as that which grsstee
Capt. B. W. Hooper, fusion candidate
for Governor, here this afternoon vas
Of itself sufficent to strike terr0- T.
the already dsheartened forces Whici
his opponent, Senator Taylor, Is en-
deayoring to inspire by giving them
a song and dance.
An unexpected change in the wealth
er brought a snowstorm before the
hour Of the speaking, rendering the
air raw, and sending the snow in
stinging whirling~ columns into the
faces of those who ventured out
Though few Of the ex-Confederates,
old and inf1rm, did not dare to leave
home, and many others doubtless did
not start for the same reason, the col
lege hail of the Dickson Training
School was crowded and packed. II
was soon evident that more room was
needed, and two recitation rooms ad
Joining the assembly hall we're
thrown open andwere soon tightly
filled as the main hall. Between 1000
and LOO people were able to get Oh
the second floor, while a hundred or
more late corners were unable to get
in hearing distance.
Today's audience was larger than
that which greeted Senator Taylor
last Friday in the court house yard.
Originally it had been planned to
kcre the speaking in the court house
yard, seats having been arranged. The
bitter weather forced the abandon.
ment of this plan. With favorable
climatic conditions Hooper would
doubtless have spoken to an audience
around 1000. Taylor was able to get
out about 500.
For the purpose of disturbing the
meeting half dozen boys, ranging
in age from 10 to is years, had been
coached by the Patterson gang tt
shout Taylor" when given the signal
The shrill piping voices of the hired
boys gave the trick away and made
more Of laughing stock of their he.
70 than even "Fiddling Bob" had been
before.
From the moment that Capt. Hoop
er came into the hall cheers in nigh
ty volume rolled up from deep voices
and whenever question was asked
that could be answered by a crowd,
IN happy unison they peale dforth the
words, in common parlance, the audi
ence was exceedingly easy on the
abandon a: the bits of pleasantly
trigger" shoutin gtheir endorsement
in emphatic tones or laughing in glad
which varied the more solid argu-
ment
AS the speaker arraigned the Pat
terson machine and turned the light
Of day on It's iniquities, the audience
paid close attention, those standing
oblivious of discomfo-ts. !
'Hurrah for Hooper," was more fire.
luent cry than at any previous meet
ng.
The meeting was called to order in
he main hall of the Dickson Training
School at 1870 p. m. by Hon. Graham
Edgerton, prominent Democratic at
.orney Of Charlotte, who in a few
words told the audience the Capt. r.
]. Work. the first man in Dickson
county to enlist in the Confederate /
Irmy. would introduce Capt. Hooper.
In brief manner Capt. Work pre-
ented the speaker.
Prolonged cheers welled up as the
usion candidate arose, the crowd
renting it's feelings In unrestrained
Ielight.