The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-10-07
OLD SOLDIERS WERE
NOTABLE FEATURE OF
HOOPER, S:RECEPTION
OVER $50 OF THE OLD HEROES
cHEERED STATES NEXT
GOVERNOR.
MADE FINE IMPRESSION
Few Have Deserted the Cause In ThlS
County and NoVembsr's Election
Will BE a Repetition Of That Of Last
August.

August.
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Pinning the Carmack-colored badg
Of Democracy to their breasts with tn
Confederate cross of honor, one hun
drOd and fifty old Confederate soldier
occupied the stage at the theatre dur
ing the speech Of Capt. Ben w. Hoop
or, Observation-Disclosures candidate
for Governor, Monday afternoon. The
seating arrangement were made b.
Major ]. T. Williamson, himself ar
ardent Hooper supporter. They came
not only from Maury but from nearly
all the surrounding counties. 1t wal
plain to be seen that despite the ap
peals to prejudice made by the Patter
son organs, the old Confederates are
lining up solidly for their nominee.
The deserters from the cause are few
and far between.
Long before John Latta arose to pre-
sent the speaker, every seat on the
stage was taken by old Confederatea.
many Of them were unable to secure
q seat on the stage, and we're forced
to go into the main building. The
largest crowd in the history Of the OPP
era house assembled, many were turn
ed away who could not even secure
standing Toom.
That the speech of the next Cover.
nor was thoroughly agreed with by his
Democratic audience was proven by
the thunderous applause which greet
ed almost his every sentence. Various
estimates place the house at from two
to one to five to one Democratic, with
here and there a springling of Patter-
sonites. The crowd at Hoopers speak
ing outnumbered the attendance at
the Patterson convention at least four
to one.
A glance over the stage showed
such a gathering as is seldom seen ex.
cept in Confederate reunions. Old
gray haired men who had followed the
Confederate flag from the moment 1t
was raised at Sumpter until after Lee
gave up the unequal struggle at Apo |
mattox, were there in solid phalanx |
to say to ali the world that they are
still fighting the battles which they
waged in the early sixties; they were
there to tell the entire State and ma
ton, that, though defeated then, they
are not beaten; that they will carry on
the fight until the last armed foe ex-
pires. that their struggle will only end
when they yield their swords in death.
Among the old soldiers who wers on
the stage and led in the cheering of
Capt Hooper and Prof. Dyer, were the
following:
w. H. Lipscomb, E. N. Woolard, w.
H. Edwards, M. S. Harlowe P. T. Hun
ter, ]. E. Goodrum, N. E. Due, viii
Stroude, Alb Adkisson, Mumford
Smith, Johnson Long, A. A. McMillin,
]. J. Stephenson, A. A. Lipscom6, w.
C. Aydelotte, A. ]. Alexander T. G.
Britain, Dr.. A. G. Dinwiddie, H. G.
Evans, J. X Farrell r, c. Cant, John
Latta, ]. W. Lochridge, ]. X. Orr, ].
B. Scott, ]. G. Williamson, j. t.. Will
hanson, T. H. Williams, T. s. Will
liams, F. B. Craig, C. S. Nichols, T. E.
Jamison, w. H. Mitchell, l.. S. La
mar, s. M Jones, Geo. w. Parks, ].
A. Baker, S. w. Daimwood, W. A.
Caldwell, G. G. Daimwood, ]. X. P.
Andrews, M B. Tomlinson, w. T. Gal
Ioway, ]. B. Tomlinson, G. H. Bryant, 0
Louis Scribner, Dave Trousdale, Sims U
Latta, T. E. Lipscomb, Joe Love, ]. A.
]. A. Sanders, ]. B. Shaw, u
R. D. Smith, F. M. Taylor, John A. d
Thomas, E. S. Thurman, w. A. voss,
7. A. Wilkes, j. H. Blair, j. P. Brown y
ow, N. F. Cheairs, r. B. Childress, H.
B. Collier, w. ]. Dale, w. H. Davis, h
3. B. Douglas, w. d. Dobbins, j. j. p
Clam, R. Ii. Irwin, T. M. Hall, J. J. II
aibdon, J. r. Holmes, II. l.. Hendley, :,
w. L. Henderson, Steve S. Craig, N. a
3. Reaves, Dan Carrick, Mack Biffie, m
-Sellars, Maj. ]. H. Akin, w. M. Ste =
J. N. Meroney, ]. K. P. God !
win, J. K. F. Timmons, and quite 81
lumber of other old Confederate sol II
liers whose names we failed to Sc a
,ure. :,