The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-10-20
OF HIS ADMlNlS-
TRATIONS WHILE
TOLD BY HIM
Appeals to Voters to Support Him
and Save the State in a Speech
That Rings with Truth

Back on his native heath, where or
the banks of the Watauga he built
"Castles in the Air u and dreamed
away in his boyhood days of occupying
the gubernatorial chair and of donning
the senatorial toga, Senator Robert l..
Taylor today opened his campaign for
governor as the nominee of the Irregular
democracy"
Since 1878, when he made his first
race for congress, the senator has been
"making this place" When the sem
ator then rode over from Happy Val
ley :" this as known as Johnson's Sta
tion, but it always has been an omen
for success with the senator to speak in
this town, and therefore he opened his
gubernatorial campaign here. He came
to the city with the buoyant spirit of
youth, and with the laughter and song
of the halcyon days of the seventies,
when he first tasted the sweetest of po-
litical success.
Quite contrast on the senator's COM
ing today. Thirty-tive years ago, so
old people say, he rode mule from
this place on his initial campaign for
congress. When asked about it, the
senator said that it was a democratic
mule and that it had never stumbled
with him. Monday he came in a
special car, being the first candidate for
a state office who ever made such tour
to this city, it is said. Many people
came from off the Doe and Watauga
rivers and from the rolling foothills of
the Unakas. They came on the early
trains, for this is a railroad center.
People formerly rode to town horse
back, and in the old prairie schooner
to hear nominee speak, but since then
their farms have been linked to the
populace centers by many railroads,
and like the senator, they came in on
trains.
Senator Taylor was ont early. He |
knew everybody and they all knew
him. He was just "Bob" to them
10 him they were still boys and greet
I'd with the proverbial "hello, there.n
rhe senator lived here in 1897 and it
was from Robins Roost, north of
own, that he named the late Hon.
rhos. B. Turley, United States senator.
With the senator was Gen. Havey III.
Hannah, Robert Hickey, of Newport;
Judge Glenn Jones, of Oliver Springs;
eugene WINS, secretary of the state
r. l.. Baylor, travelling
passenger agent of the Southern rail-
way, of Chattanooga; j. L. Chivington,
f the Chattanooga Times and Mem.
his Commercial-Appeal; Dixon Mer-
EFT, of the Nashville Banner and Mem
his News-Scimitar; Robert Morris, of
he Nashville Tennessean and Ameri-
an, and Jesse s. Cottrell, of the Knox
lille Sentinel and Chattanooga News.
Guy Schaz, who voted for the free
nd untrammeled judiciary, presided
It 1890 O'Clock the Hippodrome was
filled with the people,
lany of them being ladies. At least
10 @. A. r. veterans from the federal
oldiers' Home were present. The au-
fence was representative and number
1900 to 1900,
On the stage were thirty Confed. +
ate veterate headed by Captain w. ,
J. Dickinson. Those on the stage
ere J. M. Human, j. v. Brown, j. =
|. Barker, M. E, Wash, M. 4. Jen- 4
ins, Hugh p. Webb, N. q. Love, DIR. r
!. N. Warlick, II. III. Hise, w. J.
arton, II. G. Thomas, Will Russell, i
X. Hunt, FL. HI. Dyer, Abe McClel-. d
n, HI. g. Jackson, viii Campbell. c
Dnfederate veterans; N. X. Crumb- c
y, M. d. Chase, DR.. N. 7. Peoples, y
,hn Peoples, F. s. Leonard and Cy
. Lyle. "