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

In6 DillS lHdL nave PROVIDED the feVe-
nue. to run these schools. That was
one of my practical jokes, and all the
Hoopers, Stahlmans and Enloes this
side of that land where they never
shovel snow cannot steal this jewel
from my crown, for it sparkles and
scintillates in the lives of the young
men and women who have been edu-
Gated in our public schools, since 1
was governor of Tennessee, under the
outstretched wing of democracy.
TAYLOR REFER TO HIS PARDoNING
RECORD.
Let me tell Mr.. Hooper and Mr..
Stahlman and Mr.. Enloe another joke.
| found the penitentiary of Tennessee
a dingy bastile of human suffering
and of human woe, but under my adj
ministration the new prison wac fin
ished and paid for. l inaugurated the
new system and it has beer a paying
institution ever since. /. is a paying
institution today, Notwithstanding the
SANDERS that are heaped upon it's
management, and it Is a humane in
~stitution and is pronounced by expert
prison men as the best system in
America, under the reign of democra-
cy in Tennessee. When l was govern
of | passed through a storm of criti-
cism and abuse because l listened to
the pleadings of the helpless and the
poor, and every time they abused me
/ pardoned more children Of tender
years, more consumptives-men Grip
pied in servitude, and more men who
had suffered long enough and a still
small voice whispered in my heart,
BLESSED are the merciful for they
shall obtain mercy" And l appealed
my case from the scandal mongers
to the people and they always in
creased my majority under the out
stretched wing Of democracy in Ten
nessee.
When / am elected governor again,
as | will be, | shall recommend to the
legislature and urge the enactment of
a pay roll system, which is now the
law in many states in the union, and
which is both practicable and humane,
and relieves governors from so much
responsibility and so much criticism.
| shall also urge the erection of a re-
form school for criminal children,
which is n of the crying necessities
of the day, and for which | have
pleaded for twenty-five years. | shall
push the cause of education and will
never agree to cut down n cent of
the appropriations to run them, but I
hope to live to see the day when there
will be a public school nine months in
the year in every %schoolhouse in Ten
nessee. These are the things which
ought to engage the attention of the
people anG they ought to remember
that under democratic administrations
we have built up a splendid depart
ment Of agriculture for the benefit OF
the farmers Of the state. But Hoop
er's platform forgot the farmers and
said not a word about agriculture.
They kicked Reuben out and barred
the door of Polly Ann as the trad
ing leaders of the independents kicked
me out Of their convention and barred
the door on Hannah.
We have perfected our financial sys.
tenn and established a labor bureau
and a system of mine inspection for
the safety of the men who toll deep
down in the dangerous caverns of the
earth-and what z. glorious heritage
these %prodigal sons of democracy are
turning their backs upon in the name
of reform and good government, but
when they have grown weary of wan
dering in a strange land, and feeding
upon the empty husks of republican
ism, we will all shout "Hallelujah,
trot out the fatted calf when Johnny
comes marching home"
All the institutions of the state
have been built up and nurtured under
the reign of democracy In Tennes.
see. God has given us bounteous crops d,
our factories and furnaces are in full
blast: u mines are pouring out their
streams OF wealth and there is nctl.-
ing to impede our progress and the
tranquility of our state but a swarm
Of self-seeking politicians forever agi-
tatlng and forever stirring up discord
and endless feud among the people.
We need more good roads and less
politics. We need more schoolhouses
and fewer spellbinders. We need more
good, honest citizens to help us de-
ve'op our resources and till our fields
and fewer fanatics in our cities and
towns whose only business is to keep
the state in perpetual CONFUSION.
PEACE AND PROSPERITY WILL BE
TAYLoR's AIM.
Fellow citizens, if I am elected gov