The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-10-28
CAMPAIGN LIES OF
TAYLOR'S MANAGERS
EXPOSED BY TRUTH
HooPER's ASSOCIATES At THE
NEWPORT BAR ISSUE
STATEMENT.
SLARDFVOUS ALLEGATIONS
Hickey and FaubIeon Are Given . Sc
we're Drubbins by Five Of the Six
Lawyers Of Hooper's Home Town.
Plain Language Employed.

NEWPORT, Tenn, Oct. 20.-Capt
Hooper's associates Of the Newport
Bar, four Of whom are Democrats, H.
sued the following statement today
On reference to the Hickey charges:
''To the people of Tennessee-In
view of statements made by K. B.
Hickey, of Newport with reference to
the record and character OF B. w.
Hooper. fusion candidate for Cover
nor, these statements having been
made from the stump In the presence
o. Senator Taylor and at his appoint
nents. Hickey being a member OF his
campaign party, the undersigned MEM
0ers Of the Newport bar. all Of whom
know both Capt Hooper and Mr.. Hick-
~ intimately and are perfectly IA
Miliar with their records, as a matter
of justice TO Capt. Hooper. desire to
make the following statement: 'Hick-
~ purports to have letter from A. C.
wAubicon which purports to give q
statement made by Capt. Hooper in a
public speech at Newport some years
ego. The undersigned know the rep
ntation of A. G. Faubicon, and those
who have known him for thirty Of for
- years say that he has the Teputa-
tton Of being notorious liar. and those
who know him would not credit any
statement he would make on oath or
Othewise. His character il well known !
to Mr.. Hickey.
we are familiar with Capt Hoop
@r's public record, we have heard him
ln many aud practically all his public
addresses made In Newport, and we
assert that no intelligent and truth
Eul man can be produced that will say
that Capt. Hooper ever made such
statements either in public or pri-
wRte. No man we have ever known is
more careful and guarded in his pub
tic utteranoes than Capt. Hooper, and :
h he had ever made any such state
ments, some one of us would have
heard 1t or heard of It. We never
heard of any such statement before,
and we believe it to be absolutely
false.
Hickey is also reported as having
stated that Capt. Hooper had been
heard to express his pleasure on the +
STREETS Of Newport at the defeat of
Senator Carmack for Governor by Gov.
Patterson. The undersigned, w. ].
AdcSween and w. o. Minis, state that
they were the managers Of Senator
Carmack's two campaigns in Cooke 8,
county, and Capt. Hooper was an en- d.
Ehusiactic fsdmirer of Carmack and ii
gave him such moral support as he v.
could. He used his influence with his
Democratic friends in behalf of Sena- b,
tor Carmack ~
We further notice that Hickey
claims to have led movement in X
Newport to suppress the bootleggers. r,
We unhesltatingly say that Hickey in or
10 way ever contributed to the sup M
PRESTON of bootlegging in Newport. G,
lie refers to a law and order society
'eing organized in Newport. The only pr
hing OF that sort was that some Of mr.
he citizens of Newport contributed M
o fund to employ attorneys to PROS in
'cute violatcrs of the law in Newport Is
md Cooke county, and w. J. McSween ae
vas employed and performed the SER ie,
vices. Hickey had no connection oh
whatever with this movement, and &c
lis name Is not recorded among those III
contributing We have the list before an
is and his name is not written there. NO
None of the undersigned ever signed he
my agreement, and no such an agree mr.
nent, either verbal or written, was M
yer made by the bar at Newport. We Sill
70 not know what was presented TO
APT. Hooper. -
"Signed: