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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

ions when the man nom carthage
sought election TO the Senate but Just
AZ this time they have escaped our
memory.
McMHIin came nearer to his cher
Ished goal in his first contest than he
ever has since. In the memorable
contest with Turley and Taylor in
1898 he came within three votes OF
election on one ballot and on the
dnal ballot Turley received just ex'
actly the necessary vote.
McMiIlin has ever been a political
trimmer. His sails have always been
set to catch every passing breeze. He
is a man Of policy. devoid Of conVic'
tion. No man would ever be so care
less with the truth as to suggest that
LcMillin had any moral courage. He
has been a consistent follower all OF
his life. never a leader. After the
contest is over, the victory won, how
aver he has not hesitated to appro-
pirate as much of the honor and glory
of battle as his unlimited gall would
assimilate.
1t is hardly probable that Benton
will get to the Senate. He has al
ready been honored by the people OF
Tennessee far beyond his ability or
his services. At the expiration OF the
term of Senator Frazier, whose place
he seeks, Benton will be sixty-six
years of age, admittedly not the best
age in life to begin term in the
worlds most important and most aug
ust legislaturebody. That he will re-
ceive the Patterson primary endorse
ment is certain, but Benton has been
the choice of a macine before and fail
ed of ultimate success. He has learn
ed what his boss, Ham, will probably
soon learn, that machines are not
infalible nor invincible.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

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Twenty pieces of a well known Ice
brand of Bleached Domestic, IN
yard.
s5c MERcERIzED DAMAsk, CSC YD.
Three pieces IS inches wide, with
Napkins to match.
SIPS TABLE LINEN, CSC a YARD.
Three pieces of 70 inch all Linen
Damask, Striped and handsome Floral
design.
Napkins to match at $3.50 a dozen.
WHAT ABOUT THAT COMMENCE
MENT DREss2
We have everything you will need
for it.
Csc AND soc PERSIAN LAWN, 1ee A
YARD.
Seventy-ive pieces of 80 inch Sheer
Persian Lawn, 19c yard.
A GREAT SAVING IN LADIES' OK
FOHOS.
LADIES $500 TO $500 oxFoRDs,
$1.9e A PAIR.
One hundred pair in the lot Tan,
Patent and Black Wei Kids, odds and
ends from last seasons selling, sizes
~ to 6, $19S a pair.
$500 LADIES' oxFoRDs, $1.5s.
Forty-one pair Ladies Patent and
Wei Kid Oxfords, all sizes, except 4
and Az, $1.59 a pair
SOME GREAT BARGAINS IN READY
To-WEAR HATS.
Great reduction in all the fine Pat
tern Hats.
twenty-five $500 Ready-to-Wear
Hats, $3.50 each
Fifteen $3.50 Hats, at $3.50 each.
Twenty Java Straw Shapes. beauti-
fully trimmed in our own work room,
So so each. These Hats would sell
anywhere else at $3.50 each.
MATTINGS, RUGS AND CARPETS.
We are showing the largest line OF
Mattings, Rugs, Carpets and Curtains
this season that has ever been brought
to Columbia.
Csc JAP MATING, zoe.
Fifteen pieces of Red, Green and
Blue Cotton Warp Jap Mating, zoe
yard.
Twenty dozen 3x6 Shades, in Green
and White, 25c each.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
sMIsER,s COURSE.

Chairman Smiser, OF the Democratic
Executive Committee Of Maury county,
acted with commendable courage, self
respect and dignity when he withdrew
from the Congressional Committee
meeting on Thursday and declined to
participate in a glaring frand. His
course cannot be too highly endorsed.
The politicians, whomsoever they may
be who are responsible for this latest
outrage upon decency and fairness
should be made to feel the full meas
ure of the peoples just wrath.
A primary called under the circum-
stances surrounding the meeting on
Wednesday should have little binding
effect upon the Democracy OF the dis
trict. The people can have but mea-
gre respect for committee that has
absolutely no regard for the people.
The Old Guard of Maury county will
probably ignore an election where its
guardians and directors have no more
regard for FAIRNESS ana the SEaulIloHs
of the Democratic party than was man.
ifested when it was called.
No man has or can deny that the
Democratic Committee of which Mr..
Smiser is the Chairman received its
commission from the Democrats OF the
county at an election regularly call
ed and neld by the constituted party
authority. What right has the Con-
gressional committee at the behest OF
a handful of boilers to depose that
committee? The people are not fools.
They know handsaw from a hawk and
they are going to stand behind Chair
man Smiser and pay scant attention
to the efforts of afew machine politi-
clans to Ban Murrayize the Seventh
Congressional district.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
rHE LIMIT REACHED.

No paper in Tennessee has been
more devoted to the fortunes OF GOV
Patterson during the past two years
than the Chattanooga Times, but that
self-respecting journal balks at reward
ing political assassination, at the SUD-
serviency of the State Committee 10
the Governors dictation and Patter-
sons defiance of the best sentiment OF
the state and nation. 1t makes this
scortching comment on the Governor
latest illumination:
His proclamation form end to end
is self. 81" and my" take up the bur-
den of his song, and the people-tne
Democratic masses-have no part IN
his consideration The paper he ut
ters will yield, as time goes on, am
nile material for proper and critical
controversy and his statements touch
ing his own acts and those of others
will come in for emphatic dispute.
"Rut until he has determined whetn-
err he is afraid to submit the same to
the decision of the full and impartial
electorate of his party what he has to
saw is of little Importance. 1t is a
mere surplusage of words, full OF
sound and fury and signifying nothing.
profession and deeds must go together
to prove sincerity and courage The
brave man who is right doesn't have TO
appeal to a machine-made verdict
he can trust the people.
"Just how courageous, how sincere
and how confident of the righteousness
Of his own cause Gov. Patterson IS,
will appear when he finally elects the
iurv To which he prefers to appeal
the people or the machine.
TT is too late for the governor to re-
nent. He has already created the
scbism, and it is his to heal it. the
committee should rescind its action,
call primary at which honest ana
fair democrats may preside; give the
candidates for the supreme Dencn
exactly what they are entitled to
and assure all of their play and stand
ing as before. There might In sucn
circumstances be an opponent to him
in the field; but whether there is or
not he would have tried to undo the
wrong already committed and against
which the people have revolted."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
BENTON M'MILLlN.

Having ascertained that the imper-
ial Patterson would not ask for cleo
ton to the Senate at this time Benton
McMillin has shield his castor into the
ring. It must be humiliating for one
of McMillin's position, past party
standing and one time rask in the
list of politicians, to have to wait I'M
til another speaks before he dares 10
announce his political ambition. Had
Patterson decided to be a candidate
for the Senate. Benton would not nave
announced. But when the Governor
soueht a third term McMillin became
the Patterson candidate for the Sen
ate. He. the former Governor OF
Tennessee. twenty years a Congress
man and once a National leader, be-
comes thee mere tool of a political
machine, an automatom to register
the will of his boss and master, M. H.
Patterson.
This is not Benton's first race for
the Senate. nor his second, nor yet his
third. For several years his principal
occupation has been his candidacy for
the Senate. In 1897 he sought APP
pointment from Bob Taylor as Isham
G. Harris successor, year later he
was a candidate against Turley and
Taylor. In 1900 he essayed double
barrel race for Governor and Senator
with disastrous results. He was
candidate against Gen. Bate In 1904
but the hero OF Shiloh was an easy
victor. When the lamented General
died McMillin was again candidate.
There have probably been other occas-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCH.

In declaring that he hoped the day
would come when people would re-
uuire Of their civil servants the
same high moral standard that they
demand Of their ministers OF the
gospel Rev. T. A. Kerley voiced
sentiment that is certain to commend
itself to all right thinking individ-
nails. No one would ask for Union
of church and State but the people
do have right to declare that this
is a Christian nation and to demand
that it's servants shall be Christ
ian men.
If the church means anything at all
to this world it should be an instru"
ment for the uplift of moral, social
and political life. 1t cannot live a
part from the world but II it Is to per-
form it's high mission 1t must be oil
the world. The time has passed
when ministers can devote their time
to dreaming of the city eternal and
discoursing upon the unrivaled beau
ties of the pearly gates. They must OPP
pose with all their power every instr
tuition that is an obstacle to the es-
Establishment of the kingdom OF God
on earth 1t is not enough that the
servants of the church should spend
their time singing psalms while the
institutions of this world all around
them are sending millions of their fell
low citizens straight to hell.
No one would have the church OF
God permeated with politics but every
good citizen should devoutly pray that
the day may come when our politics
will be permeated with the spirit OF
religion. Why shoul we demand one
standard of minister and another
of the Governor or the Sheriff? Are
not all alike accountable to God? is
it not just as important that those to
whom we entrust our civil business,
the law makers, the law enforcers,
the officials who hold the scales OF
Justice between man and man, should
be true and upright and fair and hon.
est in all their dealings os 1t is that
our spiritual advisers should walk the
straight and narrow path?
God hasten the day when those who
are called to high places In church
or state shall have correct concep-
ton of their obligations and respon-
sibilities to the people. Never In the
history of the world has there been
such a demand for strong and true
men with the ability to plan and the
courage 10 execute. And If the
church of God is not to be training
place for men of this character where
are they to come from!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.

In order to more securely fasten the
mechine on the Democrats of Tennes-
see the Patterson Committee abandon
ed the time nonored precedent of the
party in fixing the basis of represen-
tation in the convention on the vote
for Governor instead of the vote for
President With one exception 1t has
always been the rule of the Democrats
of Tennessee to fix representation In
all conventions on the basis of the
vote for President. The one conven-
ton in which the well established and
almost uniformly observed rule was
abandoned was that of 1905 and the
convention, not the party committee
changed the rule That is a right that
the convention had and not one confer
red upon the committee. Under the
presidents and usages of the Demo
cratic party in Tennessee that Com
mittee has no right to fix the basis OF
representation. On the contrary that
is a power that has always been re-
served to the convention.
In 1896 the basis of representation
was changed in order to give the three
rural counties of the Tenth District
larger vote than that given to Shell
by county that the election of silver
delegates to the National convention
might be insured. M. r. Patterson
and his late father, then Congressman
from the Tenth District, opposed this
change and declared = an outrage. II
It was wrong then to It right now?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

ed BY political brigands and pirates
Who have no higher conception Of their
obligations and duties to the mass Of
he party than the rewsrding Of little
men and the establishment OF a politt
cal oligarchy. the sooner destroyed the
better for the commonwealth.
Surely a machine patterned after
Patterson's Infamous organization can
not long survive the soil and In the
atmosphere Of the Old Volunteer State
Too long has liberty's sacred plant
blossomed and bloomed and brought
forth fruit in Tennessee for it to nur'
ture the noxious plant of despotism
and political tyranny.
II is not 8 question now of the cleo
ton of this or that candidate. II Is
a question Of the salvation or the des'
truction of the Democratic par
ty in Tennessee. To save
the party from the treason of these
temporarily at the helm it must be
reorganized. No higher obligation
ever developed upon, ever faced the
Democrats of Tennessee than that
which the present crisis creates. We
have confidence that the Old Guard
of Tennessee will not prove recreant
to its trust.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
YOU SEE IN OUR AID ITS so.

/ Maury county system of roads that
will compare favorably with those OF
any county in the Union. Aside
| from splendid schools no county can
! have a better asset than first class
roads.
Good roads are an investment.
They increase the value of property
contiguous to them; they increase the
load which the team can haul to
market: they cheaper transportation
and they bring about better feeling
! between the cities and the country.
They make farm life more attractive
and will do more than any other insti-
tuition to solve the back to the farm
problem. Good roads relieve farm
life Of its monotony, because they
render intercourse between neighbors
easy and enjoyable.
There Ia no good reason why the
roads of Maury county should not be
equal to the best in the State Its
wealth, its resources and it's people
entitle it to the very best highways
that any county can boast There is
community of interest between the
city and the country and whatever
promotes the prosperity of the one
advances the interests Of the other.
The closer the commercial, the bu
ness, the social interests of city axd
county can be brought together the
greater the progress of the people.
And the peoples of this world who
have achieved most and left the most
enduring monuments Of their great
ness have been those who had the
highest appreciation Of good roads.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
GOOD ROADS SENTIMENT.

One result Of the Inauguration OF
trading days in Columbia upon which
transportation is paid visitors by the
Merchants Association will be the
creation OF stronger sentiment for
good roads and for free roads. Once
accustom the people to gateless high
ways that are well kept and it will
not be a dificult matter to ultimately
create a sentiment that will give
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
During the past year the coal mine

During the past year the coal mines
of this country have exacted an appall'
ing toll in human lives. American sc.
MUS and American enterprise ought to
be able to so safeguard the mines Of
this country that our death list will
not exceed that of other and less "a
vored countries. II is reflection on
our laws that mining is more hazard
Gus here than elsewhere in the world.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

Failure to enforce the law is cost
" experiment with any people. Re-
cent investigation of the Cherry mine
disaster in Illinois reveals the fact that
its appalling death list was largely II
not wholly due to the failure Of the
state authorities to enforce the legal
regulations. Just another instance Of
the terrible price which people must
pay for their indifference to the re-
quirements OF the law.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
REoRcANlzlNe THE PARTY.

The Herald's suggestion made short
" after the state Democratic Com
mittee ordered the bogus primary, that
the Democrats OF Tennessee meet IN
State convention and reorganize the
marty. has been received with marked
enthusiasm everywhere and the move
ment has now taken definite form. A
call has already been issued for con-
vention to be held in Nashville on
Nav II. This call has been signed
In Maury county by about $50 OF the
Old Guard Democrats, the Democrats
who have followed the fortunes OF the
party with answering loyalty. 1t Is
being signed all over the State by hum
dreds of Democrats of the same char
acter.
Unless the Democratic party Is reor-
eanized. and those who are now prosti-
tuting their powers to the most unholy
purpose are forced to abdicate the par
tv in Tennessee will soon be little
more than a memory. For 1t Is not
conceivable that the people OF Ten
nessee will for long tolerate a party
which rewards assassination OF polit-
zeal foes, which violates every under
lying principle Of American institu-
lions and which is less Democratic in
its party tenets and methods than the
constitution OF Russia. A party direct
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
THE COUNTY FAIR.

No institution in the county is de-
serving of larger measure OF support
from the people than a county fair
properly managed and intelllgently
conducted. If the fair serves its true
purpose, if it is a miniature exhibit OF
the county's resources and an adVer-
tisement of the products of the coun-
ty. it is the most valuable institution
in the county. 1t serves a strictly pub
lie purpose, or it should do so.
The action of the Board of Trade
Directorate therefore in pledging the
endorsement and cooperation OF that
organization to the fair management
in its efforts to make the county exnl-
bition worthy of the people and re-
sources of the county will meet with
popular approval. A fair should never
be conducted as a source OF private
profit 1t should, of course, pay It's
own way, but it should be conducted
for the benefit of all the county and
not for individual dividends. When it
becomes merely a profit making con-
Germ it's prime object is neglected and
it fails to serve it's true purpose.
While we have never believed that
there was any justification for the
charge so often made that the old falr
management was conducting the fair
merely as a private profit grabbing in
stitution with no regard for the inter-
ests Of the county, the very fact that
a few men held the stock and con-
trolled the fair has unquestionably
hampered it and kept it from securing
the hearty cooperation from the gen.
eral public so necessary to the sue
cess of county fair.
Every member of the Board of Trade
should be an enthusiastic supporter OF
the county fair. The better the fair,
the more thoroughly representative OF
the county's resources its exhibits are
and the larger the attendance, the
greater the benefits which the peo-
pie of the city and county will derive.
A successful fair means better busi-
ness for every merchant in Columbia.
No one with intelligence can longer
dispute the fact that advertising pays.
This is lust as true of county and
of a city as it is of business. The
communities which have done the
largest share of advertising are the
communities which are the most pros
nervous. The merchants who are intel
ligent advertisers are, as a rule, the
leading merchants of their community.
A county fair, such fair as will DO
full Justice to the matchless resources
of this county, will prove of inestima-
BILE benefit to every citizen in the coun-
ty. Maury county should have the
best county fair in the South. Its pro-
ducts entitle it to fair that will sur
pass any similar exhibition in the
country. If the Board of Trade car
ries to a successful consumation It's
plan to make the fair a great peoples
institution Maury county will have
Just such an annual exhibition as we
have described.
In the meantime every public spirit
ed citizen in the city and county
should get behind the management and
UNFOLD the hands of the secretary in
his efforts to give the people a credit
able fair this year
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

If few more special Congressional
elections should be held before March
4 next the Democrats could elect I'm
Gle Joe's successor without the aid OF
the insurgents.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

Have you been enumerated? Then
see that you are before Friday night.
Columbia cannot afford to be denied
it's proper ranks through the carless-
ness or Indifference of its citizens.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

Dear Maria and members Of the An
anias Club will be conspicuous BY
their absence from the Roosevelt re-
ception committee.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

Better and longer schools mean an
educated citizenship and an educated
citizenship means fewer criminals and
paupers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
.McKsaaua, Anderson & Foster

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29
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Ten Tan, Green, Navy, Copen, Oh
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

$1,000 LINEN SUITS, $3.50.
Twenty Natural Blue and White
RAINY Linen Coat Suits, the very latest
Spring styles, $3.50.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

FIFTY PANAMA SKIRTS, $500.
Black and Navy with Side Plaits.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1910-03-11
70 HENPEck OR NOT TO HEN.
E PECK,

PECk.
'Tis now that lovely Mary Ann -ss.
VIII take some eggs out where old Fan
Is pulling hay from the long rack,
Where sits that spunky hen SO black.
And when her nose comes into view
That hen will make a how'd do
Shell catch poor Mary by the snout
And try to scratch her blue eyes out.
She'll fly on top Of Mary's head
And scratch her like a garden bed,
Poor Mary will. get a black eye,
And her false curls away will fly.
And Mary will fall off the rack
And all those pretty white eggs crack
Upon her head, run in her ear
And Mary will be all one smear
Then she will cry her eyes most out
When she sees, her poor scratched up
snout.
She'll whack that old hen in the neck
For making her sweet face a wreck
But say, when Mary marries Bill
Ard he just crosses her sweet will
Or says she can't have a new hat
Should she henpeck poor Bill for that?
Now, If twas wrong when that old cluck
From Marys snout big piece took.
And if twas right when Mary. mad
Treated that old black hen so bad,
Wouldn't it be wrong for Mary Ann
To rave and henpeck her old man?
Wouldn't it be right If poor Bill should
Just turn and lick the sassboX good?
c. M. BARNITZ.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1910-03-11
A DUCKS LAYING AND HATCH
ING HABITS,

Uncle Pete says, Keep a duck for
luck"
There's this true, sure--if you don t
want eggs laid on the hen installment
plan, keep Pekin. Runner or Orpingten
quacks. for when they start TO lay in
March or February 100 eggs straight
ahead Is no unusual record.
They naturally lay at night, and if
on the pond you may duck for eggs
next morning, New York farmer
who drained his pond to catch cells
finding 500 duck eggs in the bottom.
When incubated nearly all hatched.
as duck eggs are very fertile.
If you wish duck to sit soon, don't
remove eggs from nest unless too
many accumulate. She builds her nest
c,n cdually by adding sticks, straws and