The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-02
ALL CANDIDATES
WELL PLEASED WITH
PRESENT OUTLOOK
RUMoRED THAT FAULKNER MAY
BE ASKED TO WITHDRAW
FROM THE RACE.
PRESTON CLAIMS In The TENTH
Thos. H. PEBBLES Overlooks the Wide
Open Provisions of the Primary
Regulations in Expressing Himself
as to Support of Nominee.


Regulations in Expressing Himself
as to Support of Nominee.
Attorney Ed Haynes, the local
manager for Thos. R. Preston, has
returned from Nashville and is CIV
ing out the information that Mr..
Preston and his friends in every por-
ton of the state are very much pleas
ed with the outlook. He said that
at Memphis the candidate was met at
the train with a band, there was a
fireworks display in his honor, six
hundred persons on the stage and
$500 in the audience at the speak
ing Mr.. Haynes is very enthusiast
tic and claims that the tenth congress
slonal district will show 10000 ma
jority for his man.
In fact from outside appearances
the candidates are all of a hopefuf
frame of mind. Crabtree has just
opned headquarters at Nashville and
is endeavoring to make some head
way in the campaign.
About the most interesting thing
that is being discussed is the rumor
that is given out at Nashville that
an effort is to be made to get Mr..
Faulkner to withdraw from the race
in behalf of some one of the other
candidates, and Luke LEAFS name Is
connected with the effort. No intima-
ton is given out as to which one OF
the other four is expected to be the
beneficiary should the Wilson coun-
tan withdraw, which latter contin-
eency is very doubtful In fact, it is
rot at all probale that Mr.. Faulkner
would willingly lay down the fruits
Of most laborious campaign just at
the close, when it is conceded that
be has made eminently more friends
than it was thought possible when
he began his canvass. He Is the
only man in the race that appeals
with any degree of strength to that
element of the Independents that
may vote in the primary, and for him
to withdraw it appears would make
the probability Of any very great
number of that faction entering the
primary all the more doubtful.
In Maury county, however, it
makes but little If any difference.
While there are some Independents
Who would vote for Mr.. Faulkner in
November should he be the nominee,
hey will not vote in the primary and
hus be obligated to support candi-
late and a platform that in all prob
lbility that will be utterly distaste- !;
ul to them
A statement from the different /
in Nashville Thursday to
he effect that they expected to sup
,ort the nominee was another feature !
hat was played up by the papers, and
what Thomas H. PEBBLES, the Tyne !
manager, has to say on the subject
nay have a local interest
will we support the nominee for
governor? OF course we will and
IL who participates in the primary
md then repudiates the nominee
evers political relations with us We
ave confidence in the good faith of
'ur opponents and their friends and
,elieve that they are all going to sup
'ort the nominee. y
1--WE are for Wilson and Marshall,
he national platform, the nominee
or governor and the state platform.
"Mr. Tyne, in his speeches, urges
he support Of Judge Felix Moore,
he democratic nominee for the court
+ appeals" =
Mr.. PEBBLES doesn't seem to have
hat same liberal spirit as did the
iembers of the state primary COM
nittee who drew up the regulations
governing it, which permitted all
democrats to vote without binding
hem to support the nominee.