The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-18
SMALL CROWDGREETS
PORTER, ElEcTOR FOR
WILSON ( MARSHALL
SPEAKER is VlTRIOLlC IN His
REMARKS ABOUT ROOSEVELT
HOOPER AND JONES.
PREDICTED WILSON'S ELECTION
REGARDING State Issues the Speaker
Said If the Saloons Had Been Let
Alone in Certain Sections There
Would Have Been Peace.

s.
Dudley Porter, elector for the state
at large FOR wilson anu Marshaii,
spoke at the court house Friday al
ternoon to an audiehce OF perhaps
one hundred His speech was maze
nm considerably of personal refer
ences, and Icing past master IN the
use of strong language these were
on the rather caustic order.
His first remarks were regarding
1.-THE tariff, when he showed that the
republican party had not kept faitn
with it's platform promises for
downward revision, and that the rec
ord Of the party on this one question
had been for high rate at all times
except Just before the elections.
He said the enforcement OF the
fisherman antitrust laws by the pres
emit administration was but little
short of ridiculous, and that the SUI
preme court had read into it's decf
sions the rule of reason" and that
no trust baron had been sent to pris-
Ion.
| Mr.. Porter characterized the new
nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt
as dangerous, and said that Roose-
welt was commander of the grand ar
INV of unrest-disgruntled patriots;
that he was a mountebank who be-
|longed to Wall Street, parading UNI
| der the cloak of good government,
and a braggart without conscience.
HE recited the incident of jeff Davis
attempt to have conference with
l,Roosevelt regarding the references
Ito Mr.. Davis in the Roosevelt books
i but little was said Of Taft or VII
4 son except that the former was veal
land vacillating and the latter was
\ southern gentleman who would DC
A linaugurated president next March.
In reference to state issues MT
II PORTER charged the present admins
" ltration with being responsible for tn
IL absence of the appropriation. from
N 1.-THE general bill for the widows an
Y orphans. The liquor question. wa
discussed at length and the speake
lsaid there would have been peace an
prosperity ii the saloons had been le
alone in certain sections of the\stat'
n land that no law ought to be enacte
lnor could be enforced that had tn
" deposition CT public sentiment" an
N said the present governor, B. v
Of Hooper, had failed absolutely 20 81
Nv force the laws, that the governor
n references to Mr.. McMillin ha
al lshown him to be without decene
n. coarse in his nature and UNIV rthy
re support.
no The speaker introduced nothiI
NEW into his speech here with the e
Nv lception of his references to Juds
,te Joseph e. Jones, whom he characte
90 lized as a chicken that could not star
1.-The gaffs. He said Senator Jones
land said he went all over the sta
denouncing republicans and pledgil
his support to .McMillin; that he sa
me that a majority of the democra
he were against him, and he squawk'
me like chicken afraid of the gaf
,al flew the coop and took up his positi'
ter with the common enemy.
for 'If he had had more judgment al
= less vanity he would have accept
the result and would have been ffgl
ling for the democratic party. He
the victim Of flatterers who have ]
him to believe that he can go to t
N United States senate by the fusi
route"