The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-11
BROWN AND CHURCH
At THE COURT HOUSE
MONDAY AFTERNOON
CROWD or REGULARS TURNED
INTO HuRRAH MEETING FOR
THE INDEPENDENT.
SENATOR'S DEMOCRACY SCORED
Esq. Church Charges Him With
Drawing Pay During Absence and
With Voting an Extra $500 for the
Runaways to Alabama.


The speech of Senator Brown al
the court house Monday was one Of
the features Of the political field day
and the climax came when Esq
Church, his opponent, followed the
senator in one of his characteristic
snappy and pointed talks, completely
capturing tie crowd and turning a
regular" meeting into an independ-
ent hurrah.
Senator Brown followed the caDdi.
dates for the lower house, and at
first 1t was almost drag, and parties
began leaving, but he gradually got
warmed up and said few things that
provoked applause. He said that he
was "a member of the senate when
1t was perhaps the most illustrious
body that ever assembled at the cap
ital." He mentioned the fact that 1t
was one of the most long drawn out
sessions that ever assembled, saying
that 1t took ten days to effect an or
ganization. But right here the willy
senator did not take the public into
his confidence and say that the rea-
son for the delay in the organization
was because of the fact that the flu
sionists were in the majority and the
regulars filibustered, because they
could not control the situation. He
referred in an attempt to arouse a
feeling of sentiment to Porter and
Taylor and said the nantes of these
old time apostles of democracy had
fallen on the shoulders of Benton Nc
Millin; said Reau Folk was good
man but was using the powers of
his Office to disrupt the democratic
party" and he voted for Tom Taylor,
a republican instead of belong Rice,
the nominee; declared that Esq
Church was elected by an illegal pro-
cedure. in that the commissioners
by the agreement of Mr.. Church and
Esq. Mcknight, counted the returns.
This, he said, was going behind the
returns" He further charged Mr..
Church with raising the taxes of the
county, when Mr.. Church voted
against the proposition to raise the
taxes, and this the records of the
county court will show.
The senator's last reference was to
the salary grab proposition In this
matter he took very different posi-
ton to Candidate Hammond, who
stated that he would not violate his
path by voting money out of the
state treasury not warranted by the
A little thing like the
could not in the least re-
strain the senator in getting what
vas coming to him." He said he
earned that 5000, and if it was to do
,ver he would try to get more, and
everybody believed him, for he voted |
or $500 extra and the governor pre-
,ented the passage Of the bill by a |
'eto.
When he closed Esq. Church, his |
opponent, came forward and stated
hat he would like to say a few
words, inasmuch as he and his record
ad been attackd.
The crowd began to dispense, and
chairman PEBBLES raped for order
nd stated that ordinarily the pro-
ram would be ended at this juno
ure, but as Mr.. Church wanted to
ay something he, asked that the
rowd hear him. Cries on the out
ide, Come on out of there, boys;
ONE on out" Mr.. Church said he
Tould wait and all those who, didn't
rant to hear him could go, and said
e only wanted to talk to those who
vanted to hear him.
Mr.. Church started right into the
alary grab proposition, and called
he attention of his hearers to the
act that Senator Brown not only vot-
d for $500 extra above the constitu.
lonal allowance, but had also voted
Dr. $500 additional for every member
the legislature who. went to Ala.
anna, whom the senator had SO We
emently assailed only few me-
tents before. He invited Senator
rown to stay and hear him, but this
lvitation like the invitation fer a