The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-05
BIOGRAPHY Of R. |.
TAYLOR WRITTEN BY
THREE BROTHERS
WILL ATTRACT NATION WIDE
ATTENTION WHEN PUB
LiSHED.
WILL SOON GO TO PRESS

To Tell Incidents and Characters
tics Of Early Life in Happy VAL
ley.How He Got Into Politics.
Forced on Lecture Platform.
BRISTOL, Tenn, July "A book
which promises to attract nation
wide attention is the biograph OF
the late Senator Bob Taylor, Tennes-
seo,s most unique character, who
achieved peculiar distinction ooth
"a a statesman and lecturer, and VINO
was the idol oil the people OF his own
state. To add to the interest In this
coming biograph, it is being written
bv the three brothers of the late
sonator-James P. Taylor, Alfred A.
TAYLOR and Hugh L. Taylor, the last
mentioned residing at Fort Wortn'
Toy It was Alfred, the middle bro
tner of the trio. who was so closely
associated with the political career OF
his Senator brother and VINO IouehI
with him the war of the roses
when twenty-four years ago the TWO
were opposing candidates for the
Tennessee Goyernorship, Bob as the
nominee of the Democratic party
and Alt as the choice of the Repuo-
licans.
The book is now well under way.
The fact that it is being written oy
the three brothers, who themselves
combine many of the elements that
made Bob Taylor distinguished for
neculiar type of greatness, means
that the story will contain the rarest
hrmor and most thrilling incidents
Of Bob Taylor's wonderful life.
We shall tell" said Alfred Tay-
lor, those things which have ap-
pealed most to popular sentiment IN
tne life of our lamented brother
characteristics of his early life and
environments, the incidents that in
aug,lrated his political career, what
figure the fiddle cut in his political
aspirations, and the inspiration
which led to his most popular lee
ture The Fiddle and the Bow "
The story of how Bob Taylor got
into politics and how he became
lecturer and the origin of Yankee
Doodle and Dixie" will be told with
thrilling interest. His boyhood life
and college days will be told in de-
tail by his brothers, who know the
facts as no others could know them
The story of how Bob Taylor be-
came a lecturer is pathetic In some
Of it's features, but its narration
would be incomplete with any teat'
ure left out. Therefore the brothers
are presenting the full facts of this
most interesting career 1t will be
brought out that Bob became iect'
urer under the stress of pecuniary
necessity. after he had played most
Of the stages of political distinction
only to find himself as poor as the
proverbial church mouse. This Is
Indicated in his own words at the
time:
My firm has good business in the
prospective, but what good is bust
ress in the prospective to fellow
if, in the meantime, he has starved
to death?"
The true story of the origin OF
The Fiddle and the Bow" now SC
famous, will also be given in all OF
its most interesting incidents, and
when this it told it is destined to
awaken a general interest because OF
the good humor that finds express
sion.
In the Introductory of the manu-
SCIlpL lot IuC DlOSidpu, q PiS1o'" -
word-painting Is drawn of Bob Tay
Tors native Happy Hollow" and
those inspiring environments which
leo up to his beautiful creations
The following is quotation from
the manuscript in this connection:
The artistic temperament and
the love of the beautiful are deve
loped by association with the objects
Of art and beauty In Nature. But we
telieve that the profundest impress
sions upon the minds and charact
ers of men are received more large
Iy from contact and association with
the beautiful and sublime In nature
t.ln from any other temporal agency
o.; influence. For Nature Is but the
irt Of God-first model and primal
teacher of all human art, whose tu'
forage is a breeding which no human
art can give. We maintain that eli
mate, scenery, soil and all other nat
Vral elements OF country have