The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-06-21
CHAUTAUQUA OPENS
MOST AUSP|C|OUSLY
SUNDAY AT TERN0jN
JUDGE BLAIR DELIVERS THE
OPENING LECTURE, LESSON
TO THE NATION"
The LADIES SPANISH ORCHESTRA
DR.. William A. Colledge Delights His
Hearers at the Evening Exercises.
viii Be on the Program Daily Until
the Close Saturday night.

Most suspicious was the opening OF
the Columbia Chautauqua Sunday af-
ternoon, and when Judge Blair clos
ed the lecture on "A Lesson to the
Nation" he had most securely put Ad-
ans county, O., on the map.
The opening number Of the pro-
gram was the Spanish Orchestra, fol-
lowed with baritone solo by Mr..
BENJAMIN, who sang Hear My Cry,
o Lord" The program rendered by
the orchestra under the direction of
Miss Pringle, being rather unique in
this fact. The music was of high
order and each number was sacred,
and met the approval and admiration
of the vast audience, many of which
were highly cultivated and expert
JUDGES Of the art.
Judge Blair delivered the lecture
or address of the afternoon, his sub
ject being addressed particularly to
the conditions which existed in Ad
ans county, Ohio, two years ago,
when he. as judge, disfranchised 1880
of the citizens of that county for a
term of five years, for bartering and
selling votes, and he undertook to
show that the conditions existing in
his county were not any worse than
they were in other sections of the
country. by telling of the sturdy An
gle Saxon stock whose ancestry popu-
lated the county and the magnificent
characters that have come from that
section and helped to make the right
character of history for the country.
He said that the county had furnish-
ed eight governors, five United States
senators, and number of military
men Of note, Abraham Lincoln, U. S.
Grant, Collier, Reid, the ancestors of
Grover Cleveland, and a number of
others.
When be reached the actual kernel
of his subject, he told of the condi-
tioDs as he found them and how he
managed to secure the convictions
that was helping to purify the elector-
ate Of that state. There were 1880
VITO We're found guilty of selling their
votes within the county, and in the
township where the saloons went out
fret only three per cent of the voting
population were found guilty, while
fifty-one per cent Of the town of Man
chester were on the list of those who
plead guilty, and Manchester was the
last town in the county to vote out
saloons. This was a singing blow
to the saloon advocates as the Judge
told of it's effect in corrupting the
electorate. Judge Blair is a republi-
can, was nominated as a republican
ana says he was elected the last time
by the votes of good democrats who
revolted at the conditions and wanted
to assist him and his Court in stamp
ing out the blighting influences No
republican escaped his criticism, and
he showed that one party was as gull
ty as the other. Party fealty, narti-
san loyalty, party before principle he
said, had been the terminating power
that had brought about the nefarious
boodling, the power of the dollar in
the elections of the entire country;
ard" exclaimed the speaker, these
are the reasons we are being present
ed the disgraceful spectacle at Chica-
go today" The speaker said he was
hopeful of the day when there would
be no party lines, but pure citizen
ship and patriotism would be the &C
tuating power of the exercise of the