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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23

whether or not the man killed
"oughtr to be killed, anyway, on
general principles" and instead OF
demanding that the murder be av-
enged, we begin to seek for flaws In
the dead mans life. as excuse for mis-
death. II a man doesn't like law
he doesn't obey 1t, and others IN
sympathy with him urge him on ana
defend his right to violate the law;
IL sheriff doesn't want to enforce
law he doesn't, and gives as his !ex-
'cuse that "he can't" because the
Jury viii turn the violators loose
which, being true. doesn't JUSTIFY a
sworn officer to violate his odtn,
merely because some other official
violates his oath: II mayor or
board of aldermen don't like law
they proceed to license men to vio-
late 1t; If jury commissioners don't
like the character Of men whose
names they find in the jury pox
when they come into ONCE they
throw them out and substitute eth
rs-which the plain law OF the stat
ute of Alabama says shall not De
done. and that whoever shall do 1t
shall go to the rock pile or to the
state prison. Yet good men, who
belong to the church and pray loud
" in the amen corner. doubt II the
men are guilty."
sympathy for lawbreakers, en-
couragement of crime, disrespect FOR
law! It pervades nearly every Dos
ON. and those it doesn't pervade are
too cowardly to fight; they are toe
cowardly to demand that the laws be
enforced. And that is what is the
matter with Morgan county and Ala
bama and the whole United States.
1--WE are confronting bad and dan
gerous times; we are living in an ag'
of lawlessness, and it appears tina
only tragedy that will shock tn
better element of citizens into actor
and put courage into their spineles'
backs, will bring a reformation. Sucl
an event always comes. If "nagt
Franks" and Clip the Bloods" mus
set up their murderbund and plumber
: bund here, to arouse the people. thel
. they will come-and they are alread,
: on the way. Will the people awak
, before It is too late, and avert tn
awful tragedy"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
A MoNsTRosITY.

The liquor plank of the Patterson
democracy is a monstrosity. 1t Is a
hybrid. It is neither local option
or prohibition plank. 1t fell short
of expressing the real sentiment OF
the delegates who made it. Declar-
ing for prohibition for all OF the
state except three cities 1t neither
inyokes the sacred principle OF local
self.government" nor that of state
wide prohibition. And mind you the
plank declares for liquor in three
cities without one word about the
consent Of the governed. 1t pledges
the Patterson democracy to restore
the saloon to the cities of Chatta
nooga and Nashville and Memphis
regardless of the wishes of the PEG
pie of those communities. And hav
ing restored the saloon the platform
is absolutely silent with respect te
any promise to the people Of those
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
AN INEVITABLE RESULT.

Nashville is having real carnlvai
of bloody murder. Within about as
many days three persons have been
killed in that city. The tendency TO
take the law into ones own hands
and wreak vengeance for real or fan
cied wrongs by the pistol route VIII
increase. It is the inevitable result
of the general spirit OF lawlessness
which prevails in Nashville and which
has been fostered, encouraged and
openly endorsed by the mayor ana
criminal court officials OF the city.
When once the spirit of lawlessness
takes hold of a people bloodshed is
inevitable. II one law or half doz-
en- laws can be violated with impuni-
ty. il the mayor and other high offic-
ials openly boast OF their SUPERIOR
ty to the law we need not be surpris-
ed if the people look with contempt
upon all law.
Nashville is paying the penalty for
it's election of lawless officials. Ii
has openly approved the course OF
those who know no law. If 1t Is right
to sell liquor, and to gamble and to
run evil resorts in defiance OF the
law why should not every man OF
woman become his or her own aveng
er as was the case before the dawn
of civilization. Anarchy must be the
result. Unless the people OF Nash
Vile shall arouse themselves to
realization of the necessity for the
enforcement of the law they can ex
pect bloody record to be made
still greater source of shame to them
selves and to the state.
Nashville every year has more muir
ders than are committed in the grea
city of London, and why? S!mpl!
because the laws against murder ar
not enforced in Nashville. They ar
enforced in the metropolis Of tn
world. It is very seldom that a rnuI
derer is convicted in Nashville and
less frequent occurrence that whel
one is punished. 1t is hardly probs
BILE that a single one IF the recen
perpetrators of murder in Nashvill
: will be punished. Like other lay
breakers in that Ill fated city the
I will receive full immunity for thei
, crimes against the laws of God en-
} man.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
THE ISSUE JOINED.

II is a matter of congratulation
that the democratic state convention
had the courage to make the declara-
ton upon the liquor issue that met
the demands of an overwhelming ma
iority of its members. Nine-tenths
of the members of the convention
were opposed to the prohibition laws
and had the convention failed to
make direct and unequivocal decla-
ration upon the issue 1t would have
been a cowardly surrender to expedi-
ency.
The issue is now joined between
those who see no virtue In the liquor
traffic and those who profess to be.
lieye that saloons in all or certain To-
calities are blessing and a boon to
mankind. The issue is squarely made
up between the advocates OF stain
less state flag and those who really
desire a liquor infected state but
who dodge behind the nlgn SQUIRTING
phrase local option" and focal self
government" We are done with
lodging and duibbling and evasion.
Those who believe in prohibition
of the liquor traffic, in the enforce
ment of the law and the adminlgtra
ton of government in the interest Of
all the people are arrayed on one
side. Those who are opposed to the
outlawry of the liquor traffic In Ten
nessee, who do not believe In fair ant
impartial enforcement OF the law ant
who believe in government for thu
special interests and by the specia
interests are arrayed upon the othe
side. 1t is welt The people can rem
der an intelligent verdict and whateV
er that verdict may be it should b.
accepted.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
WILSON'S POSITION.

Neither the liquor democrats nor
the temperance democrats OF Ten
nessee who are supporting GOV.
Woodrow Wilson can get any consol-
alton out of his position on the IL
ouor issue. Gov Wilson stated that
he considered the question purely
moral and social" and therefore not
proper subject for party plat
form. This is of course wholly I'M
tenable and illogical position, and 1t
is taken by neither party to the con-
test in Tennessee. Both the temper
ance and liquor democrats have
platform in this campaign that
makes the liquor issue a political
question, therefore neither can cite
/ Gov. Wilson's position as authority
| for their stand.
Gov. Wilson also declared that ne
believed in local option or the sac
| red principle of local self-goveln-
ment." Since neither party nor
platform in this campaign declares
for local option, on the contrary both
declare against it, Gov. wilson's
view will not be a source OF conso-
lation to either side in Tennessee.
The regular democratic platform ex-
pressly declares against local OPP
ton" 1t makes a strict and clean
cut declaration against that "prin-
ciple." 1t specifically declares that
ninety-three counties of the state
shall or ever remain dry regardless
of the wishes or views of the people
living therein and that three counties
shall, be likewise wet" without re-
gard to the will Of the people therein
residing. The Republican platform
which appeals to the temperance
democrats, likewise declares against
local option. The only difference II
that this platform is consistent sne
declares for ninety-six dry counties
while the Patterson democratic plat
form would stop with ninety-thre'
although some OF the ninety-thre'
were originally made dry by fiat o
, the legislature without the -consen
Of the people therein living. It Il
probably well that Gov. WILSON,
. views on this subject are at varianc'
with those entertained by both fac
lions of the state democracy. L
that way his position will not los
him any votes in Tennessee.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
MORE FUNDS FOR
HERALD'S CLUB
DEMOCRATS OF THE COUNTY
APPROVE WORK OF THIS PA
PER FOR WILSON.

Great interest in and enthusiasm
for The Herald's Woodrow Wilson
campaign fund has been manifested
by the democrats of Maury county.
That the democrats of this county
are practically united for Woodrow
Wilson is shown by the eagerness
with which they subscribe to to the
fund for his campaign. However
they may differ on the local issues
members of both factions have been
anxious to have The Herald enroll
them as members of the Woodrow
Wilson campaign club. The Heralds
work has been decidedly success
full, running over 800 with practical
ly no one from the country. The
books will be kept open for Nolun-
tary subscriptions and reports will
be made from time to time to the
headquarters of the Wilson cam
paign.
The following is the standing OF
the fund:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23


cities that they shall ever have the
right to free themselves Of the liquor
demon.
And this the outcome OF long
campaign for local enforcement
and ."local option" The platform is
going to give the people of three
counties the open saloon without
their aid or consent, and with no
promise whatever that they shall
ever. have the right to abolish the
traffic. It proposes to make forever
dry ninety-three counties without
one word Of hope to the people liv-
ing within them that they shall ever
have the sacred" privilege OF vot-
ing back the liquor traffic. This
platform is wonderfully made. IT
blows neither hot nor cold. It is for
red liquor, however. in Nashville,
Memphis and Chattanooga. 1t Is EVIL
IDENTIFY assumed that this win distri'
butte the traffic 50 that the faithful
regulars" vii never be far from an
open saloon.
The truth about the whole matter
Ia that the regulars" or vast mai
ority of them, believe in tn eopen sa-
loon everywhere They adopted the
platform of Friday morning for mere
expediency's sake. They were
afraid of the issue at this time to
restore the saloon to all of the dry
towns Of the state. But the repeal
of the state wide prohibition law will
be the opening wedge that will ulti-
mately destroy all of the temperance
legislation now upon the statute
bokos of the state, for it is incon-
ceivable that the thousands and
thousands of regular democrats OF
, the state who believe in the legaliz-
ed liquor traffic will be content to
have liquor sold in but three places
of the state.
r In pledging the party to restora-
ton of the legalized saloon in Nash
vile, Memphis and Chattanooga, 1t
. will doubtless be argued that the
: people of these cities had no oppor-
: tunity to vote upon the question OF
. their abolition Then why not res
q tore the saloor. to La Toilette, the
! ,"rotten borough" of East Tennessee.
!. This city voted for the retention OF
the open saloon and Patterson Veto.
ed a bill to abolish the liquor traffic,
therein because of this fact. Why
!. lob why has LaFallette forgotten!
Z And how about Huntingdon where
y the saloons were also abolished In
h lspite OF an adverse vote? And what
o about the dozens of other towns Of
v the state where saloons were abolish
9 ed without vote of the people?
!. The fact is Tennessee has never
I. hal local option in any form. The
n first and greatest Of all the prohibi
4 ton laws, the act of 1887, abolished
: many more saloons than the act o.
% 1909. It made nine tenths of the ter
!. |ritory of the state dry and the con
Ia sent of no one was ever asked. VIII!
a. mot be consistent and also repeal this
t. act?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
BROWNS NOMINATION.
evidently the Hohenwaid Heral'


the regular" organ of Lewis county,
is not enamored of the convention
which renominsted DR.. T. Blecsoe
Brown. In it's last issue that PAPER
says:
THE action of Maury county DEM
ocrats here Monday will brew no
good for the democratic party. BY
usurpation OF power they placed
their feet upon the necks OF Lewis
county democrats and spat in their
face then let them up and told them
to swallow 1t. A majority Of the re
gular democrats will take the dose
but a goodly number will do like the
apostle Peter did when Christ was
crucifed and Il seemed that his lead
er was forever gone, he said: &c
a fishing" The other apostle said we
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23

And so the only speaker, Judge Jo-
seph e. Jones, who had the courage
and the manliness to make an appeal
for the majesty of the law in the Pat
terson- McMillin machine convention
was hooted. The party that is not
for law enforcement is for anarchy,
and such an organization cannot ap-
peal to law respecting and law abid-
ing people.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
GONE TO GALLA1lN
ON MOTOR CYCLES
WILL VISIT THE FAIR THERE
AND RETURN HOME FRIDAY
AFTERNOON SAME ROUTE.

Promptly at 5:45 this morning W.
H. Gotham, Paul Cecil, Ed Griffin and
R. L. Taylor started on their motor
cycles for Gallatin, where they go
to attend the fair. With their bag
gage securely fastened on behind
they started out Seventh street ana
crossd the square making more noise
than a mogul engine.
Without accident they expect to
reach Nashville before o'clock. and
then ON to Gallatin before IL. They
will return home Friday afternoon.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
S. T. BAKERS
WILL PROBATED

The will of 8. T. Baker has been
probated. disposes of considerable
property and appoints his widow
Mrs. Melissa Baker executrix without
bond. At the death Of the widow
the property is all to be sold and the
proceeds to be divided equally De
tween their three children, Mrs. Ma
~ Delk, of Broken Arrow, Okla, MIS-.
Martha Richardson, Of Nashville, and
Miss Fannie v. Baker, OF Maury
county.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
ARE ARRESTED BY
FEDERAL OFFICERS
RICHARD AND GUS cockRELL
BOUND OVER TO FEDERAL
COURT AT NASHVILLE.

Gus and ichard Cockrell were ar.
rested here Wednesday by Deputy
Marshalls Shirley and Sloan and car
ried before Commissioner Nicholson.
charged with bootlegging. They
were bound over to the federal court
at Nashville in October and gave a
$3.50 bond each for their appearance
at that time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
A LAwLEss PEOPLE.

Under this caption the DecaIurs
Daily recently gave expression to
views and sounded warnings that
cannot pass unheeded by thoughtful
people. What that paper says OF
the lawlessness, the lack OF respect
for the majesty Of the law and the
absense of reverence for the ma
chinery of law in Alabama applies
with equal force to the situation In
Tennessee. 1t is time to pause ana
ask ourselves whittier we are drift
in. After all has the time come
when we must acknowledge that our
boosted democracy is failure, that
we are incapable of enforcing our de-
crees, Of protecting life and pro-
perty? The following is the editor
ial referred to and it is reproduced
with the full and hearty commenda-
ton of this journal:
1T cannot be denied that the
American people are lawless peo-
pie. And, to bring it down to our
own doors, the people Of Alabama are
a lawless people, and the people or
Morgan county are lawless people,
and the people Of the Decaturs are
a lawless people.
1.-THE Governor of this state has
Just asked the Sheriff of Morgan
county for list of the homicides
committed in this county during the
past twelve months. The record, 1t
is stated, will show around fifty.
"In response to similar question
from the Chief Executive, the SEerifl
of Jefferson county has certified
list of $50 murders committed In
that county-S7 of them since the
first of January.
THE bloody record will continue
all over the state in proportion.
Contemplate this awful record and
shudder What is the cause? In
dubitably it lies in the hearts OF the
people themselves. They no longer
harbor that veneration and respect
for and devotion to the law and III
majesty that their fathers had; the!
have an indifference for their courts
and what they stand for; they fire
uuently are in open sympathy witt
law yiolators, from the operator
the low dive and lawless saloon Il
the business thief and finally to tn
cold.blooded murderer; contempt TO
the Judge on the bench, contempt 10
the well-being Of society, eontemp
for right and finally, contempt 10
human life animates the bosom i
more or less degree Of almost ever
citizen, from the poor derelict VIII
steals or dead-beats his way to tn
rich banker and business man an
prominent farmer.
I'VE have cultivated q growing oil
respect for law until ft actually hs
become not only practically imro
sible to convict the guilty, especial
II they be men Of ordinary prcmil
ence, but we are openly in sympath
with them and defend them. IL
man doesn't like what another hi
done. or said, he shoots him dow
In cold.blood, and instantly the COZ
munity il divided in opinion. not
TO whether the law has been outra
ed and a human life snuffed out, b
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23
IT TAKES EARLY BREAKING

To make a good crop yield. You
can break more acres and break IL
better with a Hancock, Sanders OF
Chattanooga Reversible Disc Piow
than with hand plows.
1t Street, Martin & Vaughan Co.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23

of the Patterson machine and has
been and will be all the time. DEM
ocrats who could not conscientiously
support Bob Taylor two years ago
certainly cannot be expected to
vote for Benton McMillin.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23

We are always in the market for
corn, oats, wheat, meat, lard, and all
farm products. Call CALENDER
& co. IL
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-23

Patterson was the hero Of the Nc
Millin convention. OF course. After
all Benton is simply the me too
The Chanute times., 1912-12-06
WENT AWAY WITH THE BOOTY
Elderly Irish Lady Proved She Was
Quite Capable 9f Rising to
the Occaylon.

Lord Spencer, when viceroy of Ire
land, used to keep open house, and all
ladies and gentlemen who had attend
ed drawing-rooms or levees had an un-
written right to attend the st. Pat
rick's day ball. Some very queer peo-
pie used to present themselves.
Not contented with eating and drink
ing all they could, many persons used
to make predatory raids on the tables
and carry off eatables of,all sorts. On
one occasion the comptroller saw a
stout, elderly lady take a whole fowl
and stuff 1t with considerable deftness
into a somewhat capacious silk and
embroidered bag. He at once went
up to her and, pointing with his finger
at the bag, said:
Madam, won't you take some ham
with that?"
The good lady was not In the least
abashed, but replied:
"Ah, captain, sure it's a joker you
are" and stuck to her booty.-From
Sir Alfred Turner's Autobiography
The Chanute times., 1912-12-06
WOMEN SHOULD NEVER
USE HARSH PHYSICS

Women are especially susceptible to
constipation and their more delicate
organisms rebel at the violence OF
cathartics and purgatives. Drastic
medicines like salts, mineral waters,
pills and powders may afford tempo
rary relief but their violent action on
the stomach and bowels tends to up
set the entire system.
A mild laxative is far preferable and
more effective. The combination OF
simple laxative herbs with pepsin pre-
scribed by DR.. w. B. Caldwell, and
sold in drug stores under the name Of
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, is ideal
for women, being gentle in action, pos
tive In effect and pleasant to the
taste A spoonful Of Syrup Pepsin at
night will bring natural relief next
morning and, used regularly for a
brief period, will so strengthen and
tone the muscles of the stomach and
bowels that there will be little, If any,
further need for medicine.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin can be
procured in any drug store. Your
name and address on a postal to DR..
W. B. Caldwell, 203 West St., Month
cello, ILL.,, will bring free trial bot
tie by return mail. Adv.
The Chanute times., 1912-12-06
TO TUNNEL UNDER CHANNEL
Long-DeIayed Franco-EngIlsh Project
Is Once More Being Put
Forward.

A tunnel between England and
France beneath the English channel
was first proposed at the beginning
of the nineteenth century by Matthew,
a French mining engineer, says the
Argonaut. Fifty years later the
scheme was financed, but it was not
until 1867 that it seemed that the
project would be actually attempted.
At that time there were dozen or
more plans for rail communication
between the two countries. The ac-
cepted scheme was that of tunnel
bored beneath the bed of the channel.
The estimated cost of the undertak-
ing was about G10,000,000 Prelimi
nary boring had been made. when the
work was interrupted by the Franco
Prussian war. In 1874 the French
and English governments resumed ne
gotiations concerning the tunnel
leaving the matter in the hands of a
joint commission. Failure on the
part of the English company holding
the contract for the work to receive
sufficient funds resulted In the fail
ure of the enterprise in 1880. Now
the project is receiving some atten
tion, better feeling having been es
tablished between the people OF /the
two countries.
The Chanute times., 1912-12-06
A DOCTORS SLEEP
Found He Had to Leave Of Coffee.

Many persons do not realize that q
bad stomach will cause insomnia.
Coffee and tea drinking being such
an ancient and respectable Form of
habit few realize that the drug-caf-
feine-contained in coffee and tea, is
one of the principal causes of dys-
pepsia and nervous troubles.
Without their usual portion of cof-
fee or tea, the caffeine topers are
nervous, irritable and fretful. That's
the way with a whisky drlnker. He
has got to have his dram Ito settle his
nerves"-habit.
To leave off coffee or tea is an easy
matter If you want to try 1t, because
Postum gives a gentle but natural
support to the nerves and does not
contain any drug-nothing but food.
Physicians know this to be true, as
one from Ga. writes:
81 have cured myself Of long
standing case of Nervous Dyspepsia
by leaving of coffee and using Post
um," says the doctor.
II also enjoy refreshing sleep, to
which I've been an utter stranger for
20 years.
> IN treating dyspepsia In its various
types, find little trouble when can
induce patients to quit coffee and
adopt Postum"
The DR.. is right and there's
reason" Read the little book, The
Road to Wellville." in pkgs.
Postum now comes in concentrated,
powder form called Instant Postum,
II is prepared by stirring level tea
spoonful in a cup Of hot water, adding
sugar to taste. and- enough cream to
bring the color to golden brown. siA.
Instant Postum Is convenientS.
there's no waste; and the. hayoqr is:
always uniform. Sold by gfoeerar75esl
cup tin 30 cts, 10O-cup tin so ,ctsss !.
A Soup trial tin mailed for ,grocer's
name and 2-espt stamp for postage,
Postum Cereal Co. Ltd. Battle Creek
Mich.-Adv.