The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-11
HAM MoND.'

date Hammond has either been IL
this state and county for so short q
time that he is wholly unfamiliar
with issues and conditions or else ne
Is so obsessed with his own impor
lance that he will not take advice
IF the former be the case he should
be coached by the wise politicians
here and at Nashville who are behind
his campaign. If the latter is true
he is going to have rocky road tc
Dublin, and that is no mistake.
The Herald has no quarrel person
ally with Mr.. Hammond. SO far as
Hammond, the individual, is concern
ed this paper does not care rap
But Hammond, the candidate, does
concern the good people Of the coun
ty. What manner of man is he!
Is he the proper person to send to the
legislature from the grand old coun
ty of Maury? These are propositions
that we shall discuss.
Is the man who makes wild and
reckless charges against everybody
who does not bow the knee to King
Ham, the proper person to represent
Maury county in the general assem-
bly,? Is the man who in one speech
must smooth over and explain what
he said in a previous speech, the man
who should make laws for Tennes-
see?
At Mt. Pleasant with a great -four
ish of trumpets Hammond opened his
campaign. He made his opening
speech. Usually the first speech Of
the campaign is the carefully prcpar-
ed utterances of the speaker. In that
speech Hammond compared Patter-
son to "black sheep" he said that
he was a disgrace to the democratic
family" This naturally did not sit
well upon the stomachs Of the Patter-
son men SO in his speech here on
Monday Hammond explained and
apologized for It.
Hammond also made a violent at
tack on the road commissioners Of
the county. He charged them with
graft, with being independent finan-
cially by reason of having their hands
in the county treasury. Now Of
course every man in the county who
knows T. G Hughes and Henry H.
Hill and Clay Hight, knows that they
are not grafters. 1t is evident that
some one told Hammond so for in
his speech here he did not make the
charge, but said the law allowed
grating.
At Mt. Pleasant Patterson andi-
date Hammond charged that Thos b.
johnson, one of the first citizens of
neighboring county, was a default
er" OF public funds. This charge was
repeated at Culleoka, but when Ham
mond got to Columbia he dropped it
like a hot brick. Probably he had
seen another light.
At Culleoka Hammond charged
Denton with being CRATER" that
he had taken money in violation of
the law that he should not have had.
Every one in the fifth district whose
opinion is worth having knows that
Cord Denton is not common CRATER
and also 1t came to pass that when
Hammond got to Columbia he failed
also to make this charge.
And it will be remembered that
Hammond conscious of his great abil-
ity and his prowess in debate, is
sued challenge to Luke Lea, and
made the remarkable statement that
he had been requested to do SO by the
state democratic headquarters at
Nashville. This statement was fully
exploded in our columns on yester-
day when we printed letters from
both Chairman Pierce of the cam
paign committee, and Chairman Nor
ton. Of the state committee, denying
any knowledge of any such request
to the mighty Hammond.
And this is portion Of the record
that Hammond. the candidate of the
Patterson-liquor forces, has made on
the stump in less than week. He
makes wild and reckless charges
against all who have the audacity to |
oppose him only to offer explanation
In the next address Now IN all can.
dor and with the best of feeling to-
ward the young man, we submit, is a
man Of this temperament, of this reck-
lessness, Of this lack of discernment |
and discretion, one SO indifferent to
the characters of the good men who
do not smile and fawn upon him,
proper person to make laws?
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