Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-04-03
INSULTING AND INSOLENT
Says Joe Kendall Camp, Com
mcnting on Hooper and Crump.

against State Comptroller Frank
Dibrell, as false and baseless, was
expressed by resolutions Saturday |
by Joe Kendall Camp L V G, af-
ter which another resolution
strongly protested the action of
Gov. b W Hooper in his efforts
toward uniforming the convicts in
gray, condemning the Governors |
course, only not as shameful and
insolent, but as outrageous and in
sulting and parallel with the gross
est practices of the days of recon.
struction.
The resolution as to the uniform
was offered by p p PuIlen, who
protested that gray is gray, all ar
guments as to the shade or style,
in defense, to the contrary not.
withstandlng.
These resolutions in full are
printed below and those as to the
Crump-Dibrell controversy IN an
other column.
The resolutions cOndemning the
Governors action in full were rs
follows:
"Since Gov. B w Hooper has
intended to garb the state convicts
in uniforms of gray, we, the Joe
Kendall Camp, Z G V, enter our
bitter protest. The idea of cloth
ing conylcts in the uniform held
sacred by Confederate veterans Is
repulslve and insulting to every
true Confederate soldier. We are
glad to note that some of the in,
fluential members of the q A Il
are against it and that Judge Lew
is Shepard, one of Hamilton coun
tvs most influential Republicans
said he could not find words AIDE
quate to express his horror. HC
says it is not only an insult but al
outrage. We consider 1t parable
with the acts of the reconstruction
days.
"We have not forgotten tn,
statements made by the same
W Hooper in his campaign TIVE
years ago. Yes, we have seen tn,
defense made by one John P Hick
man and also } S BeasIey, and il
reply will say that gray is GRAY
and both the gentlemen know that
"Resolved, therefore, that we
the Joe Kendall Camp, No. !747
of Paris, Tenn, do publicly con
demn said act of the little accident
al Gov. Hooper, and REASONABLE,
ask why the stripes should be re
moved and the gray substituted
if not an act intended to furthe
| hunlliate the Southern soldier,
of 1S61-65.
S at is beyond the memory o
the youngest of the Confederat
' soldiers of Tennessee when tn
o stripes were not the prison uni
form of the penitentiary convict
, and why change the uniform?
Done and signed by order o
the camp at its March sitting"
The Crump resolution was a
follows:
"Whereas, we have read in tn
daily press of the state contro
: versy between Frank Dibrell
=. Comptroller of the State, and on
Mayor Crump of Memphis, i
y which SAID Crump has made base
E less and false charges against sal
Comptroller:
Therefore, be 1T resolved, tina
Joe Kendall Camp No. 1747, L
V, cordially endorses every wor,
and every act of Comptrolle
Frank Dibrell in said controversy
We also endorse his official acts a
: Comptroller of the State and be
S lieve that the state never had
J. more honest or a more efficient o
higher class official in all its his
tory. To our knowledge the stat
does not contain a more constan
or truer friend to the Confederate
y veterans and their INDECENT widow
than he has proven to be.
IS H CALDWELL, Com'r.
r H"By order of Joe Kendall Cam