The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
GOVERNOR HOOPER
HAS KEPT FAITH
DECLARES Mr.. ENLOE
DESERVES AN ENDORSEMENT
UPON HIS RECORD AS Elk.
ECUTivE.
ISSUES SAME AS in 1910
No Reason Why an Independent Now
Should Vote Differently From What
He Did in That Memorable Con-
test-Speaks to Franklin Folks.

test-Speaks to Franklin Folks.
Special to The Herald.
FRANKLIN, Tenn, Oct. 2S-Be
fore large and enthusiastic audience
Col. B. A. Enloe, today made his first
speech of the campaign. In his usu
ally clear and succinct style he gave
reasons why he should vote this year
as he did two years ago, for Hooper
and the cause of good government
Col. Enloe showed that issues now
were the same that they were two
years ago and he challenged anyone
to give a single reason why an indie
pendent now should vote differently
from what he did two years ago.
In concluding his speech Col. b. A
Enloe gave brief resume of the ad
ministration of Gov. Hooper showing
how the governor had redeemed his
campaign pledges and had kept the
faith. Col. Enloe said in part:
Il am not going to enter upon a
defense OF Gov. Hooper, because he
needs no defender. He Is proving
every day that he is quite able to
take care Of himself.
Two years ago when I was can
wasting the state repeatedly called
attention to the rotten condition OF
the penitentiary management under
Patterson. l am glad to be able to
state that this business institution is
No longer political recruiting Office;
the pardon scandal has disappeared;
business methods have been introduc
ed; prisoners are better cared for and
more humanely treated and the rev.
enues derived from that institution
by the state have doubled.
The department OF education has
been divorced from politics, as FOR as
the power of Gov. Hooper has reach
ed and the day Is coming when the
school children of the state will nc
longer be force to learn Tennessee
history la Patterson, and when
school teachers and those in charge
of the educational interests of the
state will not necessarily have to be
politicians.
"The department of agriculture un
der Hooper has done the greatest
work for the farmers In its history
because it is run by farmer for the
farmers, and is no longer nesting
place for political workers holding
sinecures.
THE cheap campaign canard about
Hooper cutting out $4,000 appropri
alton for the Confederate widows
pensions from the appropriation bill
is too ridiculous to deserve any an
swer, when everybody knows that the
enemies of Gov. Hooper had absolute
control of the bill and could write in
lit or leave out of it anything they
pleased That gallant old Confeder
ate soldier Galloway, of Maury, who
was on the committee on appropria
tions, has called that falsehood to the
counter. That statement was on 9
par with the charge that Gov. Hooper
had adopted the Confederate gray as
the uniform for the cOnvicts in order
to humiliate the Confederate soldiers
This palpable falsehood was prompt
ly nailed to the counter by Gen John
P Hickman. now head of the Confed
crate organization in Tennessee. The
moving picture scandal is beneath no
tice and embodies a falsehood that
will refute itself.
Il have participated in every polit
ical campaign in Tennessee since
1869, and have voted for every man
for governor of Tennessee who has
been elected governor since 1859, ex
cept Gov Hawkins. | have known
all the governors we have had in this
period, and as editor and campaign
speaker have been familiar with lbeir
records, and | assert that not man has
ever been governor of Tennessee
who has more faithfully kept his
pledges to the people who elected
him than has governor Hooper In
all my experience we have never had
a governor who would do all thought
he should do and who did nothing
disapproved. Gov. Hooper has kept
faith with those who elected him. In
dependent democrats supported him
before, not because he is a repubh
can, but despite the fact that he IS a
republican; not because they agree
with him in all things, but because
they agree with him in those things
which most vitality affect the welfare
of the people of Tennessee. lie has
not changed. the issues have not
changed and the people have not
changed, except to grow stronger in
the faith and stronger at the polls
Irvarv indenandent democraf should