The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-07-18
SHERIFF GOODWIN
P0URS HOT SHOT
INTO THE MACHINE
ANSWERS CRITICISM LEvELED
AT HIM AT COMMITTEE MEET.
ING MONDAY.
TAKES RAP AT Mr.. PEBBLES
Says That Under His Management
the State Democratic Ticket Was
Defeated IN County for First Time
in Its History.
Fridays Daily.)

Fridays Daily)
Sheriff Claud Goodwin this morning
gave out the following sizzling sign
ed statement:
LAS democrat | naturally regret
any conditions that in any way pro,
duce any but harmonious action
among Democrats. Every man who
is true and worthy citizen should
so conduct him self that his acts, no
matter to what party he belongs,
should need no such defense. Nor is
what say said in any defense of any
acts of mine further than to show
that those who have seen fit to criti-
else me and my friends are not more
consistent than ! have been.
In the regular committee meeting
that was held in the county court
room Monday it was charged that
am not democrat because of the
fact that voted for Church and Den
ton for the legislature, and that |
had no right to expect any favors at
the hands OF the regulars for M. D.
Allen upon my request.
ITO prove thet Milt Allen was end
is worthy OF every confidence Iced
only to cite the public expressions of
those who fought his endorsement as
election commissioner for Maury
county, and the only regrets | have
in the matter is the effect my actions
may have had on the laudable ambi.
ton of Mr.. Allen to be thus honored
lby his party.
4 but when my democracy Is as
sailed l naturally look to the record
of the assailant. Chairman PEBBLES
is the only democratic chairman the
party has ever had who led the state
ticket to defeat in Maury county.
Just why this discredited chairman
should arrogate to himself all polit-
lCdi NlIluc anu dllCHpt W AohO tho
friends of Mr.. Allen Including my.
self the goat while choosing and IA
voring others who voted as l did is
somewhat n.ystifying.
When Mr.. PEBBLES was chosen as
campaign manager for Thomas j.
Tyne, candidate for the nomination
for governor, he exercised good judg
ment in choosing Thomas B. Forgey
a man who generally does things, as
a member of the cabinet from Maury
|county. Mr.. Forgey was chairman Of
the independent committee of the
county and diu not vote in that pri
mary. Doubtless the Peebles-Towlel
following will answer this with the
, statement that they were then will
ling to compromise" leaving the in
ference that there is no desire tt
compromise now. The crushing de
feat of the regulars for the legisla
ture appears to have embittered those
in control Of the regulars, rather
than to have taught them a lesson.
John White. who was appointed
!, by Chairman PEBBLES to fill the va
cancy in the fourth district, ant
whose vote was APPARENTLY so impor
, tant that new parliamentary prece
, dent was established, voted for c. C
Denton and said he was glad of it
while the vote was being taken il
the Mullins contest before the com
mittee the chairman stopped the vot,
and entertained a motion to ratif.
the appointment of White, and thel
proceeded with the vote in the Mul
Inns matter after Whites appointment
, had been ratified and he was Above,
!, to vote.
'R. G. Mullins, accepted by the com
mittee, voted for all three of the indie
pendent candidates for the legisla
.ture.
81 have always been proud of al
opportunity to espouse the cause o
such men as Milt Allen, and Just q
long as the democratic party stab
lsuch men in Maury county just tina
long will it fail to triumph, and whel
men assail such strong characters l
is calculated to raise a question as t,
the patriotism Of the assailants.
IA "CLAUD GOODWIN"
columbia, July II. 1918.