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THI COLUMBIA HERALD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1911 .
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HENDLEY, .COCHRAN C& THOMAS
HOOPER FIRES FIRST
GUN If CAMPAIGN FOR
ENFORCEMENT OF LAW
ATTACK8 PATTERSONISM IN TENNESSEE HANDLES DIBRELL
AND THE BACK TAX MACHINE WITHOUT GLOVES CAUSTIC
ALLY ARRAIGNS THE "REGULARS" FOR THEIR LAWLESS
NESS IN TENNESSEE LAID BARE THE CRIMINAL CONSPIR
ACY OF THE TOM TAYLORITE8 AND THE REGULARS TO
BANKRUPT THE STATE IN ORDER TO HAMPER AND EMBAR
RASS HIS ADMINISTRATION SHOWS HOW IN EVERY DE
PARTMENT UNDER CONTROL OF HIS APPOINTEES THERE
HAS BEEN A SAVING TO THE TAXPAYERS COMPARES HIS
ADMINISTRATION WITH THAT OF THE PATTERSON LIQUOR
CANDIDATE GIVES PARDON RECORDS.
Special to The Herald:
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept 2C
Before an immense crowd, wildly
enthusiastic and cordially In aym
pathy with the speaker, Gov. Ben W.
Hooper last night opened his cam
paign fpr re-election. In a speech
of more than two hours he fearless,
frankly and ably discussed all of the
Issues ' in Tennessee today. He
dodged nothing. On no question did
he equivocate. He struck straight
from the shoulder. -
Gov. Hooper asks no quarter and
he gave none. He severely asaalled
the old Patterson-McMillln machine
and his arraignment of the in
fluences and Interests which domin
ate "regular" democracy was terri
fic. His defense of his administra
tion was clear, able and convincing.
He showed how in every department
over which he had control economy,
business principles and a rigid devo
tion to the public service had leen
the controlling factors in Its admin
istration. '
Five thousand people, wildly en
thusiastic, : crowded , into , the .audito
rium to hear and cheer Gov. Hooper,
He was introduced by Capt John M.
Brooks, an ex-mayor of Knoxville
and a Confederate soldier, who said:
"It Is -the right and privilege of
ex-Confederate soldiers to cast our
votes for what we think la the best
interest of our beloved Tennessee. I
am not here to make a comparison
of the two partleB, but when we are
told to bow down to the bier of Ham
Pattersonlsm, we are not In It His
hands are driDDing with innocent
blood. They are gory with the blood
of Ed Caraack. When this man is w tne enorw m vjoy. nuur
a candidate you can't reason with "tate was saved from bankruptcy.
me I Gov. Hooper calls attention to the
He then Introduced Gov. Hooper . numerous prison reforms that he has
as a clean man, "one for whom you ! Inaugurated. He shows how the
can cast your ballot and feel no! condition of the prisoners has been
shame, I present to you our governor ! Improved, how corporal punishment
;and our next governor." 'has been reduced to less than half
In the outset of his speech Got. ! what it was under McMillin's ad-
Hooper declared that there was no ' ministration. He has appointed to
difference between the campaign now ' the office of chaplain men who
heen reversed. 'would look after the welfare of the
Gov. Hooper paid his respects to j prisoners and not hold political jobs,
Dibrell and the back tax machine, i The abuse of prisoners by drunken
He denovnesd In the most scathing ! guards has also been stopped and
terms the Iniquities of the back tax ' gross Immorality formerly extant
rrafters. He shewed how Dibrell among the prison officials has been
sad that grand old regular democrat.
Tom Taylor, had deliberately enter-
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line of woolens which
overcoat.
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Columbia, Tenn.
tuesdtsat&wklj
ed into a conspiracy to
credit of the state, in
Hooper's administration
destroy the
order that
might xbe
hampered and embarrassed.
Touching his administration of
the affairs of the state, Gov. Hooper
showed that in the department of
agriculture he had effected a sav
ing of more than $10,000. The work
and that of two years ago. In that
campaign McMillin was the candi
date for Senator and Patterson the
nominee for governor. Now the
firm, at the orders, of the grand dic
tator of the machine, Patterson, had
done under the Patterson administra
tion by nineteen subordinates has
been better performed under his
administration of Hooper by only
seven employes.
Gov. Hooper boldly Invites a com
parison of the receipts and disburse
ments of the penitentiary during his
term and also during the adminis
tration of McMillin and his boss,
Patterson. He shows that during
the first year of his term the profits
of the prison were $204,000 or more
than double the, profits , during ,,tbe
last year Of -Patterson last term and
also largely more than they were
during any year of
ministration. In the
I ment a deficitfor a year of $13,000
under Patterson has been reduced
I to one of less than $3,000
under
! Hooper. .
(t Discussing the "salary loot" of the
' . S YT mU-wmta V.t
treasury uur. nuujrei buuhb wt
due to .his efforts alone more than
$39,000 of this 'illegal money was
saved to the state. Other - sums
;" cut out of the bill so that due
'ended. He says "The meagre earn-
lags of the prisoners new constitute
'a sacred fund, free from the embezzle-
ment of prison officials, and the raids recommended a dollar's appropria
of favored pardon attorneys." . tlon for the confederate soldiers or
trov. Hooper snows how McMlllln
and Patterson abased the pardon
privilege. Under the four years of
McMillin's administration 185 par
dons were granted to convicts Jn the
penitentiary; in Patterson two
terms the number 'was 661 wfiile
during Hooper's first term twenty
two such pardon sfhave been' granted.
McMlllln pardoned forty-seven mur
ders, Patterson pardoned 200 mur
ders and Hooper has pardoned tour
murderers. ,
During his two terms McMlllln
served as governor he issued 224
pardons to jail prisoners of which
forty-four were to bootleggers and,
ninety-seven were to piBtol toters.
Patereon issued 751 jail pardons of
which 207 were to bootleggers and
286 were to pistol packers. Hooper
has issued 17 pardons, four liquor
sellers and four to piBtol packers.
Patterson issued 210 commutations
and McMlllln forty-five while Hooper
has granted sixteen. Hooper has
however, granted forty-eight paroles
or conditional pardons under a law
that has been upon the statute books
for more than a half a century but
a law under which not a single pa
role was granted by Patterson or
McMlllln. Patterson's grand total
for pardons and commutation was
1522 while Hooper's is only 103, in
cluding the parties or conditional
pardons.
Gov. Hooper shows how. . Dibrell
; has had the salaries of all of his
clerKs increased, although that offl-jand conviction, It i within your pow.
cial has the audacity to criticise the er to decide whether or not. the ele
"extravagance" of Hooper's admin- ments. of vice and lawlessness and
Istration. Dibrell's chief clerk now j crime shall control this state or
gets $3,000 as compared with $2500 j whether the state shall control them.
in 1909; his other clerks, with one
exception a proportionate raise.
Replying to the charge that Hoop
er's own salary was raised by the
appropriation bill the Governor
says': ' ,,
1 'Some of the "regulars" fraternity,
who seem to be ambitious to shine
with peculiar effulgence in the An
anias Club, have said that my salary
was raised by the Legislature. There
is not one syllable of truth in this
assertion, as my salary and every
appropriation for my office are just
the same as those of my predeces
sor. The appropriation for the re
pairs and furnishing of the Execu
tive Mansion was increased $250,
but everything bought . with this
money belongs to the state, and
there will be several hundred dol
lars unexpended. This appropria
tion is made to and expended by the
Superintendent of the Capitol, and
not by the Governor.
"As to the matter of Junketing
committees, the amount expended
for this purpose by the last Legis
lature and . severed of , its predeces
sors for many years back, was out
rageously extravagant I take pride
in the fact that I am the first Gov
ernor of the state who ever antagon
ized the Legislature in this custom,
although it had been in vogue for
twenty-five years or more. I attack
ed this practice in two different mes
sages to the Legislature, and urged
the enactment of a law providing a
permanent and business-like system
for the investigation of public insti
tutions and the auditing of official
books and accounts. While these
recommendations bore no imme
diate fruit at the hands of a war
ring Legislature, they have resulted
in a plank in both the Republican
and regular Democratic platforms
demanding the creation of an audi
tor for official and institutional ac
counts.'' Gov .Hooper paid his respects to
the charge that he had suspended
the payments on the sinking fund.
He Bnowed tnat
the resolution to
BU8pend these payments was
Intro-
dued by a reguiar and pa8Bed by a
reguiar' senate; . that although the
regulars had boasted of the large
Davment. made by Patterson on the
McMillin's ad- gtate debt tnere wa8 neariy jnoo,
mining depart- nnn lens In th treasury when Pat-
terson went into office than when he
left it He also caustically arraign-
ed McMillin because of his failure
to refund the state debt when he
was governor, an act that would
1 x - v - J
nave buyou me mxyojcr uuuurwi
of thousands of dollars.
Answerlng the charge of McMlllln
tnat tne expense! of the state kot-
ernment were much less under, the
Patterson candidate that they have
been for the past admirjfistratjioniGoT.
Hooper shows that under McMillln's
last term $348,000 was appopriated
for public education while under
Hooper's administration the total
sum of $2,237,000 has been appro-
priated for this laudable object TJn-
der McMillln's last term $300,000
was appropriated for pensions while
under Hooper's administration $1,-
460,000 was appropriated for pen-
sions to Confederate soldiers and
their widows. He also shows that
McMillin was governor four years
hut not a cent was appropriated for
the pensions of Confederate widows.
And he also calls attention to the
fact that during his entire tern of
four years Got. McMillin never once
their widows. The governor also
charges that McMlllln, like Patter-
son Ignored the recomendatlons of
the Confederate soldiers In the ap
pointment of the pension examining
board and allowed a commission to
Maj, Guild one of the members to
lie for three years unsigned.
The governor handles without
gloves the action of Dibrell in-using
the mails of the state to exploit his
political virtues and make partisan
appeals to the Confederate soldiers.
The governor discusses in detail
his efforts to have passed anti-free
pass, and labor legislation and also
his
efforts for a state banklna law
and for a law to compel banks to
pay Interest on state deposits. He
declares for compulsory primaries
and condemns the silence of the re
gular platform on the subject of
election laws.
But the governor is probably at
his best when he unmakes the hy
pocrisy and double dealing of the
Patterson faction on the temper
ance question. He plants himself
squarely upon the platform of his
party and arraigns the faithless and
recreant officials wno have encour
aged lawlessness.
"Young men of Tennessee, with
your faces settowar dthe future, it
is for you to say in November wheth
er our state shall progress or retro
grade. ' ' , .
"Men of all political parties and of
every race; men of every character
'It is for you to prescribe the con
ditions which shall surround your
children as the struggle onward to
manhood and womanhood.
"Men of gray heads and bent
forms, men who have bared your
bosoms in defense of the state or na
tion, men who are now loklng to
ward the sunset, It is for you to say,
and I thank God that you have said
all over this state, that our common
wealth shall not be governed by the
prejudice of a bygone tera; but by
principles that are eternal.
"Men of the great ' country com
munities of Tennessee, the bone and
sinew of our grand old state, men of
the mountains, valleys and bills,
who breathe clean air and think
clean thoughts.: make yourselves felt
at the ballot box In November in be
half1 vot a! clean1 state.
w"Men of the city who are strug
gling with the mighty problems
that have beset the cities of every
ntrc trrniff" honorable. God-f earing
men-gird on your armor, to the. end
that our modern cities shall not be-
come gnawing ' cancers on the body
politic, as did Sodom, Babylon, and
Rome. !
Men of Tennessee Tenness?ans
sons of the men who carved this
state from the taneled wilderness. I
appeal to you for the preservation of
that for which your ancestors fought
a free government, founded upon
an honest ballot; i appeal to you
. .Ka nt iwa that will
place the rich and the powerful In
the cities upon the same plane as
the poor and the humble in the coun
ty villages! I appeal to you to
throttle the vicious Interests that
threaten our state, to rebuke tne
cowardly, corrupt and contemptible "truck he went to the rear of the
weaklings who cringe and erawl be- re and Amis started away appar
fore these Interests, and to serve tor u home- However, Pcrfb-
wrM that Taht..- eTier almost Immediately reappeared
see still honors, the God who pro
claimed that "Righteousness ex-
alteth the nation.'
MRS. T0.MLIHS0H
.DIES JHr MEMPHIS
FORMERLY MRS. ANNIE PRIDE
AND A SISTER OF MRS. J.
B. JOMLINSON.
News hat been, received In Colum
bia of the death of Mrs. Lindsey Tom
linson, which occurred at Memphis
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lip
pett Mrs. Tomllnson -was the wid
ow of the late Lindsey Tomllnson,
was a sister of Mrs. Jesse Tomllnson,
and was fifty-three years of age. Mrs.
Tomllnson was a daughter of Dr. Jno.
S. Pride and was a former resident
of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Tomllnson are in Memphis and will
remain there until after the funeral
which will take place In Memphis on
Thursday afternoon. -
AROUND TOWN.
t4
News has been received here an
nouncing the antral of a ten pound
baby girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
N. C. Blair at Hattlesburg, Miss.
WANTED At once, a toll gats
keeper. See HORACE RAINET at
'once.
26jd3twlt
,innimm
We thank you for your liberal
patronage and invite you to
come in again Friday and
Saturday and see some
thing new each time
you come.
jEvams,Parker& Moore
RBUCE AMIS SHOT
li
ABOUT A SCORE OF NUMBER 8IX
- SHOT TAKE EFECT IN FACE
AND ARM.
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HIS INJURIES ARE NOT SERIOUS
.; , . .
Affair Took Place In 8ectlon East
' of Cuba In the Fifth District Near
the Old Scrlbener Mill Cause of
the Trouble. ' r
Bruce Amis, who lives In the Cuba
section of the fifth district and east
of Culleoka, was shot aud painfully
injured late Wednesday evening as
result of a difficulty with Baxter
Scrlbener who did the shooting.
Amis was shot with a single barrel
shotgun loaded with No. 6 shot.
About a score of the shot took effect
but it Is not thought that the inju
ries will prove serious.
The shooting took place in front of
Scribener's storenear the mill at 6
'clock-
It appears that Amis
and
Sribener had been quarreling . over
statements alleged to have been
mad hy Scrlbener about Amis when
the former ordered Amis from the
store. Thereupon It is alleged that
Amis seized a stick and went after
Scrlbener, striking him over the
head.
It Is said that when Scrlbener was
with a single barrel shotgun which
he pointed at Amis a short distance
away. Some one shouted a warning
and Amis turned around, threw his
arm in front of his eyes and received
the full load of shot in the arm, face
and breast It Is thought that about
eighteen or twenty shot lodged.
.Mr. Amis was brought at once to
Columbia and placed in the infirmary
of Dr. -Robert Pillow, where, he re
ceived attention from Drs. Smiser,
j Pillow and Forgey. He was reported
to be resting well this morning and
the physicians express the hope that
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his recovery will not be long delayed,
j Mr. Amis is a member of the well
i known Amis family and has a large
i number of relatives in the county.
Considerable excitement was creat
ed at Culleoka when It was learned
that he had been shot
CONFERENCE AT
FIRST METHODIST
I On account of the illness of Presid-
ln "V aig his home m -
laskl, the quarterly conference at tho
First Methodist church was held Mon
day night by Dr. A. G. Dinwiddle, la
response to a request from Ken
Craig, and a more pleasing and com
petent presiding officer could not
have been chosen.
The report of the pastor as to the
condition of the church and matters
in general was of a most satisfacto
ry nature, as were the reports from
the other offlcoals for the year's
work.
The missionary work of the Juve
nile Society under the direction of
Mrs. H. L. Hendley has done spec
ially good work and was received!
with a great deal of satisfaction by
the conference.
The old board of stewards was re
elected and J. C. Parks and Sid Doo
ley were added to the board by elec
tion. G. T. Hughes and E. P. Turner
were re-elected superintendents.
C0L.A.M. HDGHES
OUT FOR CONGRESS
Col. Archaleaus M. Hughes, of this
city and Washington, has announced
bis candidacy for congress from this
district Col. Hughes made this an
nouncement on Monday at Franklin
at the conclusion of the debate be
tween Padgett and Turner. Col.
Hughes Is a v well known republican
of the state who had held office a
large part of his life. He has also
been a candidate for congress In ths
past For several years he was post
master here and has held other fed
eral offices. Since he left the post
office he has spent a large portion ot
his time In Washington 'City. He de
clares that he expects to make an ac
tive canvass of the district