Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Mistaken in the Taylor. [ARTICLE]

Mistaken in the Taylor.

Former Governor R. L. Taylor of Tennessee while in Knoxville a few days ago, says a correspondent of tee Nashville Banner, told this joke at hka own expense partly, and partly at the expense of a Pennsylvania mountain community: “I had been billed several days to speak in a little town which had only one railroad and which was in a mountainous section. I dreaded the place because I did not expect a crowd. I reached the town and fully 1,000 people were out to see me. A committee of the most prominent men in tha town met me with a carriage and a brass band. ‘Yankee Doodle’ >waa played many times, but Dixie’ was never thought of. The spokesman for the party told me that he was glad to welcome to the town a man who had been so badly treated by the Democrats, and who was entitled to the office of Governor beyond all doubh His statements were applauded and I wondered how I had been mistreated. But I held my peace and waited. X was called upon by men of all claaeea, who assured me that I had been elected beyond all doubt* I thanked every one for his kindness in the matter. I was told that I would have a big house that night, and sure enough X did. “The chairman, rose and said: 'I take pleasure in introducing a man who has been cheated out of the Governorship of Kentucky, and who did not kill Goebel. I welcome a martyr of Democratic infamy in our midst, and he is surely welcome.’ “I delivered my lecture and the mistake was never known while I waa there. I left on the first train, which left fifteen minutes after the close of my lecture. I will never lecture in tha town again.”