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Leader of the impeachment drive was U. S. Congressman Edward Hull Crump, Democratic boss of Memphis. Cried one of his Memphis henchmen in the Tennessee House: "Don't let anybody tell you Governor Horton's not listening to Lea and Caldwell. They pour water into his ear and tell him it's raining." Defenders of Governor Horton argued that the attempt at impeachment was "nothing more or less than a political conspiracy to overthrow the State government and seize its reins by a few ambitious men." They insisted no specific wrong-doing was charged against...
...assured him he would be quickly cleared of the indictments against him at Knoxville and Asheville, growing out of the Caldwell & Co. crash. He expected shortly to get back his Memphis Appeal and his Knoxville Journal which have been in receivership. Then he would start battling again against the Crump faction of Tennessee Democracy, attempt to regain his lost political ascendancy in the State. Gradually in the public mind a distinction was being made between Col. Lea and Mr. Caldwell. The latter was the promoter who had undertaken to finance the expansion of the Lea papers as only...
Leader of the move to impeach Governor Horton was no State legislator at Nashville. He was Democratic Congressman Edward Hull Crump, 65, the white-haired, bushy-browed boss of Memphis, a city which Senator Nye on one of his slush-fund investigating trips characterized as "the Philadelphia of the South." Boss Crump, who rose from harness dealer to Mayor of Memphis and boasts of 14 election certificates, controls the Shelby County delegation at Nashville (three Senators, eight Representatives). He dictated the elections of the Speakers of the House and of the Senate. Tennessee has no Lieutenant Governor. If Governor Horton...
...Boss Crump has long been itching to smash the Horton-Lea-Caldwell combine. The Lea-Caldwell collapse gave him his chance. But he is not popular in rural Tennessee where he is denounced as a "boss of a city machine." To this his henchmen reply: "Why, Ed rode into Memphis from a Mississippi farm at the age of 18 on a bull calf...
...this superficially grotesque story revolve the figures of: Mrs. Melrose Ape and her troupe of traveling angels. Chastity, Divine Discontent, etc.; the sinister ubiquitous, omniscient Father Rothschild, the Honorable Walter Outrage, "last week's Prime Minister," Agatha Runcible, loudest if not brightest of the Bright Young People, Lottie Crump, proprietress of the crazy London hotel (it really exists) where everyone drinks champagne from dawn to dusk, where bills are infrequent, irregular, but inescapable...