The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-10-13
Special To TIE Herald

Nashville, Oct. Wherever yor
may 90 in Tennessee now, YOU Will
hear the Senatorial contest discussed
| dropped into a Pullman smoker or
train between Guthrie ana Spring
field the night after tue big meeting
of tobacco planters at the foIma place
two weeks ago, and found Congressman
q. A. Stanley of Kentucky, In an ami
mated conversation with prominent
lawyer from Springfield. Nj. Stanley
was saying as | entered
why 40 you want to turn Carmacb
down? He ranks next to doe Bailey
among Democrats at Washington Men
have seldom come up faster than he
did In the Senate.
The Springfield lawyer answered
something to the effect that Tennessee
didn't want Senator who coul1n I
get an audience with the President of
the United States.
MIR. Stanley made some calculations
about negro functions at the White
House. etc and added: at 9 a strange
thing to me that in Mississippi they
are threatening to defeat John Sharpe
Williams for the senate with a long
haired crank because the crank has
been particularly abusive of Roosevelt,
and here in Tennessee some of you
seem to have soured on Carnack be-
cause he criticised the President. They
would have to turn me down and
every other member Of the Kentucky
delegation if that Is an Otfense. We all
did 1t. -
TIE Springfield lawyer then urged
that Senator CaImack is the head of
a machine in Tennessee politics that
must be oveTthIOwn.
81 don't know anything about your
State machinery" said Mr.. Stanley,
but do know that Carmack is good
Democrat, and that he does credit to
the party and State in the Senate.
A LACK OF REASON.
You can hear discussion of that kind
anywhere now-on the trains. in the
hotel lobples or even on the street. At
a restaurant table where several gentle
men were recently gathered for lunch
con, heard one of the number, who
not being In any respect public man
would not like to be publicly quoted,
make what l thought was clever ex
position of the situation.
II see no reason, he said, "why Car
mack should not be returned to the
Senate, and leaving that out of con-
sideIatiOn | see none why Taylor
should be elected. Carmack was chosen
with marked enthusiasm four years
ago, and fail to find that he has done
anything to dampen the ardor of Ten
nessee Democrats, with whom he has
heen so long prime favoIite, He is
the same CaImack he always was;
somewhat subdued by time, perhaps,
and undoubtedly broadened by expeI
fence. but the same true, straight and
incisive Carm Nck, holding In his very
heart s core the South and the Demo
cratic party.
"And he has taken a high place in
the Senate. He tackled Spooner anu
other leading Republicans and came
off unscathed from the contest. Car
mack Is a student. Furthermore he is
man of very great force of character
and marked individuality. He is
capable of growth and he is certain to
become a National figure OF marked
eminence If he remains in the Senate.
If there was any reason for sending
Carmack to the Senate four years ago,
there will be double reason for return
ing him-when his first term is ended.
II know of no instance where he has
failed in anything that was expected
of him. | think he has really been
less fiery than was expected. l am
free to confess that he has maintained
q dignity and exercised an influence
beyond my expectation. 1t is certain
that he has come into national notice