The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-10-20
He Will Substantiate
Every Charge.

Hon Nj. X. Patterson, Congressman
from the Memphis district and candi-
uate for the Democratic nOmina ion
for &, vernon, spoke In the Opera
ACu use II Columbia yesterday to small
but intensely interested and entnusl-
Rsic auiienc5. His speech is in the ma
TUE OF prosecution, and hls expert
snee as Attorney q neral for Memphis
serves him well, for his arrangement
of Ills opponent was terrific. The MAN
BODY of his speech is the same as his
Nail vile speech which was publish
ID teretofoIe but in addition thereto
he referred 10 Gov, Cox answer
which he Characterized as - state
ment of one caught and accused of
CLINE, and entitled tic that. much ana
mole consideration than that of a
criminal swearing Ill his own behalf.
The State issues he discusses are the
election and the tax laws, and be oppOs
es both OF the prs sent laws. The cleo
slOn laws he says are arbitrary, IN
Just, tyIannlcal and undeuocratlc. No
enc man should have tho power, as
tbs Governor OF Tennessee has, to ap
point the election com misSiOneIs for
the entire state, and build up person
Al political machine, for himself Tbs
bax laws, he says, need amending so
That all prOpe rty both real and persol.
al private ana corporate should be
fairly and fully assessed and once as
sessed and passed upon by the board of
squaliZers suonld be final; a man
ought to know when he had once pai1
ms taxes tnat two or three years hence
there wOn1d not be- any back tax graf
ter con ing along for another pull at
him.
Re touched upon the temperance REG
0Td OF his opponent, saying that no
man in the State mad done as much to
defeat Temperance legislation Uf every
sort kind and description as this same
John | Cox. He Iecited how by
Fickery and snaIt practice Mr.. Cox
then Senator ana acknowledged lea
tel for the whiskey forces had in 1901
defeated the Peeler till, and how again
IN 1903 he had opposed to his utmost
he..Adams bill; ana he said he was now
trying to capture some of the temper
anGe vote by refusing to pardon a few
men who had violated the Adams
law; law wbich would never have
leen law it John |. Cox could have
prevented it WhisBey would be sold
TO-DAY In every hamlet in Tennessee ii
Cox could have his way about it. He
said the peo lie OF this town douD tless
remembered the par MI. Cox took
when Columbia was asking for tenn
perance legislation. Tine speaker did
net say so. but the fact is that Mr.. Cox
voted against the Columbia DispensaIy
bill, and also spoke against and voted
against the bill 10 eXteI the Adams |
law to Columbia.
Mr. Patterson Was especially severe on |
Nr, Cox record as back tax collector
claiming that if Mr.. Cox will meet him |
in joint debate that he will prove by the |
record on file in the archives of the |
State, every charge he has made Of NAL
feasance, and misfeasance in office. He |
said he had made no charge himself;
that he was not a witness in the case;
That he had gone to the record for his
Information, and that John l. Cox with
Sil the legal help he might obtain, and
al the special pleadngs of the host le-
gal minds of the State, could never
change that record; that he himself hao
made it and it would shadow him 20
his grave.
His speech was received with evident
appreciation by the audience, who
cheered the exposure of Mr.. Cox at ev
cry point.
Editorial Note:-Mr. Patterson did
not say what he would have done if he
had been in the Senate when the Adams
law was under discussions; nor what ne
would DO with a bill extending it.
Omissions made conspicuous by the EN-
phasis he gave to Mr.. Cox's record)