The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-08


stood above his admiring friends smil.
ing acknowledgements. He was finally
borne from the stage in triumph. With
Gen. Patterson majority of delegates
and spectators left the hall and after
the excitement had subsidized less than
half of the seats in the hall were oc.
cupied.
/ Gen. Patterson spoke as follows:
Mr.. Patterson's Speech.
my Fellow-Democrats: Mere words
will not express my emotion when I
face this assembled host of the brave
men and loyal Democrats of Tennes,
see.
"You have placed in my hands
commission which represents your con.
fidence in my fidelity to the principles
of our party.
These are recorded in the brain
and heart of all men who love liberty
revere the right and scorn the wrong.
Woven in the very fabric of our
Government are the ideals of manly
race, and as we are true or false to
them so will be the veal or woe of the
State
Always the first in our Republic
and the last inherent, vital, pervading
as the air we breathe, must forever
be the right of a free people to gov
ern themselves.
81 have conducted a campaign in
Tennessee with this idea paramount
to all others, and your generous in
dorsement comes as the browning hon
or of my life.
Il do not regard the triumph as a
personal triumph-its meaning is deep
er and broader than this-for it is a
of the sacred rights Of the
people, from whom all power comes,
and to whom all power must return.
THE campaign which is now ended
has been long, tedious and stubbornly
contested.
1T was inevitable that feeling
should have been engendered and in
he heat of contest that rivalry and
would occur.
Speaking for myself, nothing I have
said or done has had any element of
feeling and / at least made
IN honest effort to conduct my CAM
,aign upon a high and honorable
,lane
Had fortune placed the standard
# my party in other hands, was pre-
Jared to accept defeat with courage
nd equanimity and to retire without
malice in my heart against any man
rho opposed me.
while the battle lasted I gave blow
or blow and now that it is over ! feel
o citation over my comprehension
nkind thought is cherished and no
evenge is harbored.
For them and their followers
nd no man ever had more active and
,yal friends to sustain them, there
no i'll will, and | believe when the
ugle sounds the call to arms, the
amer is unfurled and the march
egins against the common enemy,
ley will do we'll their part in the
orious victory we will win in No
3-2be:
ITO those true and tried men who
cod by me and with me whether the
our YVES early or late. whether the
de of contest ebbed or flowed, from
HON | had no secrets, who honored
e without the hope of reward and
listed me with their cause, / will
,ver be able to express my graft
de.
Il can only hope that he who reigns
ove and holds the destinies OF ma
ms and of men in the hollow OF his
mighty hand will sustain and guide
2 in the way of duty to them, to the
rty which has called me, and to the
ate, sacred in memory, great in the
esent, and greater still to be under
e rule of the people
The convention voted to proceed at
ce to the nomination of candidates
Railroad Commissioner.
R. E. L. Cantrell, of DeKalb County
H. H. Hannah of Roane
unity.
A delegate from Bedford County
ced in nomination VIM. B. Cleage'
Hamilton County.
:. L. McNeilly placed in nomination
mes Allen, of Greene County. All
nominations were cheered.
v. l.. Ledgerwood, of Knox Couh-
placed Col Thomas L. Williams
Knox County, before the conveh'
4. Col. Ledgerwood made long
ech.