The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-01-11
BAD SIGNS ON THE HORIZON.
Governor Cox Trying to GOebelze State
of Tennessee.
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mercial-Appeal.

Oh tennessee.
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mercial-Appeal.
Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 4.-Indica-
tons are beginning to appear on the
political horizon that bodies evil for the
democratic party in Tennessee. Every
one realizes that the campaign for the
gubernatorial nomination is the hottest
that has been waged in the state in half
century, perhaps, and nothing so bit
ter has ever before been known. The
more conservative party leaders are
alarmed at the situation, as they view
1t, and there are quiet whisperings of
their ideas going the rounds of the in
ner sanctuaries. ~
To great many in this section it has
been apparent for weeks that Gen Pat
terson was riding the crest of the wave,
with the swell beneath him growing
larger day by day. Judge Bonds can
didacy has created absolutely no en-
thusiGsm outside of his own Judicial
district, and it is not believed that he
will carry every county in that circuit.
Up here he is generally regarded as
wind shield for Cox, and the fact that
the governors appointees in counties
OF West Tennessee are for Bond is part
OF the evidence on which this statement |
! is based Running as the selected |
representative of the Anti-Saloon |
League, which was supposed to be
b bipartisan, but has now been I'M
cloaked, few people or politicians have
u taken any serious interest in the
Brownsville mans canvass, regarding
{ 1t more of an annex to the Cox machine
10 than thing to be admired on its own
IL account. 1t is believed that Judge
L Bond realizes and is informed of the
view entertained up here of his candi-
L dacy, and not few think that the fight
i now going on in Gibson county has
IA opened his eyes to the fact that even
u his intimate, longtime friends believe
~ in fair play. and that Gen. Patterson
~ deserves the fruits of his hard earned
" victory. Absolutely reliable reports
VI from every town in Gibson county aud
10 from newspaper men and politicians
d. who are acquainted with the condition
'A of affairs throughout the county aver
e. that Patterson will carry enough dis
III tricts in the primary next Monday to
give him the thirty votes of Gibson,
oh and it is argued that If Gibson instructs
for Patterson, Bond had as well retire,
Il, for there is no hope for him.
lu The movements of Gov Cox, howev-
o. er, are the source of the alarm mani
IT, tested not only here, but all over the
- state. From leading men, from edito
rial utterances of independent, close
% observers and thinkers, and from in
ny formation received at the several head
quarters here, gubernatorial and sena
L, torial, the idea obtains that Cox is try
d. ing to Goebelize Tennessee Wilson
Or county, for century one of the mos
nd diguified and cleanest politically in the
*, state, has been disrupted by the mach
OK nations of his henchmen, aud is il
no sackcloth and ashes because it has beer
IL disgraced. A political feud has sprung
We into existence there which may tuke 6
u generation to wipe out aud may vel
produce bloodshed. While the execu
'm tive committee has called a primary, i,
ny was not the action of the whole com
ry mitte0 because the Cox minority,
n. headed by Luke McMenaway, will not
OF participate in it, and a contestipg dele
ne cation will go to Nashville from Wilson
ed Cox men in Dickson-and there they
lie, are scarce-are planning to pull off 9
W. convention and instruct for him, this
'ol despite the fact that the recent regu
nd larly called convention unanimously
cit instructed for Patterson. At the Coz
as headquarters here there is much talh
1T. of contesting this delegation, and it il
believed that this is part of general
or premeditated plan tc have contests in
: every county that instructs for Patter
IN son. This was Goebels plan in Ken
ell lucky, and the whole world knows how
Inn we'll it worked in his case, giving hin
Cd the nomination when he entered thu
I'm convention with the smallest number
In of votes in the body. The defeat O
nd Joe Blackburn has revived the bloody
ng scandal that blaekened the name O
Kentucky, and Tennesseans who low,
INV their state and honor her are Mortified
Va to think that -the may have a similar
on blot on her escqtcheon.
go Cox has almost shot his bolt. A few
zen more republican counties in Brown
Iii lows country may instruct for him
= but even this is rot certain. Patterson
on carried Polk county with one speech
to, and next week he enters upon spirit
me ed canvass of other counties. The sup
"a porters of Cox look on this trip witt
'"' great uneasiness and concern, and tina
on is why, it is thought, they are resortins
to to such undemocratic and desperate
NJ measures to get votes for him.
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