The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05
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not done ! threaten you with my COT
stitutional powers" What he mean
by his constitutional powers. Is lef
to inference. He may mean that ii
order TO force his pet measures
through, he will tax the people Of IN,
State with an extra session Of tn,
legislature II that is what he means
1t we're better to pay the tax Of sever
al extra session rather than to in
dulge in some OF the extravaganza
he suggests. Or he may mean, III
you do not pass my general bills, &c
help me build up my machine. / will
veto your local measures" What he
does mean, beyond peradventure OF
a doubt, is that he is trying 20 coerce
the legislature into passing certain
laws that will afford him the power to
build up a political machine in Ten
nessee that will inure to his own ad-
vancement and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
! Mr.. Patterson made his canvass
against the machine" against ma
chine politics and machine methods.
And yet never has any man made a
more brazen and desperate fight to
build up machine Off himself, than
this same Mr. Patterson has the few
short months he has been in Office.
He started at the very beginning by
demanding that the speakers of both
Houses should be his friends and COM
mitted positively and unequivocally to
the support of the administration and
administration measures; and faith
fully indeed have the speakers been
to their part of the compact.
Now by administration measures he
means. and in his message has the
effrontery to insist, that he be given
authority to appoint Good Roads.
Commission" Not that he would be
satisfied with a law creating several |
new offices, but he must be given the
under that law to name the
men who shall constitute the commits
sion: in order that he may put a few
more spokes in the wheel Of his ma
chine. Then he wants law creating
he office of State Bank Examiner, and
he wants to name the examiner. He
mas already had passed a law Great
ng two or three new judges, that he
night appoint two or three railroad
awyers to try the issues joined be-
ween the railroads and the people.
And now, to clap the climax, this man,
Who was so violently opposed to the
Governor appointing election commits
toner's for the state; this same poll
ician who seeking Office declared that
0 be more power than any good man $
,ould want or than any bad man ,
hould have" this same Peterson, =
tho harped upon that question and
urred at the election commissioners .
S machine made men all over the \
ate; now he comes and dares to go
i record in public document to the
gislature, suggesting and requesting :
lat an election law be passed giving
m. this Identical same pretender, the :
chit 70 name election commissioners ~
r the entire state, subject to the
tification of the Senate; knowing
ry well. of course, that senatorial y
urtesy" would prevail to such an ~
tent that his nominations would be =
ntamount to election. w
That's the size of your Governor. on
revolutionary and disgraceful meth ne
S he secured his nomination, and by vi
g revolutionary and disgraceful Id
,thods he purposes to hold on to his vi
J. let it cost Tennessee, in money up
humiliation, what it may. 'oi
dr. Patterson complains in his mes
.e that so much time. and too much
e, has been given to local bills. Vi
4 what local bill took more time the
n all the rest? His own dear Mem. mas
s charter bill And why was so Col
CHI time given to other local bills? ma
lpIy because the chairmen Of the nc
lmittees to whom these bills were IL
rred; chairmen put there with the me-
wledge and consent OF the Gov nee
Or himself, and for the purpose OF pan
wing out his own sweet will, and ele'
have shaped their policy to suit the
policy; these same chairmen, for tunl
Sc acts the Governor is directly thei
onsibile, have fIibustered from the TO n
first day Of the session to the goo'
ent hour, to obstruct and delay pie
V reform measure that has been YOU
,duced and brought before the leg VIII
ure. Every temperance law, To- TO ?
or general; every anti-gambling Al
Of every kind. has been held In nor.
committees to the last possible TT
and denied their proper place up prov
he calendar as long as possible. and
done purposely to produce the TROLL
condition that now exists which tary