The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-11-01
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President and the other a leading
member. il not ofhciaI. Of the organi-
cation. il viii support Republican
for Governor il the Democrats do
not take orders from It. Landrith Is
Quoted as saying in the ChattanOoga
meeting: If the Democratic party
proposes to nut a man In the once OF
Governor who will veto temperance
Legislation say let us turn down the
Democratic party and elect Repub-
licap Governor. II the Democratic
party is bad then we should spank u
ana make Il behave Or. Folk ex-
stressed a similar sentiment. Each OF
these clerical statesmen is opposed TO
Governor Patterson. They were OPP
posed to him a year ago. before and
after his nomination"
In putting their loyalty to temper
ance above loyalty to the nominees OF
a marty Doctors Landrith and Folk
/ ana other devoted christian men are
certainly in no worse attitude than
most OF the Patterson leaders whom
the American regards as the very
ouintessenee of Democracy. II has
happened again and again in this state
/ that many democrats have said that
n Is better for the party TO be de-
feated this time than for particular
| policy to be enacted or for a particu-
lar policy to fail Thus MIR. q G.
Lewis. the owner of the Nashville
American, & is gsaid to have voted
for VIM. Mckinley because he thought
ii better for the Democratic party to
he defeated than for bimettalism to
be successful Hon Dune Cooper,
! FULLY Brown, James Bradford, Judge
Horace Palmer. Judge Arthur Lamb,
Hon. Mike Savage and, in fact, nearly
all of Patterson's confidential political
leaders opposed the election Of Bryan
for like reasons. They said IF the
Democratic party proposes to put a
man in the Office Of president who will
favor free silver legislation, we say
let us turn down the Democratic party
and elect Republican president"
Yet so far from questioning the De-
mocracy of such men, Gov. Patterson
has chosen his advisers and his office
holders chiefly from that class.
, Now Doctors Landrfth and Folk are
as much opposed to the saloon as
Gov. Patterson's lieutenants were OPP
posed to bimettalism. Just as Gov.
Patterson's lieutenants said, I'VE will
not vote for free silver man II you
nominate him." they say I'VE will not
vote for saloon. or bootlegger candi-
date if you nominate him"
It is not worth while to heap re-
proaches on men who talk this way,
It Is the fact you have to deal with,
and the fact is that there are thou
sands of democrats whose records are
far better than those Of Mr.. e. G.
Lewis, Col. Dune Cooper or Gen. Tully
Brown who will not vote for candi-
date who is in sympathy with the
saloons.
DR.. Landrith in the speech quoted
was trying not to be too personal, ana
he was trying to be, as the League
is. non partisan. He did not call the
name of Gov. Patterson in that con-
nection, but the shot nevertheless
went home IT brings the American
to the front in vain defense OF Pat
terson's temperance record. The
democratic party is responsible for all
the temperance laws Tennessee has
saws the American Exactly so. And
the Democratic party has thrived on
it's record II it ever had yielded to
the whisky power, 1t would not have
had this long record of success. II
it ever should yield to that power it
will learn what it is to defy the good
people of Tennessee. If the machine
politicians Of the state shall succeed
in again foisting upon the party the
man who has done so much to nullify
Temperance laws by pardoning the
most notorious bootleggers as fast
as they can be convicted, they VIII
court defeat. erasio 43r
Gov. Patterson has approved more
far-reaching temperance legislation
than any governor the State ever
had," says the American. In a strict
ly legal or legislative sense this is
true, for 1t il only in that sense that
the Governor approved" the Pendle-
ton law. The American knows that
he cursed and denounced it, that he
swore he would veto 1t II 1t should
pass, that he personally begged legis-
lators to vote against 1t, that he made
personal solicitation to secure enough
uotoa RI suStain veto and then