The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-13
POLITICS
FROM THE INSIDE
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
CAUSED GOVERNOR TO
ABANDON SARATOGA.
AND TO DECLARE FOR BRYAN
True lnwardness OF The Suns Fight
Against carmaek And Bryan
The Source OF Its In
SEPARATION.

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Gov. Patterson has come out for
Bryan, and thereby hangs tale.
For several weeks a deep political
play which has attracted the atten-
ton OF a few careful observers, has
been going on with reference to Ten
nessee politics, and the Governors
pro- Bryan declaration comes as 2
ludicrous anti climax to the perform
ance.
Strange to say the story starts In
New York and the nucleus Of 1t is the
remarkably active interest which the
New York Sun has been taking in the
political situation In this state. The
Sun is generally understood to be
owend by Pierpont Morgan. 1t is a
South hating monopoly organ OF the
most pronounced type. 1t screams
with rage whenever any measure is
proposed to curb the power of the
trusts and throws a fit whenever the
law is invoked against the railroads,
the Standard Oil Company or any
other corporation.
It has been holly advocating the
denomination of Patterson and as hot
" opposing the nominsEfon of Car
mack for Governor of Tennessee. The
reasons urged by the Sun are that Pat
terson's nomination would help to
defeat Bryan while victory for Car
mack would be victory for Bryan.
AS no such issue has been raised in
Tennessee some people were curious
to know the source of the Suns infor-
nation.
The story runneth thus: A few
weeks ago a correspondent OF the
New York Sun dropped into Nashville.
He didn't drop with crash or even
with a dull thud but came down as
| soft as snow flakes fall upon the sod.
It was his evident purpose to get In
and out without attracting the atten-
| ton except of the particular persons
he came to see. But an alert news
paper reporter got on his trail and ex-
! tracted from him the reluctant admis-
sion that he had come here to look
into the political situation with refer
ence to National politics. When
asked with whom he had talked ne
replied with Mai, Dune Cooper and
Gen. Tully Brown" Dune the Cover
nor's chief adviser and Tully his adj
jutant general.
These are the only persons from
whom he professed to have sought or
received information as to the inside
of Tennessee politics. Having had
his pipe loaded by these able dope
dealers he retired to his joint and
wrote out his dream for the aforesaid
Sun. The dream was this story OF the
Bryan and anti-Bryan fight between
Carmack and Patterson.
(. This correspondent represented that
the safe and sane and conservative
Democrats of the state were opposed
to Bryan. and that Patterson, who was
eulogized as a man of parts and pow
! err. was their leader and representa-
tive; while Carmack was organizing
the Bryan followers and seeking the
Governorship by their aid.
| Again and again the Sun returned
to this subject. Its ablest scream was
leading editorial headed mot Car
mack but Bryan" and the purport OF
it. was that the question of grave sig
| nifcance in Tennessee politics was
! not So much whether Carmack should
be governor as whether through MS
f, control of the state convention ne
should use his power to affiict the ma
tion with the shame. and ruin OF Bry-
ans nomination. Now the obvious
moral of. these remarkable perform
/ arces was that the denomination OF
Patterson was not question that
concerned the people Of Tennessee
alone but was of the gravest national
lIlDOTldHCts anu lil pSADS $500
terests and corporations elsewhere
who desired the defeat Of Bryan ought
TO give their active aid and sympathy
to the lion hearted Patterson in the
heroic fight he was making against
the Bryanites in, Tennessee. This was
the plain meaning Of the whole pay
Now when the question is asked
from whom did the Sun get this i'm
preston as to the political situation In
Tennessee there can be but one an
swer. He got 1t from the persons ne
talked to in Nashville from which
point he wrote his letter to the Sun.
The only persons he talked to were
Gov. sPatterson's confidential lieuten-
ants, Dune and Tully, and one or the
other or both gave him the informa-
ton.
Tho NaahviIle American, the person