The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-08-23
EX-SENATOR cARMAck.

There is no Disgusting the fact thai
there is among democrats in Tennes
see a determination TO make an issue
with Governor Patterson IL he should
decide TO apply for a denomination
Democrats OF standing and influences
in the party are so dissatisfied with
conditions that there remains no doubt
that there win be an opposing candi-
date 10 Governor Patterson. The
weekly democratic press. not com
mitted in some Official or personal
way to the governor and his admins
tration. is in a condition OF what might
be called suspended revolt" For in
stance: The Morristown Gazette
one of the representative newspapers
of the class to which we refer-is
openly disguised not only with the
governors free-hanled pardons, but
with his action in connection with the
maintenance fund provided by the
legislature for the use Of the execu-
tive mansion. Stating that the gov
ernor had drawn the entire amount in
a lump sum, the Gazette says:
1T is not known how he succeeded
in getting the consent of the treasurer
and the comptroller OF the state in so
manifestly an improper act II he
should die next week from intemper-
ate habits, or heart failure, or other
disease, and Speaker Toilet should
take his place in the gubernatorlal
chair. what reasonable excuse can the
guardians of the state treasury give
for their inability to furnish him
monthly with the amount the now
speaker knows was appropriated for
the maintenance of the gubernatortal
household? Will they send him 10
the dead mans executors, or to the
cronies with whom he burns the mid
night oil, or will they acknowledge
their own possibility"
This is a mild arraignment com
pared with some, and indicates the
growing disaffection throughout the
state. None has yet drawn a full blu
of indictment against the governor but
all appear to be gathering the data for
such a document when the time shall.
be ripe for 1t.
In this disordered condition of pub
lie sentiment the eyes of leading DEM
ocrats are turned to ex-senator Car
mack as the one man in Tennessee
politics who could restore the party
equilibrium and bring a return Of the
days of peace and harmony; the man
whom the people can trust to carry out
honestly and faithfully the pledges OF
his party and put an end to the bitter
ness and animosities the installation
of factional governor has created.
Mr.. Carmack, we are advised, has been
urged by influential citizens all over
the state to enter the race. num-
Der of occurrences at Nashville during
the past few months have become
noised abroad to the further irritation
of popular discomfort, and these have
put an added burden upon the obliga-
lions the ex-senator is under to the
people of Tennessee, so that the
claims upon him to make the sacrifice
have been so widely and cogently
urged that he will be compelled very
shortly to give a decisive answer.
1t is, of course a serious problem for
him. He has opened to him lucra- |
tive field on the lecture platform. A
to enter strenuous and
acrimonious campaign in ex-
change for the easy and remunerative
alternative offered by the lyceum
bureaus might easily influence an ordi-
nary man, more devoted to his own
comfort and ACKNOWLEDGMENT than to
he public veal; but people have not
regarded Senator Carmack as being
such a man. Hence he will be COM
Delled to get in the race, furnish an
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