The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-01-30
4 Matter of Political Records.

Without auimadverting upon the po-
litical records of Messrs. Duncan B.
Cooper, Tully Brown, Horace E. Pal
mer, ]. j. Williams, q. NJ. Doak and
three or four other more or less distin-
guished Tennesseans, who are friendly
to Gov. Patterson, suffice it to say that
none of these men has announced him
self as a candidate for governor of Ten
nessee, nor, so far as we are advised,
for any other Office before the people of
the state. Their political records,
therefore, at this time, are matters ut
terly impertinent to the issue.
AS a matter of fact, only Gov. NJ. r.
Patterson and E. W. Carmack are "out"
for the Office. If, then, records are to
be inspected, it is fit and proper to con-
trast those made by the two contending
candidates while delving into what
some few individual admirers of these
candidates may have done in the past
is about as far fetched as would be the
effort to make either of them RESPONSE
BILE for the issuance of cashiers checks.
Besides, if what Duncan B. Cooper,
FULLY Brown and some others did sew
eral years ago is to be hoisted into ma
terial telling against Gov. Patterson,
the governors friends can readily re,
taliate in kind by pointing out how
that good republican, Walt Brownlow,
prefers Carmack to Patterson, and
what ardent strenuosity the half baked
crew Of the John /. Cox brand of ANAL
gamated republican democrats lend
their support to the ex-senator.
1t is a good sign for Patterson that
in order to fight his democracy the Car
mack coattail bearers are forced to fire
guns at some few of his admirers. 1t
is confession that they can't tilt the
governors record. It is on straight
and may not be pulled awry, condi-
ton which can not be said of the record
of their friend, E. W. Carmack. His
political bonnet is ever tilted either
over the left ear or over the right optic,
giving that rakish air which writer's of
the deep blue sea and the bounding
pillows we're wont to ascribe to vessels
of q piratical nature. He bolted the
democratic committee of the Tenth
congressional district; he aided the
boilers of the democratic primaries of
the city OF Memphis; he fought the
candidates of the regular democracy of
Shelby county, and he afterward stood,
club in hand, belaboring with might
and main democratic Legislative dele
cation in the effort to induce its mem
bers to betrsy the instructions of the
democrats who sent them to the legis-
lature.
Here is this queer sort of democrat
bolting the democracy of the city, the
democracy of the county, the democra-
cy of congressional district and en-
deavoring to prevent the representa-
tiyes of democracy from carrying into
execution the instructions of the party,
There is nothing left for him to bolt,
except the democracy of the state, and,
certainly. his past performances and
the acts of his supporters in this city
give no assurance that he will not com.
plete his record for boiling ere the next
election for governor takes place.
Even should there be truth in the re-
port of the records of some of the gov.
ernor's friends, as mentioned by the
Carmack coat duster, they are singu,
larly straight and regular, when com
pared with the kangaroo-like side hops
of the governors opponent CONNER
cial-Appeal. o..