The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-19
BRYAN CHOICE
OF TENNESSEE
JOHNSON GETS THE ENDORSE
mENT FOR NOMINATION TO
SECOND PLACE.
STRONG FOR TEMPERANCE Toe
Convention Declares For Prohibited
in District Of coIumbia.-For Hep
burn-DolliVar Bill.

+ more representative, democratic state
convention has seldom met in this
: city than the one in elaboration al
; the state capitol yesterday. 1t was
e composed of the foremost men in the
: state, leaders in every walk of life.
and a more prominent or influential
gathering has not been seen in Nash
vile in years.
: Although the gubernatorial cam
: paign was not matter for considera-
ton by the convention the over
whelming preponderance of sentiments
among the delegates for Mr.. Carmack
was second only to that for Mr..
Bryan.
! Everything yesterday was harmony.
Senator E. w. Carmack's friends
dominated the convention from the
beginning to end. Not a presiding of
ticer was chosen nor a committees
man named that was not an ar
dent and enthusiastic supporter Of
Mr.. Carmack. His friends constitute
ed majority of the delegates from
every congressional district, and an
overwhelming majority of the county
| delegations were Carmack men.
The temporary presiding officer OF
the convention was a Carmack man
from peel to core. He was Judge
Ernest l.. Bullock, one of the most
gifted democratic champions in the
great West Tennessee bottoms, and
chancellor of the jackson chancery
division
Two years ago Judge Bullock was
Patterson man, and managed Bob
Taylor's campaign in Madison county
against Senator Carmack. Now he
is one of the strongest Carmack men
in the state, and his powerful infu-
ence and popularity is counting for
much all over his section of the state.
The temporary and permanent sec.
rotary was Luke Lea, and the assist
ant secretary was Rutledge Smith.
And it was a convention of Bryan
democrats A committee on platform
and resolution, every member of which
was a Carmack supporter, reported
with plank most strongly endorsing
William Jennings Bryan for the pres
idency and Gov John A. Johnson Of
Minnesota for Vice-president Every
time that the name of the great Ne
braskan that is to lead the democrats
this year was mentioned or referred to
there was the widest applause, and
if there was any tendency in that con-
vention of temperance democrats 10
fight Bryan it was not evident to the
naked eye or the microscope, but may
nave been to the eye Of lately-con-
yerted and CORRESPONDENCE ardent
Bryan men.
Temperance Democrats.
That it was a convention of tenn
,erance democrats was shown by two
# the planks in the platform, and the
wo that received the most enthusiasts
ic applause when they were read by
Finis Garrett, secretary
f the resolutions committee. The
bill, giving the stat3s
be power to control liquor shipped
ito their borders from the outside,
as indorsed, and there was a plank
rging that the sale of liquor be pro-
ibited in the District of Columbia.
nd these same temperance demo-
'ats cheered to the echo the name of
lillian Jennings Bryan every time
lat it was uttered
The convention met in the hall of
at noon yesterday, and
ON the foregoing the idea may be
ithered that some red was evidence.
an district conventions met at the
pitol and the Tulane Hotel yester-
" morning, and in all ten of them
e same overwhelming proportion Of
d held good The hotel Hobbies were
led with democratic politicians from
over the state throughout the morn
! and the night before, and there
10 white ribbon or flower or Pat
son button was a rarity. 1t was all
!, good old Carmack red.
All Carmack Men.
The temporary chairman Judge e.
Bullock, the permanent chairman,
n. Harvey H. Hannah, every men,
of the resolutions and credential
nmittees, and every delegate to
nvar named were Carmack men
there was the utmost harmony in
naming OF them, with the excep-
! of the contest that F. A. Hood, of
,ttanooga, made for one of the
ces as delegates-atlarge How
+, the vote was very much against