The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-10-30
To CARRY FIGHT
INTO The COuRlS
RuMoREo THAT PATTERSON FAC.
TON WILL TRY TO ENJ!oN
TUESDAYS PRIMARY.

q fled candidates for the County Den
q ocratic Executive Committee, and al
g Of those qualified, with but one o
q two exceptions, have been withdrawn
3 rumors have gained currency to tn
8 effect that an effort will be made b,
8 this element to either enJoin the pr
3 mary ordered for next Tuesday or els,
enjoin the members elected at tina
g time from serving as the new Commit
8 tee. Whether or not there is founda
Z ton for these rumors cannot be ascer
3 tanned. but they have been circulat
ed with more or less persistency and
: there is some reason to believe that
3 the Patterson faction has something
5 up its sleeve"
s 1t had been expected that when the
3 County Committee met on Sept. 10
and ordered the primary for next
Tuesday to elect the new Committee
that the Pattersonites would make a
desperate fight to secure control of
the county machinery. The repre-
sentatives Of that faction on the pres
ent Committee indicated this at the
meeting. They urged that the new
| Committee be elected from the new
districts and that each district have
the same number of members re-
CARELESS of its population or voting
strength and contrary to the Demo
cratic law and presidents of the coun-
ty.
When the Committee voted down
this plan and decided to adhere to
| precedent and elect the Committee
from the old civil districts, the leader
Of the Patterson faction in the Com
mittee defantly exclaimed that this
question would be an issue in the
election Hence at that time it was
apparent that it was the plan of this .
element to contest with the dominant I
faction for the control of the Com
mittee
That there has been a change in
the tactics is evident for in many of !
the districts, some of them where the
Patterson element had decidedly the
best chance to elect members, no tick
ct was qualified In others, notably
the Eleventh and Nineteenth districts,
the candidates Of the Patterson fac
ton have been withdrawn, leaving the
candidates of the dominant element /
without opposition. The only district
in which there will now be a con-
test is the Twenty-frst. In the TWEEN
ty-fifth the one candidate who has
qualified is partisan of the Patter-
son faction. {
just what the plans of the opposi- {
ton are cannot be obtained. Some of Y
the leaders of that faction declare \
that they made no contest because a
the Legislative primary demonstrate t
ed that they had no chance to win; \
others state that they found it to the \
pest interests of their faction to de- b
vote all their time and energies to the +
election of their candidate for the b
Senate. 6
In the event that resort should be "
made to the courts it is not known "
whether the plan would be to en- te
DIN the election or wait until after te
he election and then enjOin the Com HI
aittee In either event the present g
Committee would hold until another VI
7as elected and this would not avail
he Patterson faction any material c.
dvantage for in case of litigation
he suit would be sure to go to the 81
ighest courts which would mean the ds
apse of two or three years before of
nal decision could be reached. In G.
ne meantime there would be strife m
nd turmoil and uncertainty in the re
arty ranks in this county. an
By those who have circulated the VI
sport of litigation it is conten6ed
lat under the law the Committee of
Mould have called the primary by the oh
ew districts. On the other hand a
lie majority faction insists that the gl
w does not prescribe any method or re
Ian for representation on the county tn
1mmittee that that is question to tn
3 determined by the governing au-
lority.. 1t is contended that the tn
ounty Committee could order all an
embers elected from the county at 20
rye II it should so desire or fix any
her baFk but that by selecting tn
embers sfron the old districts the wi
,mmiftee is made more representa- to
We of the people and is kept closer X!
the people than If the constituent pr
es of the members should be larger tn,