The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-29
CARMAGK SCORES
ON HIS OPPONENT
ADMINISTERS scATHINe REsokE
TO PATTERSON IN DEBATE
AT LEXINGTON.
REDS AGAIN IN THE MAJORITY
covernor Shows Plainly That ne
Does Not Enjoy The oruo-
bing.-Is Nettied.
fHv SAMUEL J. sTocKAR0l
I'm Nashville Tennessean)


LEXINGTON. Tenn, May 26.-Ihe
red wolf kept up his voracious pro-
nonsitv in the second of the west
tennessee appointments here TO-DAY
Inv eating another elaborate dinner
The moor lamb fought bravely, put
IN the end met his usual fate. de
was uneoual to the struggle, and, after
the wolf had flung him about re"
times. he grasped hard and lay
crushed and bleeding at the feet OF
his conqueror
It was one of the most unpleasant
matches of the canvass. The Won
was unusually ferocious, and almost
before the time-keeper had turneu
them loose into the arena, he sprahs
at the lamb like tiger and lald nm
out. The wolf has seldom been III
such grand form.
If Senator Carmack escapes pros
ecution at the hands of the society
for the prevention of cruelty TO am
mails, it will only be because OF ma"
IN the Indictment Both the venue
and the corpus lelicti are already es-
tablished.
IT was one of the most powerful ell
forts of this epoch-making struggle, IN
which the Senator is undoubtedly get
ting stronger every day.
Speech Sets New Mark.
It is not exaggeration, however, 10
saw that this Lexington speech mas
get a new mark In the Senator's loren
sic efforts during this campaign. Inc
McMinnville, Gallatin and WaVerV
speeches, which have heretofore stoou
as the high marks in Carmack ora
tory. were eclipsed. Indeed, the SEN
ator out-Carmacked himself. Never
has his Damascus blade of incontro-
yertible argument, wit and sarcasm
flashed with such brilliance, and never
has it cut deeper.
In one bound he leaped to the lott-
lest heights of genuine oratory, ana
established his claim beyond dispute
as the greatest speaker Tennessee mas
had in decades.
It is absolutely impossible for the
neople of Nashville who heard tne
auditorium debate to conceive the dill
ference in that speech and the one
here today.
IF that one satisfied the Senator
friends. today's would have electrified
and thrilled them. If that one was
counted a victory, today's must pc
counted total humiliation. 1t was
as if the Senator had concentrated all
previous great efforts into one grand
broadside.
Crowd Sat SpeIIbound.
The crowd was spellbound with IN
terest and admiration. 1t hung Oh
his words; it shouted itself hoarse at
his mastery blows; it laughed at MS
flashing wit and groaned sympathet'
ically as he hurled his whitening sa'
tire at his opponent
The Senator was on his anclen'
fighting ground Long before ne ever
ran for public Office in Memphis ne
used to come here and preach the COS
pel of democracy in this republican
stronghold. Long before he was
candidate for Congress he stood here
and hurled his javelins into the qulV
ering flesh of the elephant. That was
in Inc DAYS when, as editor of the
Commercial-Appeal, he went from enc
10 end in Tennessee, fighting for dem
ocratic nominees, his red plume WaV
snp like the roses of loving over the
battlefield. the republican GoiiathS
.eyading him as they would the blacF
plague.
This was before, as the Senator
said in his speech, Gov. Malcolm Il
Patterson ever lifted his voice for the
democratic ticket on a single stuml
in Tennessee.
1t was probably in recalling those
days that the brilliant leader forgo
himself today and imagined he was
fighting the ancient enemy instead O
a democratic competitor. This PROB
ably accounted for the terrible defea
he administered.
A Patterson man, after hearing th'
senator's speech, declared: Il believe
Carmack is the most powerful speak
er in the United States"
Patterson Shows Anger
Governor Patterson, however
showed plainly in his rejoinder tina
he felt the lashing. He smarted un
der II and displayed anger. He Wen
hack TO his old charge of mls-state
ments and said 1t was hard to depat
with n man so unfair and reckless II