The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
arTAckINe DEMOCRATS.

Desperate efforts are being made BY
he Patterson organs 70 read Senator
Carmack out Of the Democratic party
because he has espOused the cause Of
the Home against the Saloon and has
denounced the bogus primary plan of
the Patterson officehOlders, which was
conceived in iniquity and born in
fraud In this campaign Carmaek has
taken the side Of decency against the
saloon: he has esGoused the cause OF
the People against the Machine. If
this Is not Democratic then may the
Lord help the Democratic party. The
Governors organs approve a plan
which provides for the nomination of
the candidate for the highest once in
the State by a minority and the Gov
ernor says he is ready to take the
nomination over the protest Of a ma
jority, and he is heralded as the true
blue. simon pure upper case Democrat.
It is a new kind of Democracy that
advocates the rule Of the minority;
it is not the sort of Democracy that
Thomas Jefferson promulgated; it is
not the Democracy that Jackson and
Polk and the other Saints in Glory Of
the historic party of blessed memory,
bequeathed to their followers and to
posterity. 1t is not the kind of De
mocracy that William Jennings Bryan,
the great champion Of the people, the
bitter and implacable enemy Of all
special privilege, has preached for the |
past dozen years. II is peculiarly
Patterson. 1t is the one thing above
all others that distinguishes Patterson
ion Democracy from the old-fashioned
brand.
Because Senator Carmack has de-
in plain and unmeasured
terms the action Of the State Commit
tee in refusing to order Democratic
primary he is read out of the party.
What an absurdity! The committee
vas packed with Patterson oflcehold-
ers and was recreant to its trust and
Untrue to its obligation to the Demo- {
ratio party For that it should be {
condemned. 1t deserves condemna- l
ion and If Democrats are to be {
barred from the party because they a
will not condone the crookedness and i
reachery of its servants the way of |
he political and official transgressor a
will be easy indeed. a
AS matter of fact the Democratic
nd of the Committee, that is the
1embers who were true to their trust. =
a majority of tbn mem .
ers who hold their commissions from :,
he people. The will of the people l.
-as defied and overridden by Pat 4
erson appointees. There are nine =.
lembers of the committee elected by r,
lie people and of these five voted for =,
majority plan and against the bogus :.
theme to rob a majority of the peo- II,
e. :,
But it is worthy of mention that ~
hen Patterson roamed the State two -
ears ago pouring out upon the mem =,
ers of the State Committee his Walls ~
wrath and denouncing them with II,
the malice and spleen of which he il
capable, not one word was offered m
protest by his whiskey organs, but M
/ the contrary they endorsed and CT.
proved what he said. If Carmack in,
not a Democrat now because he will n,
It bow at the shrine Of the Patterson inn
iceholding clique, his opponent left "a
e party two years ago. no
In his first campaign Patterson de-
unced half of the laws that had
en- passed by Democratic admins va
ltions; he bitterly assailed in whole vic
in part every Democratic admins ior
Ition from the adoption Of the con- u
tuition of 1870 to the hour of his fro
eech. For this he was not read out tbe
the party by any Of the organs no,
ich are now assailing Mr.. Carmack J.,
cause he has shown that Gov Pat orr
son has been untrue to the party e,e
l false to his written and spoken crr
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