The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-08
CARnACK MEN
HOLD MEETING
RoUsINe GATHERING or Cit
ZENs HELD AT TIE COURT
HOUSE TODAY.
HON. 6. 7. HUGHES THE SPEAKER
Exposes Bogus Primary And Appeals
to TIE Higher Manhood Of
County.

About hree hundred 0f the prom
inent democrats Of Maury county held
an enthusiastic meeting in the Circuit
Court room Monday afternoon in the
interest OF the candidacy Of Senator
Carmack The meeting was addressed
by Hon G T. Hughes, whose exposure
Of the trickery underlying the bogus
primary was Illuminating.
The meeting was called to order by
C. T. Looney and its purposes stated.
On motion J. A. Baker was elected
chairman and was introduced by Mr.
Looney. Mr.. Baker said that the
meeting was not in the interest of any
man or candidate, but of the citizen
ship of Tennessee, He said vital is
sues had arisen which set at naught
the political life and interests of men.
That the great temperance issue has
been growing for years and slowly
gaining in momentum and the time
has come when with a strong pull and
a pull altogether a great and final
victory can be won, while if we waver
in the battle now, the state, the peo
pie, the homes will lose what has
been gained and it will take another
ten years to get back where we now
are. That as he looked in the faces
of the sturdy men before him, he felt
that they were men ready and willing
to do their duty and if need be to give
their lives for the great cause they
had espoused Mr.. Baker then intro
duced Mr.. Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes said he had no apol-
ogies to make for appearing before
the meeting. That he was a native
Tennessean and for one-third of CEN
fury had been a native of Maury coun- |
ty, so that every interest Of the peo- |
pie of this county was close and dear
to his heart and identical with his
own interests
The present contest, like all great |
contests, he said, had developed prom
inent and vital questions, and the
questions in this contest which the
people must take to their hearts and
consciences and decide for themselves
as citizens and men were STATE.
WIDE Prohibition and The Right OF
Tho Mo ioritxr To D,,Ia
The first of these he explained was
whether the liquor traffic should be
wiped from the State, or should be
re-established and re-habilitated.
Whether the people should be free of
the degrading and ruinous influence of
the saloon, or whether the saloon
should be re-established all over the
state by means of the proposed Model |
License system. Whether we pre-
serve the victories we have already
won or shall go backward and live
under a system which means the loss
of mems souls and minds and bodies;
which means sorrow to the hearts of
and sisters and wives, want
and misery to little children, wasted 2
lives and blighted hopes to thousands.
On the one side in the contest he said q
would be found the good true, sober r
on the other the saloon, the t
the grog shop.
Mr.. Hughes then turned to the ac- e
ton of the State Committee in calling {
the bogus primary and the way he s
ripped that nefarious measure up and u
down and turned it inside out to the q
gaze of the large assembly opened their =
eyes to just what Patterson and his
committee had perpetrated on the peo- p
pie. He told of the selection Of ~
he State Executive Committee, a.
chosen presumably to give every can II
lidate and every cause a fair show
when presented to them. How when r'
he Committee met in February they r
ound awaiting them petitions from Ell
learly 5000 committeeman Of the OF
tate and an appeal from nearly ev- N
ny democratic newspaper in the state v
or a direct primary for the nominal D!
ion of a candidate for Governor pt
The appeal of the people was ignored III
nd instead OF granting the request PC
he committee at the instigation of e
Ir, Patterson concocted in Mr.. Pat
erson's room at the Maxwell a bogus nc
Ian whereby the minority in the =
ounties of the state might over-rule 'r
he will of the majority in the smaller IA
ounties and again nominate the man SIP
whose will they were doing. Under
his plan, he said, the 10000 voters
t twenty-five counties could defeat s.