The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-06-18
DEADLY PARALLEL.
What CarmaCk Said in
Taylor Campaign
IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT
From His Views of Pres
ent Situation if He Told
Truth Both Times.

The apparent effort of Senator Car
mack aud his frenzied friends to con-
jure votes for him with the popular and
magnetic name Of Bob Taylor is so far
fetched, 30 un Just aud 80 presumptuous
that | AIN constrained to call their at
teution to few plain facts and little
modern history in connection with
Tennessee politics In so doing ! speak
as Bob Taylor democrat, as one who
has humbly followed his welfare and
his fortune with unroken loyalty for
eighteen years, believing always IN his
democracy, his ability and his integrity
of purpOse.. During those eighteen
years | have seen him tried in the
tiercest fires that test mems sonIs, and
never once have | seen the alloy of i'm
purity or the dross of dishonesty cloud
the pure gold Of his character The
fercest fires that ever ragged around
him were those kindled by ten thousand
tongues of Islander Oh every hill and in
every valley in Tennessee in 1906. That
those fires did not consume his good
name, and that he is not now ruined,
disgraced and au outcast from the dem
ocratic party is not the fault of Senator
Carmack and those who conducted his
campaign; and yet they now speak the
name of Bob Taylor in honeyed tones,
as though they loved him, and quote
his expressions on public questions as
though they respected his opinions.
Since they have neither loved nor re-
spected him in the past, such use as
they are now making of his name can
only be construed as the rankest flat
terry for political purposes. Senator
Carmack, in a speech at the Auditorium
in Nashville in 1906, said:
"a man may have some respect for
the man he SANDERS He has none
whatever for the mau he tlatters."
Measured by this logic, can under
stand why the senator is now hatterng
Bob Taylor by the use of his name ii
public debate. But alas, for the cam
paign of 1906 1t is too close to us, auC
it's memories are too fresh to admit O
such a game. would advise Senator
Carmack not to stir into activity thu
now sleeping prejudices of that cam
paign by dragging into the presen
fight the name Of Bob Taylor. From
anim osites that now are dead nigh
arise ghosts to plague the senator anC
make his defeat doubly sure.
He and his friends are using agains
Patterson and his friends the same tao
tics and the samo arguments whicl
they employed against Taylor and hi
friends. In fact, the parallel is so plail
as to make it deadly prophecy of
hbCOhu uGlCdG lOl buO houubOIs
He charges Patterson with havini
brought about an unfair and dishones
primary plan. Did he not charge Tay
lor with the intention to do the sam
thing? Read what he said in publ
statement made July IS, 1905:
"I have heard before that Gov. Tay
lor's friends we're conducting a schem
bring about primary this fall, but fo
good while | could not believe tina
the alleged victim of q snap caucus wa
himself preparing II snap primary.
Again, in the same statement, h
said:
The effort now is to pull off a sna
primary before there car be any fal
hearing of both sides by the people. "
Again, in statement made Augu'
10, 1906, he said:
Gov. Taylor proposed to me a sna
primary to be held on the first day
December. proposed a general pr
mary to be held on the day of the gel
tIhi 6leOblOI, anu L OuoIO VI cul6E iul
signed agreement with him, so as
put the matter beyond all doubt an
question. He curtly refused to hay
any negotions with me on that or an
other subject, declared that the tin
for holding the primary was really
matter of little Consequence to him, an
proposed to leave the whole matter
the state convention. Instead of doin
81, he has ignored both the state con
mlttee and the state convention, and
attempting now to break down the pls
Of general primary by holding ind
pendent snap primaries III advance
the state convention
Does any democrat in this state ia
to see that this was an open charge tn
Taylor was trying to rob him of Il
nomination for senator by fraud? SUE
claim was no more misrepresent
tion than is Senator Carmack's nc
daily denuuciation of Gov. Patterst
ia connection with the present primal
plan.
Was the senator sincere and in got
faith before the people of Tenness
when he accused Taylor of an effort
rob him ef the nomination through
"snap primary" when Taylor's prop