The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-01
sEYoND The MOUNTAINS.
Editorial correspondence

has been strenuously denied by the
Patterson partisans and they have ex-
ultantly said Wait and see. We
nave waited and We have seen. Al
every appointment. save one. Carmaek
had the large preponderanee Of the
crowd. This one exception was John
son CITY. washington county is de-
batable ground, but it is the only
county in Upper East Tennessee that
can be placed in that list; the others
are sure to be found in the Carmaek
coIumn.-delegates, popular vote and
] all
I Greene and Sullivan counties, the
! banner Democratic counties Of East
Tennessee. are standing Loyalty by
the Peoples champion. Great as was
/ the sentiment manifested for Carmack
at Bristol it was not one whit strong
er than that displayed at Greeneville;
+ in fact the Patterson strength is prob
ably less in Greene county than In
I any other of East Tennessee. the
crowd which heard the speakers at
Greeneville was not less than five to
one for Carmack. Outside of the Pat
terson followers from Washington
county and the Republicans who wore
the machine colors, there were not
enough Patterson badges in evidence
to constitute respectable corporaPs
guard. Greene county nominated
Paterson two years ago, but 1t is SICK
of the lob and takes no particle OF
pride therein and will repudiate his
administration by an emphatic ma
iority. Of this county it can truly be
said that it took Patterson at his face
value and found him to be gross coun-
terfeit.
That the Patterson part1sans, rep
resenting generally small coterle
of ex-saloon keepers and their imme-
date followers, have been surprised
at the strength of the Carmack sentl-
ment in this section, is not concealed.
One of the Governors leaders at
Bristol, in attempting to explain the
preponderance of Carmack colors
| said: 1.-THE merchants here are
strong for Carmack and they MADE
their clerks wear his colors." But"
said an inquirer not convinced by this
argument, there were many farmers
with Carmack badges on?"
This puzzled the Patterson leader
for a moment, but he was equal TO
the occasion and made with very lucid
and brilliant explanation: The farm
ers wore red bdages in order to stand
in with the merchants This is the
first time that ever heard that the
farmers pandered to the merchants.
NY experience and observation had
taught me the very contrary and am
not vet convinced that the farmers OF
East Tennessee; the sovereigns OF this
DEMONSTRATED by the blood of its
pioneers at every battlefield for hui
man liberty from Kings Mountain to
San Juan,-will crook the pregnant
hinges of the knee that thrift may
follow fawning."
At Morristown today 1t is repett
ton of Greeneville and Bristol. Car
-.., o1orc ox,orvnbora. Patterson
badges few and far between. Ham
blen, Jefferson, Cooke and Hawkins
counties were well represented in the
large crowd that heard the candidates,
and all of them will fall into the Car
mack column. East Tennesseans will
not stand by a political machine, es-
pecially when that machine is a Wis
ible and acknowledged partner of the
liquor traffic. No freer people live
upon earth than the people OF this
mountain section; upon every battle
field for human freedom they have
freely given their lives, and never will
they espouse the cause Of candidate
who boldly defies the popular will and
boasts that he will take an honor over
the protests of majority of his party,
from a convention whose delegates
are not even elected by the people.
Let the Carmack followers in Mid
die and West Tennessee know that
their fellows of old East Tennessee
send them a message of courage and
good cheer If the other two sections
of Tennessee do half as well as the
pioneer division the machine and the
liquor interests will be buried beneath |
such an avalanch of ballots on June
81 as to be beyond resurrection for
ever. J. /. FINNEY.
Morristown, April 23.
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