The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-08
SUMNER GREETS
HER Great SON
cARMAcK RECEIVED LIKE CON-
oUERlN6 HERO AT HIS OLD
HOME YESTERDAY.
MAJORITY OF CROWD WITH HIN
Makes Powerful And Effective Plea
For Curse Of Good Gov
eminent.
(sy SAMUEL J. sTockARo)
Qn Nashville Tennessean.)

GALLATIN, Tenn, May 4.-Sumnel
county's native son and most distin
guished product, Senator Edward W
Carmack, received the greatest dem
onstration Of the campaign thus faI
here today, when he came with his
competitor, Governor Malcolm R. Pat
terson to debate the issues between
them for the democratic nomination
for governor.
1t was a welcome that any man
might well be proud of, and that il
deeply touched the distinguished can
didate was evidenced by the deep
emotion he betrayed when he ap
peared on the balcony of his hotel
after the parade in his honor had end
ed. to thank his former fellow coun
tians for the magnificent greeting.
His voice trembled and his lips quiv
cred with pride as he expressed his
appreciation of the royal manner in
which he had been received.
Caesar returning from the Gallo
wars did not meet more exuberant en-
thusiasm than Senator Carmack re-
ceived from "old home friends" on his
arrival here. He was treated as a
conquering hero from the time he en-
tered the gates of the historic capital
of Sumner until he departed tonight.
A parade at least a mile in length
was given in his honor, with himself
at the head of it, in profusely dec
GRATED carriage, and all along the line
of march he was enthusiastically
cheered, women standing at their
front doors shouting cheers for him
and waving red banners, and finally,
when he landed at his hotel, he was
literally showered with flowers from
half hundred young women who
stood on the balcony of the hotel wait
ing his arrival.
1t was a reception which the sena-
tor will long remember, and the dem
ocrats of old Sumner did themselves
proud in the splendid manner in which
it was carried out.
Senator Equal to the Occasion.
Inspired with such cordial greet
ing from the people among whom he
was born, the invincible champion of
prohibition delivered one of the great
est speeches of his career. 1t swept
his followers away with delight. 1t
was fully equal to his great effort at
McMinnville last wednesday, and in
some respects was even better. 1t
was stronger on the temperance issue,
the paramount question of the cam
paign, the senator defending his rec
ord as an opponent of the saloon, and
exposing the charge that he is insin-
cere in a manner that carried convic-
tion to all who heard him.
He completely overthrow the asser-
tions of his competitor that he had
taken up the fight against the saloons
simply to become governor of Tennes-
see, and proved fully and conclusive
1y that he had been fearless and con-
sistent enemy of the whisky power in
this state for years-even back to a
day when there were few who were
fighting by his side.
The senator's speech was remark
able all the way through for its pow
erful logic and the eloquence of its
truth At times he was forced to stop |
for the repeated cheering to die away.
1t was Carmack day in Gallatin, and
the senator was "as fine as fiddle"
for the occasion. In spite of the fact
that the opposition had secured all
the livery rigs in the town, in an eff
fort to keep down the parade, the Car
mack demonstration dwarfted that of
Governor Patterson by an actual of
two and half to one,
The crowd, numbering something
Dver 5000, was overwhelmingly for
Summers favorite son. The senator's
followers claimed at least two to one,
and whether or not 1t reached quite
to that estimate, the majority was so
pronounced that It was indisputable,
and even the Patterson leaders "ac-
the corn"
old Summer All Right.
A particularly strong effort is being
made bv Governor Patterson's friends