The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-08
PREACHER QUlTS
GOV. PATTERSON
REV. J. N. ANDERSON SAYS ne
CAN'T STAND WITH THE L.
oUoR FORCES.
OUT FOR STATE PROHIBITION
Governors Recollection Would Be
Set Back to the Cause of
Temperance.

When Governor Pattersol and Sen.
ator Carmack visited MorIisroVr. the
whisky papers had muoH say abou.
the support of the Rev. Anderson
was giving Mr. Pattersohp They have
nothing to say of the follS wing. from
the Knoxville Sentinel, WHICH shows
Mr.. Anderson's desertion OF the gov.
srnor:
Editor of The Sentinel:
| have all along been for Gov. Pat
terson over Senator Carmack for gov
ernor. But l have changed my views
on account of the temperance issue.
| enclose statement of my views which
i hope you will publish in Fridays
Sentinel. Introduce the article as
you may desire. l was a member Of
the Patterson reception committee,
wore a white badge, rode in the car
riage with him and sat with him on
the stage, but must desert him for
conscience sake.
REV. j. M. ANDERSON,
Morristown, April 30.
Rev. Mr.. Anderson's statement fol.
lows:
| did not expect at the beginning Of
the present gubeTnatorial campaign
that the whisky question would be an
issue at all, much less a dominant
one I understood that both Gov. Pat
terson and Senator Carmack were in
favor of local option as provided for
under the Pendleton law. And, my
own opinion was this rule was the
surest way of getting rid of the saloon
remaining in Tennessee. | believed
they could and would have been blot.
ted out at the first opportunity, but in
this may have been mistaken.
But now that the friends Of tenn
perance have decided on an advance
step and have declared for statewide
prohibition, | yield to their well-nigh
united judgment and take my stand
with them for a saloonless state by
direct legislative enactment. Under
the circumstances, to nominate Gov,
Patterson would not only mean the
defeat of statewide prohibition, but
would also greatly endanger the sue
cess of the temperance forces in the
elections likely to be held thereafter
in the cities of LaFollette, Chatta,
nooga. Memphis and Nashville, under
the PendIeton law To defeat state
wide prohibition now would likely 50
discourage and demoralize the tenn
Derance people as to make success
under local option very doubtful
Whether this step for statewide pre-
1ibition has been wise, or unwise the
step has been taken, and no real
friend of the temperance cause can
,fford to vote against prohibition.
With the issue thus squarely drawn
between local option and statewide
| cannot and will not
stand for the distilleries, the breweries
md the saloons against the schools
he churches and the homes of the
,roud state, as glad as | would have
'een to have given Gov. Pattersons
administration. in the MAN. a vote OF
To vote for local OPP
ion now is to give the saloons yet
in Tennessee at least
hance for their lives, which for one
m unwilling to do. By the laws
hey have broken, by the homes they
ave ruined by the lives they have
lighted they ought to die. They are
ntitled neither TO pardon, nor to fur
ler res, lite by the sovereign power
hus am | driven from the candidate
f my choice in order to be loyal 10
hat | believe to be right. I shall
GREATER support Senator Carmack
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