The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20

lature operates on the proposition with final vote Abuse and islander characterize the utterances of all the leaders and i'll the columns of the newspapers, no mat ter what faction they belong to.
 Tennessees troubles began at the death of United States Senator w. B. Bate early in 1g05 The legislature was In session at that time. Aspirants for the position to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Bates death included Governor Frazier, Our Bob'' Taylor, ex-Gov. Benton McMiliin and others of less note. Governor Fra zier held the trump card, for party ma chimes were known then. He won by making a place for John l. COX In the governors chair, and the two ex-govern- ors. Taylor and McMillin, were left In retirement Neither enjoyed the opera tion and neither has nor ever will forget if. A new factor came in here. Cox was filling the unexpired term of Governor Frazier when Malcolm R. Patterson, the chief of all fighters bobbed up in Mem phis and announced his candidacy Tor governor With McMillin and Taylor against Cox his defeat was easy of accom- plishment and Patterson came to Cap itol hill
 Way back in the nineties, however, little incident occurred in an assembly NAt-@ stage of the affair. When Senator Car mack was a candidate for congress against Josiah aPtterson, father of the present governor, remark escaped MT. Carmack when making a speech that brought young Patterson from the audi ence and pretty personal bout occurred on the rostrum before the audience. Car mack had never forgotten It. When Ham" Patterson began to rise in Tennes- see MT. Carmack's worst blood began to boil and he interested himself in MT. Cox's behalf against Patterson. This was not enjoyed by either McMillin or Taylor. Last year came the expiration of MT. Carmack's first term in the United States Senate, so there was no shortage of fuel for the flames. Bob Taylor had an- nounced for the place a year previously and he had no difficulty in winning be- fore the people. The retirement of MT. Carmack in Taylor's favor was another big chapter in the story Then, too, M. R. Patterson was filling the governors chair There being no other opportunity to go to the Senate until the expiration of Senator Frazier's term, 1910, and know ing that Patterson was paving the way, backed by a strong machine. to succeed Frazier, MT. Carmack could not keep hands off. Whether from personal ambi- ton or as a result of the urgent demands of his friends he offered for governor. His defeat was either the result of his prohibition views his opposition to Bryan in 1904 or the people had learned to ad- mre Patterson. At any rate MT. .(Car- mack remained private citizen. By this time the prohibition fight was on for all that could come of 1t, and the leaders chose the defeated candidate for governor to carry the fight to the polls at the gen eral election. The republican platform embodied this principle and as much as democrat could the prohibitionists aided Candidate Tillman. The result of the general election was sufficient. The fight grew warmer instead of cooling off, and with the Tennessean editorial page the army was being led on to the legislature.
 The prohibition organization Is com plete and If the official family defeats the measure in the legislature it will be known to history as the hottest engage ment political faction ever participated in. Nashville is getting ready for dramas, comedies and tragedies, with little ex- travaganza thrown in throughout Janu- erv EebruarV and March