The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
CARMACK NAILS
CAMP IGN LIE
NEVER SAID A DOLLAR A DAY
WAS ENOUGH FOR THE WORK
ING MAN.
GREAT PARADE At FRANKLIN
Senator Gets the Greatest Demonsta-
ton Of the Contest in VIII
Hanson
BY SAMUEL }. sTocKARo.
TN Nashville Tennessean.)

| FRANKLIN, Tenn. May IS There
were four features of tie twentieth
debate between Senator F. W. Car
mack and Gov NJ R. Patterson, held
in this beautiful capital of Williamson
today
The first in Importance was Wig
orous denunciation by Senator Car
mack of a campaign falsehood that
is being circulated about Nashville
and over the state to the effect that
the Senator has stated that zone dol
lar a day : enough for any working
man"
Senator Denounces 1t.
Senator Carmack today denounced
the statement as wilfully and unscru-
pulously false, and charged that it is
being circulated by petty politicians
for the purpose of distracting the at
tention of honest men from the great
issues of this campaign.
He called attention TO his early
struggles as an orphan boy on the
farm up in Sumner county, when he
worked for % cents day for his
bread and meat, and said he had
never lost his sympathy with the toll
ing masses among whom he was born.
In the audience which heard him
was W. T. House, an aged farmer
now a citizen of Williamson county,
for whom the Senator worked as a
plowboy back in old Sumner. Dur
ing the morning Mr.. and Mrs House
visited the Senator at his room in the
hotel, and with glowing pride at the
fame and distinguished career that
has come to their plowboy, Mrs.
House kissed the Senator as proudly
as if he had been her own son.
Governor Makes a Mistake.
The second feature was the verbal |
faux pas" made by Gov. Patterson in
opening his speech. In expressing |
his gratitude to the manhood and |
womanhood of old Williamson for the
reception given him, the Governor got
the county mixed with the county
seat, and returned his thanks to the
line men and beautiful women of this
grand old county of Franklin"
A litter went through the crowd,
and when some one called the atten-
ton of the Governor to his mistake,
he corrected it in a good-humored
way.
Bio Majority for the Red.
The third feature of the debate was
The tremendous prepOnderance of the
red badges in the audience. They
had majority of at least three to one,
and it might have been even better
Three to one, however, is ultracon-
and many prominent Car
mack men insisted stoutlv that the diff
was at least four to one. Some
asserted that it was even greater
It is certain that this was the most
victory for Senator
Carmack since the Middle Tennessee
debates began. The crowd was real
" dist~essiDgly one-sided. If there
was ever any doubt about old Will
hanson, it vanished here today The
nineteen votes of this county were
sealed signed and delivered to the
leader by the unterrified
Democracy who poured into town in
numbers to hear him.
Even the voters were in two to one
for Carmack.
Magnificent Parade.
The fourth feature was the grand
,arade given in honor of the Senator
shortly after his arrival. It eclipsed
III previous efforts at other places in
very way.
From the time he alghted from his
rain this morning at o'clock a. m,
Senator Carmack was the center of !
ttraction, and his trip through the
treets of this city YVES one contiual
walton. Cheer upon cheer greeted !,
lin on every side. and the Senator !.
vas constantly bowling and waving
is hand in response to the enthusi- :.
site welcome. !,
It was the biggest and most demon ;,
trative reception he has yet received !.
nd its warmth touched the heart OF
he brilliant prohibition leader