The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-26
aAoLn OVER ooMMIrTEEs.

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mack in the Democratic State eonven
lion on Wednesday. the Governor
Nashville organ repeats the silly false
hood that il was due to the fact tha
the county committees, which selected
the delegates, are follower Cox CON
uittees. Nothing could be further
from the facts and the organ knows IL
There are not three hold over com
nittees" in Tennessee, that is theirs
are not three county committees in
he State whose members have not
been elected during the past two
years. More than half Of the county
committees in the Democratic Gibral-
-ars of Middle and West Tennessee
were elected after Patterson's nomi-
nation in 1906. Half of the remain
ing committees of the State we're
elected at conventions that instructed
for Patterson.
Patterson machine with greater en-
phasis than the organs of the Cover,
nor are willing to admit and for that
reason they have resorted to false
hood and Misrepresentation in order
to conceal the truth. But it won't
work; the people know better. In the
organs own county, where an almost
solid Carmack delegation was appoint
ed to the State Convention. every one
knows that the committee was elect
ed in October after Patterson's nomi-
nation and that there was no oppo-
sition to the Governors original"
supporters who sought places on the
Committee. Wilson county was for
Patterson in 1906 and the county COM
mittee was elected after his nomina-
ton; the same is true of Rutherford
and Maury counties, both of which
were counted for the Governor in the
convention. What is true of these
counties is true of majority in Mid
die Tennessee.
Shelby county was represented in
the convention on Wednesday by a |
Carmack delegation of eighty-seven.
We're they elected by a hold
over Cox committee? The committee
is not yet three months OLD, having
been elected by the people at a popu
lar primary last April. In Gibson and
LauderdaIe and Obion and Hardeman
and Fayette and Upton and Henry
counties the committees were APP
pointed from the ardent 1906-suppOrt-
srs of Patterson. And yet the old
scandal monger has the bald effron-
terry to charge that the delegates to
Wednesdays convention were ap-
pointed by hold over committees. This
5hows to what lengths the Patterson
partisans in their desperation will go
in order to deceive the people.
Counties having less than 400 of
the 1900 delegates in the State con-
vention have committees which were
appointed by the friends of Gov Cox.
In many of the counties of East Ten
1essee, where the vote in convention
s small, the committees were named
when instructions were given for /
Gov. Cox and the members were Sc /
ected from among his partisans, but [
{ this had been the case in every /
county Of that division, and it was not, {
here would have been only 276 dele F
,ates appointed by Cox committees in t
he State convention. d
The truth about the matter is that fl
he Patterson leaders called the first c
invention for the purpose of exploit S
ng the candidacy of the Governor.
he State Committee naturally as s.
umed that the county committees APP Il
ointed from among the most devout S,
artisans of the Governor in 1906, n
,ould send delegates that would do Il
is bidding. This was the reason fl
'hy the people, for the first time in te
II the history of Tennessee, were de-
led all voice IN the selection of their
elegates. But the Patterson leaders
3ckoned without their host. They q
ave discovered that the leaders of W
lie party, the very men who nomina- =
ID Patterson in 1906, are leading the ~
evoIt against the machine. :"
In view Of all these facts which are y
nown to every man who reads the ''
apers and understands plain English, "
DIV desperate must be the candidate GU
Rose candidacy has to be boosted
nd sustained by efforts to falsify the
cords and pervert the facts. The th
invention of Wednesday represented b
lie real Democrats of Tennessee; it ell
as dominated by the Old Guard. No sc
onder that Democrats declared they r
1t at home there. But the organ tr
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