The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-19
MADE PATTERSON
APOLOGIZE
FOUL ISLANDER IN THE AMERICAN
LASTED ONLY UNTIL SENATOR
REACHED NASHVILLE.
LIBEL SUIT WAS THREATENED
Dirty slanderer Had to Retract
or Face a Jury Of Its Own
County.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 16.-
Rather than face the consequences
of a vile SANDER the Patterson morn
ing organ here, the Nashville Amerl-
can. printed the following retraction
and apology in Sundays issue:
UNJUST TO Mr.. CARMACK.
"The paragraph in yesterdays
American accusing Mr.. Carmack OF
falsehood in the Brandon senatorial
matter, and insinuating that his
mind was at times confused by some
hidden agency. did the ex-senator an
Injustice, and the American hastens
To make the amende honorable. MI.
Carmack says he made no reference
to a son of Gen. Brandon in connec-
ton with the senator matter, as re-
ported in a dispatch to another morn
ing paper, for the reason he knew
Gen. Brandon had no son.
THE American cheerfully with
draws any accusation of falsehood on
the ex-senator's part, or any intima-
ton that he was using stimulants
which confused his mind The objec-
tionable paragraph was based on an
erroneous report in the Carmack pa
per. which was presumed to be cor
rect statement of the senator's re-
marks.
"The American is opposing Mr.. Car
mack with all the force at its COM
mand but it fights him fair and
square, and will not intentionally
strike a blow below the belt"
/ The origin of this was the following
vicious and malignant paragraph in
the American of the day before:
"Mr. Carmack and those who circu-
late his falsehoods do not seem to
know that w. NJ Brandon has no son.
The assertion relative to Mr.. Bran
don's promise of a senatorship to Mr..
Carmack must have been born of
brain confused by some agency which
makes the mind unnaturally right
and dull and confused by turns
1t would be hard to conceive a more
wanton, gratuitous and malignant
SANDER. The reference to "Mr. Bran
don's son" came about through an err
ror in the transmission of the Tennes-
scans report from Brownsville, the
correspondent writing "the Hon. VIM.
M. Brandon" and the telegraph oper-
ator enormously transmitted 1t the
son of VIM. M. Brandon"
Upon the error in the columns OF
another paper the American based It's
direct charge Of falsehood coupled
with it's other dirty and slanderous
insinuation. The American could not
have been deceived as to what Mr..
Carmack really said for it's own re-
port, secured from Gov. Pattersons
stenographer, showed that Senator
Carmack had spoken of Mr.. Brandon
himself and not of his son, and Mr..
Brandon himself had replied to Sena-
to Carmacks statement in the columns
of the American quoting the senator's
statement as actually made. There
was, therefore, not the slightest ex-
cuse for the American taking up tel
egraphic error from another paper as
the basis for its wantom and malig-
nant attack.
It will be observed that the Ameri-
can gives itself credit for making the
amende honorable. The amende In
question came about in this way: Sen
ator Carmack reached Nashville from
GAINESVILLE Saturday night, consulted
with E. S. McNeilly, a prominent law
yer of the Nashville bar, and instruct
ed him to inform the editor OF the
Nashville American that he must pub
fish an ample and complete retractlon
the next morning, or he would instl'
| tute a libel suit on Monday.
Rather than face jury, the Ameri'
can retracted and apoligized.
The facts, when known, will simply
intensity, If possible, the contempt IN