The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-06-18

sition gave four months time for can
vass?
II he was sincere then, was be sincere
on the Goth day of February, 1903, when
he, through his manager, went before
the present state committee and de-
manded a primary on the 23d day of
May, which would have given only
three months in which to make can.
vass?
Senator Carmack is now in open re-
belIiou against the present state com
mlttee, the regular authority of his
party, aud denounces it as he would a
band of carpetbaggers in every speech
which he makes Did he thus hold in
contempt the authority of the state
committee of 1908? Far from it, be-
cause au overwhelming majority of its
mem bers were his partsans. How did
he then humble himself before the state
committee and acknowledge and exalt
its authority? Read the following ex-
tract from his letter to Hon. Frank M.
Thompson, then chairman of the state
committee, which letter appeared in
the public press of August 10, 1905.
H said:
GAS to the authority of the committee
to act, it will not be questioned by me.
and has been admitted by Gov. Taylor. I"
Again, in the same article, be said:
81 realize that when Gov Taylor and
can not agree, we should both bow to
some recog gnized authority" "
The senator is now charging that the
saloons and the lawless element of the
state are arrayed against him in his
fight with Patterson. Did he not charge
the same against Taylor in 1906? Read
the following taken from the public
press of April IL, 1906, reporting Sena-
tor Carmack speech at the Auditorium
on the evening of April IL:
"The dramatic climax of the speech
came When Senator Carmack, referring
to his statement five months ago, that
he had been threatened with the saloon
power of the state, and that he under
stood that this threat was being carried
into execution, aud that everywhere
the lawless saloon keeper and the law
breaking gambler had lined up solidly
against him, but, drawing himself up
to the full measure of his stature, he
declared that the challenge of the law
less and the vicious was accepted"
The senator is attacking Gov. Pat.
terson's democracy and his loyalty to
the Confederate soldier. Did he attack
Bob Taylor's democracy and b loyal
ty to the Confederate soldier? Read
his own words in the Auditorium
speech at Nashville on the evening OF
April II, 1906 Referring to Gov. Tay-
lor's service in congress from the First
district, he said:
:" Gov. Taylor in congress had the
apppointm to the lucrative position
of assistant door keeper of the house,
aud when he came to max g the appoint
ment he looked all over his district,
turned down every old Confederate,
though many of them had been ruined
and impoverished by the war, and ap.
pointed one Dan Ellis, an old Yankee
bushwhacker. The appointment oi
Dan Ellis was no doubt a sample oi
} Gov. layipr's rib.tickllng statesman
ship He had been elected to congress-
by the votes of Union men, through
The Influence of his Union family. Il
he had appointed some needy old Con
federate soldier, 1T might have dlspleas
ed mis- Union friends, and so he 'tickleC
him ia the ribs by the appointment o.
the foulest mouthed slanderer of tht
Confederate soldier to be found in hi
ongressional district"
! Again, in the same speech, Senator
Carmack said:
He Taylor sat there for two year
and heard the Confederate soldiers o
his own state and his own district de
, nounced as vile and Infamous traitors
: and he spoke no word In their defense
but ne resented it as an infamous sian
der upon the good name of his constit
Q uents to insinuate that they had an,
G sympathy whatever for the Southern
Confederacy."
The foregoing quotations are onl
g the mist and spray from the great ocea
r of criticism poured upon the name an
. character of Robt L. Taylor in the lat
> senatorial campaign, If all of thos
charges, made without reservation
we're true, then he was not worthy tn
support of honest democrats. II the
p were not true, then, until Senator Cai
mack makes public acknowledgment
that they were untrue, he has no righ
u to expect the vote of a single democra
who respects Bob Taylor and is loyi
p to his future. His friends heard wit
: amazement these charges against him
o and away from Tennessee the peopl
o wondered that a man so believe
y u throughout the land should be calle
v upon to answer such an arraignment &
e home, but when the case went befor
a the ninety-six counties and seventy-tw
u u of them pronounced Robert L. TaylC
Q not guilty, the mystery was cleare
/. aud the charges were seen in their tru
Is light.
a. But the senator has a new she'll
of destruction which he is throwing int
the Patterson trenches and incidental
il tearing gaps in the fences of some
At his own friends and supporters. 3