The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-01-10

gave me a first term. therefore you
owe me a second term" The plea,
of course. is absurd. The practice
of giving a second term is to encour-
age a man TO the faithful performance
of his duty by rewarding him with an
Endorsement If he acts SO as to de-
serve it. II he is to have it regard
less OF whether he has shown him
self worthy, then the practice would
encourage a man to be neglectful and
unfaithful Mr.. Carmack stated the
case plainly when ne said in his own
campaign. II do not ask an endorse
ment unless | have deserved 1t at
your, hands II / have violated a
single promise ! made to the people
or single plank in the Democratic
platform, If have been in any re-
spect unfaithful to my duty, let your
judgment untempered with mercy
descend upon me-"
This is the test which Gov. Patter-
son must stand il he is to be renomi-
mated He can't stand 1t, for he has
violated all his promises and the
most vital planks in his party plat
form.
He canvassed this state as the pre-
tended friend OF temperance and de-
clared himself ready to approve any
bill the legislature might pass, even
though it should drive whisky legally
out OF the state.
AS soon as he came into Office he
took on himself the task of debating
to the organization of the Legislature.
His newspaper spokesman said that
ne had done this and was now la po-
sition to shape the legislature of the
two houses. He had Jesse Edgington
and Albert Denham, of Memphis,
both open champions of the liquor
trafic. put at the head of the two
committees to which all temperance
bills were referred, and the proceed
ings of the legislature show that they
held back every bill up to- the very
limit of their parliamentary power
He is praised by friends for sign
ing the Pendleton bill, but they neg
lect to say that he denounced 1t
abusively begged members to vote
against it, tried to get enough votes
to sustain veto after 1t passed, and
only signed it when he couldn't help
himself He vetoed the anti-jug law
and the Lafollette bill He tried to
pass the Toilet road bill, which
would have made the revenue for the
public roads depend on the perpet-
uation Of the saloon. He has to a
large extent nullified all temperance
laws by his pardons of the most no.
torious professional bootleggers.
He unjustly denounced Gov. Cox
for taking legal fees as revenue
agent, vet himself got the legislature
to pass an act allowing $1,000 for the
maintenance of the governors man
sion. then swiped the whole sum at
one time and put it in his own pri-
vate pocket. He thereby practically
doubled his own salary, in violation
of the constitution and in violation Of
law.
He went over the state denouncing
the revenue system, under which the
people we're plagued with back as
sessments and pestered with "odious
revenue agents" He said that when
property was once assessed the as
sessment ought to stand. and he
promised to sweep the whole system
out of existence. After he became
governor the only thing he tried
to do was to make the whole system
part of his personal machine with
added features, to make 1t more
''odious" than ever Thus under the
bill he personally championed he was
to appoint these revenue agents him
self, and they were to make their re-
ports to him under an oath OF secre-
cy. He actually attempted to make
it crime for the people to be inform
ed of the doings Of himself and his
revenue agents. One can easily see
the vast opportunities Of favorite-
ism. graft and every kind of wrong
under the dark-lantern scheme which
the governor tried to foist upon the
state. Public indignation killed this
bill. and the governor then left the
old system serene and undisturbed,
being entirely satisfied when one of
his own active lieutenants was made
revenue agent.
He raved and shouted about the
machine declared that 1t was awful
that the governor Of Tennessee
III "a