The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-05
MOST oNE-slOEo AUDIENCE THAT
HAS GREETED CANDIDATES
M WEST.
CARNACE'S GREAT PARADE
white Ribbons Are Very Few Ano
Far Betw een-'They ADMIT
Defeat.
(By SAMUEL }. sTocNARo9
I'm Nashville Tennessean.)

IN West Tennessee. was a solid mass
of auttering red Nearly syery store
vehicle. man. woman and child In the
town was decorated in the Carmack
colors II was the reddest day the
Governor has faced since MorristoWn-
The crowd was so Overwhelmingly
red that it was difficult to tell whetn-
er the preponderance was six to one
ten TO one. or sixteen TO one. In tact'
the white ribbons were in such a
hopeless minority that they seemed
afraid to applaud at the debate for
fear of being arrested for disturbing
the peace. There was very little lamp
left when the wolf wiped his mouth
and left the table.
There may be some lingering doubt
left as to who struck Billy Patterson
but there is none as to who struck
Governor Patterson.
Senator Carmack made one OF MS
most powerful speeches, and swept
everything DeIOTe Hlu'
Forrest Dismissal Incident.
The feature of the debate, aside
from the Senator's great speech, was
the denial BY the Governor of state
ment Senator Carmack quoted from
Mrs. VIM. NJ. Forrest, that her hus-
band made strenuous effort for week
to see the Governor in his office at
the capitol in regard to his position
at Brushy Mountain, and that when
he went back to Brushy Mountain
after failing to see the Governor, the
man who had Inundated and mis-
treated him, Warden Flournoy Eng
lish. returned to the mountain also and
boosted that he had been down to
Nashville and had seen the Governor
and had been treated royalty and
dined at the executive mansion. GOV.
ernor Patterson's denial was not d.
rect. He denied he had "dined and
wined" the man who had discharged
the old Confederate hero, but he was
not charged with this. He was
charged by Mrs. Forrest with dining
the man whom she claimed mistreated
and Inundated her husband, and not
the man who discharged him. he
was discharged, of course, by the prls-
on official.
Scores on Bogus Primary.
Senator Carmack scored heavily on
the bogus primary. He quoted BOD
Taylors condemnation OF it, and said:
bob and | have had our battles in
the past. but, thank God, we are to-
gether on this question.
He spoke Of the abuse the Patter-
son appointees have held up en- Sen
ator Taylor since ne came out and de-
nounced the bogus primary, and al
luded to the brutal and yindictive ed
itorial which appeared in the columns
Of the Governors organ, the Nashville
American, a few days ago.
III response to the Governors state
returns in Memphis two years ago.
and that the Fourth ward was full OF
gambling houses, the Senator said he
was willing to take the Governor s
statement as that of an expert VIII
ness but said he himself was never
in gambling house in Memphis In
his life.
twt Carmack Man Presides'
Ex.Sheriff W. R. Miller, a Carmack
man, presided over the debate, which
was held in the court house yard.
Governor Patterson said If the SEN
ator was elected governor and carried
out his campaign promises, he would
bankrupt the state. He said now
ever he would sign the Lane-Foster
bill if the democratic party command
ed him to do it.
Referring to the governors man
sion. he said no man on $4,000 sal
ary could board at a hotel and pay
his bills unless he was either rich or
dishonest He said no fish that swims
in the water is more at home than
Senator Carmack is when he swims
in the creeks of criticism.
While paying his usual eloquent
tribute to the Confederate veterans,
some one, interrupting the Governor
yelled, Tell us about Capt Billy For
restN The Governor retolted. "Well,
IL were to tell you, you would not
understand It." He then repeated his
Memphis explanation, adding that the
primon commissioners discharged Capt
Forrest only after he had become ut
terly unfit to do lick of work. He
said Cant. Nj. Nj. Marshall, one Of the
commissioners who Is Confederate