The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-19
c.llsE ZOE DIGESTION.


thar The Governor should not have hao
any opposition in this campaign; that
No man had the right 10 oppose MIN
an5 that regardless of his record ne
sbouid have been endorsed with the
customary second term. Those VINO
arqua thus deliberately blind them-
selves IN the record which Gov. Pat
terson has made during the period
that ne mas served as Governor. In
differing generalities they argue that
patterson should be reelected De
cause other Democratic Governors
have been given the second term, pre-
dieating their appeal upon the assumpV
ion that he has been true to his party
and faithful to his trust.
These arguments are plausible put
thew are not convincing. OFT repeu-
tion of the statement that Patterson
has kent the faith will not make thaC
canard a fact Abuse of Senator Car
mack and his followers will not prove
that Gov. Patterson has been true To
,,is trust and faithful to the pledges
which he made to the Democrats OF
Tennessee and upon the strength Oh
which he was elected Governor
Gov Patterson has been on the
stumn for two months, his partisan
nress has been exploiting his virtues
for six months and yet to date nelth'
or he nor his organs have placed thelr
fingers upon a single pledge that ne
hoe not violated nor pointed to one
single promise that he has kept GoV.
Patterson is opposed because ne dlo
not keen faith with the temperance
neople. He exerted all the influence
NJ his powerful Office to deteat Ihe
pondleton law and would have vetoeo
if if he had had half of the courage
NJ his convictions of which MS par
+isans boast. He showed his sympd
+bv with the liquor element by ms
disapproyal of the anti-jug and LaFo VI
lette bills.
Gov. Patterson violated his pledges
and the platform declarations OF tne
Democratic party on the electlol
laws Although there was pending
hill to carry into effect his pledges ano
the platform of his party the Cover
nor deliberately recommended Dbl
hitch hecame a law that is in direc1
conflict with the party's declaration
II gave power to the Governor Whlcl
patterson had denounced on tne
stump as being infamous"
Gov Patterson does not deserve en-
aorsement because he pledged MIN
self to strip the Governors once .
+hree.fourths of it's power, but insteaC
he has constantly added to It's po"el
until TODAY he controls more patron
aoo than any Governor since recon
struction days
Gov. Patterson deserves repuk'
because he went into Office pledged u
abolish the back tax devlltry' pu
that law stands upon the sta'uo
hoo,,s TODAY approved by NJ K. RAJ
terson lust as it has stooo lol
decade. No effort was made to re
deem this pledge. On the contfar'
Gov. Patterson sought to make IN
system more odious than 1t had eve
been by transferring the power Oh ai
o,,+,,ant from the Comptrollers I
the Governors Office and making
an instrument of secret oppression
Gov Patterson does not deserN
an endorsement because he pledge
himself against machine government
and promised that if elected ne Woui
see to it that the machinery OF III
Democratic party would never agai
he controlled by patronage or pros'
+,+od to selfish purposes. I'M
n,adee he has flagrantly violated, owe
half Of the present State Commute
are bound to him by the ties OF olllci'
appointment and because of TINS gu
rageous disregard of his pledges III
will of the people has been thwarte
and bogus primary foisted upo
them.
Again The Herald challenges an
Patterson organ or partisan TO pom
To one single pledge that he has kep'
to indicate one solitary promise 'n'
he has not violated