The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-11-19
Law AssINATED.

EX-Jnlted States senator and edi
tor of the Tennessean, Mr. Carmack
was cowardly assassinated on the
streets Of Nashville Monday by Dun
can b. Cooper and his son, just after
Cooper had left conference with
Gov. Patterson.
Cooper is the chief adviser of the
present State administration He
represents that class of men with
cultivated appetites, passions and
ambitions who are without visible
and legitimate means of supplying
them. He doubtless felt secure in
the future pardon by his friend and
chief, Gov. Patterson. He may have
had more substantial grounds for be-
lieving this.
A clergyman in West Tennessee
town during last summers campaign
said over his signature, in the public
press, in style that evinced his ear
nestness, that Gov Patterson was the
most corrupt public man the State
had ever had.
As bearing out this opinion, Pat
terson has furnished more evidence
of outright and deliberate dishonesty
and brutal selfishness in given time
than any man We ever knew Of He
started out to replace man, as gov
ernor, with his main plank the charge
that the other man had not properly
or promptly accounted for some hun
dreds of dollars of public funds, when
he himself took from the treasury of
the United States, deliberately, and
kept it, $4,000, without giving any
return in service or time, under the
shadow of law honesty.
Another plank in his platform was
a protest against machine politics, |
and when elected he proceeded to ex-
tend the worst methods of Shelby |
county politics throughout the State, I
and still further poisoned a govern /
ment already bad enough in some of
its different branches He still fur
ther constructed a machine by em-
ploying the peoples Offices with
which to buy aspiring politicians
He held up for year an appropria-
ion of States money and attempted
o buy all the counties in West Ten
lessee with hold-up bribe of their
,wn money. In building his machine 4
lie has gone SO far as to increase the
lumber and percentage of pardons
mong the more active criminals who
ould be useful in politics.! He makes
rime bulwark his machine.
As his henchman Cooper has in
ruded to the final limit on the ,pri- !
ate life of Mr.. Carmack, it is per-
lissible for the public good to aid !,
i driving this man Patterson from
flee and from the State; to say in
art of his private life he is a gamb-
n who, when he wins, appropriates
le money, and when he loses does
OF apply his winnings toward meet
lg his losses. S.
We speak more of Patterson than s
ooper, because the latter Is less o
sency for harm for the future. He =
as at the best only ten oE twelve r,
ears of life before he finds his prop 81
and more permanent home in some n
'rm of hell
Patterson. riding into place and
Dwer over the dead or wounded
,dy of Cox's reputation was as =
cking in any patriotic motives to
oEide the Sta5e with better gov :
nor as there IS now lacking in Pat
rson any sympathy for Mns. Car ..
ack or her young son, for the peO- :,
e ssf Tennessee, or for outraged =
W and order, and as there is lack :
g IN him any feeling of real resent =
ent against Cooper for the cow
dIy assassination of the MAN they -
th thought in their way.
1t would not have been as safe for -
tterson to have killed CaEmack-
could have had no governors as
rance of pardon. This governor
S disgraced and will disgrace Ten -
ssee. He is commander-in-affef of %
2 State soldiers sent to rebuke an =.
chy ON the part of the ignorant :
d ilT-conditioned men around Lake
eIfoot In pohnt of fact, this gov
nor himself is a more vicious an
chist, because more selfish one,
an those fishermen and farmers
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