The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15

hostile county. and seeing his
.,l,-s everywhere In the aseendaney
The Senator delivered one Of the
strongest speeehes he has Jet made
II was fully equal 10 his Gallatin and
srcNrfnnvilue Efforts, and many
,bouebt II was better In matchless
,rapner he overthrow every argument
Of his opponent, exposed the false
,retepse Of the local self-goysrnment
nlea~ as applied to the liquor ques-
don. and with convincing power prov
a his own title clear" on the sa-
loon question. He attacked the ad-
,,inistratIon Of the Governor in IN
merciful fashion. but keeping always
within the proprieties Of debate. He
hurled his jayelins into the quivering
aesb Of the charter bill. shot the togus
urinary TO pieces.iu most relent-
less dissection exposing its unfairness;
convicted his opponent Of his broken
promises. and finally nailed him TO
the whiskey cross by reading sen
sationaI letter from a wholesale llq-
nor dealer Of Nashville, in which the
latter claimed Governor Patterson as
The candidate of the saloon and whis-
key interests.
Never did his gifted powers of at
tack Of irrefutable statement, of keen
ANALYSIS. of biting sarcasm, ready wit
and brilliant repartee shine to better
advantage. Time and again he was
stopped in his speech by wild shouts
Of appreciation as he drove his ticks
home with the unerring aim of Con-
federate sharpshooter.
1t was a speech Of remarkable
I strength, presented in mastery style
and at its close the Senator was over
whelmed with congratulations.
Governor Nettled.
Gov. Paterson in his rejoinder, while
not as bitter as he has been, showed
that he smarted under the telling
blows be had received. He was con-
! siderably aroused and answered the
attacks with ridicule criticism ana
sarcasm. weapons in whose use he is
not second fiddler by any means.
He lugged in some new matter in his
reioinder. and Senator Carmack pro
tested to the presiding officer, but be-
fore that gentleman could grasp the
Senator's point the Governor had pass
ed To something else. The new mat
ter consisted of quotations from GER
tain editorials claimed to have been
written by the Senator when he was
editor of the Memphis Commercial
! Appeal. attacking Populists and pro-
bibitionists. Neither of these quota
lions had been used heretofore by eth
or sneaker in the debates, and conse-
ouently were new matter under the
rules.
The feature of today's debate was
the reading of a letter by Senator
| Carmack. written by Nashville whis-
kew firm to citizen of Bellebuckle,
in which the whiskey firm asked the
support of Governor Patterson on the
Ground that "he is not out on the whis-
key question as much as the Sena-
tor" The letter is as follows:
Whiskey Letter.
Nashville Tenn, April T. 1908.
MIR. Bowling Wright, Bellebuckle,
Tenn. Dear Sir:-@ We think II
would be to your interest and every
body else's to vote for Patterson as
carmack has never done anything
for this country, and is more out on
the whiskey question that Patterson
1--WE will thank you to vote Tor Pat
terson. Also tell your friends to do
| he same. Yours truly
"SILyERSTEIN DISTILLING CO.
The other features of today's meet
ing was the magnificent parade, prob
ably mile and half in length, given
by the Carmack people just after the
Senator's arrival in the city. 1t was
the greatest demonstration of the
campaign. so far, and completely
dwarfed the big parade at Gallatin a
week ago.