The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-07-16
BROTHER DEFEATED.
Carmack Following Act
Like Babies.
GO HOME AT ONCE.
Chattanooga News Urges
Carmack to Accept De-
feat Like a Man.

It has been in the mind of the editor
of the Chattanooga News for several
days to submit few words of advice
to those followers OF the lost cause OF
statewide prohibition, and Senator
Carmack, who have busted their hair
with ashes, drawn the sackcloth OF de-
feat about them and refused to be CON-
forted. There are several such persons
within the sound of our voice; many
within reach of our remarks. We say
to them frankly, and without any in
tention whatever to be offensive, that
they are making babies of themselves.
This thing of crying over political
defeat is a foolish thing, and grown
men should never indulge in 1T. A
man who can not take his medicine
without 30 much as frowning should
not engage in the strife and the whoop
of politics.
Mr.. Carmack, himself, needs Just q
grain of this advice. 1t is time that he
was congratulating Gov. Patterson mp
on his victory at the polls. SO far we
have seen nothing that looked like he
was in the proper frame of mind to Of
fer congratulations On the other
hand, he has given out two or three in
terviews that, while they indicated 9
purpose on his part to congratulate the
governor after awhile, contained nc
word calculated to still the tempest
which threatens, or to encourage hi'
followers to accept defeat with Job-likt
humility On the other hand, every
word that has emanated from Senator
Carmack was note of defiance and
promise of another fight later on-ii
not at the polls, then in the convention
aud, later, the legislature.
1t is known among the hundreds o.
closest friends of Senator Carmack tha
the editor of this newspaper was fol
him for governor; that he, personally
supported him in the contest, voted fol
him and would have rejOiced to hav'
seen him win. This was on persona
grounds almost entirely. Our Ions
personal friendship for Senator Car
mack, and more or less close ant
friendly relations with him, encouraged
this support, whilst at the same tim
we were we'll grounded in the belle
that some of the policies for which b
stood were destructive of democrac,
and inimical to the welfare of the state
Prohibition was never democratic, an
assaults upon organized industry, sucI
as one plank in Senator Carmack
platform seemed to threaten, could no
rossibly rebound to the good of Ten
nessee.
However, these things are neithe
here nor there in the present emergen
cy. They have been consigned to th
scrap pile and carted off to the grave
ward of rejected political policies. Stat
wide prohibition, for the present,
least, is as dead as the institution
slavery. There is not enough life lei
IN it to make it an issue any further
our politics. At best it was poor issu
when it was fresh, and now that it ha
been defeated we see no good reaso
why it's corpse should be hung up i
public places with the hope that SON
of the weaker brethren will be delude
into the idea that it is not dead. M
Carmack can make nothing for his pa
tv, and no capital for himself, talkin
about state wide prohibition any mol
this year. Temperance people will
lucky if they hold what they have a
ready captured. The returns from IL
primary in Knox county show year
ing desire on the part of Knoxville
shake Of prohibition. 1t is probab
that Knox county will ask the legisl
ture to undo what the people did in Il
heat of excitement and give KnoxVil
law similar to the one in force
Chattanooga. If that sort OF q NOV
ment is made, the prohibitionists W
have plenty to to do without huntll
troable somewhere else
But to return to the main point i
republicans are getting ready to car
Tennessee next fall. President Roof
yplt has put Luke Wright in his cal
net. Secretary Taft has shaken of t
eolored brother. Oliver aud sandt
are fixing up peace meeting. Brow
low and Evans may be depended on
get together in due time. Money "
he plentiful, and orators will COZ
down here to tell us that Taft and pr'
perity run hand-in-hand. The lei
disaffection in the democratic psl
might turn the state into the reput
can camp, and it would take us seve
years to put it back.
The course which Senator Csrma
and some Of his friends have pursu
ever since the primary is encourage
to republicans and disheAtening