Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
PATTERSON ASKS
TO Be INDICATED
TENNESSEE GOVERNOR INVITES
ACTION OF IMPEACHMENT TO
ESTABLISH TRUTH OR FALsI-
TY OF ACCUSATIONS.

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Jan. 27-Malcolm
r. Patterson was inaugrated for his sec
ond term as governor OF this state at the
capitoi at noon TO-DAY. The oath OF ONCE
was administered by Judge w. ID. Beard,
chief Justice of the supreme court or
Tennessee, the ceremonies being simple
but impressive.
The ceremonies were held in the hall
OF the house OF representatives,, when
was crowded to its utmost
In his inaugural address Governor
patterson referred as follows TO the
killing of Senator +. w. Carmack:
.sOur state is passing through the
shadows; her people are divided we
have fallen into the habit or distrusl'
suspicion and accusation.
.sThere is nothing proper / would not
do to relieve this situation; there IS
nothing 1 have done 10 bring IT about
unless it has been my success ana the
honest, open service have tried 10 rem
Ger in return for the confidence OF the
people.
ISLANDERS Are Repeated
But 1 am conscious that throughout
the state men have repeated SANDERS,
that some newspapers have circulated
cruel and false charges and have even
gone so far as to connect me with
tragedy which 1 deplored far more than
many who have sought to make out or
IL a political asset and to use IL as
motive and incentive for -unwise, un-
democratic and destructive legislation
$50 FAR as the injustice of all this re-
Iates TO me as an Individual, or the pain
81. ruthlessly and mereilessly infiicts. 1T
is OF no concern to the public, but as
governor, the people Of Tennessee nave
a right TO have the office respected ana
50 rff mn ~
paired by false and repeated accusua-
tons. .r,...,-,
but beyond all else they are entitled
to know the Truth. rr
III, as an Official, 1 have been guilty
OF conscious delinquency, am UNI
worthy of public trust and the people
have given me an ONCE which 1 should
not hold and OF which I should be de-
prived $3.50
IF, in any way. directly or remotely
have sought to encompass the death
of a feHow-man. / am deserving OF
every stigma that gentlemen may place
upon me. OF any indignity and punish
nsnt which law and society can in
met, for am the governor Of the
state. clothed with the power to par
don, and the charge, therefore, involves
the basest and blacklist turpitude.
silence Misconstrued
MY silence under a load Of calumny
seems 10 have. been misconslrued ana
has been taken by some as an enoour-
agement to further. assaults. %
II believe now that the majority OF
the people, be they friend or foe, do not
credit themi but 1 am unwilling Tor
accusations which are repeated and per-
sisted in TO remain undenied and un-
challenged ISL crrr
- ..,,,-., - talyay, after rafactfon
and with a firm conviction that 1 owe
a duty to myself, my family and the
state. 1 make, the Issue in the only
way L can, and new invite any legal
action in the courts or in the. senate,
sitting as q court of impeachment, TO
determine the truth or falsity of any
charge that would render me unfit to
e the governor Il Tennessee.
IF charges are not preferred, or IL
they are, and fail. believs / am en-
titled TO ask, fer the peace and honor
OF the state and in the name Of de-
cency, that this reckless defamation
shall cease.
Whether II does or not, as the gov
ernor Of Tennessee, i will pursue the
even tenor OF my way, undismayed by
the froth OF PASSION, undeterred by the
assaults OF towards and calumniators.Y
Prohibition Question Z
Regarding the prohibition, question. the
governor said:
THE legislature has seen fit to disregard
one important and essential promise which
guaranteed self-government to those COM
munities in Tennessee where liquor is
sold; and to reverse the policy Of more
than a hundred years by enacting laws
forbidding the manufacture and sale OF
liquor in this state.
Part of this legislation has been &C
lcomplished over my protest as governor.
and if it il completed. it will be over my
continued objection. for 1 am not willing
I for the state to occupy the questionable
and humiIiating attitude OF inviting her
citizens to invest their capital in enter
prfses which. when done, are to be de-
stroyed by an act Of the state.
ut is regrettable that this difference OF
opinion and obligation to party pledges
| has existed between the legislature and
! the governor, but IL the members have
their own approval for this radical and
sweeping legislation, 1 also have mine
believing that the rule of consent Is bet
ter than the rule of force. and that when
disapproved of setting aside an ancient
and established principle of government
i was acting for the Democratic party
aud for the best interests of the people.
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