The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-05-27
THE SPEILER'S PAINT
PRETTY PICTURES
OF SAINT PATTERSON
COOK. EsTILL AND TOILET AID.
DRESS CROWD AT THE
COURT HOUSE
JUDGE GORDON IN TIE CHAIR
Cook Eulogized the Primary Plan,
But Stumbled at One PIank.-EstilI
Made Typical "Red Liquor" Speech
Toilet read Telegram

In the presence of an audience. Q
several hundred persons, composed 0
Administration and anti-administra
ton Democrats and republicans. botl
black and white, Judge r. B. COOK, o
Chattanooga. candidate for the su
preme court on the Patterson ticket;
Judge Floyd Estill. of Winchester
Patterson leader from the Cascade
City of Winchester and Hon. Elijah O.
Toilet, Patterson candidate for state
treasurer, delivered Pattersonesque
speeches Monday in the Circuit
Court room to the accompani-
ment or more or less cheering, led by
a prominent Patterson politician from
Nashville. The speeches were not
notable for brilliancy or eloquencs
They were very good arguments from
the Patterson standpoint, and as such
stirred that portion of the audience
that believes in the infallibility Of the
circle of sovereignty"
Toilet Speaks
: Mr.. Toilet spoke first After read
ing telegram from the Hon. De Long
Rice, erstwhile amusement booster
and now candidate for state treasurer,
in which he expressed his regret at
being unable to attend, Mr.. Toilet
branehed or into a eulogistic deelama-
ton in which he furnished the lustre
of other great Tennesseans by saying
that Patterson was the greatest Of
them all, Andrew Jackson not ex-
cepted. He paid a tribute to Treas
urer Folk, who he said had held Of
flee for sixteen years, and accented
the necessity for winning the August
election. He left the floor to Mr.. /
Cook. /
Judge Cook I
Judge Cook had set speech, the
same In some particulars as that de- !,
livered at Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
that sounded in many particulars like
an echo of the Nashville American.
He showed the breadth of intellect to
be expected of candidate for the
highest court in the land by endorsing
everything Patterson had ever done,
with the exception of part of his ,
primary plan, and condemning every
hing that the opposition had ever
lone. He began by excusing the me-
'essity which compelled a candidate !.
or supreme judge to mount the kus-
ings by saying that times had chang
ID and that within the past forty :,
ears the old style convention bad !.
assed in popular disfavor. He :
ouldn't see any danger of the judi-
larry being coerced, and expressed the
pinion that John" Shields and the
members of the .su- /
RENE court were pretty good roliti-
ians. He paid his respects to the
nashville Tennessean, saying that 1t
ad mo sense OF fair play" and was
ltent upon setting one set of Demo- ci
rats at the throat of another set. H
e also voiced the Americans pro- w,
st over the manner in which the TO
re candidates on the Independent LIZ
cket from East Tennessee had been re
from the contest, and si
morning the fact that the conference lie
mmittee was composed of eighteen -
embers declaring that but fifteen
embers decided who should run. and
at of these twelve were railroad
wyers and three private citizens"
rehashed some old charges a.. it
Q election of officers by the present
preme court, and used this as an
that they were ain politics."
After declaring that the primary
IN was the fairest ever devised"
admitted that 1t was just a little Alb,
In one respect, that of the commit 1e1
naming the delegates, but qualified Co,
S by saying that che governor was da,
titled to name the executive com. Ho
nmittee and to write the platform sell
the interest Of party harmony. foil
Judge EsteIl Ian
Judge Estell showed himself more trio
home on the hastings than Mr.. Boz
TX. He made regular "whoop gra
l-up, boys speech in which he Rot
lcked the prohibition law WIN the ing
time ardor Of trained Patterson ing
nper. He painted direful pic T