The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-09-16

oses and TIE uselhshness Of your
actions This was no hght for leaves
and fshes. hut a tight that, through
or eTorts. the state, in il purity
ana simplicity. might be handed down
10 our children and TO orr ehildren's
children. with its honor untarnlshed
and liberties unimpaired that mothers
and fathers might still train their
stalwart sons that, in order to De
useful citizens and servants OF the
state. IT was not necessary TO hero
with criminals and assasins; that the
proper function Of government is 10
encourage sobriety and obedience to
the law, and that that governor Is
not necessarily the best goyernor
wbo gathers under his piratical nag
every criminal. murderer and law
breaker in the land; that the religion
of our fathers and mothers and the
devoted ministers Of the various
churches is not 10 be made a laugh
ing stock by some by-product OF the
saloons and breweries, who accuses
every minister that reproves him OF
his sins, of being either a hypoerlte
or fanatic.
Nay, my friends, we want nothing
of the state except it be clean, up
right and pure, and that we have a
government as far removed from Pat
terson as the east is from the vest
The Nashville American said, the
dav after the great mass-meetinz on
the 18th of May, that there were IN
the Ryman Auditorium six thousand
yelling delegates, and the slogan OF
this mighty multitude was not really
"Free Judiciary" but It was Down
with Patterson" We thank thee'
Sbvlock for that word, and we &C
cent It as the solgan of the coming
battle. We we're profoundly moved
nv the cry of "Free Judiciary, but
we were more profoundly moved by
the sickening realization that there
was a sinister power in Tennessee
politics, a power that received Its IN
fiuence from the saloons, the brewer
les, the jails, the gambling dens ana
the penitehtiaries, power that not
only threatened the judiciary, but
above and behind all that threatened
the very existence Of civilized society.
So, when the people of Tennessee,
rising in their manhood, have decided
once and for all, that our courts must
be free, and that he who threatens
them. does so at his peril, we accept
this as an cmen of still greater vic
tory. We accept it as true, the state
ments made by. the Nashville Amerl-
can and Commercial Appeal during
the last campaign, that Patterson
himself was on trial, and a vote
against his judges was vote against
him. And so we bark back to the
danger behind our threatened judi
iarv and the danger behind the most
of the political ills from which our
state is suffering, and in the worcs OF
the Nashville American, we say over
and over Down with Patterson
down with Patterson"
We stand for a reorganization OF
the Democratic party along the INES
of pure democracy; that no man shall
ever take his seat as one OF the
members of an executive committee,
whether county or state, unless ne
has been elected to THAI position dir
ectly by the people, or by those dele
gates elected by the people; that the
state committee shall never agaln,in
the history of the party, be filed by
the hangers-on of any candidate TOT
any Office, and thus owe allegiance 10
him rather than to the party at large
hut it shall some direct from the peo-.
pie. and shall be the servant OF the
people and not its would De n'aS'
ef.
Some men have asked why put the
Independent Democracy to the ex-
pense of new convention in Nash
vile on the 14th of September? For
the Independent Democracy of the
state is solidly behind Enloe for RI
Commissioner, and Hooper for Gov
ernor, and why did not our executive
committee, elected to that position
bv the delegates to the great conVen'
ton of May 18th, comprising twenty
Of the leading democrats of the state,
whose Judgment is good and whose
fidelity is unquestioned, why did not
this executive committee meet and
formally ratify the nomination OF En-
loe and Hooper," Because this Is not
the democratic way of doing things,