The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-04
PAT ERSON LONE TENNESSEE ISSUE
Fighting Governor Stands
on Strenuous Record In
Third Term Campaign.

ton in the streets Of Nashville
on Nov. 9, 1908, which shook
Tennessee to it's foundations and
attracted attention in every state Of
the Union.
Next day they carried the body Of
ex-senator Edward W. Carmack to the
railroad station, to be sent to his home.
Women wearing white ribbons formed
an aisle through which the coffin was
carried. In Tennessee women sing
hymns in the statehouse when i'm
portant legislation is pending. They
sang hymns here. After the departure
Of the train man got up on bag
gage truck and addressed them. One
Of the things he said was:
'The blood Of Senator Carmack must
be as productive as the blood Of the
martyrs Of old.''
Verify the blood of Carmack was
plowed under-the dragons teeth were
all over Tennessee. Half Of them
were called Pattersonites and half
anti-Pattersonites, and they fought
each other and have fought ever since
and will fight for years to come, be-
cause the most powerful political fig
ure, the Tennessee "gamecock," the
governor of the state, is young, able
and ambitious.
Patterson Seeks Third Term.
This man is Malcolm r. Patterson.
He is running for governor a third
time. Probably two terms would have
satisfied him had he not been attacked
so bitterly by the enemies who sprang
up from Carmack's blood. He has an
intense belief that he is right. Pro-
hibition, the primaries. the Carmack
murder, are issues on which he has
torn his party wide open. But he has
never swerved from his position on
any of them.
Patterson's father, Colonel Josiah
Patterson, was a lawyer and held a
position in the house Of representa-
tives. 1t is a curious coincidence that
the son was elected to the same posi-
ton from the same district for the
same number of years. Colonel Pat
terson lived originally in Somerville,
Ala. and there, on June I, 1861, the
future governor of Tennessee first
opened his eyes on the world. After
the war the family moved to Tennes-
see, and Memphis has been the Patter.
son home since that time.
In 1884 Malcolm was named for the
legislature by the Democrats. but was
defeated. Ten years later he was
elected attorney general of Shelby
county and served for six years. In
ton for congress from the Tenth dis
trict. He was renominated in 1902 and
1904 without opposition.
Made Plea For South.
AS a member of congress he made
several notable speeches, one being his
criticism of the administra tons pol
icy with regard to the Philippines and
another the we'll remembered speech
in which he declared that the time had
come to drop the old superstition
about the south's being unable to fur.
nish any material for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency.
Practically unknown to the voters OF
Tennessee outside Shelby county. ex.
cept by these speeches. Patterson an.
nounced his candidacy for the COVER
norship in August, 1905. He boldly
promulgated his platform at the outset
and criticised the policies of his owl
party where he thought it would dc
the most good. The convention. in
Amusement at his efforts. nominated
him by reclamation.
AS Patterson's first term drew to
ward a close the prohibition move
ment in the south was at it's height
Notable victories for temperance haG
been won. and there was stirring fo1
a state wide prohibition law in Ten
nessee. The first step seemed to b.
to find a leader. Ex-United States
Senator Carmack took the lead AM
made such hard fight that Patterson
to break the effect Of Carmack's phi
Eppics, declared that if elected gov
ernor he would sign any prohibition
bill the Legislature might pass.
Carmack went down to defeat by {
small margin. Patterson was elected
The differences of the campaign nigh