The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-17

er for governor.
The whole state of Tennessee, ac-
cording to Mr.. McGhee, is divided into
two camps-Paterson and anti-Patter-
son. A correspondent says: "The
election towards which all Tennessee
is looking is on August 4, that is, that
is the election to which they are i'm
mediately looking, but although that
the immediate issue involved in that
election, or rather the outcome of it,
the selection of the judges of the SUI
preme court of the state, and the court
of civil appeals, would seem to be of
more Importance than that of any 9th
err election to be held, yet most of the
election is only a preliminary skirm
ish, sort Of test vote, as it were,
upon the main question of the vindica-
Of Patterson that is the question
at issue. He is a candidate for
third term as governor. No governor
since the war has had three terms in
Tennessee. No other man, it is said,
has ever run for a third term.
The reason he Is running is that he
has done so many things as governor
for which he has been most violently
and widely censured both in Tennes-
see and out of it, and he is asking the
people to vindicate him by another
election. This election is in Novem-
Der, and ofar no candidate has been
put up against him. He held what his
opponents say was a personally con-
Quoted primary election on June 4, in
which he was the only candidate, and
in which none of the anti-Patterson de-
mocrats would participate. 1t was in
this same primary that five candidates
for the supreme court of Tennessee
were nominated. Those democrats who
refused to go into the so-called Pat
terson primary held a convention and
nominated judges for the supreme
court and the court of civil appeals.
The republicans have not nominated
and men fir these courts, but they are
divided upon which of the two
democratic tickets.to support. There
are two factions of the republican par
ty, known as the Henry Claw Evans
and the Brownlow factions. Brown
low had an alliance with Patterson and
so perfect was his organization that he
could have delivered the votes to Pat
| terson, but last week Brownlow died
leaving his machine without an engi-
neer. The H. Clay Evans republicans
are with the anti-Patterson democrats.
! And so, as | have said, there are four
sides in Tennessee, at least these:
| being Patterson and anti-Patterson de-
| mocrats, Patterson and anti-Patterson
republicans. | say at least these four,
for there is another, the negro side.
These do not seem to be divided and,
mirabile dictu, they are, to a man, for
Patterson, whose organization claims
to be the only representative of demo-
cracy in Tennessee"
Everybody in the whole state of
Tennessee seems to be terribly
wrought up, and the atmosphere is
| everywhere thick with those classic
explosives and epithets, which when
attempt is made to print them, melt
the type into a dash or a blank space,
but which, they say, add, in the spoken
| language, to the picturesqueness of
life, especially politics. Kentucky, you
know, is the place where the poet
hath said: The landscape is the grand
est, and politics the damndest, but
Kentucky is not and never was a cir
cumstance to what Tennessee is this
year. Everybody is a liar; pretty
nearly everybody is a thief, a large
portion of the population are murder
ers, the exact number depending upon
! the election returns, while heap of
folks heretofore considered at least
fairly respectable, are things which We
just can't put into print Now the cen
ter of all the disturbance is the COVER
nor of the state, Malcolm R. Patterson,
of Memphis, commonly known from
his youth as Ham He is the center.
The crowd and with it the eulogy
storm surrounds him. Ham calls
them things, and they call Ham
things. About the mildest thing he
calls them is a pack of ours, which he
says are barking at the heels of the
mastiff What the other fellows call
him | haven't yet found a printable
word for. Their meaning, though the
ordinary anti-Patterson Tennessean