The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-07-22
INDEPENDENTS WILL
SWEEP THE STATE
BY BIG MAJORITY
REPORTS FROM ALL SECTIONS
POINT TO A GREAT Az
GUST VICTORY.
NEGRO is HAMS LAST HOPE
And In Nashville and other Large
Cities the Officers are on the Look
out for the Black Who Has illegal
Iy Registered.
Special to The Herald:

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Special to The Herald:
! NASHVILLE. Tenn, July with
but two weeks until election day, on
which will be decided whether a free
and untrammeled judiciary will sit
on the Supreme Bench or the Patter.
son ticket will win, both independent
and administration Democrats as we'll
as the Republicans are working hard
to the final end, and success now
seems certain for the Independents.
Were the election held tomorrow the
independent ticket would win by at
least 10000 votes and it is claimed
that only unceasing vigilance is Iced
ed to keep the gain already made un-
til the ballots are counted. Speakers
have been in the field from Carter
to Shelby and have overturned and
refuted the arguments of ali oposi-
LA0A w bAO lACO QAN uAtA Akul0ElCU Ju~
dietary from the Governor to the low
est IN the ranks. The Little Black |
Bull of Roane" has gored all oppon- !
ents fn ruthless style, and Hon. B. A. |
Enloe has put to route every opponent
who has tried his steel. Judges on the
ticket have spread the gospel of free
dom from tyranny from many stumps
and from one end of the State to the
other comes cheering news of
Strengthened adherents and new con-
Verts to the Independent banner.
One of the last hopes OF the admin
stration forces is the heavy negro
5ote which has been registered
throughout the State. Veritable drag
lets have swept the slums OF the cit.
es getting together all the vicious
md criminal negroes in last effort
o perpetuate the power of those who
ppeal to the lawless. Ninety-tive per
ent Of this black vote is claimed for 4
Governor Patterson and his judicial I
Icket and on this vote the machine
J relying to save the day. A conser-
alive estimate Of this negro supple
rental registration IL 10000 and IL
very Illegal and criminal negro reg s
tered is allowed to cast his ballot y
nquestioned it will mean a heavy 8
andicap to overcome. But In David X
N county and elsewhere the citizen q
lip which favors enforcement of law 3
III see that no negro, or white man u
Their, not so entitled viii cast his 3
lllot. The Attorney General OF Da- y
dson county has already served no. q
,e that he will protect this. his coun- 8
from this prostitution of the bal b
box and wholesale arrests may 8
low at any time. x
Governor Patterson has thrown q
ide all efforts in his own behalf and n
: some weeks has been advocating p
I'm one end of the State to the 9TH 8
the election of the regular judi q
i tickets and on this account it has b
en- charged that the judicial tickets 8
} his tickets and that the effort is s.
ing made to make all coordinate q
inches of the State government sub y
t to one man rule. In substan- g
ton OF this charge in Hawkins and g
Ter counties the stolen slogan Free 3
! Untrammeled Judiciary" is no q
ger wholly depended on but the 8
SIX has been thrown OF and the ad- 3
ticket Is boldly marked B
h the Patterson label. The fol- e