The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-22
PATTERsoN's ANNOUNCEMENT.

customary posing as a much maligT
ed and abused martyr, NJ. r. PatteI
con announces his candidacy for
aAird term. He evidently glories Il
his shame and rejoices at the disgrace
and dishonor which he has brought Il
bis State. He answers legitimate crit
icism of his record by INDUCING II
the most vituperative and villainoul
abuse; he replies to just arraignmen
Of his administration by the vilest ful
limitations against those with whom b.
Is unworthy to associate.
With a venom, a malice and ha
tired unsurpassed in modern history
he pours out his vindictive Language
Of the gutter upon the noblest men and
the purest women upon Gods foot
stool Regardless of the opinions and
feelings of all others he serves notice
that the man or the woman, no matter
how exalted their character or how
pure their motives, who chall dare to
cross his path or dispute his imperial
will, may expect to be reviled and ma
ligned with characteristic Patterso-
MAN venom and malice. His pose as
a martyr will deceive none.
If Pattersons opposition came from
the criminal, the vicious and the law
less elements of society, from those
who live by the SANDER of their sup
errors and who have no regard for
truth and honor, he might with some
show Of reason insist that condemna-
ton of his administration was I'M
justihable SANDER and deliberate
libel. But when he arraigns the
preachers, the noble women of the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion, the consecrated laymen Of the
churches and practically all organiza-
lions for the advancement and promo
ton Of civic virtues and moral worth,
his explanation that he is merely the
victim of abuse and SANDER will hard
ly satisfy. If Patterson's associa-
lions had been less with the criminal
and the vicious elements of society
and he had kept more frequent COM
pany with the ministers and the pure
women and the church and moral
leaders of the State he would under
stand how futile his pose as a martyr
will be.
Patterson is not the victim Of sland-
er of vituperation. There could DE
found no better evidence of the |
truth of this statement than the uni |
versal storm of criticism and condem |
nation that comes from the press Of
the nation at his course in the Coop
or case. Papers outside of Tennessee
are free from the partisan rancor and
bitterness growing out of issues that
have disturbed and divided the peo-
pie of this commonwealth. They are
not moved by any base motive to do
any man injustice. 1t cannot there
lore be charged that their oppOsi-
ion to Patterson and Pattersonism
S the result of hate and malice and
hat their criticisms are SANDER. I
Perhaps three-fourths of the good {
,eople of Tennessee, certainly a very
proportion of the church
eaders and the noble women of the I
'tate are eternally opposed to Patter- {
on and all for which he stands. {
hey are not slanderers and no man /
hould know this better than he who {
as just poured out upon their de-
oted heads the full measure of his O
nvenomed malice. t
Patterson is the first man who ever a
larshalled in solid phalanx under one D
amer of all the depraved, the GRIMM h
|, the vicious and the lawless of Ten Il
essee. Everywhere the ex-convicts, r,
lie lawbreakers and the law haters n
re his most devoted partisans. Ad- h
ID to these are a large number of tt
herwise well meaning but mis-guid- b,
| individuals of correct lives who III
i've in the mad passions of the hour
lowed themselves to become parti- Iii
ms OF machine. which under other pl
ID more favorable circumstances p
ey would as heartily execrate as az
Q most pronounced opponents Of the ii,
Itterson faction. ar
But is is when he reaches the pro- az
bition question that Patterson shows an
J most reckless disregard Of the Tt
18th and the bitterest malignity OF lie
, hate imbittered soul He has the I'm
azen effrontery to charge that the
law is responsible for the ST
,tional discord and political pass me
Is now extant in Tennessee. A du
nee backward over the past four pa
srs will demonstrate how utterly qu
.hout foundation is this accusation tia