The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-06
THE GHOST or cARMAqi>.

THE. GHOST OF GARMaSH.
The ghost of Carmack walked in
the state of Tennessee on Thursday.
Wen may Patterson have shuddered--
..why thy canonized bones, hearsed in
death,
Have burst their cerements; why the
sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurndS
Hath oped his ponderous Jaws
To cast thee up again"
Patterson and his gang were over
thrown. The people of the State CT
Tennessee repudiated them utterly.
The decent sense of the community
put him and his sort down in that
tory for law and order in which all
just men everywhere may well rejoice;
u victory which will carry consterna-
ton, perhaps, into the camps of con-
victs, but q victory which erects the
Bench beyond the reach of the brothel
and breaks the hold of machine poll
tics upon the throat of a puissant peo-
pie. God be praised for this goodly
deliverance
The chief issue in the contest was
the freedom of the Judiciary from the
domination of the Executive. This Is
sue grew out of the murder of Car
mack, for which Colonel Duncan b.
Cooper was tried and convicted by the
orderly methods of the law. His case
was taken to the Supreme Court on
Appeal. That court sustained the ac-
ton of the lower court. Simultane-
onsly with the announcement of the
decision of the Supreme Court Cover
nor Patterson announced the uncondi
tional pardon of Cooper. Cooper was
his personal friend and politica, sup
porter. 1t was charged by three
Judges OF the Supreme Court that the
Governor attempted to coerce them in
their action, and Immediately de-
clared their intention not to become
candidates for reelection to the Bench
as the tools or agents of the Governor
and appealed to the whole people for
the justification of their motives and
their course. The appeal has been
sustained by the people.
The Democrats divided on tho issue
The Patterson ticket was supported
by the machine, the Brownlow fac
tion of the Republican party and in
largo part by the negro Republican
voters of the state. The independents
Srn ct,- u
Gratis and by the responsible people OF
Tennessee without regard to political
lines. The fight was bitter and I'M
compromising from the start, and the
victory is a glorious tribute to the
courage and constancy of the men
who were brave enough to make it
and to the independence of the peo-
pie which was strong enough to clean
out the temple. Having been achieved
by the pe9btss. It Sill inure to their
advantage. protecting them against
the excuses Of corrupt rule by driv-
ing out of power those who have
abused their confidence.
The result in Tennessee means that
there will be hereafter in that State
cleaner men and methods in public
life. better Democrats and better Re-
pnblicans. 1t does not mean. as we
understand, that Tennessee is less q
Democratic State than it was before;
but that it is a better Democratic
State. 1t does not mean that the Re-
rl1h1ipayr aly
State-had the issue Of party supre-
macy been raised, the Patterson party.
would have triumphed-but it means
that the control of the Democratic
party VIII be restored to those who
VIII Keep II clean, and that the law
VIII be administered according to the
Constitution and the statutes and not
in obedience TO Executive threat and
proclamation. The same result would
follow wherever the same issue might
be joined in State or Nation, This is
one the most impressive and graf
flying results Of the battle in Ten.
nessee.
The blood of carmack has been
avenged, His ghost need walk no
more.
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PUTTING THE CLINCHER on HoKE
THIS TIME.
We do not know how the saying
started. except that the people Of
Georgia are q very religious folk ana
rather old-fashioned in some OF their
views; but there Is saying that Hell
broke loose in Georgia" Nobody has
eyer denied it. and naarl, a,,.,.