The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-10-21

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The newspapers report that Gov
ernor James X VArdaman Of NIissis-
sirpl~ win make speeches in Tennes-
see in favor Of Senator Robert L
Taylor, who has recently been nomin-
1.ed ID tie reorganized~ Democracy
as the harmony" candidate for gov
ernOr.
II Governor Vardaman is the sin
cere prohibitionist his friends claim
him 10 be. and which The News has
believed him to be. he will not lend
the eloquence OF his tongue to the
effort 1.-THE Taylor-Patterson whiskey
combine to elect a legislature ana
governor 10 en.asculate the present
statewide Prohibition law in Tonnes
see.
i is the "old guard" Of Democracy
that is leading this revolt in party
ranks aga,I st intolerable conditions
existing in Tennessee. 1t is not In
any true sense party fight. Party
lines on both sides and on all sides
have been entirely obliterated. Wher-
ever the Patterson faction have failed
to control the organization or nomi-
mating convention In a county, they
have uhesitatingly and uniformly
bolted and nominated an independ-
ent of their own way Of thinking; and
the anti-Pattersonites have done the
same; and in some instances even the
Republicans have done likewise. 1t
is not fight OF Democracy against
Republicanism; or of Democratic or
ganization against Republican organi- !
cation. 1t is a fight for law against .
anarchy; of honesty against graft; OF
decency against corruption; and
Bob Taylor, who stands for nothing,
and never has in his life stood for
but Office, is put up be-
cause he Is a good joke teller, and
a sunshine philosopher" and a
great "pacifier
w. o. Vertress, chairman of the
Taylor state campaign committee, has
not the slightestt respect for or con-
idence in Bob Taylor; the editor of &
The News has heard him say so an J
hundred times. The most scatbing
lrraignment man eve received,
vas administered to Bob Taylor by
Iohn ]. Vertrees, in paper Vertrees F
ook the pains to write and read tc 4
Democratic convention once upon a
ime when Bob Taylor was candi-
ate before that convention for gov
rnor. And yel Vertress is the nan
he Taylorites and Pattersonites are
ow grooming for national commit y
eeman. And, by-the-way, the Yer 81
ress brothers have the same opinion s
( Patterson they have of Bob Tay- d.
'r. Why then is the Taylor-Patter- e.
On combine making so much over the Z
ertress brothers? Simply because
ley are men of strength and charac-
n and standing, such as are hone
10 common In the "reorganized"
INKS, and are and have always teen
outspoken, rank anti-lro-
lbitionists. They supported Car
ack against Taylor because they 4
lmired Carmack and had contempt |
r Taylor. They supported Carmack
'er Patterson for the Identical same
ason but they openly criticised
statewide prohibition "fal-
cy," thereby multiplying any good
cir personal admiration might have
ne him. They are anti-prohibi-
'nists, is why they are being put
rward. The whole Taylor organi-
ton is anti-prohibition; the re-
mped, "reorganized Democracy" is
They have merely
osen the livery of Democracy to
we their master, the National Ii
Or Dealers Protective Association.
d we submit that the Hon. James
VardamGn of Mississippi can find -
ter employment ct home than run
g off into Tennessee to help these no'
iskey cohorts regain control in o1J
t state. '"i
'esides, John J. Vertress has no uiel
ty record to point to with any par 'ai'
liar pride. He is a Luke Wright,
tt Dickinson, Horace Lurton sort Of tor'
Democrat We have never heard WIN
charged outright with voting the ate
publican ticket hut II he was ever oeel
i;ted with voting for william Ton. lous