The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Offers to Unite With Reg- u|ars of Party Rejected
 With Haste
SOLID SOUTH MAY BE
 CHANGED BY BALLOT
Only One office, That of Governor, .siII De Affected By the Election as Other Candidates Are
 Democrats

ent democrats of Tennessee
 dorsed the candidacy of Capt..
 Hooper, republican nominee fo ernor, and further cut loose from the regular wing by referring the latter's | harmony resolution to the new independ- ent state executive committee without discussion.
 Thus was organized a formidable look ing triumviate to campaign for repub- lican governor. the triumviate consisting of republicans independent democrats and statewide prohibitionists. The in dependents and prohbitionists are so closely allied as to largely overlap in ther membership.
 | The possible break in the solid south, outlined in today's convention, extends only to one office. the governorship. There is "gentemen's agreement be- tween the independents and the republi- cans that neither party will invade the others ''safe" legislative territory, and this, the Independents say. assures a democratic legislature. The last repub- lcan governor of Tennessee was Alvin Hawkins, in 1SS1-S2. It is a curious fact that his election due to democratic split led by Judge s. F. Wilson, who was elected to the court of civil appeals as an independent in the judiciary election last August, which was the forerunner of today's convention.
 Plans Work Smoothly
 The convention ran off without rip pie of opposition to the programme of the leaders, whose only worry was to keep the enthusiastic delegates from prema- turely suspending the rules and nominate ing Hooper by exclamation. This was at tempted, but ruled out of order by the | permanent chairman, R. E. lA Mount castle, national democratic cotnmittee- man for Tennessee There was long wait for committee reports. and then platform resolutions were adopted and nominations made in rapid sueeesfao lon by unanimous rising votes The resolution on harmony reads as follows; eve recommend that the resolution sent to this convention by the Patterson convention be referred to the state com naittee elected by this convention for proper answer in accordance with the action and nominations of this conyen- tion."
 During the speechmaking former Attor- ney General Jeff McCarn defined the delegates general opinion as 10 tnelr straight democracy when he said
 'I'm straight democrat and I'm going right straight to the polls and vote Tor Captain Hooper.
 The pardon of Senator Carmack's slay- | CT was uenOunCtu repedttulS py NfO speakers, and each Announcement was re- ceived with shouts of approval. Temper ary Chairman G. T. Fitzhugh of Mem phis brought the audience to it's feet when he said of the Carmack-Cooper case:
 ''When the highest court, despite his (Fatterson's) efforts to coerce 1t, had handed down a decree which branded his closest friend and chief political adviser as a murderer, he spat upon and tram pied under foot this judgment which was in accord with law and justice and | which met with the approval or the CIV ilized world
 The convention ended with Captain Hoopers address. The republican eandl- date was frequently interrupted by cheer ing and applause.
 Independent Platform The platform says In part:
 'sWe denounce the usurpation of party | authority in the name of democracy by the Patterson machine. and we condemn it's efforts to disfranchise democratic | voters of this state.
 'The independence and the integrity Of the three coordinate departments or our state government should be preserved | in all their constitutional limitations ana we denounce the action of the governor in attempting by the use of his political machine to control the action of the leg | islature and to coerce the supreme court in the matter of a case pending before II.
 we indorse the four-mile law Che prohibition law) and it's various amend ments, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in this state. and we condemn the efforts of Governor Patterson to discredt these laws without giving them the test of enforcement m the larger cities of the state. We con tend these laws have been a blessing to our people. wherever they have been CT -<IAt nlp TO n ernor should attempt to set up his VIII against the judgment of the people as expressed in their legislative councils.
 "When the governor of the state, in violation of his oath of office, refused to uphold and enforce the law, he be- comes a teacher of anarchy and an en- emy of republican institutions and men, ace to the security of human life ana property rights.
 eve unouaifedly condemn the abuse of the pardoning power by Governor Patterson and his efforts to convert the } penitentiary and workhouse into poii'lcai 2 recruiting offices, and to make the par 1 don and the punishment of crime an asset in his political machine Various PIanks Other blanks were:
 | Favoring nominations "by direct and , exnress authority of the people. through | urinary elections or delegated conNeh- ! tions.,i Condemnation of selection or a i part of the state executive committee py : the governor and recommending seiec'loh
 hv the conventions; demanding law en-
 forcement by executive officers; liberal s policy in dealing with public schools; I honest elections; liberal appropriations for : pensions for ex-Confederate soldiers; in- : vestigaton of the penitentiary system' , | ana it's establishment on business basis; 2 modification of the fellow servants stat , ute to fit modern business; enforcement !, of the ant-lobbyng law: and redistrict- r ing of the legislative and consressional : districts Legislation vesting the title or : Reelfoot lake in the state. and making . it public game and fish preserve is
 recommended. Good roads legislation Is Q urged, including state highway from : Bristol to Memphis.
 5 The state executive committee ap, , nointed by the independents today met f this evening and referred the regulars ? harmony proposal to a committee of