The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-22
IN THE FIGHT TO THE BIT.
TER END, SAYS TAYLOR;
W. 0. vERTREES SPEAKS
for governor and to private life. -

'COHceulngs lot the argument, INA
the question in the first instance wal
as to an independent and free judic
larry, and later it became, as claimed
fby the Independents, a question OF
'Pattersonism' or anti-Pattersonism,
still it must be obvious to all rejecting
persons who at heart desire Democrat
ic control to continue, that Governor
Patterson's action has removed all
that which could have constituted the
Objectionable, and let not even a pre-
tense for continued fractional strife.
If if be true that so far as Mr.. Hooper
and the Independent Committe is con-
cerned that there was no bargain land
there was none as between them) the
withdrawal of Governor Patterson from
the race and his retirement TO private
life left all true Democrats one in pur-
pose and Eopinion. The independent
Judges had been elected, and so that
question was settled. Governor Patter-
son withdrew, and: SO the question
many Independents called Patterson
ism was also put at rest. Nothing re-
NAMED to divide the faction, and it
would seem that they would at once
have come together as of course.
"When the convention met on the
18th the thing to have been done as of
course, was to have met the offer of
the Regulars and to have
have united and prepared for new
deal by harmonious and united par
ty. 1t will be recalled that in 1880
the party split on the State debt ques-
ton. Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Wright
were factional Democratic candidates,
with the result that Mr.. Hawkins, the
Republican candidate for Governor,
was elected. The State debt was the
rock the party split on. They came
together and split the rock, and unit
ing, elected Governor Bate. There is
now no rock to be split. There is
nothing to divide. There is not even
bargain, which though corrupt it may
be, which some on the principle of
''good faith even among thieves might
be inclined to carry out.
Pfecent Situation Seized Upon by
Place-Hunters
"The present situation, it seems, can
be explained only upon the assumpt-
ion that somewhere, among those who
want offices or better offices or Senator
ships and Republican political power
for if in the proposed redistricting,
Chattanooga shall be thrown into a
Republican district, then certain act
i've Republicans who live at Chatta-
nooga, becoming Congressman, will be
the Republican bosses in this state)-
the recent situation has been seized up
on by combination of the place
hunters!to secure their desires and this,
even though Democratic supremacy be
destroyed.
"We all know what democracy has
stood for in Tennessee on the questions
of personal liberty, race supremacy
and sane administration, and we all
know and remember what republican
administration has stood for when in
power here. The present is no time to
chew the rag that is, to discuss who
was right and who was wrong, and
who said this that he ought not to have
said, and who said that which was not
true. We are all given to extreme
speech in times of political contest
when victory, rather than instant JUS
tice, is almost every mans aim.
ave believe that there is great
deal more behind this Endorsement Of
Mr.. Hooper than many of those who
have been induced to engage in it, sub
ject-more of self-seeking and place
hunting and peril to democracy, than
has clearly appeared.
GAS one of the independent demo-
cratic committee who desires the con-
troll of our state affairs to be in demo-
cratic hands, and our senators to be of
our own choosing and our representa-
ton in congress not to be reduced by
redistricting; and believ-
ing that the cry of Pattersonism at
this time and under present conditions
is now used as fiction to delude, we
make this appeal to all democrats to
that no differences now long
er exist; and, to lay aside the personal
caused by the bitter words
Of the last canvass; and, to meet and
unite as we have met and united when
divided heretofore.
Tree That Republicans are Trying
to Capture the South.
at is not to be denied that the re-
publican party-losing in other sections
Of the republics endeavoring to gain
control of the southern states. 1t is
equally true that there are some per-
sons who, claiming to be democrats, are
republicans at heart, and welcome this
opportunity for specious public reas-
IN to vote as they really desire. 1t is
he right Of every man to have his
opinion and to vote as he pleases, but
I is not his right TO pretend that he is
/ democrat when he is not. 1t is also
he right, and, as we believe, the duty
If the democrats Oh Tennessee to nomi-
late candidate for governor as they