The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-07-08
BEATEN ON FACTS
PATTERSON MAKES
ATTACK ON Gates
BRILLIANT ARRANGEMENT OF At
ToRNEY GENERAL PIERCED
HAMS ARMoR.
GOVERNORS CNOWD IS WORRIED
Executives Reference to Measures
That He Killed Very Unfortunate.
Bills Were in the Interest of People
and Fought by Corporations.
Special to The Herald:

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July Pat
terson paItisans here do not conceal
their concern over the mastery ar
raignment CT Patterson by the States
brilliant Attorney General, Charles T.
Gates, at Shelbyville on Monday.
They are forced to admit that the
speech made by Gates is simply I'M
answerable. This is the only excuse
that can be offered for the bitter and
malicious attack made by Paterson on
the Attorney General. While declar-
ing that Gates is not entitled to no
tice" Paterson shows his true atti-
tude by a malicious attack on that gen.
tleman.
; 1t is the policy of the Governor and
the Governors partisans in this cam
paign to atack and defame every parti-
san Of the opposition. The case on its
merits is lost to the Patterson faction;
they realize that Their candidates
for Judge are merely creatures of Pat
terson That they cannot deny In
order therefore to clam the issues they
have adopted the tactics of William
Goebel in Kentuckyand are making
bitter and vindictive warfare upon ev-
cry man who has the manhood and
Che courage to expose the true record
Of the Patterson administration.
The Nashville Banner, which sup
ported Patterson in two campaigns,
and whose owner was one Of the Pat
terson speakers DIT the convention OF
1906, makes the following pointed
comment on Pattersons vindictive as
sault on Gen. Gates:
Gov. Patterson in his attack yes
terday at Dover on Gen. Gates is max
ing q mistake in assuming that abuse
will get rid of facts. Had Gen. Gates
in his Shelbyvilles speech assaulted
the Governor record of his own mo-
ton simply because he possessed the
power OF speech and oratory without
being supported by facts, there might
be some justification of the Cover
nor's assault, but the record does not
stand that way.
Gen. Gates in his speech confined
himself almost exclusively to the Gov
ernors record and proved by the Gov
ernors messages, speeches, interviews
and other admitted acts that what he
said in his Shelbyville speech was
true.
at would serve far better and
more elective purpose if Governor
Patterson could In some measure get
rid Of the facts presented by Gen.
Gates. Facts are going to be infinite
ly more efrcctive in this campaign
than the abuse Of men who use them"
Pattersons reference to the bills ad-
vocated by Gates and which as Cover
nor he killed is unfortunate for the
Governors cause. One of these bills
was FOR the purpose of protecting the
interests Of the State in the case OF
escheats. It would not have cost the |
taxpayers CT the State Q, dollar but |
would have AIDED to the revenue Of the |
State. 1t Is also worthy of comment |
that this Is the only measure that in
creased nay and salaries c. State Off |
GERS that Patterson vetoed. While APP |
proving an act that gave his stenograI
pher greater salary than that re-
celyed By any other stenographer In |
the employment OF the State While |
a ill to give himeslf a man
sion end 70 double his own salary in |
plain violation CT the law, the Cover
nor used the veto act on a bill that
would not have added one cent to the |
State expenses but would have ad-
ded to its revenues.
The other act to which the Governor
refers was an antitrust act. Having
that Tennessee had NJ ad-
equste legislation to restrain combina-
lions in restraint of trade and eom-
merce Attorney General Gates drafted
an act on the subject modelled after
laws of Ohio and Texas
which had been sustained by the Su-
preme Court of the United States. I'm
der existing laws a corporation cannot
be fined in Tennessee for violation Of
the antitrust law. and no provision Is
made for the execution Of the laws on
the statute books The bill encountered
The determined opposition OF the I'm
terests" and Patterson used his pow
sr and influence to have 1t killed, al
though one Of his present nominees
'or the appellate courts. James d. Sen
.er, was author Of the act.
When It was charged in the organ
II the Patterson administration that
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