The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-10-14

4 hen the sevil GOT well. a devil Of
ons was he"
This oil couplet applies with
force to the spectacle which
the patterson element present today
a. the result OF the convention OF
Thusrday. 1t was the same old liquor
patterson faction that convened last
Iune. The convention did not diner
materially in personnel from that
which assembled then. 1t stood for
he same things that the faction stood /
for four months ago. But its courage
had all oozed out at the pores.
Four months ago the liquor question
was the paramount issue in fennes-
see Flushed with series OF Vlcto-
ries. believing that they were invinci-
Bile. the Pattersonites met in eonVen-
ton and denounced in unmeasufeu
terms the prohibition law. Then they
thought that their strength lay IN
omen alliance with the unholy liquor
interests which had encompassed the
death of Tennessee's greatest son and
had left a trail of blood and bones
from one end Of the commonwealth to
the other.
But when this same crew assembled
on Thursday they we're in the agon'es
Of defeat, discredited, broken, in full
retreat. they we're grasping at straws.
Principle be damned; we want votes
was the slogan of the crew. All OF
their courage had evaporated during
the period which had elapsed between
August 4 and oct. 6, and they had sud
denly discovered that the liquor ques-
t;on was not really an issue in Ten
nessee. 1t would never do to declare
on an issue of that character although
one Of the longest planks in the plat
form pertains to war issues that have
been buried these forty years.
Realizing that the people OF Tennes-
see were irrevokably committed 10
the temperance cause, that majority
Of the voters had forever determined
that never again shall the common
wealth and the liquor interests enter
into an unholy and corrupt alliance
the convention went away back 10 the
seventies and dug out the bloody shHt
and gave it a few vigorous waves
Tenesseans are not towards and
they do not admire or fight with COW
ards. When political party Is lou
cowardly to declare upon the great Is
sue of the day: when 1t resorts &c
demagoguery and subterfuge and rat
r emf lodges. then the people have MOI
only the right, but it becomes tnel
= duty to withhold support from thai
5 Marty. There is not line in the plat
4 form about pardon brokerage not
9 line in condemnation of political assas
e sination, not one word to hold out the
hone that if successful the fa'tloi
l. will reform or that it will redeem the
!. State of Tennessee from the disgrace
e and the gloom into which Patterson
d ism has plunged it.
n The omission of declaration on tn
d liquor question is the more paten" ant
q indafensible in view of the record 0
O the nominee. Bob Taylor has neFe
+. taken sufficient interest in the grea
a. moral issues of the State to even re
a member how he voted. Never III al
D. his life did he ever by WORD or az
D. helm the moral forces Of his state N
m word has he ever uttered In conoeiihs
"a tion If the assassination OF Senate
IN carmack. No protest has he eve
70 voiced against the interference an
H. domination of the liquor interests
h the politics of the State.
Az Rut Bob Taylor will discuss the wa
issues with rare vehemence. IN
.. bloody shirt will wave as 1t has NJ
Il. waved in Tennessee these tWen'
IN wears. Issues that have long sin'
hoen given a decent burial will be dt
It up and passion and hate and pref
M dice will be appealed to. The cal
M paign will be an unfortunate one' u
N. fortunate for the peace and prospel
,re ~ Of the State and unfortunate for u
air democratic party. 1t will not he
,bt Rob Taylor. His defeat by an q
lot pAatic majority is as certain az I
IN. election. No power on earth can sa
ra. him. The people are in a serio
are mood and they are not going to
90 deferred from their plain duty by
On. adder. Nero added while Rome bnl
is ed. Tennessee is not going to nu
while Bob flddles.