The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-07-29
specIal to The Herald:

fore a large and wildly enthusiastic
audience, E. H. Hatcher, of Columbia
Tenn. today made his opening speech
in the present judiciary campaign
speaking in the interest of the hide
pendent ticket, Mr.. Hatcher comes
from the home of the late Senator
Carmack, and paid beautiful tribute
to the fallen leader At the mention
Of Carmack's name the audience broke
into tremendous applause, from which
1T can be safely inferred that Harde-
man county will be found In the anti
Patterson column.
Governor Patterson and his ma
chine we're roundly roasted by Mr..
Hatcher. who declared that the most
momentous political battle in the his
tory of the State was that of Af-
gust 4. for it was the first time that
the freedom Of the judiciary had been
threatened. Legislatures and Cover
nors are, but a two years menace, he
said, but the danger Of controlled
judiciary extends over eight long
years.
The occasion for the speaking was
a big picnic, which was attended by
more than one thousand persons, in
GLIDING many ladies. w. K. Aber-
nathy, former speaker of the House
of Representatives also spoke, his
address being mastery plea for
free judiciary.
Ace riding to those familiar with To-
cal conditions the speakers did mis-
sionary work that will perfectly bal
ance that done by Jesse Little
ton in East Tennessee.
Mr. Hatcher said:
rs Governor Patterson fit person |
to select the candidates for our
courts? He exerted all the arts OF
which he was master to compel our
highest judicial tribunal into a serVile
com; lance with the 'persuasions' to
reverse the Cooper case. When that
court refused to be made the plant
and despicable tool Of his imperious
will, or to surrender their independ-
ence and integrity to this political
despot, as he supposed they would,
the Governors disappointment, when
he learned that the opinion OF the
court was contrary to what he had,
Ia effect, commanded, aroused the
wrath of this political car and he I'M
mediately hurled his insulting and
defamatory ukase of reversal at the
court.
"And now, we find Governor Patter-
son, in his speech at Erin, declaring
that, Col. Cooper was not convicted
because he was guilty, but because he
was my friend
"If there is man in Tennessee who
believes this reckless statement OF the
Governor, his factional prejudice has
softened his credulity into the milki-
ness OF infancy.
This charge of the Governor Is
most monstrous Islander upon the ju-
ry. the trial Judge and the Supreme
Court. But, as in everything else. the
Governors own Importance overshad-
ows the issues involved In the trial
of that cause. The effect OF this
charge is that the jurors and the trial
Judge paid no heed to the sworn VIII
nesses;a they committed perjury snd
only considered the fact that Cooper
was the friend of Patterson, and the
SUPREME Court covered itself with
infamy by giving effect to that per-
Jury. and committed perjury them
selves.
"To what depths Of infamy the adj
ministration of the law in Tennessee
has fallen in the eyes of the world, II
the statements OF her Governor are
credited! We ask again: is Governor
Patterson then at person to select
the candidates for our courts?
'Tn addition to exerting all the arts
OF which he was master to debase the
highest of them into servile COM
plIance with his 'auricular solicita-
tlon.' he has packed his executive
committee with his own plant tools;
he Is doing his best to pack the two a
highest courts with judges who are