The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-10-07
ABOUT THE BOSSES.

Perhaps one may excuse some o.
the shy and nonsensical reasons ad
vancec by the thermometers for urg
ing the forces of law to abandon this
contest, because there are really nc
arguments to be made for such
course. In the absence Of anything
better the Patterson organs have re
sorted to downright misrepresenta
ton and some have even gone 10 de
liberate lying.
The most unfounded and utterly sill
ly charge, one that has not one scin-
tilla of evidence to support it, is that
certain Bosses" are trying to force
the socalled Independents to vote for
Hooper and Enloe Anyone who at
tended the great convention ct Nash
Vile on September IA, or who got his
information from the convention from
Patterson Papers knows that in that
convention there were no bosses. The
delegates 1000 of the truest and hest
Democrats in the State, were 30 de-
termined and SO enthusiastic that the
leaders could with difficulty suppress
an endorsement of Hooper until a
seemly parliamentary occasion pre-
sented itself to perform that duty.
There mas been no effort on the rart
of any leader or boss to commit the
independents to Hooper. On the con-
trary some of the would be bosses
like Vertrees, who called the conven-
ton to order, Harvey Hannah, pro-
fessional politician and Office holder,
L. d. Hill, another Office seeker, and
Billy owen, also with hankering af-
ter the flesh pots, would, had they had
the influence, have stayed the deter
mined delegates from carrying out the
will Of the people. The convention of
Sept. ID was the first Democratic con-
yention that has assembled in TenDes-
see in four years. 1t was truly rep
resentative body, every member Of 1t
having been chosen by the people in
mass conventions.
Had there been a disposition to
thwart the will of the people the
State committee would never have
called the convention Of Sept. IA. But
that committee, unlike the Patterson
gang declined to act for the part 1t
referred the whole matter directly to
he people. Harvey Hannah presided
over the committee when it called the
He endorsed and approx
ID its course. Not only that but on
he night before the committee met,
hat is on Aug. II at room 100, Max
we'll House, in the presence of Luke
Lea and Gen. Gates and J. T. Amis and
Jeff McCarn and G. w. Dyer and about
fifty others Gen. Hannah made a
speech in which he declared that he
would take the stump for Hooper and
Chloe.
Newspapers which speak Of "bosses"
rying to deliver the free and untram-
neled Democracy to the Republican
nominee reflect upon the intelligence
ftheir readers. Some of the little
ournals which have suddenly acQuir- !,
d uncommon zeal for the Democratic
,arty and remarkable courage of con-
lotions, take their cue from the met
opolitan representatives Of the Model
license League. These have no con-
lotions Of their own and they are so
gnorant of the true situation, 81 &C.
to Judge others by their own
Iarrow little view point that they will
lot hesitate to insult and SANDER 100,-
90 of the best Democrats in the State
" charging them with subjecting
themselves to boss rule.
This is not good year for the
osses, in Tennessee or elsewhere and
lob Taylor and Harvey Hannah and
II that crowd are going to find II out
4 November If not before. The peo-
lie are in the saddle in the old VHlun-
eer State and they are going to stay
here for a spell anyway.
II the Pattersonites really want .