The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-08
COUNTY COMMITTEE
IN OPEN REVOLT
AGAINST MACHINE
MEMBERS DECLARE THEY WILL
NOT ENTER PATTERSON
BOGUS PRIMARY.
CHAIRMAN SMIStR KICKS OUT
Action Of Supreme Judges In Throwing
OF the shaekIes Meets With AP-
provaI-Judieiary Should Be Kept
Out Of the Mlre Of Politics.
saturdays Daily.)

tee of Maury county is in open revolt
against the bogus primary Matched up
at Nashville by the Patterson machine
for the purposes of grabbing all the
offices at one scoop, and by this means
forcing the judiciary of the state into
the mire of politics. Chairman Smi-
ser and every member of the commit
tee who could be reached over the tel
ephone was interviewed and without
exception they emphatically stated
that they would not go into the bogus
primary.
1t was nearly 9 o'clock today before
The Herald began calling up the coun-
ty committeeman, and as a conse-
quence many of them could not be
reached. Some of the committeeman
have no phones, and others were out
on their farms and could not be found
But not in a single instance did those
interviewed express even the slightest
intention of entering the primary, and
it is evident that the Democratic hosts
Of Maury county will repudiate the
plan to coerce the Supreme Court.
The following committeeman were
interviewed and said:
Chairman smiser.
Chairman James A. Smiser, of the
County Democratic Executive Commit
tee, denounced the latest outrage of |
the State machine in plain and unmis-
taxable language. He declares that
he will not be party to this latest
usurpation Of power and support the i
candidates who have had the manhood
and the courage to repudiate the ma
chine. % ii
Yes, said Chairman Smiser, "you
can quote me as emphatical1y APPROX
ing the action of Judges Neil, Shields,
Beard, and the remaining candidates ,
who have repudiated this effort to
make the high judiciary of Tennes-
see the subservient tools of a con- .
oNAOhNOACOc DOAAL1Cdl / Shall IL
not enter the primary and shall ad-
rise our friends to stay out of it. 1t
8 certainly healthy sign when Ten
lessee has so many prominent Demo
rats with the courage and the integ. !,
fty to resist this outrage =
80 far as the result of the socalled
Urinary is concerned it is already
,nOwn by those responsible for this
cheme. No matter what the verdict
f the people may be the convention
ill merely record the will of the ma
hine. The machine appoints the DEL :
gates, the delegates appoint the ma =
hine. Indeed the "circle of sover.
ignty'' of which Patterson so loudly
omplained in his first campaign is
ow complete in him" -
Secretary Finney
j. l. Ffnney, Secretary of the County -
emocratic Committee: "The plan is -
nutterab1y indefensible from any =
andpoint. 1t is a scheme to auto
atically perpetuate the present ma ~.
line in power. What would the peo- -
e of Maury county say if the pres 80
1t County Democratic Committee -
lould appoint delegates to a conven- -
On to appoint its successors? That's ~
e plan exactly. Not only that it -,
ould force every state wide Demo-
at to subscribe to whiskey plat
rm no matter what the views of a ~
ajority of the party on the subject 9
light be. For be it remembered that x
e State machine appoints every del
ate to the State convention which
III write the platform. But the. most nc
trageous feature of the plan is the va
'ort to make the Supreme Court OF
the pawns and play things -
desperate and constituencies az
lltical machine. | am sure that
ree-fourths of the Democrats of this az
refuse to participate in the a.
imary. The candidates who have W.
= az L, So
d the MANHOOD and courage to de-
the machinee will be elected in my
lgment' ei'
John Odil, Spring Hill have new ".
had any intention of entering the
mary, and have said so from the -
ST.
y. H. Foster, olumbia-"The bogus s-i'
mary was Matched up by the Pat 20
on machine and should be repudi- "
ID. will not go into it."
;. G. Denton, Glendale-"I have no
ention of entering the bogus prima- :
and think that the present is the
lie to rebuke machine politics"
J. T. Looney, Columbia-"The Dem
ats Of Maury county are Justly re-
ltful of the action of the Patter-
machine in attempting to force