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


exerting every kind of influence a
his command to pack the Legislature
with his own instruments. and he him
self, has declared that he would not
want to be Governor unless he mad
legislature that was friendly to him
If he should succeed our free govern
ment would be come q despotism, and
our constitution, the charter OF oui
liberties, will be but mere waste pa
per.
"If the revolt from the tyranny OF
Gov. Patterson's Organized Democra'
cy.s controlled and dominated by him
self alone, be to constitute US bolt
ers.' then we will wear the title proud
ly as a decoration of honor as did our
Revolutionary forefathers the titles OF
rebels
Like the Governor himself, We
would rather vote for straight Re
publican than crooked Democrat
IF every free and patriotic son
of Tennessee could be made TO see
and realize the momentous issues at
stake on next Thursday, there would
be such a victory for the Independents
candidates for the two courts as would
give Gov Patterson to understand
that, in November. he will have to abb
dicate..
"The elections in November will be
vastly important, but nothing compar-
ed with the ones on August Attn. Our
Judges are elected for term of eight
years. Our courts are the very bull
wark of our liberties. Our legisla-
ture may pass unwise laws. An en-
Iightened public sentiment will COM
bel their repeal. An ambitions and
executive may, at some
period in our history, dominate our
legislature and cause the passage OF
dangerous and unconstitutional meas
Tres. The peoples refuge for safety
AN then be found alone in an able,
earned. an upright and fearless Jul
liciary. With this refuge taken from
is, and our State under the control Oh
political despot, there is no refuge
tut in revolution.
ITO such a fearful extent are our
iberties at hazard!
In the latter part of the eighteenth
entury. the liberties of the English
ress was at stake in the great trial
( Thomas Hardy. His counsel,
ord Erskine, in the course of his ar
ument said' Whatever we have lost
Z our control in Parliament, we have
ct a sheet anchor to hold the vessel
Z state amidst contending storms;
-e have still, thank God, sound adj
of justice, secured TO u.s.
/ the independence OF fearless
ldges.'
Our lives, our liberties and our CIV
rights cannot safely be committed |
ito the keeping Of judges whose NOM
ration and election are dictated by
overnor that defies the constitutional
mutations of his high Office and seeks
, grasp all the departments OF gov L
into his own hands; who in
tits and defames our courts; who |
anders the administration Of our law
' charging, in effect, that a jury, a
.ial Judge and our Supreme Court
ave committed official perjury for
he sole purpose of INJECTING the Iun-
hment of murder upon friend OF
is: who places so low an estimate
pom our highest courts, that he asks
lie people to vote for his judicial can
dates in order to sustain him in this
,ntest; who has brought shame and
,proach before the world, upon the
administration of the law which ne
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as eworn to uphold and to yindi-
ate: whose emisaries are using ev-
" means in their power to marshal
he ignorant and vicious negroes,
solid phalanx, to overwhelm the
hite mans control over the election
the judges of our appellate courts; L
nd to qualify large numbers of these
egroes to vote for the administration
ldicial candidates, they are holding k
light schools to train them as a
rick mule is trained to perform for /
clown. And every ex-saloon keep
:, every bootlegger, every gambler
nd practically the entire lawless ele-
lent of the whole State must be weld