The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
Betting Is Two and Three t
One on Experimentation
Candidate.
QUESTION OF MAJORITY
Thousands OF Democrats Will
Cast Their Votes Against
Taylor.
ny CHARLES }. HAn<nApER.

ceded that Ben w. Hooper, Republican,
Fusion candidate for Governor of
Tennessee. will be elected In Tuesdays
contest. The betting from one end
of the State to the other is two and I,
three to one on Hooper, while 1T Is
confined very largely to wagers on
what his majority Will be.
The assassination of the late Senator
Edward Ward Carmack Is what threat
ems to throw Tennessee into the Re-
publican column Tuesday by the de-
feat OF Senator Bob Taylor, Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor.
There are many estimates as to what
believe that it will exceed that of
the anti Patterson judiciary elected
in August by 1900 majority, through.
coalition of Independent or Carmack
Democrats and the Republicans. This
is the first opportunity Of the Car
mack people to return to the Re-
publcans the favor of helping to de-,
feat Patterson, the Governor who par
+, doned Duncan B. Cooper, the convicted |
murderer of the late ex-senator Car
mack, who was his (Patterson's) worst |
political enemy.
i, The split originally came about over
| the liquor question Bob" Taylor
| for many years the idol Of the peo-
! pie, had been defeated for the Senate !
i two or three times and the people /
| felt that he ought to have seat
/ there When Carmack's term expired
/! they elected Taylor to succeed him.
The liquor question was sprung. Gov
ernor Patterson was a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for re-
(, election, and announced himself In ia
vor of the policy of local option as APP
piled to the liquor question. The State
was already dry except as to the four
largest cities. The dry people in the
rural districts In both parties We're
clamoring for statutory prohibition, or
rather. "State-wide.' Carmack became
their champion. and they ran him for
the gubernatorial nomination against
Patterson. Patterson, who then controll-
ed the election machinery and who fore
ed upon the Carmack people primary
plan that they declared bogus, was
nominated. Carmack conceded his
nomination, and while bitter against
him and strong for prohibition, made
{ a fight to elect a Legislature to wipe
out the saloon. He penned the now
famous paragraph to the effect that
he knew of no malady for which Re-
. publican rule was the cure.
|, Patterson was elected and so was
: Carmack's legislative candidates. The
o Legislature, VIGOROUSLY anti Patter-
4 son, put through everything on Car
r mack's program. rushing many bills
through over Patterson's vigorous veto
:, messages. When he vetoed the prohi-
O billion bill and called prohibition vi
G cious and an empty dream. they shot
: the bill through over him SO quickly
that hardly any one realized what had
r. happened before it was a law withou,
! the Executives approval
d This was just before Carmack was
\ shot down on the streets of Nashville
y Duncan B. Cooper, Patterson's chic
"a political adviser, sent him note tina
Y If his name appeared In his paper, thu
~ Nashville Tennessean, again that h
70 would kill him on sight. Cooper
name appeared in a humorous para
- graph, and Cooper shot down carmacl
-, while in the act of conversing wit
- q society woman.
:, Cooper's trial. together with tina
"a of his son, Robin Cooper. who wa
~ associated with him in the killing, wa
:. the bitterest in the history of tn
State and rent Democracy from cen
tire to circumference.
as Cooper was convicted-that is, tn
u elder. When the Supreme Court cor
nd sidered his appeal from the twenty
at year sentence, 1t afterwards charge
'es that Patterson attempted to coerce
on prisoner. The judges We're to be II
~. elected in August, and there was /
lf opposition to the old court. Howeve
TIC when they convicted Cooper, soon II
to out in a statement saying that tht
We would accept no nomination from Il
ltb Patterson people, and making gra,
he charges against the Governor in COZ
son nominated ticket which
fse stamped the regular Democratic tickle
ear and which was indeed regular from
up party standpoint, and put it in Il
ar The Republicans did not put out
Too ticket. but joined with the anti Pate
~ son Democrats, and swept the Sta
TO for the free and untrammeled JUG
cary" by $4,000 majority. In his ca
yer vass Patterson made nov famo
the remark in appealing for Republics
ar votes for his ticket: I'D rather vo
snt for a straight Republican than
lay In the meantime Patterson's col
af- mlttee declared him the nominee
md Governor for third term, without Q
ees position. Flushed with the, veto
Gratis seemed destined to control I
situation. They made their nomin
oid Ben w. Hooper, the Republican non
the noe. and another coalition bent on
vas destruction of Patterson, was form
eks Patterson Nithdraws.
to Seeing inevitable defeat, Patters
withdrew, threw up his nominate,
IL and quit the fight, as did also his otl
y
ap- Gratis to nominate Democrat. and
ear would support him. They We're usi
his remark: I'D rather vote for
S straight Republican than a crool
ore, Democrat as campaign slogan
ana Hooper
"Gcntlcmcn's Agreement"
When Patterson Withdrew, 1t ]
zen the Carmack Democrats with the
leld publican as their nominee. Then
eX- genuemen's agreement came into pl
lam 1t was claimed that they We're in 81
nth faith bound to repay the Republics
80, for what they did in the defeat of
'eh- Patterson judiciary by helping to el
Hooper, and that there existed
agreement between them and the
publicans, Then they said that
patterson" but "Pattersontsm" '
Geo the issue.
by Senator Taylor, who saved the st
thin to Democracy fifteen years ago,
fire called upon by the Patterson pee
so and the harmony independents to $
al the situation He had announced I
s in he would stump the State for the 7
the terson judiciary some weeks previ'
and was liz bad with the Carm
-- ---- Democrats. He accepted the nomi
~, n,I., four AuO. and