The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13
"What's The News?"
BIZ CLARENCE POE.

AN OVERWHELMING majority the State
X OF Tennessee repudiates Governor Patter-
IL son-this the ending of one of the bitterest
campaigns in the Souths recent political history
Elected for a second term two years ago after a
heated campaign with E. w. Carmack who repre-
sented the Prohibition side, the killing of Car
mack by the Coopers Patterson's political friends
soon followed. The case coming before the SUI
preme Court on appeal, three judges charge that
Patterson attempted coercion, and the issue in
last weeks election chiefly IAN independent
Judiciary" There were also charges that Patter-
son managed the party machinery unfairly, and
this added fuel to the flame already violent by
reason of Patterson's pardon of the Coopers and
his pro-whiskey principles The Republicans had
no ticket in last weeks election, the majority of
the white members of the party supporting the
victorious anti-Patterson ticket while the negroes
lined up almost solidy for the Patterson can
didates.
1t will be remembered that the Louisiana Legis-
lature two years ago passed bill "to make con-
cubinage between person of the Caucasian race
and person of the negro felony, fixing
the punishment therefor and defining what shall
constitute concubinage." After the original act
was passed. the Supreme Court of Louisiana held
that the word negro" did not include all persons
of color. Accordingly the law was so amended
by the Legislature just adjourned as to make it
the tincture of negro blood in them. The Times
Democrat tells us that the law is backed by q
strong public sentiment, and Is being enforced
especially in New Orleans, where the District At
torney has been quite active Every State in the
South should have stringent legislation Of this
kind; at no other point is the supremacy OF the
white race really threatened.
The Republican primaries and conventions last
week, notably those in Iowa and Kansas, resulted
in such sweeping gains for the insurgents, or
anti-Taft element, seemingly to justify SEN
ator CUMMINGS reference to state Of "civl
war in the party It is said that already so
many Cannon Congressman have been defeated
for denomination by Insurgent Republicans as to
make it sure that Uncle 10" will never again
be elected Speaker The Iowa Republican con-
vention condemned the tarih law as q be-
trayal Of platform pledges. and the New York
Evening Post remarks that it's reflection on
President Taft was obvious as it was unpre-
cedented. Even the unpopular Hayes used to
get perfunctory endorsements from Republican
conventions"
John G. Carlisle. of Kentucky. from 1883 to
1889 Speaker Of the National House Of Repre-
sentatives. then for four years United States SEN
ator, and then Secretary Of the Treasury during
Clevelands second administration. is dead at the
age of Is. With meager advantages he rose to
prominence by sheer force of ability. He had
practiced law in New York for IL years past, CIV
ing little thought to politics.
The dispatches concerning last weeks Okla
homa primaries contain this significant item:
1.-TWO women are candidates for State
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections.
Mrs. Kate Barnard. the Democratic ticket,
seeks denomination, and she is opposed by
Mrs. Kate H. Biggers. of NARROW. Republic
can, who is president of the Woman's Suf-
frage Association Of Oklahoma.