The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-10

State of the Union.
Next day they carried the body of ex-
Senator Edward ". Carmaek 70 the rail-
road station, to be sent to his home.
Women wearing white ribbons formed an
aisle through which the coffin was car
ried. In Tennessee women sing hymns in
the State house when important leglsIa-
ton Is pending. They sang hymns here.
After the departure of the train man
got up on a baggage truck and addressed
them. One of the things he said was:
The blood OF Senator Carmack must
be as productive as the bSod of the
martyrs Of CID"
Verify. the blood Of Carmack was
plowed under-the dragons teeth were
sown-and armed men sprang up all over
Tennessee. Half of them were called Pat
tersonites and half ti-Pattersonltes,
and they fought each other, and have
fought ever since, and win fight for
years to come because the most power
full political figure, the Tennessee game
cock" the governor Of the State, Is
young, able, and ambitious, writes Josiah
Dwight Whitney ia the New York Post
This man Is Malcolm r. Patterson. He
Is running for governor a third time
Probably two terms would have satisfied
him had he not been attacked so bitterly
by the enemies who spPang mp from Car
mack's blood. He has an intense belief
that he Is right. Prohibition, the pri-
maries. the Carmack murder. are issues
on which he has torn his party wide
open. But he has never swerved from
his position on any Of them. The De-
mocracy Is rent in twain7 Very well;
there are enough left who will see that
he is right He has never been beaten,
and he does not propose 20 be beaten
now.
His Young Wife Ambitious, Too.
Toward the end OF his first term Pat
terson married. His wife was an ex-
tremely handsome Tennessee girl. She
was also extremely ambitious. both politi-
cally and socially. In her adoring minds
eye she saw her boyish husband going on
from governor to United States Senator.
and she even thought that some day he
might become President. If the happy
time were ever TO come when the Bryan
obsession would die out
Mrs. Patterson accompanied her hus-
band on his speechmaking tours In the
early summer Of 1903, when Patterson
and Carmack were conducting the most
grueling fight the State had ever known
for the Democratic nomination. While
her husband spoke from the car platform,
this bride Of half year mingled among
the people. The gallant Tennesseeans de-
elared that her earnest, ingenious smiles
won ten votes to the orators One-and the
governor was no mollycoddle of speaker.
His periods were as flowery as If con-
1ured by the Demosthenes OF the Platte;
and he hammered them In with the trip
hammer elocution OF a T. Roosevelt
Pattersons father, Col. Josiah Patter-
son, was a lawyer and held position IN
the House OF Representatives. Il is a
curious coincidence that the son was
elected TO the same position from the
same district for the same number OF
years. Col. Patterson lived originally in
SomeTville. Ala. and there, on June Z,
1861, the future governor Of Tennessee
first opened his eyes on the world. After
the war. the family moved TO Tennessee,
and Memphis has been the Patterson
home since that time. Malcolm was
graduated from the Christian Brothers
College in Memphis. and then from Van
derbilt University in Nashville, in the
class OF 81. He read law IN mis- fathers
Office and was admitted to the bar IN
1883.
In 1884 he was nominated for the legis-
lature by the Democrats. but was de-
feated. Above We said that he had never
been beaten. but. as he was only twenty
three when running for the legislature,
this defeat does not count. To all In
tents and purposes. Patterson is to-day
an unbeaten leader.
Went to Congress.
Ten years later, in 1894. he was elected
general OF Shelby County, and
served for six years. In 1900 he resigned
to accept the nomination for Congress
from the Tenth district His election was
one Of the most remarkable victories IN
The history OF Tennessee politics. Harde-
mann and Upton Counties were pledged
TO other candidates. Fayette was uncer-
tain, and Shelby was the only one IN
which Patterson felt sure OF winning. |
So he went into Fayette County and be- |
gan personal compaign, which ended In |
his being nominated. OF course, in Demo- |
cratic Tennessee, a nomination meant |
An election. He was renominated In 1902 !
md 1904 without opposition.
AS a member. aEACongress he made sew |
raj notable speeches. one being his crit |
cism Of the administrations policy with /
'egard TO the Philippines and another /
he well-remembered speech in which he /
declared that the time had come TO drop /
he old superstition about the South's be-
ng unable 10 furnish any material for |
he Democratic nomination for the Presi-
lency. II he had been married at that
inc. one might easily have suspected /
drs. Patterson OF having suggested the
after speech.
Practically unknown TO the voters Of
outside Shelby County. except |
" these speeches, Patterson announced
lis candidacy for the Syovernorship in
August, 1905. He had not attended a
state convention for eight years. and
ad probably not made a political speech
outside the Tenth district. He made it
pparent right away that he proposed to
make the campaign on his personality
nd his own private principles, rather
han those Of the party He boldly
his platform at the outset
nd criticised the policies Of his own
arty where he thought it would do the
lost good.
NOMINATED by AccIamafion.
He visited all the contested counties
nd made an unheard-of number OF
peeches. The convention. in Amusement
his efforts. nominated him by acola-
lation
AS Patterson's first term drew toward
close the prohibition movement In the
outh was at its height. Notable VIC
'ries for temperance had been won. and
here was a stirring for a Statewide ]
rohibition law in Tennessee. The first
-ep seemed to be to find leader. Elk
nited states Senator Carmack said that
9 would lead. There was an instant
OF the positive and negative.
though in an electrical field. News
apers took sides bitterly. and one of
he most tremendous primary campaigns
the history of Tennessee was on. The
andidates not only made individual
oeeches without number, but met nearly