The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-10-04
GOV. PATTERSON
OPENS CAMPA PAIGN
SPEAKS TO LARGE CROWD AT
AUDITORIUM.
Goes Over Record AS covernor-Tells
Why He Pardoned-Better to Err
On the Side of Mercy-candi-
date for senate-stands
For Humanity's Cause.

Ex-Governor M R. Patterson open
ed his campaign Thursday night,
September 6, at the Ryman Audito-
rum as a candidate for the United
States Senate. Over 5000 people
were present and the address of Mr..
Patterson was well received. He
said in part:
The truths that Jefferson taught
have become the epigrams and ideals
of liberty. They have never been
finally realized, and may never be in
all their strength and meaning; but
as our religion becomes purer the
nearer we approach it's source, so
our Democracy will become more Sc
cure and more completely fulfill its
mission the nearer we bring it to the
service Of the people; for from the
people all the power of Government
comes, and in them all the power
Of Government should remain.
That immortal maxim of Jefferson,
Equal and exact justice to all, spec
cial privileges to none," is the sub
stance of all civic virtue and the
foundation stone upon which our Re-
public is built, and has been the bat
tle-cry of the Democratic party since
its birth.
The Hamiltonian or Republican
idea Of paternal government is
founded upon the inequalities Of
men, where the strong control the
weak, the wise play upon the ignor-
ance of the masses, and the few are
blessed at the expense of the many.
l believe in progress and in a pro-
gressive party with progressive ideas
and principles. Stagnation is decay,
and we must go forward to meet new
conditions as they arise. Change Is
the universal order of nature, AMI
without it all created things would
perish. But change itself does not
always mean progress. An oak may
be caught and blasted in the arms
of the storm; a river may overflow
its banks and swerve from its true
spreading terror and destruc-
tion in the wild rush of it's waters,
and social and political revolution
may overthrow established order and
obliterate all the landmarks of rea-
son and experience. If the change
improves and uplifts, the progressive
idea has been mgt; but if mere
change alone is involved and results
have been for the worse rather than
the better, then it is not progression,
but retrogression.
Record as Governor.
have twice served the people as
Governor, and while my critics have
never been in a frame of mind to
give proper credit to the accomplish
ment of my administration, yet, in
spite Of the difficulties which beset
me, l remained true to every promise
made the people, and the advance
nent made in all departments Of the
State was marked and rapid.
Nearly 100000 of the State debt
vas retired, the public credit was full
y sustained, and pensions to Confed-
.rate soldiers and their widows were
Our agricultural interests, upon
which so much of our prosperity de-
Dends, received my attention; and
avs were passed to protect the farm
RS from impure seed and their live
tock from misbranded and adulter.
tied feeding stuffs.
An Experimental Farm was estab-
ished in West Tennessee, at Jackson,
low operated under the control Of
he State University, which has
'roved itself to be of the greatest
'alue to a knowledge Of scientific
arming and soil conservation.
A State Department of Mineralogy
nd Geology was created.
The inspection of the mines was
n every way satisfactory-there be-
ng little loss of life from explosions:
nd law was passed giving right
f action to injured miners from ac-
idents growing out of the negligence
f foremen.
In the interest of the health of the
ublic, I advocated a Pure Food and
)rug Law, fashioned after the Ma
lonal Pure Food and Drug act,
1hich was passed by the Legislature.
AS Governor, | called the first
Iood Roads Convention ever Great
d in the State, and started the move
lent to build the great highway from
'ristol to Memphis.
Important penal reforms were also
among these being the
Nv which required all executions to
AXE place at the penitentiary at
Tashville-thus relieving communi-
es of the horrors which always at
md the indiction of the death penal
z.
In order to separate young Offend
rs from hardened criminals, and to
ave them from the dread evils of
lch association, also advocated the
Of the Juvenile Reform
tory, and such a law has passed
Y the Legislature
The State acquired under my ad-
Illustration valuable additions of
,al estate, the Capitol Annex, the
overnors mansion, a farm connect
with the Central Asylum and an
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