The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-05-31
CANDIDATE FRAZIER.

t;on and heard the ex-governors
speech realized that Frazier would
make a desperate effort to come
back this year in state politics. IL
was only question of the office by
wni.h Frazier would seek to reach the
desired effect. There is no doubt
that he much preferred to make the
race for senator, but Patterson pre-
empted the field. Frazier knows that
in tie senatorial primary Patterson
cannot be beaten and the wiley ex-
governor displayed wisdom when ne
determined to enter the lists for the
governorship.
For the past seven years Frazer
has been political exile. He has
been complete out cast from the
fayo. of tire people of Tennessee. he
has been devoid of following he
mas ganged to himself. He has not
been a factor in the affairs OF his
party or his state. There has been
none in either faction or any party
so poor as to do him honor.
Frazier was the author OF all OF
our political woes in Tennessee. Had
he been content to serve the people as
governor, to which Office he had just
been reelected by a very tiatterlng
majority, We would have been spared
seven wears of turmoil and strife and
bitterness and tragedy. Frazier's in
satiable lust for Office and power
proved the undoing Of the democra-
tic party in Tennessee and divided
the people into rival camps OF bit
ter, implacahle foes. Having lighted
the torch that started the confiagra-
ton Frazier took himself to Wash
ington, hundreds of miles away, to
serenely watch the havoc which he
had wrought. He has lodged every
ficnt since his election to the Senate.
He has never offered the people who
had signaliy honored him, one wcrd
of counsel in all of their dark days
of strife and tragedy. He fred the
opening gan in the longest and bit.
terest political war any state has
ever known and then left the field
Of battle for other and more valiant
souls to No the fighting. He has
avoided every issue Of these years Of
momentous import. He has flinched
from everv engagement He hal
contributed nothing for the advance
ment of the interests of the state
political, material, moral or leli
gious during the seven years tina
nave elapsed since the snap eau
Gus sent him to a seat in the Sen
ate that the people desired anothe
to fill.
Frazier had almost passed iron
the public view until about ST.
months ago, when he emerged lon
enough 20 congratulate Hilar
Howse uron the triumph OF liouo
and lawlessness, anarchy and sham
in the capital city of the state. The
he took nother long nap until tn
recent so-cslled harmony convention
Again he danced before the foo
lights of publicity and in speec
remarkable for its smoothness, II
elouuence and it's studious avoidanc
of any reference to a real problem
state, again made himself factt
to nc reckoned within the politics
Tennessee Frazier's whole polit
cal career reminds one of the prou
father who declared to his better ha
his firm belief that their young hop
full of tender age would be 20
tician. UIon being asked why
was so sue Of his prophecy, the
terna, ancestor, with convincing Ell
phasis, replied: THAT boy can 81
more things that sound well al
mean nothing than any youngster
ever knew"
Fra7ier's private life is clean. H
public career has been free from CT
rupticn. He is man of dignity e.
poise, but the state has prohat
never lad public servant more S
fish or cold blooded than the Chi
tanooga Ex-Governor. There is
solutely no warmth about him.
consequence he has no personal I
Lowing. He will probably recei
the nomination for governor, not
cause of sny affection that the
called regulars" have for him, /
solely upon the ground Of av'
ability. The top waters, who Ia
labored under the delusion that tn
were candidates for governor, v
now go away back and sit down.
TWO PRIMARIES.