The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-09-05
Call Issued for September Is
With Mass-Meetings
to Proceed.
FIGHT FOR LEGISLATURE
Active Fight VIII Be Opened
and Waged at Once-Patter-
sonism is Again to Be Made
the Direct Issue Speakers at
Preliminary Meeting Strong
for Hooper.


for Hooper.
Nashville, Sept. 2.-lndependents
gathered in conference at the Maxwell
House Thursday and in an atmosphere
of the utmost enthusiasm and deter
mination again put on foot plans to
compete the reorganization of the
party at a convention September Is,
the call for which was issued from the
meeting. Pattersonism was again
made the issue. and while no formal
action was taken. the sentiment of the
meeting, without exception, was
strong for Hooper for reelection. The
main fight Will be made for the Legis-
lature, and this was the question about
which all centered.
Two sessions of hecommittee were
held, the first adjourning to allow a
subcommittee, composed of Prof. @.
w. Dyer, Nashville; Prof. James A.
Robbins, Mckenzie; DR.. IS. Hewlett
Franklin; James l. Finney, Columbia;
jeff McCarn, Nashville; Jonas II.
Amis, Columbia; and Prof. w. r..
Webb, Bell Buckle, to report on the
best and most proper action TO be TAX
en-.
At the second session this committee
submitted two reports differing only
in length and some phraseology and a
compromise was affected by merely
combining the two reports, which was
then unanimously and enthusiastic
ally accepted and adopted.
The report, as adopted was as fol-
lows:
After his remarks Prof. Gus Dyer,
offered the following:
''To the Democrats of Tennessee:
The so-called harmony Democratic
convention, composed almost eXcAs-
lively of so-called Regular Democrats,
in Nashville on August 10, and pro-
mulgated lis platform. Early in its
session Ex-Governor Patterson. who is
now a candidate for the United States
Senate, and who is now the acknow-
lodged leader of the so-caled Regular
Democrats, was chaperOned to the
place of meeting by one of the defend
ants i'm the case of State of Tennessee
VS.. Duncan b. Cooper, ct al. for the
murder of Senator Carmack, and re-
ceived the one great ovation of the
convention.
'.He was listened to with marked
interest and was applauded with wild
enthusiasm. Following This great
ovation on his re-entrance into Ten
nesses politics, he made bold TO take
his stand on the floor of the conven-
tion at its next session; and from his
great activity in hurried con-
ferences with his trusted lientenants,
Ii was soon heralded abroad that Pat
terson had been re-enthroned as the
director general of the so-called Regu.
lar Democracy of Tennessee, and tina,
he held this convention in the hollow
oi his hand
"A very small minority.in the con-
vention. under the leadership of Judge
Jones and General Faulkner, made 8
hard fight to prevent the convention
from aiigning itself bodily with :he
whisky interests and giving endorse
ment to the course of perured officials
and outlawry and incipient anarchy
i'm our large cities, but PattersOnism
was so strong in the convention tina,
these gentlemeu had great difficulty
getting hearing, and both were fin.
ally hooted down and were completely
annihilated by an overwhelming ma.
jority against their proposal.
"The result of the August primary
and the August convention, under the
direction of the present Patterson
State Committee, we make bold tC
say, are entirely satisfactory to ex-
Gov. Patterson, 10 the back tax fra.
ternity, TO the whisky interests, tc
the great host of perjured officials, the
outlaw saloon-keerers and dive-keep
ers OF our cities, andlto the enemies OF
good government in general.
"Confronted with such situation
we feel that it would be almost an in.
suit TO the intelligence and integrity oi
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