The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-30
INDEPENDENT CALL
FOR A CONVENTION
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. IS
RESULT OF A CONFERENCE OF
THE LEADERS IN NASHVILLE
WEDNESDAY,.

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fight FOR The next LEGISLATURE
Committee Appointed to Conduct the
Campaign Takes Roseate View of
observation-disclosures Largely At
tended and Committees Selected.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 29.-Independ-
ent democratic leaders from all Sec
tions of the state, to the number of
about sixty, met at the Maxwell
House Wednesday, issued call for
a mass convention in Nashville on
Sept. 10, appointed a legislative com
mittee to direct the fight to the cleo
ton of candidates favorable to the re-
tention of the temperance laws and
the election laws, and unanimously
endorsed the record of Gov. Hooper
and pledged him their support.
During the morning session, which
was called to order by Thomas B.
Johnson, a resolutions committee was
appointed to draft paper setting
out the purpose and plans of the re-
organized independents. Upon this
committee was appointed Prof. G. W.
Dyer, Nashville; Prof. James Rob-
bins, Mckenzie; Dr. X. S. Hewlett,
Franklin: J. |. Finey, Columbia JEFF
McCarn, Nashville, and Jonas T..
. Amis, Columbia. The committee
brought in two reports at the after
noon session, but compromise was
finally reached and both reports en-
grated into one.
The conference was attended By "a
larger number than was expected by
!, local Independents and the spirit OF
no surrender was predominant
throughout. A number of speeches
: were made during the day, all advo'
:. eating the election of Gov Hooper
!. and a war to the end on the whisky
interests. The delegates were all
optimistic and it was predicted thai
McMillin would be defeated by larg
er majority than was Taylor. IT was
claimed that Patterson and Patter
= sonism were the issues this year t.
an. extent even greater than two
:. years ago.
- The legislative committee selectet
= was Jonas T. Amis, of Columbia
= chairman; John H. Dewitt, of Nash
Vile and Jas. C. Robbins, of McKen
- zie. These three are authorized t.
= select an additional three and tn
six are to conduct the campaign.
The call in part follows:
: To the democrats Of Tennessee:
The so-called harmony democratic
= convention, composed almost cxclu
a sively of regular democrats, met II
Nashville on August Is, and promul
gated it's platform. Early in it's SEES
: sion. ex-Gov. Patterson, who is nov
a candidate for the United State
! senate. and who is now the acknoW
edged leader of the so-called regula
F. democrats, was chaperoned to tn
y place Of meeting by one OF the az
PENDANTS in the case of the state 9
q Tennessee VS.. Duncan B. Cooper,
a al for the murder of Senator Carmac
n and received the one great ovation
a the convention. He was listened
with marked interest and applaude
with wild enthusiasm.
O., A very small minority in the col
O yention under the leadership
: Judge Jones and Gen. Faulkner mad
8 hard fight to prevent the CONVEX
tion from aligning itself boldly wit
5 whisky interests and giving endors
= ment to the course of perjured o
ficials and to outlawry and incipiel
anarchy in our large cities, but ia
tersonism was so strong In the co
vebtion that these gentlemen ma
y great difficulty in getting a hearln
. and both were finally hooted down.
The results Of the August primal
and the August convention, under II
o, direction of the present Patterse
state committee, we make bold
say, are entirely satisfactory to e
Gov. Patterson, to the back tax IT
~ ternity to the wsisky interests
cd the great host Of perjured official
ba the outlaw saloon keepers, and di'
80 keepers of our cities, and to the en-
20. mics of good government in genera
Or Confronted with such a situatio
re. we feel that 1t would be almost
Ter insult to the intelligence and integl
ty of any consistent independe'
democrat to question his intense al
uncompromising hostility to this Pa
terson liquor platform and to all wi
-, endorse It and stand on 1t. But tn
l we may perfect a strong organizati'