Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-22
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS
ENLIST PRES|DENT'5 AID
Situation Regarded AS Grave, Since State Must
Present Solid Front in National Elections
Two Years Hence
Continued From Page l.

Benton McMillin, now United States
Minister TO Peru. who had served two
terms as Governor, after many years
in Congress- where he was Demo-
cratic leader during the last Cleve-
land administration Bob Taylor,
who had been three times Governor
and was the idol Of Tennessee Demo
Gratis, stumped the State for Bate
and won his election when DE Legis-
iature convened in january 1905.
Never Took Office.
Before March 4. when he was to
have begun his new term, Bate died.
Bob Taylor's friends thought he
should have been elected as Bates
successor, as a reward for party serV-
ice and for his fight in Bates behalf
But Taylor had fought the late Ed
ward w, Carmack and kept him out
OF the Senate for a time after the
death of Isham G Harris IN 1897 and
Carmack remembered II. He had
gone to the Senate in 1901, two years
after Taylor had caused his defeat by
supporting Thomas j Turley, of
Memphis, whom he had appointed
temporarily to succeed Harris.
Carmack and his supporters con
troiled the 1905 Legislature. Almost
Immediately after Bates funeral the
Democrats in the Legislature eau
cused and agreed to send James b
Frazier. who was Just beginning a
second term as Governor. to the Sen
ate to succeed Bate. This elevated
John l. Cox, Speaker of the Senate,
to Governor. for practically a full
term
The friends Of Taylor and Bate and
the enemies Of Carmack. Frazier and
Cox then and there declared war on
the triumvirate The war thus be-
gun has never ceased,
Patterson's Role.
NJ. r. Patterson I'm 1905 was In
Congress from the Memphis district
He hated Carmack because Carmack
had brought about the political down
fall or his father, Josiah Patterson,
when Carmack on a free silver plat
form defeated the elder Patterson. on
a gold platform, for Congress,
In 1906 NJ. r. Patterson announced
for Governor against Cox and Sc
cured the nomination in a spectacu-
lar convention. in which politicians,
police, pistols and profanity freely
mixed. That convention. by the way,
saw the beginning Of Luke LEAFS po-
iAhAAat NhIttis Lea ltAl Ntit l'dNiffHbil
delegation and was in the thick Of all
the riotous scenes. Cox went back
home and was again elected to the
State Senate.
That same year Bob Taylor OPP
posed Carmack Cor th@ Senate III d
State wide primary Taylor won
While the Legislature was in ses-
sion in 1907 the Republican delega-
ton from Knoxville secured the pass
age as local bill of an enabling act
10 permit thot city to vote on the
licuor question The city voted dry"
That result gave the incentive to the
State wide prohibition movemen'
Knoxville wac the first and only one
of the four big c'ries OF Tennessee 10
vote liquor out 1t was legisated ou
of the other three Memphis Nash
Vile and Chattanooga.
lea Starts Newspaper.
Luke Lee broke with Patterson
about the time he established his
Nashville Tennessean He turned to
Carmack and in the fall OF 1907
brought him out as a candidate for
Governor against Patterson for the
1903 campaign. Carmack accused the
liquor interests of bringing about his
defeat for the Senate in 1906, through
corruption In the primary
The saloons of Tennessee have
sinned away their day of grace was