The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-07-16
AS TO PRIMARY.

n Since it discovered within tn
j. past year or two that Senator Tod
t and his political associates are tn
] really and truly good in the polite
! of Tennessee, the Murfreesbor
Home Journal shows slayish sub
: serYiency to that element of Tennes
/ see politics that is altogether incon
t sistent with its former fight for goot
government. Only few years agt
/ this paper wAged earnest and vel
directed battle with the Todd forces
Now, because The Herald has CRITICS
ed the apparent effort of Todd and
others to have snap senatorial prim.
airy IN Tennessee the Home Journal
snarls at this paper
The Murfreesboro organ of smiling
Andrew, who is a mighty agreeable
fellow for whom The Herald enter
talns nothing but the best of feeling
albeit never regarding him as a safe
political leader, wants to know what
, objection The Herald has to a prim-
! airy like that held between Bate and
McNi.lin AMI Carmack and Taylor
and Patterson and Carmack. Since
there was no state wide primary
held when Bate anG McMillin had
their contest, and since the TAYLOR
and Carmack ard Patterson and Car
mack primaries differed In several
material particulars this paper
would have to state its objections or
approval to the manner of conducting
those contests sevefaliy and separ- i
ately. The Home Journals reference !
to the Bate-McNTillin contest as a pre-.
cedent for the Todd plan is decidedly |
what the French would term a faux. |
pas. Every democrat in Tennessee
would be delivered from another con-
test like that, with snap primary In
one county, secret convention in
another, a packed mass meeting in an
other, confusion, discord, bolts, con-
testing delegations, etc, galore. The
Knox county democracy has never
achieved victory since the conven-
ton divided the party In the Bate.
McMilliT contest.
For the information of the Home /
Journal, which il apparently as ignor- \
ant of political history as it is Of The
Heraid's attitude upon the question
of primary, Ibis paper will say that
the Tayior-Carmack primary was the
nrst state wide democratic primary
for senator cver held in this state
1t was held under fair and equitable
plan. The vote OF every democrat
In the state counted just as much as
the vote of any other democrat. II
was conducted by The local commit
tees, Altogether different was the
fraud infested machine-doninated af-
fair of 1908 when Patterson was nom.
mated in the first gubernatorial state
vide primary In that election the
vote Of a democrat in Shelby county
counted vastly More than the vote
II democrat in Rutherford or Ben
on county. Mention of it inevitably
brings to 8aind county unit" and the
secret conclave of three at Nashville
VINO appointed all the election officers
md then relieved tie people of the
state OF the right and duty of ap-
pointing the delegates to the state
convention. We might also, to en-.
lghteE the Home Journal, say that .
I was the REPETITION OF these offenses
nat split the denoc1atlc party in ,
tennessee in twain in 1910. The .
Herald would assuredly oppose pri- ,
nary for senator based upon the plan .
y 1908, or settlement of the con.
est via the McMillin hate route. It
would favor primary under the
ules that governed The Taylor-Car- !;
mack contest of 1906. BY the way.
nd this also for the benefit of the ,
lone journal, the Characterization j,
Urinary was held May IL, 1906, six :
nonths before the November election.
was not held year before the cleo.
lon, as the Todd r'aD proposes.
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