The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-12-10
PATTERSoN's ANSWERS.

speak.
PATTERSON'S ANSWERS.
! "Gov. Patterson answered dues-
tions and 5, put to him recently
by the Anti-Saloon League, in the
affirmative, that is, he agreed to vote
for the measures which are identical
in principle with the Webb-Kenyon
bill. Yet, in 1913, in his celebrated
address to the people of Tennessee,
he averred and proved by the de-
cisions of our courts that the Webb
Kenyon law was unconstitutional
and nugatory:s Now, when he wants
office, he is willing blindly to agree
to vote for two measures that he then
claimed were unconstitutional. In
other words, Gov. Patterson has no
compunction about promising to vote
for what he calls and proves an un-
constitutional measure. Has Gov.
Patterson reformed in his views on
the constitution also?
| CUSTER PROCEEDINGS.
GAS to the custer proceedings in
Istitutedby Gov Rye l was not ad-
vised with about this matter. l was
engaged in my campaign at the time
heard from many sources, however,
| that Gov. Patterson favored these
proceedings at this particular time,
| hoping that he might get his neigh
bors to thinking about some other
subject rather than the Senatorial
primary, and thus prevent as many
of them as possible from voting
against him and voting for me. Gov.
Patterson is willy politician and
knows what to do in any political
emergency. Gov Patterson knew his
neighbors were going to vote for me.
MY SUPPORT IN MEMPHIS.
Coy Patterson charges that May
or Crump is for me, and further
charges that l am being supported
by every lawless element in the
State. 1t is true that Mayor Crump,
of Memphis, is for me, but judging
from the returns from the primary
that fact does not seem to be remark
able, for about three-fourths of all
the voters of Memphis who voted are
for me. Take Gov. Pattersons own
ward, the Seventeenth ward, one of
the finest residence wards in the city,
in which / understand there never
was saloon, the vote stood 2S2 for
me and 116 for Gov. Patterson-or
" to for me. l am surprised
that Gov. Patterson is willing to
charge that nearly three-fourths of
his neighbors in his own ward, in his
own city, belong to the 1awless ele-
ment.'
"In the Seventeenth ward, where
Gov. Patterson lives, where Prof Ma
con, his campaign manager, lives,
where Judge Wilkinson, chairman of
his meeting, lives, Mr.. Lanier, one of
his most active supporters, lives, my
vote was two and one-half to one.
In the Sixteenth ward, the ward ad
Joining, and in which Gov. Patter-
sons brother-in-law lives, my ma
jority over Gov. Patterson was more
than two and one-half to one. If
Gov. Patterson likes to refer to more
than two-thirds of his neighbors in
his own ward, in his adjoining ward,
and in his own city, where he has
lived since childhood, and who know
him better than anybody else on
earth, and who are the very best peo-
pie that can be found in any COM
in the world, as a part of the
criminal element of Memphis, then
he can have the distinguished honor
of so denouncing his neighbors.
"But let me say that it is gra-
tuitous and untrue that the $4,000
Democrats in the State who voted
for me in the primary of November
20 were composed of the 'lawless
of the State.
CHARGES OF GROSS FRAUDS.
81 denounce as untrue that gross
frauds were perpetrated in my inter
ssts, and that ballot boxes were
stuffed in Memphis, and that my sup
1orters furnished whisky and beer
hat was openly used in and about
he polling booths as aids to my can
lidacy. / invite the fullest investi-
cation of the election, or any part of
t in Memphis, and l say to Gov. Pat
erson that if there was single il r
egal vote cast for me in that election
n Memphis, or elsewhere, I am un- 7
Wiling to have the benefit Of it. ;
will join him in making any kind of
n investigation and will have the
esults purged of every illegal vote, /
any were cast, which do not be-
leve. Will Gov Patterson do as !,
luch? 1 understand from news :
apers that several precincts were
brown out in Nashville, in which
ity Lea led by large plurality. :
viii Gov. Patterson join me in purg- Z
lg the Nashville result ?n