The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28
NURDEROUS BULLET UPHOLDS
PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
(Condinued from page /, column 81

Running for governor at the same
time was Malcolm R. Patterson, the
son of the Josiah Patterson whom
Carmack had defeated for congress
in 1896. Carmack hated the son or
general principles. Cooper liked Pat
terson and supported him. Carmack
swung his influence toward Gov. Cox
Patterson won.
Col. Duncan Brown Cooper, now
totally bald and extremely emphatic
in his opinions, was greatly pleased
Both his horses had won. But Cooper
didn't crow about it. He took his win
ming in the same spirit-he had won
and lost thousands of dollars across
the green baize table. His whole
philosophy of life was contained IN
auatrain that he often recited to
friends in the Hoffman House bar on
his frequent New York visits:
No matter what you sing or say,
The world rolls on in the same old
way,
And he who would possess his soul
Must hold on tight and let her roll.
Carmack was never philosopher
at least not in defeat. He declared
he was out of politics for good. He
went to Memphis to resume the
practice of law. But the lure of pub
lie office was too great. He an
nounced himself as candidate for
governor against Patterson.
The Anti-Saloon League.
The latter had spent two years in
building up a powerful political ma
chine of his own. Distiller and brew
ers, bartenders and gamblers, honest
business men, who honestly believed
that "open towns meant good busl-
ness, reactionary Democrats who
passed the plate Sundays, shrewd men
who thought Patterson had given the
state good dministration-all these
gathered under the Patterson stand
ard.
Then the Anti-Saloon League STEP
ped actively into Tennessee politics.
Before that the league had chirped,
but had been throttled by the whisky
ring. The Anti-Saloon League de-
manded statewide prohibition. Pat
terson would not advocate it. He stood
for local option-if the public had to
have prohibition of any kind.
The Anti-Saloon League turned to
the other side, and there was Ned Car
mack, smiling an invitation. Right
then Edward Ward Carmack lost
votes. He had never been known to
certain of his intimates as a white
ribbon teetotaler.
For the first time since the Civil
War the churches of Tennessee en-
tered politics. The doctrine of Jesus
Christ" and Him Crucifed' was laid
aside for the time and that of Car
mack and statewide prohibition"
preached in its place.
Bitterness dropped out. Business
partners disagreed on the relative
merits of local option or a dry state.
Brothers hated one another for their
political stand. Fathers and sons diff
fered.
Cooper, of course, was giving his
support to Patterson. In sense he
had been the Col. House of Patter-
sons administration and his keen
brain was aiding Patterson's cam
paign. But Cooper was making no
speeches. He was no more orator. He
pulled the wires and watched the
puppets dance.
Carmack became incensed at Coop
er's activities and began to openly
berate him on the stump with that
peppery tongue. Day after day he re-
ferred to the man who had given him
his start in journalism and even went
so far one night as to ask whether
"baldheaded angel Dune Cooper was
an angel of darkness or of light, or if
there is not the smell of sulphur in
his feathers"
That sunk deep. Cooper was moth
ing if not dignifed. Carmack was
forty-nine, Cooper sixty-fve, and feel
ing his age. Word went to Carmack
that Cooper was touchy about his
badness. The colonel felt he was
responsible for his own individual
acts, but as far as his physical ap-
pearance was concerned, ''the Lord
hath given, and the Lord hath taken
away, blessed be the name of the
Lord"
The Vulnerable spot.