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r: r- i-:sjSr- - H. r , A litf 1 o Twenty-Fifth Year. JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1908. Whole Number 1239 J KM For Female Ills You should take, for female Ills, a medicine which acts on the female organi and functions. Cardul is not a man's medicine. It is for women. Its pure, heal ing, curative, vegetable Ingredi ents, go direct to the womanly organs, relieve their pain and In flammation, and build up their strength. , "Tongue cannot tell," writes Miss Nola Smith, of Swettser, hid., "what APPEAL TO REASON Why Governor Patterson Should Be Renom- inated WOMAN'S RELIEF has done for me. I am on my third bottle and am so much bet ter. Before I began to take Car dul, I could not do a day's work. Now I can work all day. Mother took four bottles of Cardui before confinement, got along fine and has been real strong ever since." At All Druggists WRITE FOR FREE ADVICE, stating age and describing symp toms, to Ladies Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. E 40 wm:. silver PRACTICING OPTICIAN E.fea Cavefully Examined and Glasses Scieutilically Fitted. JOHNSON CITY TENNESSEE S. E. N. MOORE Attorney and Counsellor at Law Offico:- Room 4 & 5 over TJnaka National Bank. Johnsou City, Tenn yt J, MATTHEWS, A. D. Physician and Surgeon Office No. 243 Main Street Office 'Phone 298 . Res. 'Phone 208 JOHNSON & MILLER ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Johnson City - - Tennessee Brown Building, Second floor. Rooms 1, 2, and 14 DR. E." s. miller Physician and Surgeon Omce over H. C. Miller's Drug Store. Sours 7 to 8 a. m., 12 to 2 p. m., 6 to 8 p. m. ReHldencc-King street. R GARDNER Attorney at Law PATTERSON VS CARMACK Practices in all the Courts. Special at tention given to Pension Claims. Room 6, Eagle Building. E. B. HENSLEY LAWYER Practices in all Courts JOHNSON Otllce CITY, TENNESSEE In Uurrow Block S. C. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLIC ITOR IN CHANCERY Johuson City - - Tennessee T. A COX'. ' G, C. SELLS COX & SELLS ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY Special UenUon to batracts and titles Rooms 6 aid t. Brown Building. A. VINES VINES 8AM W. PRICE PRICE Attorneys - at - Law JOHNSON CITY. - TENNESSEE Practice in all the Caurts C. J. BROYLES, M.D. Practice limited to diseases of the FYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT Office In new Ilurvow Building Main Street, Johnson City, Tenn. E. J. VAUGHT, Attorney and Solicitor, Johnson City, Tenn. its- Snecial attention paid to Claims, Office, Room 5, Brown RIdg. City Barber Shop. Him h flrst-cl&sa white workmen. We want and are trying to Kievnte the Uarber Profee alon in joimson uiiy. mmiuis. Patronize your own Color - and help those thai are deservmp ot jeur pst rOQfcfre. xoura rwpwuuii; Hamch, Bel & Dyer, Proprietors. Const al ana Butralo Straeu. The News-Banner: The following is taken from last week's Obion Democrat: " It has been the custom in this state to allow the governor two terms, that is, endorsing his administration by electing him to the office for the second term." The Democrat might have said that it was the almost universal custom in this state, and in this county especially, to allow a member of congress a seoond term, and to allow county officers to have the office twice in succession. Take the members of congress from this district and it has been the rule of fairness to allow all of them two terms in office. That has been the almost universal rule in the matter of eur county officers, and the same is true with respect to our state senators and representatives in the legislature. When a man is once elected to theBe offices, our people have always conceded him the right to another term. It has al wavs been regarded as just, fair and right by our people to give an offioe holder a seoond term. This rule has prevailed from president down to the smallest office in the state and has been varied from in Tennessee but twice in regard to the office of governor; once, when Gov. Marks refused to be a can didate for the second term ; and next, when Gov. Buchanan was defeated by Judge Turney, and in this race the former was not a candidate for the nomination, but made an independent race against Judge Turney and was de feated. Now after this rule or custom has been bo universally followed in this state in respect to all state and oounty officers, why should an exception be made against Gov. Patterson? Why is not Mr, Patterson entitled to a second term? What has he done, while in of fice, that he should be deprived of the right to an endorsement and an election for a second term? Why turn him down at the end of his first term just to put in office another who does not care for the office of governor, except as a stepping stone to the office of United States senator? Has not Patterson made a good governor? Name one who has made a better governor, or one who has given the duties of the office more thought and attention than be has. Is he not a democrat, and has he not al ways been such? Has he not carried out the platform pledges on which he was elected? Has not all his appoint ments been of men well fitted and qual ified for the duties of the places to which they were appointed? Find a single one of his appointments to any office which should noi have been made. Take his late appointment of Judge Bell" as a member of the au preme court and you can not pick a flaw in it. Judge Bell was his friend before the appointment. He was an active church working member of the Metho diet and had often been a member of its general conference, taking a leading part in all its work. There were sever al applicants for this place, one of whom was said to be in sympathy with the whiskey men of the state. For this reason he was turned down. Another one of the applicants for this position was understood to be in favor of the union between the Presbyterian churoh U. S. A. and the 0. P. church. This man was also turned down and theap pointment given to Judge Bell, and if the Loyal Cumberland Presbyterians win in their suit lately tried in the su preme court at Nashville they will owe their victory to Judge Bell and to Gov. Patterson, who appointed him. Should not these loyalists all over the country, and in fact all over the state, rally to the support of Mr. Patterson? Now find a single fault with any of Mr. Patterson's official sots. Has there been one single breath of scandal about his administration? Has it not been honest, open and above board? Then, why turn him down and refuse to allow him the endorsement of a seoond term? What has he done or omitted to do to deserve this at the hands of this party which he has faithfully served all his life? I can not believe that the democ racy of Tennessee will turn out of office a faithful servant jaet to let in another man who wants to use this office te get a better one. The people of this coun try are honest and fair-minded and want to do what is right about Gov. Patterson and they are not going to re fuse him this endorsement which they concede and allow all other officehold ers. But it is said he pardons too many convicts. Do you know that he has not pardoned any more than his predeces sors. All governors nse this pardoning power freely perhaps too freely but Patterson has not done so any more than his predecessors in offioe have done. This was the great objection to Got. Bob Taylor, and yon heard it ar gued against him all over the state, but the people eleoted him governor all the same. Why turn Patterson out of office when he did just like his predecessors in office did? He is no worse than thev in this respect. Yes, but he commuted the death sentence of Lee Holder and that should damn him in the eyes of a few. Do you know the struggle the governor had in trying to decide what he should do in the matter of that com mutation? I guess not, but I do, for he related it to me. Now if there is a man in Obion county so narrow, so small, bo contracted as to vote against the governor on this account, then this letter is not for him and he need not waste his time to read it. I helped to prosecute Lee Holder and did it with all my skill and ability and flatter my self that I was, to some extent, instru mental in having the death sentence passed on him. I never asked the gov ernor, verbally or otherwise, to com mute this sentenoe and often refused to do so, but when it was done I was glad in my heart that it was done, and I rejoice now that Lee Holder's sen tence was commuted and I applaud the governor for his manly act in doing so, even if it should lose him a few votes in this oounty. I am sure it is not gen erally known in this section of this state, but it is a fact that letters, tele grams and petitions came to the gov ernor from all parts of the state asking him to commute that sentenoe. Not only that, but delegations and many individuals in .and out of Nashville went in person and sought that boy's commutation, and much can be said in his favor for yielding to their prayers for mercy to this youpg criminal. Cer tainiy no intelligent merciful man is going to vote against the governor be cause he yielded to these prayers for mercy to this unfortunate young boy. Is not Patterson the equal in all re spects of . his competitor? The best judges in the state say he is. As a statesman he is Carmaok's equal in all respects, and as a popular stump speak er nearly everyone says he is Carmaok's superior. As a moral, temperate man, Patterson is as good as Carmack, the latter having no advantage of him in this respect. Much has been said about Patterson's moral habits, and I assert that just as much can be truthfully said about Carmaok's moral habits. Neither of them is a saint, though Patterson is as near one as his competitor. So, as respects the moral habits of these two men, the one has no advantage over the other, the only difference being that Patterson makes no pretentions to be a saint, while some of the friends of Car- mack claims he is. Patterson was a can didate two years ago and his habits were aired and discussed all over this Btate. Many good christian people, preachers included, voted for him then with full knowledge of his character and habits. Some of these good people and a few of the preachers are against him in this campaign. Why is this so? Whatbas he done to cause them to change? You can not pick a flaw in his private life sinoe he became governor; if so, what is it? And if not, what has wrought this change in these good people? It is not his record as governor that has caused it, for he has done all he prom ised the people he would do. He has done more to destroy the liajuor busi ness in this state than any governor we ever had and stands ready today to put it out of each city and town in the state if the people in each city and town want it put out, Then why is he not enti tled upon all grounds to an endorse ment to a seoond term? I have been told by reliable, truthful christian men who claimed to know the truth of their statements, that all the wealthy wholesale whiskey men and distillers in Tennessee are for Carmack in this campaign. Why are they for him if he wants state-wide prohibition? Why should they be for him if he wants to destroy their business and drive them out of the state? It is well known that Walsh, the leading whiskey man oi juempnis, is tor uarmacK, ana it is said that Maney Schwab, of Nashville, is tor mm loo. wny is tnis u be is such a prohibitionist ? My experience and observation have taught me that the whiskey men are always for their friends. They support and vote for them. Is it possible that Carmack is playing both the whiskey and the tern peranoe elements in this fight? How do the good church people and preach era like to be in the same class with Schwab and Walsh? Mr. uarmaoK nas been in congress ten years. What did he ever accomp lish while there? Name one important measure which he originated while in either branoh of congress. He had while in congress but one stock in trade that was to abuse somebody, He gained notoriety in this state fifteen years ago while editor of the Amerioan by abusing a citizen of Obion county. The things he wrote about that man were awful. While a member of the democratic national convention in St. Louis in 1004 it was reported that he abused Wm, J. Bryan to such an extent that it was difficult to prevent serious trouble at the time. He never made a speech in congress or out of it that was not full of abuse of some one from start to finish. In this particular line he is an expert an artist yes, a master, but that is as near as he ever approaches statesmanskip. On all grounds Patterson is Car mack's superior except in the matter of abusing people. He actually had poor old Bob Taylor cowed and afraid to meet him in joint debate when they were candidates for the United States senate. If there is any reason why Patterson should not have the second term, his opponents have not stated them and they can not truthfully state any good reasons. The only argument used against him so far is the action of the state committee in calling a primary eleotion. When his record is consider ed and his character and standing as a man and as governor of this state are fully weighed it will easily be seen that there is no earthly reason why he should not have a second term, an hon or that is always granted in this state to a man who has bad the offioe but one term. As I am looking after big game this week it will be impossible for me to notioe Tramp and Scraps in this issue of theN.-B., but I'll see yon later, gen tlemen. Felix W. Moore. Troy News-Banner. GOVERNOR PATTERSON Tennessee's Chief Executive Speaks With Eloquent Tongue "Tennessee, A' Mother of Presidents' His Theme GEO. A. McCLAIN, M. D. riTYSICIAN AND Rl'ROEON Office, Room No. 8 over Tost Office, (Offioe 233 B Phones, Residonco (Residence 2 Oak Street (7:80 to 11:30 a. m; Hours 11:00 to 4:!W p. m. The Strain of Life. This is a busy, active world, and the man succeeds best who has the greatest health and strength to fight the battles of life. You can't be healthy, strong and clear-minded if you suffer from constipation, dyspepsia, liver trouble, flatulency, heartburn, etc To cure these diseases takeDr.Caldwell'sSyrup Pepsin, the great regulator. It is ab solutely guaranteed to do what is claim ed, and if yon would like to try it before buying, send your address for a free sample bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co., 119 Caldwell Bldg , Montioello.JIl. It is sold by all druggists at 50 oents and $1 a bottle. Wolf-Like Sympathy. The opposition to Gov. Patterson Beems to have an idea that the people of the state neither read nor think. The admistratiou was charged with being the most extravagant in recent times; a defioit, wide and yawning, was predict ed by them. Patterson's administra tion and the prodigality of the legisla ture, they alleged, was such that the state and its institutions faoed bank ruptcy, and the financial ruin of the state was the prediction. The Btate paid $500,000 to the counties for publio schools, the semi-annual interest paid, quarterly increased pensions of the state, and, what's more, now has about $1,000,000 cash in the state treasury. Anything said now about this by those who were so industrious when they thought they saw financial disaster ahead for the state? Not a word. Are the people congratulated over this hap py Btate oi affairs? Oh, no. They were praying for disaster to the public, while mourning and sympathizing with the tax-payers. The result did not pan out as hoped. It snould not take an intelligent public long to get wise to this sort of mendacity and wolf-like sympathy. A publio servant who has carried the state safely among the breakers and around the rocks these wise people saw is entitled to indorse ment. If these predictors were half as loyal to the publio welfare as they would have the publio believe them to be, they would be ready to say "Well done.' instead of hunting, delving and dig ging for new charges with which to prejudice the publio mind against publio servant who has shown himself to be wise, prudent and careful for the beBt interests of the state, so that their dire prediction came to naught, and we take it it required a wise and prudent man at the helm, or results would have been different. At least, this is a more charitable conclusion than to say these reports were false and known to such when made.- Covington Leader. Death Was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. H says: "An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumptic had me, and death was on my heels t hen I was persuaded to try Dr. King i New Discovery. It helped me imniedi ately, und after takiug two and a half bottles I was a well mm again. I found out that New Discovery is the best rem edy for coughs aud lung disease in all the world Sold under guarantee at H. U. Miller's drug store. 00c and $1 Trial bottle free. "Are you goiDg to Europe this year?" "I don't know," answered Mr. Dus tin Stax. "I haven't read the papers to-day. Are they starting any new in vestigations?" Washington Star. . Fickle weather, Dr. Fahrney's Teeth ing Syrup is alwavs dependable. Doc tors prescribe it. Write for free sample. Following is the Bpeech of Governor Malcom R. Patterson, Tennessee's chief executive, who was present for the opening of the Hotel Patten. The speech was delivered at laBt night's banquet. Governor Patterson made eloquent response to his toast "Tennessee A Mother of Presidents." He was most cordially received and at the conclus ion of his remarks was moBt heartily applauded. The governor confined him self strictly to his subject, making no reference to present day politics. He spoke as follows: Mr, Toastmaster: Virginia, in the nomenclature of statesmanship, has long been called "The Mother of Presidents," and Ten nessee is certainly entitled to the less, but still honered and conspicuous, dis tinction of being known as "A Mother of PreBidentB." Some one in speaking of Virginia, wittingly and perhaps irreverently said that she had evidently passed the pe riod of further maternity, and in speak ing of Tennessee one might eay that she had also ceased giving birth to Presidents, but was engaged in bring ing forth magnificent hotels to add to the comforts and conveniences of mod ern life. But both Tennessee and Virginia ave produced presidents, and tne blood of the race still runs pure, and the day will be again when great men will come forth from both these com monwealths to lead as they once did in the earlier days of the republic When we speak of Tennessee-, we think of a state rich in all the materials of romance.into whose history of scarce more than a century, has crowded enough of war and its moving Bpirit, enough of tbo rewards which follow the arts of peace, to fill a thousand years of the uneventful life of the old er governments of the world. We behold her in infancy scarce able to draw the bow string, and before she reached the maturity of statehood, sending forth her men, few indeed.but true as the blue of her mountains and her skies, and the picture they make is painted in undying colorsas they pursue their toilsome march up the mountain side, leaving, as they ascend a trail of fire to mark their daring way. We see her in the period of probation preparing for tne admission to tne union of states, and not one was better equipped for all the rights, privileges and duties that pertain to sovereignty, when ber etar appeared in the most magnificent glaxy ever Been by the nations of earth the collection of free, independent, sovereign, American states with one heritage, one purpose and one destiny, under one flag. We see Tennessee to the forefront in the war of 1812, wnen the figure of her first president began to loom on his country's horizon, and the land was filled with thenameand fame of Andrew Jackson. In the vicissitudes of time that fig ure nas never grown less, Dut larger and larger in the perspective as the giant mountains do which stand senti nel in the east, the last remaining witnesses of the cabin of the settlers, and of the first struggle for freedom on the soil of Tennessee. We behold her again at another pe riod of life, grown strong and rich by peaceful industry and the unfailing arts of husbandry, sending her sons out beyond the rim of civilization, and we see the robust figure of Houston limned clear and strong against the western sky, as he stands in the begin ning of the life of Texas, whose bap tismal fount was the Alamo, and whose water was the sacred blood of Ten- nesseans. It was at this second period that James K. Polk became the president of the United States, brought to success ful issue the war with Mexico, and whose name is indissolubly linked with the expansion of his country and the ceded territory which American arms and his own signal statesmanship had acquired. Again we see Tennessee retnrniug to the ways of peace aud reapiog the fruits which came almost unbidden to that golden age which preceded the black ness of the beaveuB and the matteriugs of the storm which fioally broke and shook to the center the foundations of government itself, as if to test its solid base, and left it stronger aud firmer fixed when tha storm was over and the clouds had rolled away It was then that Andrew Johnson succeeded by virtue of his offiV, aod Tennessee had completed three cycles of her history and furnished three presidents to the Republic Let not history lightly cast asi.l the name of Johns n, for he was a jjrant man and gave au extraordinary exam ple of the accomplishments of natural endowment. Let Tennosseans honor his memory, for he was true to them and his native south in that time of greatest peril, when triumphant force was urging him to retaliation and the South was power less to resist. This in brief is the story of our state, a mere suggestion of tee glory and re nown which is hers, a mere thought of the large impress she has left on the natioual life. If fourth period should come, as come it may, if we are true and patient in the faith that made us great, if the leaders should come, as they will, if we do not smother greatness by our own follies, we will write another name with those of Jackson, Polk and Johnson, addanother chapter of glory to the state we love, and;increase the national renown aud strength to which we have already contributed so much.. Dr GEORGE J. SELLS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON OFFICE NO. 257; MAIN STREET MAY UE FOUND IN OFKIOK AT NIGHT) PHONE NO. 353 NAT HYDER, Proprietor On the Square near Arlington Hotel FOUR CHAIRS NO WAITING First Class Workmen ami Sntlsfactory Work Uuurantcud Modern Appliances Neck Shave Free mfm ' FTifil CH Flies Away to the Bosom of Jay Eye Cox. To the Editor of The American: Although the renowned Mr. Carmack claims to be a resident of both Middle and West Tennessee, he could not risk opening his campaign in either of these Patterson strongholds. He must go to the eastern portion of the state where the early snap mass conventions were held by Cox agaiast Patterson. This flank movement on the part of CaMnack through Armistead, gives him ample opportunity to test the staying qualities cf our courageous governor, and the writer will ware a 4-pence that Car mack's pvf or his voice one. gives ont before he gets back to either one of his CITY i i i home sections. Obseveb Columbia, March 27. Fill PITY-IH LAUNDRY WGBK counts for everything. Wa nse only pure water, pure starch and pure Boap. That is why there is such a finish on the COLLARS, COFFS, SHIRTS, etc., that we Launder. Is it any won der, therefore that .we do a large business? JOHNSON Steam Laundry 140 East Market Street.' S. I ROBERTS, r. TO 'Phone 168 or stop the Bed Wason W. C. PIERCE -Justice of the Peace- Notary Public WEST MARKET STREET, Three Doors from Railway The Southern Railway Is the Greatest Highway of Travel to all Points West 3 DAILY TRAINS 3 Back to the farm I That's where you get good coffee. None of that "fresh roasted loose L.. il J" t..tf t. uy uk pouiiu store siua irom v B. The following sohoduln fl-. nobody knows where, full of dust, ure8 published onlw as information and atmosphere and soiled hands, but the real old, genuine egg and sugar coated Arbuckles ARIOSA Coffee, which the folks keep in the original package and grind in the kitchen. That's Coffee! Complin with all requirement, of the National Pun Food Law, Guarantee No. 2CMJ , filed al Washington. TRAVEL WEST Via SOUTHERN are not guaranteed: Lv. Bristol 11 OOarn 1 55pm 10 OOnm "JohnsonCityll 57am 2 50pm 1107pm Jonesboro 12 19pm 3 10pm 11 82pm Greeneville 1 02pm 4 05pm 12 82pm Morristown 2 00pm 6 05pm 4 45pm Ar. Knoiville 8 25pm 7 45pm (i 10am Lv. Knoxville 3 35 pm 5 00pm 0 30am Ar.Chattan'ga 7 30pm 8 55am 10 10am Ar. Memphis 7 15am 10 80pm Double daily trains from Knoxville for Cincinnati, Louisville. St. Louis and Chicago. Lv. Knoxville 9 15 p m 9 30 a m Ar. Cincinnati 8 15 a m 8 10pm Ar. Lonisville 8 45 a m 0 05 p m Ar. 8t. Louis 7 35 p m 7 31 a m Ar. Chicago 5 80 p m 7 00 a m Connections made at Memphis. St. Louis and Cincinnati with western lines" for all points west. Only one change of cars in union depots to a great many points. Tickets can always be purchased at the lowest rates authorized. Before purchasing tickets call on the Southern maps and n A I I I A V I'ai'way "Rents for rates, K A L W A 1 complete information. C. II. ACKEIiT, V. P, - Ts w. be TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, WASHINGTON, COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, MONTANA, and all Western Points. WHY? First: Tickets sold at lowest prevailing rates. Second: The natural and most direct route west. Third: The quickest ani best service. Fourth: Only two Union Depot daylight changes to most points. NOTHING BETTER Write or ee me before purchasing tickets aud I will make it a pleasure trip for you. J. L. MEEK. Knoxville, D. P. A., Tennessee G. M.. Washington. 1). C. 11. tayloe, u. l'. A. Washington, D. C. J. L. Meek, D. P. A., Knoxville, Tenn. S. II. Hardwick, P. T. M. C. A. Bknscotkr, A.G. P. At Chattanooga, Tenn. D. HILL JONESBORO, TENNESSEE Manufacturer of Roil aod Dressed Lumber Mouldings, Brackets, Newels TURNED WORK A SPECIALTY Parties in need of Bnilding Material will Bave money by corresponding with me. I have ready to cut to order on short notice the following timber : SoOO feet best yellow locust and cedar posts, any size or length ; also pickets, railing and base. 500,000 feet of framing of the follow ing kinds of timber red, white and chestnut oak and yellow pine, op to 2f feet in length; also flooring, ceiling, siding and finishing lumber. COBBKgPOXDBNfB SOLICITED,