Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1914 — Governor Malcolm R. Patterson [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Governor Malcolm R. Patterson

Greater Than William J. Bryan: So Saya the Johnson City Staff of Malcolm R. Patterson of Tennessee —On the Chautauqua Platform

THE Johnson City (Miss.) Staff says: “Malcolm R. Patterson, former governor of Tennessee, addressed an audience that taxed the capacity of auditorium, gallery, aisles and classrooms at the Central Baptist Church last night, nearly 1,500 people hearing him. Never has a greater speech been delivered to Johnson Citlans. We are mindful of the fact that Bryun, Clark, Hoss, Gailor, McDowell, Stuart, Taylor. Carmack, Taft and other speakers of national reputation have addressed Johnson City audiences, but Malcolm R. Patterson’s effort Sunday night, in our judgment, eclipsed anything we have ever heard, and we have heard them all. “His bearing was most kingly. In the course of an hour and a half he did not hesitate, he did not falter, but made a speech that would have done honor to—well. If Hill, Yancey and Grady, with their tongues of gold, gave their auditors anything finer the veracious chronicler failed to report it In our judgment, only one man our American civilization has produced could have equaled it, and he is the late Robert Ingersoll.” Governor Patterson will appear on the Lincoln Chautauqua program In this city on the second day, night only. Maybe you have long wanted to know bow great were Ingersoll and Grady? Well, then, hear Patterson, who is th« twentieth century edition of them all.