Show I I I j I I 1 P A I DRAWS S SAN AN mAGY I Tennessee Governor Furnishes F Sensational Climax in Bit Bitter Bitter Bitter ter Campaign TWICE THE EXECUTIVE OF OP THE VOLUNTEER VOL STATE Withdrew from the Ticket in i the Interests Int rests of Harmony in inthe inthe inthe the State I NAS NASHVILLE TILLE Tenn Tone Sept 10 In Ina a statement t Governor Mal Mai colm R fl Patterson Palters on tonight withdrew from his Ills candidacy as the Democratic Dem nominee t e for governor of Tennessee furnishing a sensational climax to a long Iwig lun and bitter campaign The governor hus bus already served two terms and an announced his s candidacy for or a third term terni In compliance with the Iho wishes of tho the state Slate committee I Iwho who declared him hin the Democratic nominee without opposition Opponents fonts nen ts of the tho governor declined to en ea eater enter ter ler a primary y preferring to submit tho ilie matter to a convention and the governor In order to tho the threat I split shut withdrew in la the Interest of or harmony Statement Statement Is In a signed statement given tho the As Associated AssocIated Sedated Press tonight tho governor says s s sI I l became a candidate for govern governor I or for the third term terni contrary to my I personal wishes wish os Conditions have J 1 0 arisen arison however which appear a to tomake make maIm mv mr further candidacy an Injustice injustice tice both hoth to lo ny ui friends and an tho the Dem Democratic party When the opposition to me assum assumed ed c the tho shape of oC a refusal to enter a primary called by lJ the hue state executive committee c I proposed pro if any an gen would offer to run against me meto meto meto to allow him to select his own meth neth method od oil and md time lime of nomination with an equal division of officers of or election Thoro was not and and could not nol be the tho slightest excuse to refuse this If Ie the party parts was to preserve Its Us and not disintegrate into schisms and I factions but bUl the proposition was re I I I 1 was s declared the tho nominee for governor without wl wi opposition iou and then I have otere to yield Mold my m nomination so a t to Lo test te t snow n ner er it was as the choice of the 1110 majority But Dut to tile the of oi my ungenerous oils ous opponents all things were wre fair Calr as means to the end of my m political de destruction Even then I did not be hove that any an considerable number of oC Democrats could be lie betrayed from froni their allegiance but now It seems cera certain thin tain that the continued appeals to passion and ant credulity cre have hae ha found a ao lodgment o which neither fact nor per persuasion er suasion can change and anti that so long longas as I a candidate can a ble number of Democrats will not affiliate with the tho party and while not large comparatively It Is enough to Imperil Democratic DI success in No November November 0 vember ember I do not wish it said that my m desire for office Is responsible for this condition or as furnishing an n ex cx excuse cuse CURO to endorse a Republican candi date by tile the Independent Democratic convention soon to be lie held heIdi In Nashville My ly conclusion is that I Icon can best serve sene my m part party and state in this erneI amer goncy gency b h voluntarily doing what my n enemies have hae so persistently demand domand demanded ed lJ I return therefore my m nomina tion to the tile Democratic party part |