Show PATTERSON OUT Of TENNESSEE RACE NASHVILLE Tenn Sept l 12 In t-In In a scorching ng statement Governor Malcolm E. E Patterson has withdrawn from his candida candidacy y as the tho Democratic nominee for governor I of Tennessee furnishing a sensational climax to a lI long and and bitter bitter bitter bit bit- ter preliminary campaign The governor governor governor gover gover- nor has already served two terms and announced his candidacy for a third I term terni in compliance with th tho wishes Mashes of I the state committee who declared him the Democratic nominee without OrO Opponents of the tho governor de declined de de- dined to enter a primary preferring I Ito to submit the matter mater to a convention I and the governor in order to avoid the threatened split withdrew in iu the interest interest inter inter- inter inter-I est of harmony In a signed nod statement given the Associated Associated Associated Asso Asso- Press tho the governor says I became a candidate for governo governor for the third term contrary to my personal personal personal per per- wishes Conditions have arisen however which appear to make my further candidacy an injustice both tp my friends and the Dem Democratic party I II I When assumed the tho opposition to me I tho the shape of a refusal to enter a prim primary primary m mary ry called caled by the tho state executive commIttee committee com corn I proposed if any gentlemen would offer ofer to run against mo me to allow him to select his own yn method and time of nomination with an equal division of offices of election There ThelO was not and could not be the slightest excuse I to refuse this if i the party was to preserve preserve pre pro serve servo its organization and anil not disintegrate rate grate into schisms and and ana factions factions' but i the proposition was rejected f I was declared the tho nominee for for governor without without without with with- out opposition and since then I have offered to yield my nomination so so as asto asto to test anew whether I was the tho choice of the tho majority But to the minds of my ungenerous opponents all aU things were fair as means to tho the end of my political destruction Even then thon I dd did not believe that an any considerable number of Democrats could coul be betrayed from their the allegiance but now it i seems certain that tho continued appeals to passion and and credulity have found a lodgment which neither fact nor persuasion can change and that so long as I remain a candidate a considerable considerable considerable con con- number of Democrats will wi not affiliate with the party and while not large it is enough to to imperil imperi Democratic success in Novem Novem- Novem-I Novem ber I do not wish it said that my desire desire desire de de- de- de sire for office oice is responsible for this condition or as furnishing an excuse to indorse a Republican candidate by the called so-called so-caled so independent Democratic convention soon to be bo held in N Nash Nash- ash ash- ville villo vie My y co conclusion is that I can best servo my my party and state in this emergency emer emor- genc gency goncy by voluntarily doing what my I enemies enemIes have so persistently demanded I return therefore mv my nomination to ml the Democratic party |