Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-27
OVER IN TENNESSEE
But Two Congressional Districts Sure
for Democrats.
REPUBLICANS GREATLY ENCOURAGED
A Remarkable Year for Party Dis
sensions.
PUBLICANS GREATLY ENCOURAGED
P A 7 T E R S ON'S FIGHT
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
MEMPHIS, August "a, 1885,
Inc democratic leaders are getting Sc
riously alarmed over the dissensions In
the party concerning congressional nominal
lions. The first and second districts are
conceded to the republicans. In the third
the democrats selected a candidate With
out any friction, but that was probably
due to the fact that there is very little
probability of a democrat winning out In
that district in November. In the fourth
and fifth districts. Benton McMllin and
James d. Richardson are virtually assured
Of a reelection TO Congress, and they are
the only democratic nominees who have a
certainty. In the sixth district the
chances are in favor Of John Wesley
Gaines the democratic nominee because
the Nashville republicans don't seem TO
know what they want
But in the seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth districts the condition of affairs has
grown steadily more unpromising for the
democrats. In the seventh district the
row between n. n. Cox and State Senator
w. j. Whitthorne has rot been settled by
the convention. II seems that when the
convention assembled the Whitthorne men
nominated 3. chairman and declared him
elected before the Cox men got out of
their trance, and this chairman proved
to be hot stuff" He declined to recog-
ntze Cox men. and declared all the mo-
tons made by the Whtthorne men car
ried. The result was another convention,
which nominated Cox. while the original
convention, in its amputated FORM put out
Whitthorne. The feeling between lie TWO
factions Is intense. and both candi-
dates propose to run 4 out the repubE-
cans, If smart can gather ia the seventh
district. Whitthorne is the game cock
OF the present state senate. He Is regard
ed as fighter from way back, and during
the last session of the legislature hardly
day passed without his getting involved
a row m 1,aa1 of
the newspapers took to chronicling the fact
that the senate met yesterday without
Senator Whitthorne denouncing anybody
as a liar" whenever that happened 10
be the case. He Is thoroughly honest
man. but If he ever gets into Congress 1t
VIII not be very pleasant to tread on the
tail Of his coat.
In the eighth district the cores are not by
any means healed UP. Mr.. b. A. Enloe,
who failed to receive the democratic NOM
inatien. was in Memphis the other DAY
and he was very bitter about the way he
had been treated. He desired to contest
the election, but the committee would give
him no chance whatever. Mr.. Enloe claims
10 have been the victim of the activity Of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
corporation which has had its hand on the
throat of the state for a good many years.
He has been an active advocate of con-
sttutional convention, and the Louisville
end Nashville people think that the people
OF Tennessee don't knew what they want
on this subject. Enloe says the railroad
agents gave it to him where Katie wore
the beads" Among other things they did
was to put out a candidate by the name OF
Trout, who went among the people of the
moonshine districts and told them that if
they would elect him to Congress he would
repeal the revenue laws and confer other
amazing and impossible benefits upon them.
The thousand votes this rainbow chaser got
would probably have gone to Enloe had not
such alluring promises been made to them.
The friends of Enloe will fight Sims, the
nominee, at the polls, and a republican is
| almost sure to represent the district.
In the ninth district the cid fight be-
is in active eruption again. In 1892 Pierce
| withdrew from the democratic party and
Joined the populists. He ran against Nc
Dearmon, the democratic nominee, and was
defeat ted. Now he is back in tine party,
and, of course. has brought his row in
with him. He and McDearmon will in all
probability both run as the nominees of
the democracy and the outsider can come
| in. The chances are that in this district
the opposition nominee will be a populist
| Endorsed by the republicans for If there is
any fusion in Tennessee it is more apt TO
be fusion between republicans and popu-
lists than between democrats and popu-
lists. In this state the democrats have
| rubbed too much mud in the nose of popu-
liSm for the members of that party to take
kindly to the democrats bringing candi-
dacies for them to indorse
The row in the tenth district has bios
somed like the magnolia in the last few
| held throughout the district by those WHO
are opposed to Josiah Patterson. and dele
gates were selected for the district con-
vention. Where instructions were given
| they were for Z. W. Carmack, but there
| is a strong undercurrent even among the
! free and unlimited that it would be safer
to nominate some one else, as Carmach has
aEtagonized nearly all classes in turn in
| Memphis. The populistS held their con-
vention Saturday, and the effort TO have
| them indorse Carrlack for Congress failed
| utterly. If any other democrat had had
| a certainty of receiving the free silver
nomina, ton, the pops would have Endorsed
| him, but as 1t was they put out 3. G.
West as their candidate. The democratic
| executive committee of this (Shelhy) county
has added to the general liyelilaSS by pro-
| nouncing ell those who participated in
| Saturdays mass meetings boilers, and
| tie nominee OF the convention will prob
| ably be treated by the county committee
| as a .bolter.S Among the delegates elected
TO the convention rs Senator Isham G.
| Harris. Although General George B. Pc
| ters and Thomas Turley are mentioned FOR
| the free silver nominati the chances are
| that Carmack will win.
The primaries ordered by the regular
| congressional committee VIII be held Sep
| TENDER 3 throughout The district. The Jo-
| Siah Paterson clubs formed have already
! a membership Of 1900. He will, of course,
| be nominated in the primaries, and the
| chances now are that he will be elected.
The failure of the silver democrats to Sc
| cure the cooperate of the popuiiStS
means the defeat Of the silver candidate.
| All these democratic rows are very en-
| couragng to the republicans. 1t is safe to
| say that the republicans Will elect five
| and 1t may be six-of the ten Congressman
| this year. owing to democratic dissensions
| and, Of course, these dissensions will have
| some effect on democratic chances of car
| rying the state for Bryan and Sewall, and
Fob Taylor. Already, it is claimed the
free silver tide is not running quite so
| free. Free silver" remarked an astute
political observer today, lis like cotton. 1t
grows best in hot weather. Wait till the
frosts come. and you will see how the free
| and unlimited will check UP and wither -
| There may be something in this.
| POLICEMAN AND FIREMEy.