Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-10
EVANS CHANCES ARE GOOD
Temperance and Race Track Issues in
the Fight.
RACE FOR CONGRESS SECONDARY
Lively Canvass in the First District
States Delegation Likely to
Remain as Now.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

NASHVILLE. Tenn. October 0. 1905.
| With only four weeks more of political
| maneuvering remaining, the hottest cam
| paign for governor in recent years has
reached the exciting stage. AS the cam
paign draws to end it Is more evident
every day that before 1t Is concluded H.
Clay Evans will have gathered nearly all
| the moral forces together in an effort to
defeat his democratic opponent, Represen-
tative M r. Patterson He is speaking
| every day and from this time on will speak
twice each day most of the time He en-
! phasizes the position of the republican
platform on the temperance and race track
issues declaring against liquor and gam
| phhS In the strongest possible language.
The Anti-Saloon League has entered
the tight and is doing effective work for
! the Chattanooga man 1t has issued
circular, which is being scattered all
| over the state. giving incidents in the
| lie of the democratic candidate which
tend to show that he is not a total alb
stainer. Mr.. Evans in speech the other
DAY declared that IF he had ever wabbled
along the street in a drunken condition
! ne was not fit to be governor of the state"
me Hermitage Democrat, a paper re-
Gently established in this city while not
advising democrats to vote for Evans
, makes it plain that no democrat owes any
allegiance to Ham Patterson, who 1t
says secured MS nomination against the
expressed choice of majority of the demo-
Gratis of Tennessee.
The Silent Vote.
1t is now believed that the silent vote
among the friends of Gov. Cox will run up
into the thousands, and if It does. it and
the church and temperance vote will make
Evans an easy winner if east Tennessee
republicans go to the polls
While Evans does NOT trim bic rop,,bl
canism In the slightest degree in any of
his speeches. he does not say anything to
of1end his democratic supporters and the
plan of the republican state committee is
to keep matters in Their present favorable
condition
Mr.. Patterson in his speeches endeavors
10 draw party lines, and in measure he
has succeeded. He ever and anon draws
picture of force bills and declares that the
democracy of Tennessee is the best friend
the temperance cause ever had. He pic
cratic rule. and admonishes the party of
jackson to stand in solid phalanx against
the dangers that would overtake the state
IN case H. Clay Evans should be made
governor.
The Congressional Canvass.
The fight for Congress is of second i'm
port as compared to the fight for governor.
Brownlow will probably win in the first
district against the democratic candidate
anu NIL iasioi, VINO mas been nominated
by mass convention of republicans He
has the prestige of having secured more
for his district than all other republican
| representatives in the south, and while
Taylor is pushing him hard, it now looks
as though Brownlow may pull through by
1000 majority.
Hale. in the second district the other re-
publican. will probably have as large a ma
Jority as he did in the presidential election
on account of the Evans enthusiasm among
his people.
There is some possibility of republicans
being elected in the third, fourth and
eighth districts, but the chances are that
the next congressional delegation from this
state VIII be the same a present unless
the temperance wave should make Evans
ma iOrity more than % 600