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fractional Troubles May Lose
State to Republicans.
TWO TICKETS IN FIELD
Democrats Also Split, But Will Be
Unit at Polls.
BRowNLOw's SEAT IS MENACED
Nathan Hale Has Also fractional
Opposition to His Return to Con-
gress-Condition in Virginia.

Tennessee republicans in the next day
or so will demonstrate whether they will
he able to carry that state for William
ii. Taft.
Two republican state conventions are &c
be held. Not one of the warning leaders
can see a single prospect of harmony
The Brownlow-O liver-Austin faction Will
hold its state convention in Chattanooga
tomorrow 1t is scheduled to put out
full state ticket. probably headed by L.
y. Wright of lockwood
The Saunders Evans Hale faction will
hold its convention two days later at
Nashville. 1t also intends to put full
ticket in the field, probably headed by
George y. Tillman of Nashville.
Slender Hope for Taft.
The only possible hope of carrying the
state in the face of rampant factionalism,
fighting right up TO the election day, is
that large vote will be brought out and
that both sides will support MIR. Taft.
The improbability of this is seen in the
fact that the Taft steam roller at the
Chicago convention recognized the Saun-
ders-E vans-Ha faction as the regular or
ganZatiOn and the other side is still sore
enough to require frequent applications
of Imminent.
Representative Brownlow, the head of
this diScredited combine, has been in Con-
greSS from Tennessee for many years.
For fifteen or twenty years he was at the
head of the party and its national COM
mtteeman. He YVES finally defeated py
the Saunders-Evans-Hale people and
stripped of his honors except his seat
in Congress, and the opposition is after
that.
Hale Has Opposition.
In the only other congressional district
I'm which the republicans have a chance
of winning there will also be two republic
can candidates. This is the Knoxville dis
trct. represented by Nathan Hale.
republican. This district has not sent a
democrat TO the House in many years,
having republican majority of something
like 10000.
Mr.. Hale who is leader in the domi-
nant faction, will be nominated in the
primaries of his faction in September. r.
w. Austin of the other faction has al
ready been nominated, thus making two
candidates.
The democrats of the state are badly
split into factions. They have refrained,
however. from putting I'D opposing fac
tional candidates.
The business men of the state, as in
other southern states. are reported to be
kindly disposed TO Taft. Lawyers of Ten
HcSSec, IldflS Oh whom DrdctCod DefOre
him when he was a circuit judge sitting
In that circuit favor him. Under these
circumstances the prospects would be
good but for the family row in the party.
Virginia republicans, who are in COM
plete harmony. declare there is an excel
lent chance of the state giving its cleo
toral vote to Taft. Many buiness men
and lawyers have come out for him. the
number being unprecedented in presi-
Dental campaign
There is a strong minority party In the
state, beaded by Representative Bascom
Siemp, vigorous young republican who
succeeded his father in the House of
Representatives and who has natural
talent for leadership and organization.