The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-10-13
WILL WORK FOR TAYLOR
Republicans Revolt at Threat of
Sanders Followers to Eliminate
Brown1ow Officeholders

Washington, d. c., Oct. l3-Friends
of the late Representative Walter p.
Brownlow, of the First congressional
district, were Indignantly discussing
yesterday the reports that have been
coming to their ears within the last
few days of boasts uttered in Washing
ton by the Newell Sanders contingent
that the last vestige of the Brownlow
following in Tennessee, and wherever
they hold office, shall be swept out of
existence so as to give complete sway
to the Sanders regime. Republicans in
Washington who had been prepared to
go to Tennessee to support the Sanders
republican, half democratic, half indie
pendent ticket, now take the other
way. Most of them will either stay
away or go to Tennessee to work for
the election of Robert l.. Taylor.
The boasts by the Sanders element
here declared that everything as now
fixed in the First congressional district,
and that it would be likewise attended
to in the defeat of Richard A. Austin,
and that when that was accomplished
the last Brownlow man of consequence
would be retired, the influence of such
temper and purpose on the part of the
Sanders coterie surprises as well as
provolies the old Brownlow contingent
here, many of whom are in office, espe-
cially as the word is understood TO
have been given by President Taft that
the republican factions in Tennessee
must get together in support of the
party's ticket.
Sanders Leadership Not to Their
Liking.
All doubt of the intent of the Sanders
faction has been removed, not only by
their boasts that they intended TO ex-
terminate Brownlow oflicehoders but
by an incident that has just become
known to the Tennessee colony in
Washington.
Not long ago Arthur n. Hacker, of
Washington county, son-in law of
the late Congressman Brownlow, held
an important elerkship in the depart
ment of commerce and labor The
Sanders people, it is alleged, managed
TO have him discharged. Hackers
friends went to Senator Taylor and got
him TO intervene, and he did so with
such effect rs to secure the reinstate-
ment of Hacker in the civil service, al
though he was not restored to the same
position, being transferred to another
office. Senator Taylor made no noise
about this act of justice, but Mr.. Brown
lows friends have heard about it, and
to say that they have undergone a
fresh and bitter revulsion against the
Sanders leadership is putting it but
mildly.
William g. Shelly, Tor years practic-
ing law here, but who clings TO his
Tennessee birthright, and who several
legislature, said today of the fact that
Nathan W. Hale was candidate on
the so called Roosevelt progressive
platform against Congressman Austin
in the Second district:
"The Roosevelt leadership in this
country is the most seriously dangerous
thing that has ever occurred in Ameri-
can history. To resist it and crush it
demands, ! believe, a purer, better pa
triotism than actuated the men who
wore either the blue or the gray. 1t is
a terrible menace to be met and remov-
ed by patriotic men of all parties
Mr. Shelly will, if his business ar
permit, go to the Second
district and make speeches to impress
this line of view.
Tor running the campaign are going to