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CLAIM ATTENTION.
Fifteen Pictorial Districts and p
Counties.

ing the total membership in the Gen
eral Assembly 1872. Twenty-seyen 0
the ninety-nine members OF the Hous,
are joint Representatives Fifty-iiv,
counties are entitled to direct represen
tation, there being seventy-two direc
Representatives, several counties having
more than one Representative each
namely. Davidson, 6; Gibson, 2; Ham
ilton, 8; Knox, 3; Madison, 2; Maury
2, and Shelby, 7.
/ Nominations have been made by
either Democrats or Republicans, il
some cases by both, in twelve OF tho
twenty-seyen Pictorial Districts of Ten.
nessee. Thirty-three of the fifty-fvC
counties which are entitled to direct rep
resentation have also made nominations
for the House. 1t is seen, therefore,
that nominations are yet to be made in
fifteen Pictorial Districts, and in twenty
two counties which are entitled to di-
rect representation.
1t has previously been shown that
nominations have been made in a ma
iority OF the thirty-three Senatorial Dis
tricts. During the past week homina-
tons have been made in three Sena-
torial Districts.
Seventh Senatorial District, Apder-
son, Roane, McMinn, Bradley and
James Counties, x Y. Hicks, Repub-
lican, of Clinton, has been nominated
to succeed the late Senator Fred Mans
field, Republican. ~
Ninth Senatorial District, Rhea, Sc
quatchie, Meigs, Bledsoe, Van Buren,,
White and Cumberland Counties, Judge
w. F. Story, of Sparta, Administration
Democrat, has been nominated. The
Republicans had previously made a
nomination in this district. Senator
John r, Neal, Democrat, from Rhea
County, the incumbent, has announced
as an independent
Fourteenth Senatorial Districts, Sum-
ner, Trousdale and Macon Counties.
Doctor Walton S. Dotson, Republican,
has been nominated.
In this connection brief review of
what has been done in the way of nom
mating candidates for the next House of
Representatives will be of interest, the
nominations made to date for joint and
for direct Representatives being given.
JOINT REPRESENTATIVES,.
Second District-Sulliyan and law
kins Counties There are two nomina-
tons in this district. j. Harry Swan,
Jr., Bristol, is the nominee of the anti
Administration Democrats, and G. f.
Lauderback, Of the same county, of the
Patterson Democrats.
Fourth District Jefferson and Hamb-
len Counties w. M. Leeper, OF JEFF
ferson County, Republican, has been
Sixth District-Scott, Campbell and
Union Counties. II. B. Brown, of Jel-
leo, Republican, is the nominee.
Seventh District-Anderson and Nor
gan Counties. S. NJ. Leath, of Clinton,
and d. w. Byrge, of Petros, Republi-
cans, have both been nominated, there
having been a split in the district con-
vention.
Tenth District-Meigs and Rhea Coun-
ties. Soseph f. Benson, Republican,
Rhea County, is the nominee.
Eleventh Observation-Disclosures, Bled-
soc, Sequatchie, Van Buren, and Grundy
Counties. This Pictorial District has
more counties than any other in the
State. Lawson H. Myers, of Bledsoe,
Democrat, and A. l.. Garrison, of Cum
oerland, Republican, have been nom
mated.
Fourteenth Dstrict-Sumner Trous-
lale and Macon Counties. j +. Foust,
IN Administration Democrat, has been
declared the nominee. He will be OPP
oosed by Hon. Mark d. Hickman, of
Trousdale, an anti-Administration Dem
,crat, the incumbent, Ben H. Xix, Re
publican, has also been nominated
Sixteenth District - Bedford Moore
md Lincoln Counties Hon Thomas
Niseman, Jr., Democrat, of Moore
county, has been nominated,
Nineteenth Dstrict-Montgomery and
Robertson Counties. T. B. Ewing, OF
Montgomery County, an Administra-
ion Democrat, has been declared the
lominee under primary plan. Hon.
Harvey Whitfield, of Clarksyille, an
lnti-Administration Democrat, is in the
unning for second term.
Twenty District-Henry, Car
oil and Weakley Counties T 7 John