The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-24
TENNESSEE ELECTS
INDEPENDENT DEMO
LUKE LE. SELECTED As UNITED
STATES SENATOR FROM THAT
STATE

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 24--Sriking
q the psychological moment yester-
day Won for Like Lea the United
States senstorship IL the fight before
the legislature over the seat soon 10
be made vacant By James 3. Frazier
A. o'clock Monday morning Mr. Lea
said be would not allow his name TO
BE used today. A. II q II. Monday
The fusionig,s had decided 10 vote
solidly for one candidate, but whom
they did not know. At 1880 they had
decided 20 drop 3. A Enloe, whom
they had been supporting, and 90 to
M Lea, who had just given his coll
sent 10 being put in the race. He was
nominated at 1890. When the last
name had been called on the roll call
Of the joint session ne lacked one
vote, but Z member who had refused
TO vote went into the Lea column and
later Two were changed, giving him
two more than the necessary sixty-siI
10 elect. Mr.. Lea Is 32 years OF age
and will have the honor Of being the
baby senator and holding his first
public office. His election came on
the eleventh ballot of the legislature
and after one of the most complicated
fights in legislative history In the
assembly are the regular democrats
with siXty-fiye votes, the republicans
with thirty-four and the independent
democrats with thirty-tree. Not only
did candidates have these factions TO
try to line up, but many other influ-
ences were at work, including the pro-
hibition question. Mr.. Lea received
practically the solid vote Of the inde
pendent democrats and the republi.
cans and barely enough regular dem
ocrats to push him over the line. One
OF these republican votes was that Of
Representative Brown, who with Rep
resentatiyes Hoik and Davis, also re-
publicans, had refused to vote either
with the republicans of fusionists.
1t was feared some time ago the
man Benton McMillin. regular demo-
cratic candidate, would have to beat
would be Mr.. Lea, should he get into
the race. He could not control all of
his factions votes and none OF the fu.
sionists. Consequently, when Mr.. En-
loe withdrew this morning and Mr..
Lea was nominated the regular dem
ocrats nominated L. d. Tyson of Knox.
vile in an effort to keep the regular
votes that McMillin could not control
from going TO Lea, thus prolonging
the battle and giving them lease on
hfe. Tyson got eleven votes. but they
came from McMillin rather than from
Lea's strength. McMillin polled forty
eight, while his lowest to that time
had been fifty-six, and once he was
"HHih t"O 'Olto VI lut 6Odl
People here were on the qui vive
because 1t was expected a senator
would be elected this week, but they
hardly knew whether to be excited,
because they had seen combination
after combination fall when was sup
posed they had been solidly lined up.
Changes had come so rapidly no one
knew what would happen from one
hour TO another. The statement that
Lea would not enter the race was pub
lished. and before the day was half
over he had been elected. Such have
hee1 conditions since before the first
ballot.
When the final vote was taken the
nall Of representative was jammed
with people, as were the corridors
leading to It. When It was announced
Lea had won an animated scene fol-
lowed. The many women in the crowd
We'd with the men in the noise-making
and filled the air with almost any.
thing they could throw.
INDIANS TO CAPITAL.