Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-03-31
ELECTION COMMISSION
SELECTED GAVE
LEA A JOLT,
Next Contest Will Be Over Primary Law
for Selecting Candidates for Con-
gress and u. S, Senate--Lea
Favors No RunoH

, Nashville, Tenn, March 30.-When
the General Assembly last week elected
Capt. j. M. Bracken and the Hon. Lit
Pardue to be members of the state
board of elections, the control of the
board passed into the hands of the
democratic party for the first time
since the law enacte in 1909.
The two new members succeed
Charles ii. King of Jackson and Judge
S. M. Young of Dixon Springs. who
has rounded out full term of six years
on the board, He is the only member
to serve six years and during the full
term he has been chairman of the
board.
! The election of men of the calibre of
Capt. Bracken and Mr.. Pardue gives
great encouragement to those who have
sought men for membership on the
board who would stand for honest cleo
tions and the best men obtainable for
membership on the county boards.
AS more faly set out heretofore the
members of the Congressional delega-
tion performed /. distinct and patriotic
service in Coz peling the election of
Capt Bracken and Mr.. Pardue.
BEAT SENATOR LEA.
So Ia- as the rnc1r wfIu wsresrieCteu
by the legislature concerns those who
opposed Senator LEAFS schemes there
appears to be general satisfaction.
Their only purpose was to force the
election of men of the highest order
of integrity and in that they succeeded;
to prevent Senator Lea from domi-
mating the election machinery of the
state, and IN that they succeeded.
NEXT FIGHT.
The next contest of a political nature
will be over the passage of legalized
primary law for the nomination of can
didates for congress and the United
States senate. Senator Lea tavors
bill without any provision for run off
between the two leading candidates.
The other members of the congression-
al delegation favor the run off feature.
PLANS OPPOSITION.
1t is already reported that Senator
Lea Is seeking to have candidates make
the race for Congress against the pres
ent membership.
Probably no state in the union has a
delegation with a longer average of
service with Representatives Sims and
Moon with twenty years to their credit
and Representative Mckellar with the
shortest period of six years and yet no
member IN the House can point with
greater pride to his achievement than
can Mr.. Mcclellan or Mr.. Hull, who
outranks HIM by two years.
None of the delegation In Congress
is on friendly terms with Senator Lea.
l through the fault of some one the re-
ations between the senior Senator
from Tennessee and the other nine
democratic members of the delegation
IS limited to strict transaction of
official business. Senator Lea is anx-
Gus to remedy this situation by de-
teating such of the present member
,hip as he can for denomination.
If he is permitted to have the pri-
nary bill it is undoubtedly true that he
will have candidates in the field against
uch of those as are most distasteful to
lin and at the same time seek to make
POLITICAL capital for his own personal
advantage.
Senator Lea is meeting with the del
gatlons from the cities nightly and
flaming all kinds of legislation, polit-
cal and otherwise and. the other men,
ers of the delegation have returned to
heir duties in Washington and else
1here. While the people in the state
,ill watcn with interest his efforts to
ass bill calculated to give him an
dvantage in primary 1t IS not be-
eved that the members Of the LeRis-
ature car be controlled by him.