The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-12-03
CAREFUL ANALYSIS
BY DISTRICTS ON
VOTE FOR SENATOR
clAIMS OF M'kELLAR MANAGERS
PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN
JUSTIFIED.
COUNTIES THAT EACH CARRIED
rlatterins Vote Received by the Lead.
er in His Home County of Shelby.
East Tennessee Responded With
Fine Majority.
by Walter Cain.)


Nothing could more clearlg estab
Hsb the good faith and inside knowl
edge of the senatorial situation dis
rlayed by Mr.. McKellars managers
than the actual result o. the first pri
mary and the breasts they furnish
ed the public.
On the basis of $4,000 votes it was
given out that Mr.. Mcclellan would re
ceiye 81 900 votes, Mr.. Patterson A.,
900 and Mr.. Lea 10000.
II was claimed that Mr.. Mcclellan
would carry the first four congress
sional districts and the eighth, ninth
and tenth. He carried them all ex-
cept the first.
Ii was claimed that he would sweep
the tenth He carried every county
in that district, not by pluralities, but
by decisive majorities.
It was claimed that hewould easily
carry Shelby county, that Patterson
would be second, and that there would
be no third
Mr. Lea carried by majorities eight
counties, Campbell, Carter, Johnson
Polk, Sullivan and Washington, in
East Tennessee, Fentress in Middle
Tennessee and Henderson in West
Tennessee,
Patterson received majority vote
in Chatham, Giles, Grundy, Humph-
reys, Marshall Smith and White, In
Middle Tennessee, and Sequatchie, IN
East Tennessee.
Mr. Mcclellan received majority
vote in twenty-one counties; Brad
ley, Granger, Hancock, McMinn, Ma
ron Meigs, Monroe, Scott, and Union
in East Tennessee, Moore, Overton,
Pickett, Rhea, Macon, Trousdale and
Sumner, in Middle Tennessee Fay
cite, Hardeman Hardin, Shelby and
Upton in West Tennessee.
Lea had pluralities in nine counties,
Patterson in twenty-four counties, and
Mcclellan in thirty-six counties.
Lea carried by majorities and plu-
ralites seventeen counties: Patter-
son thirty-two counties, and Mcclellan, |
torty.seven counties.
In the first district, the only one
which gave Lea a plurality, and which
had been claimed by Mcclellan cam
paign managers, Lea received 3,799 |
votes, Mcclellan $3.50, and Patterson
1852.
In the second district Lea's vote
was 2,5l2, Mckellar's 1864, and Pat
terson's 3,246.
In the third district LEAFS vote was
S,48S, Mckellars 5,41S, Pattersons
3,246.
In the fourth district LEAFS vote
was 2,796, McKellar's 5199, Patter.
sons 5,O56.
In the fifth district it was Lea ISIS,
Mcclellan 1929, Patterson 1880, |
In the sixth district, the home OF
Lea, the senator received 5,227, Nc
kellar 2,463 and Patterson 7,112.
In the seventh district. Lea 1929,
2,l13 Patterson 4,798
In the eighth district, Lea 1857, Me-
keIlar 3605. Patterson 1904
In the ninth distrietaLea 1901, Nc
kellar 5,629, Pattefgon 1SS.
In the tenth district (the home Of
Mcclellan and Pattersonl Lea receiv-
ID 400 votes, Mcclellan S,S93. Patter-
lon 3,S40.
In the sixth, the Nashville district
senator Lea received his largest vote,
vi: in the tenth the smallest,
ctal Of 100.
McKellar's largest vote was in the
enth district. which gave him 1895,
nd was the only district which gave
ny candidate clear majority; his
mallest vote, 2.115, was in the sew
nth district.
Governor Patterson's largest vote I
as in the sixth district, where ne !
4ceived 1922 votes; his smallest was
the second. Knoxville district,
here his total was 1882 votes.
The closest contest was in the
ghth district where there was diff
of only 301 votes between the
adler and the third man.