Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-11-03
REPUBLICAN GUNS
A|MEDATM'K KELLER
National Committee Has Sent $4,000 Into
Tennessee. Hope to Elect
Governor Hooper.

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can campaign money is or ought
to be plentiful in Tennessee. o.
ficiat statements filed with Chief
Clerk South Trimble Of the house
Of representatives today by there
publican national campaign COM
mittee and the republican con-
gressional committee show that
contributions totaling $50, 900 have
been sent to Tennessee for cam
paign purposes.
OF this liberal amount ]. Will
Taylor, chairman of the state re-
publican committee, received $15-
900, $500 in one contribution and
$4,000 in another. The latter
amount was extra" A. V. Nc.
Lain, treasurer Of the republican
campaign committee of Tennes-
see, received a contribution OF
$4,000. R. L. Burnette, treas
urer OF the Littleton campaign
committee of the Third district,
received contribution Of $1,000,
and a like amount was sent to the
treasurer OF the republican Gcam-
paign committee Of the Eighth
district. Apparently no contri-
buttons from these national
sources have been sent into any
other congressional districts Of
the state.
Under the federal campaign
publicity act Chairman Taylor
and Treasurer McLain are not re-
quired to make an accounting OF
their disbursements to the clerk
of either house Of the national
congress.
For week or more the report
has been current in political cir
cles here that the bulk OF the
$4,000 sent to Chairman ]. Will
Taylor was to be expended in the
Tenth congressional district in an
effort to defeat the election OF
Representative K. D. Mcclellan
to the United States senate.
Anticipating that Mcclellan will
receive a tremendous vote in his
own district, the republican mana
gers are credited with a plan to
prevent that consumption if money
has not lost its power of persua-
sion in a political argument. In
addition to the $4,000 sent to
Chairman Taylor, Treasurer Nc
Lain has or had $4,000.
A report received here several
days ago from a republican source
in Tennessee was to the effect that
up to that time Chairman Taylor
had not donated any part of his
$4,000 to the campaign Of Lit
Teton or to republican head
quarters at Knoxville. This re.
port has strengthened belief in
the story that most of his con.
tributed fund will be expended in
the effort to encompass the defeat
of Mcclellan, and with that end in
view there will be no parsimonious
practices in providing substantial
aid to the republican cause in the
Tenth district.
1t is not reported that John W,
Farley, the republican nominee
for congress in the Memphis dis
trict, is to feel the stimulating
effect Of any of this money in his
campaign against Hubert Fisher
At any rate, republican campaign
workers in the other congressional
districts of the state claim not to
have sighted any of this $4,000
committed to the authority and
discretion Of Chairman Taylor and
Treasurer McLain. Hence their
conclusion that the major portion
OF it is intended for service in for.
warding the candidacy Of Hooper
for the senate. Ifany part Of this
$50, 900 has thus far escaped the
prying eyes of republicans in the
First, Second and Third districts,
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