The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-09-10
HOPKINS HANDS
SELLS. RED HOT /.
SIZZLING REPLY
CHARGES FIRST DISTRICT CON-
GRESHAM TRIED TO BOSS RE-
PUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
HOW LATTER DITcHEO LoWDtN
Experienced a Change ~ Heart, II Is
Alleged, After He Wat Made Custo-
dian in This State Of the Wood
slush Fund of $4,000.

From the manner In which Hon
Raleigh S. Hopkins, member Of the
republican state committee from this
district, pours hot shot into Congress
man Sam Sells it is evident that the
1eace bird has flown from the ranks
Of the G. o. p. In the course OF an
interview given The Herald in rerly
TO one from Mr.. Sells, Mr.. Hopk ms
charges that Sells among other things.
was for Ilowden until he was made
custodian of the Wood slush fund OF
IS. .OO0.' when he experienced change
o. heart.
Mr.. Hopkins statement follows:
Evidently Sam Sells was trying to
explain why he and others failed to-
|ielect Paul J. Krdusi chairman OF the
republican state committee after they
had inspired statement in the papers
If Monday afternoon that he would be
elected. without any disparagement
To Mr. Kreusi, who is, understand,
! gentleman. he never had any chance
to be elected Mr. Sells and his star
chamber associates were forced by q
majority of the committee to abandon
Mr. Kreusi, although they had sue
ceeded in. driving several candidates
| from the race for chairman, men they
could not control.
| "At 6 o'clock Monday afternoon
those of us who opposed the domination
of the party in this state by Sam Sells
knew that we had the votes to defeat
| Mr. Kreusi the star chamber choice,
| We had agreed to stand together eth
or for w. F. Carter. Gore, Parker,
! Clements or some other Embossed re-
/ n,;blican leader. the choice of ALT Tay-
lor. We had no desire to dictate, but
wa were determined not to permit the
star chamber bunch to do the dlctat-
ing. Mr.. Sells was mistaken when
he said that he. had sixteen out OF
twenty members pledged to kreusi, as
much mistaken as when he said ne
would. dictate his own successor in
lcongress.
..Clements. Burnett and | voted foi
uraTaylor's choice but spoke highly
,e Mr.. Gore. The effort of Mr.. Sells
to make 1t appear that we three were
Of the Littleton faction and that the
division of the committee was alonf
ractional Lines Is unwarranted by tht
facts. Some of Littleton's friends OF
the committee voted for Gore and OF
nv motion his election was mad
unsnimo,ls. | plead guilty to being
Q friend of Littleton, who Is also M
friend.
z "Sells SAYS that in 1916 Gore wa
dofrauded out of his membership o
TIA national committee. II that b
t,ue he Sells, was star chamherin
II Sunday night and Monday with tn
IL very man whosdefrauded Gore. rhef
is reason to believe that certain repu'
q lican leaders do not want Tayic
IS lor elected fearing that it may q
d tract from their own power and impo
tance.
Is at may be true that the. nations
et committee recognized Sells as the re
u resentative from Tennessee durif
IL the Illness of Committeeman Oyera
'n but as it is also true that Sells WI
Us for Lowden for president early In u
campaign, that he changed to Wo'
when the anti was raised and
supposed to have .dished out the :
900 Wood slush fund that came to lie
a ressee, and has since been repudii
D ed in his own district, he need not
surprised If the republican party
re Tennessee is full of men from M
{ souri,