The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-05
s. of Tennessee's 10
Congressman Republicans;
Hardings Lead g, 400
cordell Hull Likely Defeated.
Scott, Republican, to
Garry Eighth.
TAYLoR'S LEAD 3e,542
Returns From Entire State
Pile Up Further Majorities
Against Democrats

Memphis Nov. S. "a. PD-With Ten.
nessee dennitely in the republican elec.
torai column. returns gathered b,
newspapers indicated early TODAY that
the republicans had captured Ave O,
tne states ten seats in the lower hous,
OF congress Two members of Ten
nossee's present Congressional delegas
tion are republicans.
In the Fourth district. on the faoA q,
returns. still incomplete. w. T.. Clouse.
republican, was leading Representative
Cordell Hull, democratic national com
mitteeman from Tennessee, by less
than 800 votes. Republican leaders in
the district claimed complete returns
would show Clouse a winner by at least
i,ooo votes. Incomplete tabulation of
the vote in the Eighth district gives
Lon A. Scott republican, a SLIGHT lead
over Gordon Browning, democrat. Early
returns had indicated the election Of
both Hull and Browning.
The election in the Third district of
Joseph Brown, republican, over John
A Moon, democratic incumbent, has
oeer conceded by the democrats. while
in the First and Second districts re.
pubiicans were elected Both districts
AZ present are represented In congress
py republicans. With returns In from
A2ractically the entire state, Senator
maruing continued today to lead Gov
Cox by approximately 10000 votes.
while the majority of All Taylor. re-
publican candidate for governor. over
GOV Roberts, democrat, was nearly
10000.
Figures compiled by the Commercial
Appeal from all but forty scattering
precincts in the state gave Harding q
majority "a Of s,40O and Taylor a lead of
S9,542. The vote was:
Harding, 2o2,579;N Cox. 1870; Tay-
ior' I'll, l4S, Roberts, 1901.
Say Hull May Win.
Nashville, Nov. 5,--(A. P)-Returns
received by the Banner from the Fourth
congressional district, where Congress-
man Cordell Hull democrat is having
lican. still Indicate the reelection OF
HuiL With Morgan. and Fentress
counties pfssing, Hull has a lead of
2,603 votes. The Nashville Tennessean
reports that Fentress has gwen 1,I0O
majority for Clouse. Morgan county
votes. according to telephone mes
sage this morning, giving Hull lead
of 700 to 800 votes. Hull is national
committeeman from Tennessee and au-
lHor OF lne income tax.
Hull Appears Defeated.
Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 5.-Cordell
Hull. democratic congressman from the
Fourth district, appears to have been
lefeated for reelection by w, r. Clouse,
his republican opponent. Returns are
incomplete from five of the -four teen
counties Of the distaiet but tbs MISSING
majority OF Clouse will be increased.
Els lead. according TO present figures,
is 1gg,
Judge Hull has been in congress for
fourteen years He Is a member of the
ways and means committee, and Is the
author of the federal income tax law.
Practically complete returns from the
Eighth district show that Lon Scott
republican, is running about 400 votes
ahead of Capt. Gordon Browning dem
ocrat. Browning claims that the miss
mig precincts will return him a winner
by about $50.
With but two counties and less than
nifty scattered precincts missing out of
the entire state, the returns give Hard
ing majority over Cox in the state OF
1907, and ALI Taylor. republican can
dihate for governor, lead of 3S, 1877
over Governor Roberts.