Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-29
DEMOCRATS OF TENNESSEE
ARE STIRRED BY DZSCORD
Fight Over Ratification of Suffrage Amend
ment in Special Session Has Engen>
dered Bitterness in the Party.
sneci,1 Disnatcb to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, August Is
Some one threw an apple of discord.
or, maybe, another Pandora's box,
into politics in Tennessee when he
or she launched the idea of having
the Tennessee legislature meet in
extra session to ratify the Susan
b. Anthony amendment. The fight
over ratification has produced mud
die sufficiently tangled to tax the
comprehension of citizen of an out
side state, and it has left Tennessee
politicians wondering where they
are at"
While the fight lasted party lines
were entirely forgotten and political
alignments received a shaking up
lust what the effect is going to be
on the campaign in the state may not
be known until activities for that
campaign begin.
Bitterness in Suffrage Fight.
The party primaries for governor
were held August 5, but before the
vote had been officially canVassed
by the state committees acting as
urinary boards the question as to
the value of various party nomina-
tions made in the primary had be
come a live one. Newspapers Whlch
in the primary ardently supported
Gov. A. H. Roberts for renomlna-
|tion fought ratification bitterly IN
several instances, and some papers
which opposed Roberts for re-
nomination fought ardently for rati-
fication before the legislature. me
Nashville Banner which leo ROD
erts' fight before the primary, led
the fight against ratifcatlon, goihs
even to the point of criticising the
governor for the influence he exerted
in behalf of ratification. On the other
hand. the Nashville Tennessean, vlo-
lent opponent of Roberts in the pri-
mary campaign, wound up the ratl-
fcation fight his deIenaes: mere ere
were other similar instances IN the
state.
lust how permanent the bitterness
lengendered by the ratification propo-
sition is going to be will depend prob
ably upon events. On the heels of the
suffrage amendment business, those
who opposed ratification by the extra
session apparently are up in arms,
)not only against the governor. VINO
is also the democratic nominee, but
against others who were prominent
| in the efforts to have the extra ses-
sion ratify. A Lincoln county meet
/ ing called to take action on the suf-
lfrage amendment condemned the eff
forts of the governor. Senator Nc
Kellar, Representative E. L. Davis
and the county's senator. Many OF
1.-The members of the legislature taking
part in the extra session are NOM
inees to succeed themselves, and If
ratification is an issue of the Novem-
Der election there are likely to be
some warm hines in Tennessee.
Republican Leaders for Ratification.
! Republican leaders. including ALT
Taylor the nominee for governor; j.
Will Taylor, representative from the
second district, and former Gov.
Ben W. Hooper were on the scene
early in the ratification fight to lend
their aid to the cause of ratification,
but presumably. after lining up their
lparty men as best they could, they
disappeared from the surface of
things and were not conspicuous
when the turmoil reached it's acute
istage. Whether they Anticipated that