The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-04
ennes.ee to Pass
On Administration

Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 8.-Tennessee Is
expected to spass on the administra-
tion Of President Harding and the
Republican congress for the voters Of
the South when they go to the polls
November Z: The Republicans are
striving to hold the Volunteer state,
which they captured from the Demo-
cratic "solid South" two years ago.
and the Democrats are trying just as
hard to redeem" it.
Governor A. A. Taylor, running for
rejection on the Republican ticket,
and former Senator Newell Sanders,
Republican senatorial nominee, are
heading the orators of the party in
power. They are praising the admin
lstration of President Harding and
Governor Taylor and asking The vot-
tiers for endorsement.
United States Senator X. D. Nc
kellar, renominated by the Demo
Gratis, Austin Peay, candidate for gov
crnor, Cordell Hull, chairman of the
national democratic executive COM
mittee, seeking his old seat in; the
fourth district which he lost in the
landslide of 1920, and Finnis Garrett,
candidate for reelection in the ninth
district and minority leader in the
lower house of congress, are men,
bers of the vanguard Of the Demo
cratic party in the onslaughts which
they have launched against the ma.
tional and state administrations of
The Republicans.
The Tennessee voters are hearing
the tariff alternately praised and con
demned, the acts of congdess, espec
tally on taxation, given the sam
treatment, anl each party blaming
the other for many other things.
The Democratic orators hold the
Republicans responsible for the dis
continuance Of the "fush" period that
followed the war, while the Republi
cans tell the voters that he last Dem.
ocratic administration was response
HE
! The recent railroad and coal miners
strikes have come in for attention in
some sections of the South, Attorney
General Daugherty being criticised
especially by some of the labor lead
ers for the Chicago injunction against
the striking shop craft leaders. Re-
publican leaders discount this charge
and say tha democratic governors in
several of the states ordered out
troops during the railroad shipments
strike.
The Harding administration is the
leading issue in the seventh and ninth
Virginia congressional districts, which
probably are the second battle
grounds of the South. C. Bascomb
Slemp, who has represented the ninth
Virginia district for some years,
would not seek another term and the
Democrats think his retirement is the
cpportuna, time for them to capture
bis seat. They have put forward
George G. Peery, while the Republi-
cans have nominated J. H. Hassinger.
In the seysnth district, where Thomas
w. Harrison was unseated and John
PAUL, Republican, declared the win
her, an equally hot contest is raging.
MIR. Harrison is running for election
and Mr.. Paul is trying to retain his
seat. The tariff and revenue legisla-
tion play an important part in the
situation.
The Republicans also are stressing
the Harding administration in the
seventh Alabama district, and the
eighth, ninth and tenth North Caro-
Ina districts, which they are attempt
ing to take from the Democrats. The
latter are just as vigorously attack
ing the official record Of the president.
Republicans are putting forward
candidates In majority Of the con-
gressional districts Of the South, but
are centering their attention on the
socalled doubtful" districts in Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Alabama and
Tennessee. The first and second Ten
lessee districts still are strongly Re-
publican; so much SO in fact that
Democrats consider 1t a waste of time
to campaign them.
United States senator's are to be
elected in Virginia, South Carolina,
Florida, Georgia and Mississippi and
Governors in South Carolina, Georgia
and Alabama, in addition to Tennes-
see, little interest is manifested in
these races, for the Democratic pri-
,naries, already held, were considered