The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-25
KU KLUX KHAN
 IS POLITICAL \ ISSUE IN SOUTH

Muscles Shoals, the soldiers bonus, the congressional farm bloc, the Ku K1ux Klan, and the attitude of candi- dates touching organized labor, are figuring in the political campaigns in several southern states. Democrats are endeavoring to bring Tennessee back to the formerly solid south" Both parties in Tennessee are pre- pairing for the first national and gubernatoria1 contest since the state broke away two years ago from the Democratic "so1id south'' by voting for Prsident Harding, electing a Repubh- can governor and dividing its con gressional seats equally between the two major parties. The primaries August 3 followed one of the hardest fought Tennessee campaign of recent years. United States Senator Ken meth D. Mcclellan, who was renomi- campaign upon his senatorial record, his support of the Wilson admintstra- ton, and his.advocacy of the soldiers bonus. He was understood to have was definitely endorsed by several | labor organizations. His nearest opponent, Capt. Gus T. Fitzhugh, as- sailed Senator McKel1ar's record and his position on the bonus: +,o, chairman, was nominated for the seat in the House of Representatives which the Republicans won from him in 1920. Finis J. Garrett, minority leader in the House, was renominated by the Democrats.
 Austin Peay was chosen as the Democratic opponent of Governor
 tAlf' Taylor. Republican, who was unopposed for renomination.
 Former Governor Westmore1land Davis, defeated for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Virginia by the incumbent, Senator swanson, had
 announced his intention of amliating
 with the farm bloc if elected. He had also announced he did not care for the support of the Anti-Sa1oon League iH
 his record. The contest was one ot
 the hardest fought the state has seen
 in years.
 | Senator Park Trammell has beer
 renominated by the Florida Demo I tcrats.
 l The tax question has predominated among the state issues. particularly in Alabama, Georgie and South Carolina, The Ku Klux Klan was made an tissue of the Democratic primary cam Ipaign in some sections of Arkansas land the ticket sanctioned by the Klans- men led in Pulaski county and ir
 Little Rock. its county seat, at the
 primary August 8. Neither of the igubernatorial candidates took sides ir this controversy, but Governor T. C. lMcRae, whose nomination August was reSdrQed as 0Qu1NalenL 10 elSC- ton, was understood to have been en- dorsed by Klan supporters. He made his fight on his record and on a plat form of rigid enforcement of laws touching Sabbath observance and pro. hibition. He was endorsed by a num- tber of union labor leaders.
 The Muscles Shoals project cropped Iup as an issue in the last days of wha1 observers had termed an unusually liistless primary campaign-i in Alabama It figured in the contest for associate members of the public service commits Ision, when Governor Kflby, three day.
 before the primary. charged tha- Commissioners Cooper and GaiIlard
 the incumbents, were receiving the active support of corporation con
 trolling the utilities in several Ala
 bama cities They charged in repl, that the governor himself was a frient of the corporation and an opponen
 of Henry Fords offer for the Muscl Shoals project, for which the compan- I had made a bid.
 Mrs. W. B. Edmundson, the frs
 woman in Alabama to seek the Demo lcratic nomination to Congress, wa
 defeated