Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-04
G. 0. P. Working Hard
to Hold Tennessee
in Ranks of PARTY Y

~AeiohtdS 1d.s NOV. J-leHneSS9o IL
expected to pass on the administra-
ton 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 Dem
ocratic solid south" two years ago,
and the Democrats are trying just as
hard to redeem" it.
Governor A. A. TAYLOR, running for
reelection 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 ad-
ministration OF President Harding
and Governor Taylor and asking the
voters for endorsement
United States Senator X. D. Nc
kellar. renOminated by the Demo-
Gratis. Austin Peay, candidate for
Governor, Cordell Hull. chairman of
the national Democratic executive
committee, 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
10 for. nj off t,J,r n
condemned, the acts Of Congress, es-
pecially on taxation, given the same
treatment, and each party blaming
the other for many things.
The Democratic orators hold the
Republicans responsible for the dis
continuance of the flush" period that
followed the war, while the Repub-
licans tell the voters that the last
democratic administration was re-
sponsible.
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 that Democratic governors in
several of the states ordered out
troops during the railroad shopmen's
strike.
The Harding administration Is the
leading issue in the seventh and
ninth Virginia Congressional dis
tricts, which probably are the sec
ond 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 retire
ment is the opportune time for them
to capture his seat. They have put
forward George G. Peery, while the
Republicans have nominated J. II.
Hassinser. In the seventh district
whore Thomas w. Harrison was I'M
seated and John Paul. Republican,
declared the winner, an equally hot
contest is raging. Mr.. Harrison Is
running for election and Mr. Paul is
trying to retain his seat. The tariff
and revenue legislation play an i'm
portant 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-
lima districts. which they are attempt
ing to take away from the Democrats
The latter are just as vigorously at
lacking the official record of the
President.
Republicans are putting forward
candidates in a majority of the con-
gressional districts Of the South, but
are centering their attention on the
so-called "doubtfup' districts in Vir-
GINA, North Carolina, Alabama and
Tennessee. The first and second
Tennessee districts still are strongly
Republican: so much so in fact that
Democrats consider it a waste of time
to campaign them.
United States Senators are to be
elected in Virginia, South Carolina,
Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, and
Governors in South Carolina, Georgia
and Alabama, in addition to Tonnes
see. little interest is manifested in
these races, for the democratic pri-