New Britain herald., 1922-10-06
WANT TENN. BACK
 WITH SOLID SOUTH
Democrats Seek Return Of State
 fin Fall Election

Atlanta, oa., Oct. 6, (py Ansoc!at- cd Presa) = Prohibition, Muscles Shoals, the sold!ers eonur, the con- gressional farm bioo. the Ku K!ux Klan, and tho attitude of candidates touching organised labor, are ngur- tns !n the political campaigns in sev. cral southern states. Democrats are endeavorins to bring Tennessee back to the formerly ''colld south." Both parties in Tennessee are pre- pairing for tho first national and gu- bernatorial context since the state broko away two years ago from the democratic 'solid south" by voting for President Harding, electing Q rcpuba. can governor and dividing its con- gressional scats equally between the two major parties. The primaries August 8 followed one of the hardest 1 fought Tennessee campaigns or ro. cent years. United States Senator Kenneth D. NoKellar, who was TO- nominated by tho dsmocrats. banec his campaign upon his senatorial res- ord, his support of the Wilson hd' ministration, and his advocacy of the soldiers bonus. He was understood to have the support of organized labor and was definitely endorsed by sev. eral labor organizations. His nearest opponent. Capt. Gus T. FttEhush. as- sailed Senator MoKellar's record and his. position on the bonus.
 Cordsll Hull, democratic national chairman, was nominated for the seat in the house of representatives which tho 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 l"Alf" Taylor, republican, who was 1 unopposed for renomination.
 Former Governor Westmorelland Davies, defeated for the democratic senatorial nomination in Virginia by the incumbent Senator Swanson, had announced his intention of affiliatins with the farm bloc if elected. He had also announced he did not care for the support of the Anti-saloon League n Virginia. Senator Swanson stood on his record. The contest was one Of the hardest fought the state has seen in years.
 Senator Park Trammell has been renominated by the Florida demo- crats.
 The tax question has predominated among the state issues, particularly in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina.
 The Ku Klux Klan was made an is- sue of the democratic primary cam- paign in some sections of Arkansas, and the ticket sanctioned by the Klansmen led in Pulaski county and l in Little Rock, its county seat, at the primary August 8. Neither of the gubernatorial candidates took sides in this controversy, but Governor T. c. McRae, whose nomination August was regarded as equivalent to cleo ton, was understood to have been en- dorsed by Klan supporters. He made his fight on his record and on plat form of rigid enforcement of laws touching Sabbath observance and prohibition. He was endorsed by a number of union labor leaders.
 The Muscles Shoals project cropped up as an issue in the last days of what observers had termed an un- usually listless primary campaign in Alabama It figured in the contest for associate members of the public service commission. when Governor Kilby. three days before the primary. charged that Commissioners Cooper and Gaillard. the incumbents, were receiving the active support of a cor poration controlling the utilities in several Alabama cities. They charged in reply that the governor himself was a friend of the corporation and an opponent of Henry Ford's offer for the Muscle Shoals project for which the company had made a bid.
 Mrs. w. B. Edmundson, the first woman in Alabama to seek the dem- ocratc nomination to Congress, was defeated.