The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-08
TENNESSEE Yet
IN DOUBT after
HOOVER SPEECH
Some G. o. P. Leaders Fear
for Ticket in Border
State Voting.
BY C. ]. LII4LEY
Times Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-Tennes-
see and the border country re-
named doubtful today, despite Her.
bert Hoovers enthusiastic reception
Saturday.
While some Republican leaders
were not only claiming this State
and all the other border States,
others who have made careful
analysis of the situation we're fearful
that Hoover would not get ma
jority of their electoral votes.
The border States are Tennessee,
Kentucky, North Carolina, Okla
homa, Virginia, West Virginia and
Missouri. They have eighty-flve
electoral votes.
Hoover, according to members Of
his own party on the Tennessee
trip, feels certain of only Kentucky,
Oklahoma and West Virginia, with
thirty-one electoral votes.
The border majority hinges on
Tennessee and Missouri. If Hoover
can win them and keep the three
claimed for him he will have sixty
one electoral votes in that section.
Like Hoover's Address
His Tennessee audience repreI
: sented voters from Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee, Judging
from their applause during Hoover's
address, they were interested first in
limiting immigration, second in en-
forcement of prohibition, and third
in the more general issues OF the
campaign.
Tennesseeans who best can gauge
the enthusiasm of their own crowds,
say that the Hoover meeting was
great success.
1t was by far the largest political
audience ever assembled in the
mountain country of East Tennessee
and the biggest day in the history
of this rapidly growing industrial
community.
The Hoover speech was described
by one enthusiastic Tennessee Re-
publican as just the kind that the
people of this State wanted to hear.
"The mountain people of Tennes-
see are a conservative, deep-thinking
type, who like serious speaking" this
TennesSeean said.
Compliments Main Street
"Hoover gave them that and his
allusion to Main Street did him as
much good as anything else he
said"
Relative to Main Street Hoover
said: "And in no country does there
exist the intelligence, the devotion,
the probity, the ability to rise to a
great emergency than exists in
Main Street of the American town
and Village"
If Hoover can get the more than
10000 majority President Harding re-
ceived in the eastern part of the
State he can overcome the Demo-
cratic ma ority in the other sections.
But Hoover is not expected to get
More than 10000 majority in East
Tennessee and therefore must turn
thousands of Democratic votes his
way to win the State.
The State Republican ticket is adj
mittedly weak, insofar as the guber-
material and senatorial candidates
are concerned. Raleigh Hopkins,
candidate for Governor, cannot hope
to defeat his Democratic rival, Gov
ernor Horton, some of his own sup
porterS say.
James A. Fowler, senatorial can
didate and mayor of Knoxville, while
an able man, is believed to have lit
tie chance against Senator Kenneth
Mcclellan.
McKelIar's senatorial strength,
plus the Republican weakness in the
Governors race, is said by many to
be sufficient to give Al Smith Ten
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