Evening star., 1932-10-05
TWOB|TTER RACES
ON IN TENNESSEE
Irregularities Are Charged in
GubernatoriaI and Con-
qressionaI Campaigns.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. october s.
Tennessee, the political history OF
which is studded with heated personal
contests is in the midst Of two OF its
most bitter campaigns.
Normally Democratic, but occasionally
Republican in recent years. the State
has two triangular contests on its hands
with the regulars" of each party
plagued by rival claimants to the nom1-
nation In each case the rival claims
to be the "rightful nominee" who was
cheated in the primaries.
State Treasurer Hill McAliSter fin
ished some $500 votes ahead of Lewis
&. Pope, former State commissioner OF
institutions, in Democratic guberna-
torial primary which shook the State
down to its grass roots.
Pope charged that political ma
chimes" in Nashville and Memphis had
'herded" negroes to the polls, declined
to abide bv the decision of the State
Primary Board and continued his
speaking campaign as the nominee"
of the straight Democrats
Mccall Runs for Governor.
The Republican nominee for Cover
nor is John E. Mccall, Memphis at
torney and past State American Le-
gion commander.
The Republican nomination contest
IS confined to the traditionally Repub-
lican first district, where former Rep
resentative B. Carroll Reece won the
nomination to Congress over the in
cumbert, O. B. Lovette, by 1900 votes
in the Republican primary.
Lovette charged gross fraud, claimed
that he had been nominated by the
honest vote" and declared he would
continue as a candidate until the polls
close
The Reece-Lovette feud had its be-
ginning in 1890 when Lovette entered
the campaign 10 days before election
and defeated Reece who already had
served five terms, with an attack upon
the power issue.
The Democratic nominee IN the dis
trict is Albert Upton.
Meanwhile, the validity OF the
States redistricting act has been at
tackled in the courts and there is a
possibility that all nine Representa-
tives from Tennessee will be elected at
large, procedure which might en-
danger two seats held by Republicans.
Leaders of both parties. however, have
expressed opposition to an election at
large.
Opening his campaign, Pope said he
was mot a candidate because I want
to be-" but because the good God in
Heaven has convinced me that ought
to be-
Promises New DEAL
He has pictured the situation as a
case of the rural voters versus the big
city machines" and has trained his
guns upon Representative Ed Crump
of Memphis
Mccall has vigorously attacked DEM
ocratic factionalism and rule and has
promised a new deal"
Meanwhile, Tennessee political lead
ers have arrayed themselves in the
open upon the McAlister and Pope
candidates.. Democratic regulars have
used their strongest arguments in urg-
ing a united party in presidential
year.
Urging Pope to withdraw. United
States Senator K. D. Mcclellan said of
him:
"He might succeed in electing Mr..
Mccall, but I think any one familiar
with the situation would say that 1t
would take a political miracle for Mr..
Pope to be elected"
tennessee has elected Republican
Governors four times since the Civil
War. In 1880, when the Democratic
party was split, Alvin Hawkins, Re
publican, was chosen. In 1910 Demo-
Gratis again were divided and Ben w.
Hooper went In as the Republican Gov
ernor and was reelected two years
later.
Another Republican Governor, Alfred
A. Taylor, was elected in the Harding
landslide of 1920, when the State went
Republican nationally for the first
time