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Show OTISSUESIfl i POLITICS BEFORE ; SOUTH'SVDTERS D . Farm Bloc, Ku Klux and Re 1 , turn of Tennessee to the Democratic Column Are Problems to Be Solred - ATUkVTA. Ga.. B-pt. 11 (By A. P.) ( Prohibition. MutcU Shoala, the aol- fliers' bona a, th consreataonal farm I bloc, tha Ku Klux kl-.n and tb attl- f(J tode of candidate touching organised j labor are figuring to tha political cam palgng la aeveral Mouthers, eta tea Democratg ara endeavoring; to brtng Jf Tenneaeee back to tha formerly "aol Id South." m nt Both parties In Tenneeeea ara P rani ra-ni paring for tha first national and guber. natorlal eonteet alnca tha atata broka rt away two years ago from tha Demo-tn Demo-tn rratle "aol Id Mouth- by voting for B Prealdent Hardin-, electing a Repub-: Repub-: Dean governor and dividing Ha eon-hl eon-hl greelonal aaata equally between tha m two major part lea. Tha prtmarlee on Atnjrae t nillawai ad tha hardsst. HI fouirht Tennessee rempalgna of recent al veara. United Slatee Senator Ken fl Bath D. McKellar, who waa renoml-' renoml-' Rated by tha Democrat baaed hla vl campaign upon hla senatorial record, ar hla aupport of tha Wilson admlnla-th admlnla-th t ration, and hla advocacy of tha eol-th eol-th dlera bonua. Ha waa undaratood to co hara tha aupport of organised la-of la-of Lor and waa definitely Indoraed by ecv- palgn In eome sections of Arkansas. I and tha ticket aanctlonrd by tha klans-men klans-men led In Fulaakl county and In Lit- I tie Rock. Its county eeat. at tha prl- I mary, August I. Neither of the guber-1 natorlal candldatea took aldea In this 1 controversy, but Governor T. C. Me-1 Haa, whoaa nomination August S waa' regarded aa equivalent to election, was I understood to hare been Indoraed by I klan supporters. He made hla fight on hla record and on a platform of j rigid enforcement of lawa touching Habbath obeervance and prohibition.)' Ha waa Indoraed by a number of union I la bnr leaders.. I erul labor arganlaatlone. Hla neareet de opponent. Captain Oua T. P1tahugh.aa-Kl P1tahugh.aa-Kl aallad Henator McKellar'a record and al hla poaltloa on tha bonua. HULL AGAIN NOMINATED. " Corded Hull, Drmocratlo national I, chairman waa nominated for tha eeat 'V In the house of repreeentatlvee which 1 the Kepublicane won from him In 1S2S. lnla j. Uarrett, minority leader In Cthe house, was renominated by the Iemocrate. , Austin Peay waa choern aa tha Dam-ocratlo Dam-ocratlo opponent 'of Governor "AIT Taylor (Rep , who waa unoppoaed for f renomlnatlon. j Former Oorernor Westmoreland ' i Davie, defeated for tha Democratic i eenatorlal nomination In Virginia by ' the Incumbent, ftenator ffwnnaon, had fj announced Intention to affiliate with I ' the farm bloc If elected. He had also announced that ha did not care for , the aupport of tha Antlaaloon league ' In Virginia. Senator Kwaiison stood V on hla record. The contest waa ona u of tha hardest fought tha atata haa ff' seen In years. . Hrnator I'ark Trammell haa been ra-, ra-, nominated by tha Florida Demo. u crate. , Tha tax oUeatlon haa predominated r( among tha atata Issues, particularly In at Alabama. Tennessee. Qeorgla and Dc lioulh Carolina. KU KLUX AN ISSUE. . P Tha Ku Klug klan waa made alt Is-"f Is-"f " "f the Democratic primary cam- f M ' The Muscle Shoals project cropped up as an lesus In the last days of what observers had termed sn unusually un-usually listless primary csmpalgn In Alabama. It figured In the contest In the contest for associate members vf the public service commission when Governor Kllbv, three days before the i primary, charged that Commissioners Cooper and Galllard. ths Incumbents, were receiving the active support of a corporation controlling ths utilities In several Alabama cities. They charged In reply that ths governor himself wss a friend of the corporation and an opponent of Henry Ford's offer of-fer for ths Muscle Shoals projects for which the company had made a bid. Mrs. W. B. Kdmundaon, the first woman In Alabama to seek ths Democratic Dem-ocratic nomination to congress, was defeated. |