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Show ! Tennessee Delegation f I j Supports Favorite Son I The Tennessee delegation to the CI San Francisco convention, after spend- II ing a day sight-seeing at Salt Lake M arrived in Ogden early this afterA IfM nopn. ' This delegation, embracing fi I about fifty persons, is going to Stfh r I j Francisco with a favorite son candi- , I date for the vice-presidential nomi- ' I nation. He is Brigadier General L. j' 'I D. Tyson, a veteran of the world war, i I who led his brigade in 30 days 'of ' I continuous battle leading up to the jM breaking of the HIndenburg line on il the Cambrai-St. Quentln canal- in II northern France on September 29 . IB 19 IS, when the 30th and 27th divisions IB penetrated tho supposedly impregnable IB manded the 59th brigade of the 30th -JIM i division made up of soldiers from 4" states. IBM In addition to being a world war IH ! veteran. General Tyson is a veteran" of I H the Spanish-American war. havinc H been colonel of the Sixth U. S. vol- H unteers and m Hilary governor of half ' H the island of Porto Rico in lSOSU' H Before he retired from the regu'la'r H army to practice law and engagn. in H business in Tennessee, General Tv:on H was for eight years in the Indian ser- H vice in the west, following his "ra'd- H uation from West Point in 1SS3 H General Tyson thus far is the onlv H candidate before the Democratic con- H yention representing the soldiers of H the world war and he is expected th H have a strong following among th'n tions. " auiLU aeiee- Em Aside from his military prominence. TH General Tyson has been a prominent H figure for years in the politics of B section. Ho served a term as cniin IH Of the Tennessee house of repSenS- lives and came within four J vote 6t H o ection to the United States senate' H l Ho was a delegate-at-larg0 to the I Democratic national convention that H mot in Denver in 190S. B |