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Show m TENNESSEE Democrats Try Desperately to Bring State Back to 'Solid South' ATLANTA, Ga.. Sept. 19. (By The Associated Press.) Prohibition, 1 Muscle Shoals, the soldiers' bonus. I the congressional farm bloc, the ECU I Klux Klun. and the atltude of candidate candi-date m touching organized labor, aro I figuring in the political campaigns In several southern states. Democrats I are endeavoring to bring T nn. y.s- o 'back to the formerly "solid south" Both parties In Tennessee are pro-; I paring for the first national and gub-! ernatorlal contest since the stato broke away two years ago from the Democratic "solid .south" by olin for President Hauling, electing a Republican Re-publican governor and dividing its congressional seats equally between the two major parties. Tho prln les August .1 followed one of the hardest fought Tennessee campaigns of recent years- I " 11 1 1 d States Senator Kenneth Ken-neth D. McKellar, who was renominated renomin-ated by the Democrats, baaed hls( campaign upon his senatorial record, his support of the VVllson administration, adminis-tration, and his advocacy of the soldiers' sol-diers' bonus. He was understood to Have the support of organized labor, and was definitely indorsed by several labor organizations Ilis nearest opponent. op-ponent. Captain GUS T. Kltzhugh, assailed as-sailed Senator McKellar's record and his position on the bonus Coraell Hull, Democratic national chairman, was nominated for the seat in the house of representatives which the Republicans won from him in! 1920. Finis J. tJarrett. minority lead- r in th linuti w.-x renomlnat eil hv I the Democrats. Austin Peay was chosen as the , Democratic opponent of Governor "Alf" Taylor, Republican, who was unopposed for renomlnatlon. "DllYS" SCORNED. Former Governor Westmoreland Davis, defeated for the Democratic senatorial nomination In Virginia by tho incumbent, Senator Swanson, had announced his intention of affiliating with th farm bloc if elected. He had also announced ho did not care for the support of tho Anti-Saloon league In Virginia Senator Swanson stood on his record. The contest was one of tho hardest fought tho stato has seen in years. Senator Park Trammell has been renominated by the Florida Democrats. Demo-crats. Tho tax question has predominate! among tho stato Issues, particularly In Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and K LA V FORMS ISSUE. Tho Ku Klux Klan was made an Issue Is-sue of the Democratic primary campaign cam-paign in some sections of Arkansas, und the ticket sanctioned by the Klansmen led in Pulaski county and In j Llttlo Rock, Its county seat, at the primary August 8 Neither of the gubernatorial candidates took sides in this controversy, but Governor T. 0 MoRae. whose nomination August 8 uas ngarded as equivalent to election, elec-tion, was understood to have been cn-lorsed cn-lorsed by Klan supporters. He made-his made-his fight on his record and on a platform of rigid enforcement of laws touching Sabbath observance and prohibition. pro-hibition. He was endorsed by a number num-ber of union labor leaders. SHOALS DISPUTE. Tho Muscle Shoals project cropped up as an Issuo In tho last days of what observers had termed an unusually un-usually listless primary campaign in Alabama. It figured In the contest for associate members of tho public service commission, 'when Governor, Kilby, three days before the primary, charged that Commissioners Coopor and Gatllard, tho lncumoents, wee receiving tho active support of a corporation cor-poration controlling the utilities in several Alabama cities. Tney charged in reply that the governor himself was a friend of the corporation and an opponent of Henry Ford's offer! for tho Muscle Shoals project, for which the company had made a bid. Mrs Wi B. Bdmundson, the first ! woman In Alabatna to seek the Dom- i ocratlc nomination to congress, was 1 defeated. |