The Pensacola Journal

GOV. AYE OPENS HIS SENATE CAMPAIGN
Nashville, Tenn., July 6.—The 1918 political campaign in Tennessee will be inaugurated in earnest next Monday, when Gov. Tom Q. Rye will go to Knoxville to deliver the opening address in his contest for the democratic senatorial nomination. The campaign, so far as the democrats are concerned, promises to be a very spirited one all along the line. In addition to the Senatorial contest there is to be a hard fight for the nomination for governor.
In choosing Knoxville as the place for opening his campaign, Governor Rye has carried the fighting into the heart of the enemy's country, for Knoxville is the home city of John K. Shields, whose seat in the senate Governor Rye is seeking and who himself will be a candidate for renomination. In Knoxville also resides Chas. T. Cates, the third aspirant for the democratic senatorial nomination. As attorney-general of Tennessee Mr. Cates established a wide reputation and his supporters are confident of his ability to hold his own in the three-cornered race for the senate.
Four candidates are in the field for the head of the democratic state ticket. They are Clyde Shropshire, of Nashville; A. H. Roberts, of Livingston; Austin Peay, of Clarksville, and Geo. L. Berry, of Rogersville.
On the republican side comparatively little interest is manifested in the campaign. H. Clay Evans is assured of the nomination for United States Senator, while the gubernatorial nomination will go to James H. Anderson. Both candidates are residents of Chattanooga.