This decision received the approval of Governor Stuart, who freely expressed to friends his belief that Mr. Tucker had little to expect from a contest at this time.
HAD POSTED FEE WITH STATE AUDITOR
Apparently with the intention of entering into a campaign against Senator Swanson, Mr. Tucker had, through friends in Richmond, paid to State Auditor Moore the $150 fee required by the primary law of candidates for the senatorial nomination.
The fact that Mr. Tucker had caused his fee to be paid in became known here late yesterday afternoon, and convention headquarters buzzed with the news the rest of the day.
Confirmation of the report came later, from Mr. Tucker himself, who admitted publicly at the Roanoke Hotel that his candidacy fee had already been paid in. Up to that moment the rumor ran from mouth to mouth as a choice of political gossip, exciting but unauthorized.
Late in the afternoon there made its appearance in the packed lobbies and a petition calling upon Mr. Tucker to announce his candidacy for the Senate. Friends of the Lexington man solicited signatures, indicating to those approached that the enthusiasm with which Democrats rallied to his support would have much to do with his coming out. 