The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-11-01
Governor cameron,s Est,mate.

Inc New ork Times of Sunday has a
speclai from It's Washington correspondent.
as follows Gov. Cameron. of Virgini,
who has been travelling and speaking i in he
half OF the coalitionists in all parts of the
State and who stopped in this city this
morning on his way to Alexandria. where
he is to address meeting tonight, is Sc
renely confident OF the success of the coali-
tiOnists. His extended tour has given him
opportunities to make himself acquainted
with the situation that he regards of much
more value than any of the reports hitherto
received by him. even from his most init
mate friends. 1t should be remarked, in
giving the substance of II conversation with
Gov. Cameron, opened for the purpose of
obtaining his opinion of the probable re-
suit of the coming election, that he is
known among politicians in his own State
as conservative nan in venturing pre-
dlctlonS and is much more likely to come
within theAtruth than to exceed it in
making estimates of results that can only
be positively aScertained after a vote has
been taken. In 1881, when Cameron WAS
elected over Daniel, the popular majority
for the readjuster or coalition candidate
was l3,OOO, and the readjusters secured Il
majority OF III the senate and % in the
assembly OF house of delegates.
In conversation this morning Gov. Cam
eron said he had no objection, now that he
had informed himself by an Industrious
canvass OF the State, to state what he ex
pected the readjusters will accomplish.
They will not, he thought, be affected by
the results Of the Ohio election OF by the.
decision OF the supreme court in the civil
rights cases. He had not heard these sub
jects alluded to in all his campaigning. "As
| have said before to you, he said, 1.-The
coalitionists will substantially repeat their
| victory of 1881 70 be more definite 1
will give you brief outline Of what our
| friends may expect to hear about us on the
day after election. In the first congress
sional district we shall carry every county
that we did in 1881. That will give us a
clear gain Of two members in the lower
| house. In the second district (Dezendorf' 81
we carried in 1881 every county and every
| city except Portsmouth. WeShall do the
same now In the third district (Rich
mond) we shall carry everything we carried
| in 1881, gain one member of the lower
house, and have fair chance of securing
the only doubtful senatorial contest in the
| district, that between Wickham and Jones.
Sin the fourth district from which Gov.
Cameron comes, in which carried every
town and county-and every precinct,
might add-we will repeat our former TIL
umph, which will involve the defeat of
Senator Williams, who is known in our
state as one Of the Big Four In the fifth
district we shall lose one county carried for
me in 1881 and carry another in which we
did not win and which elects two members
of the lower house. We shall also regain
the senatorial district then carried off by
Senator Hale, another one of the Big Four
who in the last session opposed readjuster
measures. In the sixth district. where we
only carried three counties in 1881, we shall
hold our own, repeating the results of that
year. In the seventh district (Paul's)
we may lose one county that we carried i'll
| 1881, and will carry every county but one,
| in which we shall lose one delegate. 1nthe
eighth district we shall probably lose one
delegate, but the chances are that we shall
also gain two, making net gain of one.
| In the ninth district we shall carry every
county that we carried in 1881, except
| Washington, Fulkerson' s county, in which
there is close contest.
Choking at the situation from my point
of view, l would say that the result will be
that we shall gain the senate by Il good
working majority, and the house by ma
| jority Of not less than II. The popular
majority in the State will be about 10000.
Last year we carried the State by about
5000 majority"