National Republican., 1883-10-29
THE MAN ON THE AVENUE.
smnll TaIk About plen and NIensurea

! informed himself by an industrious canvass
! of the state, to state what he expected the
readjusters will accomplish They will not,
he thought, be affected by the results of tho
| Ohio election, or by tho decision of the su-
premo court in the civil rights cases. He had
not heard these subjects alluded to in all his
campaigning. "As | have said before to
you" ho said, "tho coalitionists will substan-
TALLY repeat their victory of 1881. To be
moro definite, will give you brief outline
of what our friends may expect to hear about
us on tho day after election. In the first
congressional district we shall carry every
county that wo did in 1851. In the second
district (DezendorFs) we carried in 1881 every
county and every city except Portsmouth. We
shall do tho same now In the third district
(Richmond) we shall carry everything wo
carried in 1881, gain one member of the lower
house, and have q fair chance of securing tho
only doubtful senatorial contest in the dis
trct, that between Wickhum and Jones. In
the fourth district from which Gov Cameron
comosl, in which l carried every town and
county--and cvery precinct, 1 might add
we shall repeat our former triumph, which
will involve the defeat of Senator Williams,
who is known in our state as ono Of tho Big
Four In the fifth district we shall lose one
county carried for me in 1881, and carry
another in which wo did not win, and which
elects two members of the lower house. We
shall also regain tho senatorial district thon
crrried off by Senator Hale. another one of
tho Big Four who in the last session
opposed read juster measures. In the
sixth district, where We only car
ried thrce counties in 1881, wo shall hold
our own, repeating the results of that
year. In the seventh district (pauls) we may
lose one county that we carried in 1881. In
the eighth district we shall probably lose one
delegate, but tho chances are that we shall
also gain two, making net gain of one. In
tho ninth district we shall carry every county
that we carried in 1881, except Washington
(Fulkerson's county,, in which there is close
contest.
Looking at the situation from my point
of view, would say that the result will be
that we shall gain the senate by a good work.
ing majority and the house by majority of
not less than II. The popular majority in
the state will be about 10000. Last year wo
carried the state by about 5000 majority"
Continuing, he said:
"There have been intimations of trouble Mt
the polls. There will be none The peace
will be preserved and voters will eprotected
Every man shall vote in peace and safety. II
is a SANDER upon the people of Virginia to
suggest anything else"
aSM
Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota; Judge A. B,
Carleton of Indiana J. r. Pettigrew, Of
Arkansas; Col. G. l.. Godfrey, of Iowa, and
Senator A. S. Paddock, of Nebraska, compris'
ing the full board of Utah commissioners
have been in consultation upon the Mormon
question in this city for nearly week, the
sessions being held at the Riggs The col
mission will be ready to submit its report tt
tho secretary of the interior to-day or to-
morrow. A summary of the work done
toward the extingushment of tho cancer
, polygamy will be given, and recommends
tions for several important changes in the
Edmunds law will be madc.
"ln what way is the existing law inop-
erative, or is it inoperatve?" was asked
Judge Carleton last evening.
That depends entirely ON tho way yol
look at it," was tho reply. "If the peopl,
C and congress want to accomplish the suppres
sion of polygamy, like the sailor went t.
heavenly degrees-thon tho present law i
! not imperative If tho purpose of the law
= however, is to take the government of the
/ territory entirely out of tho hands of TIN
: Mormons and give it to the Gentiles. then i
should be changed to mako it entirely effect
= i've. For instance, ono result is seen in tn
. disfranchisement of between twelve and fiji
2 teen thousand polygamous Mormon men ant
G women. That number Of voters have no
/ been allowed to deposit their ballots at any 0
the recent elections. OF the thousand officer
. o who have been elected since the commission
began the enforcement of the law not one
Y q polygamist, although nearly all of them ar
of the Mormon faith. You must bear in min
} that not less than so per cent, or fou
IL out of five Mormons, are not practica
polygamists. The law allows q II such to vot
:, and hold office. The monogamist Mormon
greatly out number the Gentiles and cons,
quently out vote them They have electe
every member of their legislature, house an
council. Tho Gentiles naturally want to e
the offices and the Mormons want to kce
them. To that extent, and the local feolin
is oftontimes bitt !, politics enters into til
- question. 1t is fol congress to determiu
y whether it wants to disfranchise monogamil
:, mormons, or let the distinction stand as
i, |
- has averaged between two and three thousan
a annually for the past fifteen or twenty year
) / do not know that the number is increasing
: but it certainly is not falling off,"
= ana
!, "There was q tolerably good joke playe
= on one of you newspaper men tho other day
- said the treasury clerk, "but 1 don't kno
'e that l ought to tell it," 1t was only aft,
,r some urging that the treasury clerk col
n. tinued "It was at the last boat race.
" couple of my friends and myself were ON IL
% river in small boat, when we saw this new
A. paper man on shore, talking with anotht
p. man. We all knew the newspaper man vel
1t we'll, and rowed over to invite him into ol
v boat. He stepped in and tho other ma
- stepped in after him. None of us knew ii
10 other man, but we supposed he was our new
s. paper friends friend, and it was all righ
" We learned afterward that our newspapt
v friend had no acquaintance with him, bl
w. supposed him to bo our friend. The strang,
~ went about with us all day, used our boa
IN drank tho liquor and smoked the ciga
1T which we bought but we noticed th
~ ~ the stranger did't buy anything. OF cour
Mt we didn't say anything, because each of