Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-30
BLUE-BLOODED REPUBLICANS.
First Families Of Virginia which Ma
hone has on His List.

Representative Brady, of Virginia, who was
Senator Mahone's first lieutenant says Ma
hone will not leave Virginia after the expira-
ton OF his senatorial term. He is quite we'll
satisfied with what he has done during the
past four or five years and will stay at his home
in Petersburg and watch the political progress
of the state. His home is there all his family
ties, his family vault, and all old associations
are there, and he is too old to think Of going
elsewhere to build up career
During the past four years. Mr.. Brady says,
the republican party has made great progress
in Virginia, particularly among the whites,
and those OF high family connection. The bit
terest warfare that has been waged upon the
and the most valuable acquisitions it can make
Is among people of standing in the state. The
party has been Kept In contempt before the peo-
tional picture of the carpet-bagger, and asso-
ciating with it all that was low and mean.
four years from 81, 900 to 100000, and has
In its ranks some of the strongest and oldest
families in the state, who have always hereto
Here is q list OF some of the old Virginia
families who have lately identified themselves
with the party he said, and handed THE STAR
state. There are the Lacys," he said; sthey
first families Of Virginia, and the head Of the
family nov is Judge Lacy, of the court of APP
geais; There are the Lewises, the family Of old
and wealth; and there are the Harvies. Judge
Harvie was for ffty years member of the yir-
Davis, a companion of John C. Calhoun, and
was acquainted with Daniel Webster and all
those great men. Then there are the Lambs
Colonel Lamb, of Fort Fisher fame; and
the Fauntleroys-Colonel Fauntleroy, whose
father was colonel in the regular army
was an officer in the colonial army during the the
revolution. Here are the Trenches, the Blows,
the Marshalls-Chief Justice Marshalls family;
retts, and the Brockenbroughs, and all the rest
you see here-iamilies Of the purest blood and
great influence, and lifelong democrats until
now, who can trace back a line of ancestors, all
Of whom were democrats Of distinction. All
these and many more have become iden-
t TN with the republican party, and given 1t
The other families on Mr.. Brady's list We're
the Wises, the Bollings, the Bowdens, the Bow
the Budds, the Blairs the strathams, the
Wattses, the Yosts, the Elams. the Tillars, the
minister's Wins the Woods, the Mayos the Danger
the Davises, the Hudnalls, the Hubpards, the
Sebrells the Youngs, the Mallonys the sliugh-
the Crosses, the Fraziers, the Dlckinsons, the
Greens, the Aliens, the Gainses, the Godwins,
the Hausboroughs, the McCaullss the Wilies,
lishs, the Bowies, the Pendletons, the Richard
sons, the Simpsons, the Fowlers, the Brown
ihgs the GraSys the Whites the Armisteads
Webbs, the Wiloughbys, the McKenzies, the
Taylors, the Baieys, the Campbells, the Car
tiers, the Claibornes, the Conrads, the Lees, the
Phillipses, the Harrisons, the Franklins, the
Stokeses, the Killgores, the Ropers, the
Naughns, the Powells, the Wilson's, the
Walkers, the Flanagans, the Hendersons, the
Hennings, the Jacksons, the Johnsons, the
Jennings, the Watkins, the Watsons, the Tenn
pies, the Turner'S, the Riveses, the Mays, the
Moores, the Morgans, the Wilcoxes, the Gees,
the Russells, the Browns, the Clarks, the Gar
netts, the Prices, the Drewrys, the Dodsons the
the Sewails, the Buffers, the Michies, the Law
sons, the Meades, the Millers, the Frys, the
Graveleys, the Bashams, the Bookers, the Sc
neys, the Kilpatrtcks, the Maloneys, the Longs,
the Caseys, the Baileys, the Washes, the Gal
laghers, the McLaughlfnA, the Riddys, the
OaBonrkes, the Morrissys, the Oakeses, and the