St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-18
He Talks of Politics in His State and
the Prospect of Democratic
Victory.
Gov. Hubbard Will Take Immediate Steps
Towards Calling the Upper River
Convention.
Present State of the Construction OF
the Robert Street Brtdge--A
Fatal Accident.
kellogg Concert--Comment Caught
on the Curb--Real Estate and
Other News.
FROM THE OLD DOMINION.
Traveller From Virginia Talks OF
the Politics of the State.

the Politics of the State.
Hon. John L. Marye of Fredericksburg,
Va, who was lieutenant governor of that
state in reconstruction days, and recently
quite prominently spoken of as possible
nominee for governor, arrived in St Paul
yesterday, and will remain here short
time the guest of +. d. Hager of Virginia
avenue. He is the forerunner of party
of Maryland and Virginia gentlemen who
will reach st. Paul some time next week.
It will include Mayor Dulee of Rich
mond, Mr.. Hill Carter of Richmond,
Maj. Meyer, well-known rail-
road man; Mr.. Daswell of Fred
ericksburg and Messrs. Whitredge of
Baltimore. Last evening a GLOBE re-
porter called on the ex-governor and pleas
antly spent some time in the gentleman's
company. He is a medium-sized man,
rather spare, considerably past the prime of
life, unassuming in his manners and meas
ured in his conversation. He wears jet
black mustache and hair almost untinged
with grey. In the course of the converse
ton he spoke in pleasing terms of st. Paul.
and remarked that to any man who had
visited the city once it was no hardship TO
return.
OF FREDERICKSBURG,
Ills udllNt ClIys u0 Sdlus IL ONllhllS
fact that where so much fury was displayed
in the bombardment of the town, out of
which only few houses were not struck,
that the visitor will find so few traces of
that historic event. For instance, the steepleS
of two church buildings were pierced by
thirty bullets. Most of the private resi-
dences were struck. Through the use of
repairs and paint there remains a singular
lack of any marks to note the event
People, however, during the three years got
tired of seeing them and quickly put them
from view. The same is the case with the
physical aspect of the country around Fred
ericksburg. During the two years that the
two armies camped on the heights
near the city they cut all the timber,
burnt all the rails and destroyed everything.
The country as consequence presented
bare, dreary, desolate appearance. All the
old land marks were obliterated. The
twenty years since the war, however, has
restored the old woods, and the fortifca-
tions have been in large measure obliter
ated by the plow. With the exception of a
very few earth works which now remain,
the country is physically unchanged"
vRGINIAN POLITICS.
In answer to a question about politics,
Mr. Marye rehearsed the familiar his
ter the seeming success of which
a considerable portion Of the Democratic
element which Malone had carried off re-
turned to its allegiance to the Democratic
party; and in state contest preceding the
presidential election the party obtained a
victory and got control of the legislature.
The contest was renewed in the presi-
dental election, and despite the federal
patronage of the Republicans, the Demo-
Fcratic party triumphed over the Repub-
f1icansheaded by Gen. Malone. The gen.
eral has
NEVER DIsBANDED HIS FORCES,
and has organized them for new fight in
the state elections this fall, calling the
party the Republican party of Virginia.
The Democrats of the state, who comprise
an overwhelming majority Of the property
and business interests of the state,
feel deep solicitude for success
In the coming struggle, not so
much for the maintenance of Democratic
ascendency in a partisan aspect of the
question, as for maintaining an intelligent,
conservative and salutary state government
in all its departments. In the coming
struggle the Republicans will be headed by
John Wise.
1.-The Democratic convention" continued
Mr.. Marye, ''has been called for July 20
for selection of candidates. The public
men most generally spoken of as candidates
for the governor are Hon. w. Stiples, Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee and George c. Cabell, the
present congressman from Danville. The
result will probably be another Democratic
victory"
In answer to the question as TO the gen.
eral feeling about the new administration
the governor replied: ''With the exception
of some dissatisfaction in local quarters as
to his appointments to Office dissatisfaction
not important in its infiuence), there is a
general and cordial approval of the course
of the president and administration so far,
and general confidence in his wisdom and
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