Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-27
TINE VIRGINIA. DEMOCRATS.
Possibility OF . ombtuatiou fo Defeat
Fttr Hugh Lees Neseinasteu for Go, =
ernor-A ''Go-as- ON. PLEASE. Contest
NOT EUltkely.

ernor-A 'Go-as- n You-PIesse'' Contest
Not UnItkely.
Special Dispatch TO the EVENING STAR
RICHMOND, VA, July 27.-on the day amer
tomorrow Chairman Barbour, of the demo
cratic state committee, viii call the democratic
conN ention 10 order There are few delegates
here as Yet. The party management. as now
sireeted. viii. Is Thought. do It's best Ia defeat
Gen. Lee nomination for governor, provided it
can SCI us way clear To that result. Chairman
Btrbour does not see has WAY 90 the senate as
10 i successor II Gen Lee looming rom
m nls I'M nuledlate neghboThoodl should be noini-
mated Tor governor. Concurrent With these
nisciNings OF Mr. Barbour are those OF speaker
stuart OF the house Of delegates. who doubts u
ms aspirations Tor the attorney -generlship viii
he promoted by Lees selection a. the head 81
the ticket, Mr.. Stuart, Mr. Barbour and Gen.
Lee appear Ia I've located. geographically. much
too close Ia each other trr cotnmou enjoyment.
There appear now only two ar three fiNed fac
tors IN the contest. one OF these h the easN-
lead by Gen. Lee NJ all hats ,otlppt{torS Tor th,
nomination. Lists ot delegates show a larcP
soldier clemcnt-almoSt enough 10 control the
convention for Lee from th" start, unless his
managers shall give To- Barbour and the oi her
opponents OF Lee a chance to pool their issues
please" contest.
Another factor and the pivot upon which the
convention will turn l. the contest tor the sepa-
torial succession b,tw"rn Mr. Barbour aud
Major Daniel. of I.Nnchhurg. The followers of
Mr.. Harbour believed that hanivl would
main contcntcd with the soft place provided
for him by the last democratic Legislature I'm
the shape of a congressional district over.
WhelmlnglN democratic. But hiS friends
pushing Lee for governor, and Those of them un
the ground here do not disguise fArir belief
that Lees success viii greatly damage Bar
bour's chance for the Senate and materially
help those of Daniel. Barbour firNt sought am
alliance with the southwest ina the person ~
Judge Staples, OF Montgomery. This reliance
being declined 10y Judge staples who has ~..na-
toTial aspirations OF hiS own. which lac thinks
may hc helped 10y STRIFE between Barbour and
Daniel, Barbour has lately given signs of dis
tnrsS, and appears now to build his hopes upon
the nomination of Captain Mckinney, oi
Prince Edward county.
should the Lee Daniel combination run tho
convention. is viii succeed hy happy under
standings a. 10 the resi- ~ the ticket with tho
southwest certainly ana the valley possibly.
The same may be said oi the Barbour Nick innsy
combination. In amy event the southwest VIII
figure largely i'm the choice of the ticket Tor the
republican convention has already made that
the battle-ground. should the valley bc called
ON for "A candidate for attorney general, Hom"r
Conrad, of Winchester, will Toe chosen. and tho
southwest would probably name N"wberry. or
Bland, Tor lieutenant governor. The nominn-
tion OF the latter would be tribute to the read
juster element OF the southwest. Nrwbcrry
was one OF the tour readlust"r state senators
commonly known the big Four" who
bolted the Mahone caucus during the session
of the read tuSter legislature of lS~l-'S2. That
bolt was the beginning OF Mahone's troubles. a.
il was the precursor OF subsequent disasters ia
what was the citadel OF his strcngth-soutll-
west Virginia.