Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-29
PEACE IS RESTORED.
rNE REPUBLICAN FACTIONS HAVE
AT LAST GOTTEN TOGETHER.
LAMB YIELDS TO THE ALLANITES
Mark Hanna's Representative
Waves the olive Brnnrh Among
the Managers-iie IL Also Cioseted
with Boitocratic Leaders.

greSs dutluS tne entire campaign, Is AT
an end.
Colonel Lamb. the State chairman. who
has been opposed by Messrs. Edgar AL
Ian and Edmund Waddell, has yielded
70 those gentlemen what they demanded.
and all Is now serene IN Republican cir
cles except that Mitchell and Bahen get
1t Ia the neck.
The opposing leaders didn't get to-
gether OF their own accord. They were
practically coerced into so doing by Mark
ened to shut off the supply Of money
being sent into Virginia for campaign
purposes unless the night was ended.
Colonel Lamb went to New York Sat
urday and Judge Waddill did likewise.
Both of them visited headquarters there
ana had conferences with the powers
that be. No understanding was reached
by them when they LETT the metropolis,
but on Sunday General n. NJ. Curtis,
prominent Republican of the Empire
state made his advent here. and during
yesterday he spent some time IN confer
ence with the leaders OF both factions.
He said to a Dispatch man last night
that he was only down here gathering
data for a series of lectures he purposes
making. but IL is known that he Vas IN
conference Sunday and yesterday with
the Republicans and the Sound-Money
leaders, and IL was staled by those high
up in Republican circles that he was here
as the accredited representative Of Mark
Hanna and had stated positively TO the
factonal leaders that unless harmony
was restored among them Mark would
not give them another cent.
THE MEETING LAST NIGHT.
Before his departure for New York
Colonel Lamb had called a meeting Of
the State Committee Tor yesterday, and
1t was understood that it was his pur-
pose to have that committee declare
the three members elected by John
Mitchelrs convention at Hanover Court
house last Thursday entitled % seats in
the State Committee, and to declare also
in favor of Colonel James Lyons, who
was chosen elector at Colonel Lamb )
instance. The Alldnites were naturally
opposed to this meeting, and they used
every endeavor yesterday to have Ii IN
definitely postponed. The call was origi-
nally issued for noon, and members from
all over the State were present at head
quarters at that hour ready to 30 into
session. II was about this time that the
olive branch OF peace began TO wave IN
the breezes, and though General Curtis's )
stalwart figure was not apparent, his
was the hand that was waving 1t.
The meeting was postponed unti )
o'clock last night. and Fords Hotel was
designated as the place for assembling.
At the appointed hour the members OF the
committee assembled In one Of the rooms
of the hostelry, and General Curtis was
also on hand. As soon as Colonel LAND
rapped the committee TO order he an
uounced that as harmony was the one
essential 10 success In November he had
determined 10 withdraw the cortestns
conmltteemen and elector In the Third
District and TO recognize the action OF
the Hanover convention As presided over
nv District Chairman Southwark He then
stated that a motion TO adjourn would De
entertained. and Mr.. ). Brown Allen, OF
Augusta. made the motion, which was
carried unanimously-the first time IN
months a unanimous vote has been had
on anything suggested by Colonel Lamp
In the State Committee.
ANOTHER CONCESSION.
II was noticed in the roll call when
the meeting convened that Colonel Lamb
had made another great concession 10
his oppouents. "a the contestants for rep
resentation on the committee from the
Second and Fourth districts were placed
on the roll "a contestants. This VIII give
Them "A fighting chance at the next session
of this practically lifeless body, so far
as this presidential fight is concerned.
When the committee adjourned all OF
the members assembled down In the
lobby OF the hotel and one after another
was button-holed. and talked to Tor some
time by General Curtis, who apparently
had considerable influence with them.
IL was stated yesterday that Marx
Hanna had sent word here that unless
the Republicans In this Sta1e healed the
breach among them he would give the
money intended for them to the poltins
Democrats, and as General Curtis has
been in the company OF prominent leaders
i'm the boiling faction a good deal II
would seem that this statement had some
foundation i'm fact The General would
not admit that this was true when ques-
toned by the reporter last night lie was
called upon I'm the afternoon. at the
Jefferson. where he is stopping, by a
Dlspatch man. and il was stated there
that he was at the residence, near by,
of General Peyton Wise. lie had also
called upon that gentleman Immediately
upon his arrival In the city Sunday night.
The reporter repaired TO General Wise's
residence. and was met at the door by
the General, who stated that General
Curtis was within, but was there on
20 political mission. General Wise stated
that General Curtis was in Richmond
gathering data for the lectures that he
will make, and explained that he had
called upon him, because he had known
him intimately while the New Yorker was
serving in the Fifty-second and Fifty
third Congresses
WAS HERE DURING THE WAR.
General Curtis was stationed in Rich
Z mond Immediately after the war as chief
OF STAFF to General ord, who commanded
Military District No /. OF Virginia. and,
being thrown considerably with Rich
mond people. made many friends among
them by his uniform courtesy and kind
ness TO them IL was data I'm reference
10 the days he spent here In recon-
/ struction times that he was looking up,
ami with General Wise he spent some
tine yesterday in the State Library
building examining the war files Of the
| Dispatch.
General Curtis is probably as well
known in Virginia as any northern sol
| dier who was stationed here, and he has
many friends both in Richmond and in
| Lynchburg where he vas at one time sta
toned. II was said by one OF the Repub-
lean leaders last night that because OF
his popularity among Nirginians he was
selected by Hanna 10 come here and set
tie the differences among the factions.
General Curtis Is a warm. personal frien.
! Of Colonel Lambs, and there can be no
| doubt that the Colonel took the action he
did last night on the advice of the New
| Yorker.
HIS INFLUENCE WAS POTENT.
There are certainly some very excellent
reasons for believing that General Cur