The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-15
mo REPUBLICAN,
State TICKET.
1t is Said the Leadsrs Have De-
eidad onIhis Course.

ANoWE En- YIN The HUST1NGS,
AND THE OPINION PREVAILS
THAT NO CONTEST WILL BE
: wAGED.
Richmond, July IA special from
Washington TO the Dispatch says: A
prominent Republican of Waddill- Bowen.
Brady faction of the party, and one of it's
expert managers, recently remarked
that they would put no State ticket in
the field this year, and that no conven-
ton of the party would be held. He
spoke with apparent authority, and went
on TO say that the talk in some quarters
about holding Il convent ton and nominal.
ing ticket was perfectly absurd. Argn-
Ing the point, lie made some of the I'M
usual partisan hackneyed illusions to the
election laws, the election Judges, and
the election methods of the dominant
party in the State-the clap.trap which
has burdened their speeches in several
recent campaigns. But, coming to the
real and actual reasons for not holding n
convention and not nominating a State
ticket, he said:
ut would be folly for the Republicans
in VIRGINIA to put Il ticket in the field in
Virginia this year. With the division in
the Democratic party last year, and our
accessions from that party, we were de-
feated by 20, COO majority. Then we had
money. won't say how much, but we
had money. 1t takes money to hold con-
yentions, beginning with precinct prima-
ries and county conventions, and then
the heavy eXpe nse of a State convention.
Where would the funds come from? No.
where.
Besides this" he continued, eve are
not in very good trim to enter upon q
State campaign Excepting few post
masters, and the appointment of Park
Agnew to the internal revenue collector.
ship at Lynchburg, the party SO far has
not been recognized by the present adj
nlinistration. Perhaps there are good
reasons for this, and perhaps the party
would hold together just as we'll as If the
appointments had been made, for then
the disappointed applicants would re.
main at home and sulk in their tents.
Anyhow, there is great dissatisfaction In
our ranks. We are also constantly
tainted from within, as we'll as from
without our ranks with the unanswera-
BILE question, Where is your--promised
prosperityy and this Guild be o. sumner
on the stump this fall, which we don't
care to encounter. If some of the gentle
men who wish the empty honor of the
nominations will agree to defray the ex-
pense of the precinct, county and State
conventions, let them go ahead but I
don't think the Republican party in vir-
ginia can boast of many such men.
Another thing is that IA majority of the
gold Democrats will go back to their old
party in State election, no matter what
sort of platform is adopted ut Roanoke.
And these are not our only elements of
weakness.
"Altogether, we are in no condition to
nold convention, nominate ticket, CT
face campaign, except for the fun of the
thing, and we would no doubt be the
laughing stock of the country if we did
it,"
Ihls appears TO be the sentiment of
many of the Republican leaders, who are
not as frank and candid in their utter
ances on the subjects rs :he one just quoted.
1t is understood that the Lamb faction
of the party is in favor of holding a con-
vention for the purpose solely of making
fight against the .Waddill- Bowen Brady
faction of the State committee The friends
or Col. Lamb insist that a convention Of the
party would'sustain him and repudiate the
acton of the quintette of politicians who
nave ISSUED control of the party and the
patronage
There is no doubt that great dissatis.
faction exists throughout the State with
the present executive committee, and that
It is daily being aggravated by the commit
tees Inability to furnish offices for hun.
cry pie-hunters. One of the latter class
who has been in Washington for months
waiting for an office, remarked that if an
election were held in his district to-day
eleven of thirteen counties composing it
would vote against the present commit
tee. II this is the case all over the State,
Colonel Lamb and his friends might make
an effort to call State convention, and
they might probably prevail on Gen.
James A. Walker, who no doubt would
ike the honor of the nomination for gov
ernor, empty though it would be, to Join
forces with him for that purpose The
General has not been, up to the present
time, on the best OF terms with his col.
leagues on the executive committee, and
ne might be induced to fla. or a copven-
ton II meeting of the full State com,
mittee could be. called.
SAVED FROM LYNCHING.
Bristol, Va. July 14.-Ishaia Sims