The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-31
Col. Buford Wants Second Place
on the State Ticket.
Mr.. ELLYsoN ALSO SAID TO BE
WILLING 10 TAKE THE PLACE
OR TO HOLD ON TO THE STATE
CHI AIRMANs HIP-sENAToR MAR
TIN AsPIREs TO BE GOVERNOR
FOUR YEARS HENCE-PETER j.
oTEY STRONGLY FAVORED FOR
STATE CHAIRMAN.

htcnuionu, July 3O.-(Special.) I'll @
political situation s.more muddled than
1t has been since the beginning of the
campaign. The announcement of Col.
a. S. Buford to the effect that h. will ac
cept the second place on the State ticket
Will cause good deal of changing OF
votes but it will not effectithe result The
ticket Will be Tyler, Ellyson and Scott.
MIR. Ellyson is still very reticent and tells
no one that he is driving at. But those
nearest to him say that he is willing to
do anything that his party requires of
him. Should the convention with any-
thing like unanimity ask him to be the
candidate for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he will
accept and should the party desire him
to remain at the head of the machinery
in the State, there is no doubt that he
will cheerfully accept the craftsmanship
of the State committee again.
The lieutenant governorship is called
the political graveyard of Virginia and it
il now openly asserted that the move.
ment, which seems so likely to succeed
in placing the cold, icy, deathlike hand
of the second place. on Mr.. El,yson is
largely due to the smooth work of SEN
atorPThomas S. Martin. 1t is snid to be
the dream of his life with Senator Mar
tin to be elected chairman of the State
committee i'll order that he may perpetu-
ate himself in power in Virginia politics,
and that he knows the moment Mr.. Ely
son leaves the position of chairman of
the party to become a candidate, or
the lieuteant. governor he is a dead
duck. His power in Democracy will
then be only pleasant memory-a rem.
iniscence OF bygone..days. 1t is asserted
that Mr.. Martin hopes to be his successor
and by sklllful manipulation step into
Major Iyler's shoes four years hence.
Yes, 1t is an open secret that the gubera-
torial bee is buzzing Il merry roundelaS
in the junior Senator's headgear.
Three of the candidates for governor
four years from now will he Thomas s..
Martin, Claude A. Swanson and J. Tay-
lor Ellyson.
But Mr.. Martins plans will not sue
coed. He will never be the chairman of
the party in Virginia. He would make
an excellent manager, but the impress
sion obtains that his regime would be u
nearer approach to machine politics than
anything that has ever been seen in the
South. IT, then would look like flying in
the face of the FitZhUgb Lee people. and
there are plenty of them.
1t is the opinion of the best informed
people here tbs Mr.. Ellyson will resign
the craftsmanship to be lieutenant Cover.
nor and that Hon. Peter j. Otey, of
Iynchburg, will be at the helm of the
party's committee He is known to he
one of the best organizers in the State
and his views are thoroughly in accord
with the party. Many people are skep-
tical about Senator Martins financial
views.
The nomination of Hon. Edmund R.
Cooke for lieutenant governor by the
Populists at Roanoke yesterday was n
subject of much talk in political circles
here to-day. Many prominent Democrats
SAID they would be glad to see the Dem
ocratlc convention endorse him, but no
one prophesied that such thing would
he done. There are so few Populists in
Virginia that people are sorry for them.
The Richmond delegation to Roanoke
will be announced by the city committee
tomorrow. Mr.. Ellysons and Major
Tyler's friends will recommend the gen
tlemen who will go and the committee
will endorse them.
The question of inviting the G. A. r. to
Mold Its grand encampment Mt Richmond
in l900 will come up in Pickett Cam D
Confederate Veterans to night. A bitter
fight is n expected but the camp will
hardly extend n cordial invitation to
the Grand Army. The business element,
however. wants the NorthernerS to come
down. This desire OH their part is from
II business standpoint.
The question of whether the ,convicts
will be carried from the counties to the
penitentiary by the sheri II or by the pcn
guards will likely come up very promi-
nently in the next legislature. 1t is
already burning issue in the Henrico
county fight.