The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-01
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.
THEY ARE TRYING TO PUSH "'h'N-
ley UPO on APPOINTMENTS
A Man without Charges Against Nm"
Good Man for Postrnaste r--"''
Population Put TOO Low

.,,,>,c,,o>- Nov. 30.-Spec ial.- \
number ~ Virginia Republicans axe In
the city and more are expected 70 nN' wv
rrh.,, I'M ,,v IN see the PRESIDE ioe and
nush him I'D on certain appoiht'n' aS III
is believed that pos1nasoe - A. erry'
Vile will be appointed pei"rv nv TN OF
the month. Capt. john D WIS., has q
oa,didota FOR that place and County
Chairman Mccormick. one OF the 'organi.
cation Republican Is cannchg
An old clerk in the Executive Iansion
told me Yesterday that he ala peS pretend
TO keep everything In ms hedd, but that
one case of postofllce scramble in Harri-
sons time impressed itselI $" 1eeply on
his mind he could never IorSe it, He
referred TO the Richmond post office. He
eavs Judge Waddill submttR a list OF
applicants 20 the President I trough the
POSTMASTER General. lie had five or six
names on his list. The I'rnti lent said 10
inc Postmaster General uf { he would
look over all the papers an A decide the
next morning. This he did and Mr.. Otis
H. Russell was appointed y ostmaster
one of the Virginia Rel ,ublicans who
knew President Harrison veil asked him
what influences were brUt .ght to bear in
favor of Mr. Russell IN @ President re-
piled: Russell was the ,nly man apply
ing who had apparently no esemics in
Richmond. Against n names of the
others stood serious acc usations."
a MAltP1 OF
An enemy OF the asp rants had written
to the President, IL 5 GEMS, and advised
him not 70 appoint an = one Of them. But
Mr.. Russell was not known to be a can
didate for the post nastership and the
vicious fault-tnder' worse, did not have
time 20 rake up 3 record against him.
one applicant was even accused of MUIR
der The Ptesiden [ remarked to a Vir-
ginian that IL was quite obvious Russell
was the man 10 the office: nothing
against him.
General Harrisf N did not know the char
acter OF the Ri hmond man who wrote
TO him, as he iould not have made the
mistake i'm thir king that the accuscr OF
the other aspt rants would have allowed
Russell to csc ape.
RICHMQ ,NDS POPULATION.
Her ~ Is q thing that the Chamber OF
Conn nerce the Young Mems Business
Asso citation Of Richmond. should take up.
II is this" The Official Hotel Directory. >"
issue d ann tally. and distributed quite ex-
tens hely. contains the population OF ev-
cry city in the United States Rich
MOI IDS population is stated AT 50 900, al
tho ugh she governments revised census
rei jorts for 1880 made IL 81 900. Richmond
M s grown since then and il has popu-
Ia ton OF something like q hundred thous-
a I'D nav. Atlanta whose population was
My $500 in 1880, is set down In the book
! amed at $4,000. This of course is a
gross eXaggration OF Atantas popula-
ton. Atlanta will not get 10 10000 in 1900.
Comparisons such as these make an i'm
preston on strangers. Richmond gets
the credit for making slow progress,
| While Atlanta gets credit for growing
more rapidly than IL really does. The
Z Chamber could easily have the correction
{ made
The Virginia Republicans have been
I slow in arriving here, but as there IS 10
Z be conference of the leaders on Samr-
/ day. full turnout Of committeeman and
office seekers may then be expected. Cap
! tain John $. Wise is to be here. and there
] is talk OF a lOve-feast between the Lamb
| faction and the BOwden- Brady Waddill
| faction.
Colonel Brady intends 10 leave for home
! tomorrow and return on Saturday 10 be
/ I'm the thick OF the pow-wOw.