The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-17
NOT A BIT EXCITING
Richmond Primaries Fall to Arouse Any
Measure Of Enthusiasm. .s
OPPOSITION CONSIDERED IMPROBABLE
Powhatan Club Expects n Crowd
Jones Will Canvass ExtensAyeIy.-.
Hitter Fight ON Massey Mss.
Small Talks About IEer Divorce
Siiit-PcniteutiaryE Full. *.
Richmond. va. Sept. 1e. 1897.

Richmond. Va, Sept. 16, 1897.
The primary election here to-day re-
suited In the nomination of Beverly B.
Munford md Conway II. Sands for the
Senate without opposition, and u. G,
Folkes, Charles Nj. Wallace, Jr., w. y.
Reddy, Thomas B. Murphy and James
Lewis Anderson for the House.
The primary was lacking in exciting
features In fact, 1t was about the most
uninteresting one of n long list OF party.
elections. which failed to arouse any
enthusiasm The contest had been void
or any personalities and voters seemed
to care but little about going TO the
polls. Only two OF the candidates had
paid workers and these found little to
do. The vote was very small one.
From what can be learned at this time
the ticket nominated yesterday will have
no opposition. 1t may be, however, that
there will be independent candidates
Ihe Republicans are SO much split up
into factions that they will be unable to
get together and unitedly place a ticket
In the fleld
The Powhatan club expects to have o.
DIG crowd at Its ratification meeting,
to 'be held here on the 23d. Letters
have been received from Petersburg,
Ashland and other nearby cities and
towns, saying sthey will send n number
OF people. Nlessrs. Tyler, Echols and
Montague and all expected on the morn-
ing OF the 23d. and there will be a con-
ference here with reference to campaign
work. The speaking will take place in
the auditorium building, where Bryan
and cx-Presldent Harrison spoke last
RAIL- The auditorium will seat over one
thousand people and will furnish stand
ing room Tor many more. 1t will re-
quire great effort on this occasion tu
| anything like I'LL the place.
a gentleman from the Nirst Con-
gressional district says IT is understood
that Congressman Jones will branch
| out In this campaign and canvass tho
State. While he Is. perhaps, the ablest
debator In the Democratic party in Vir.
ginin at this time, he Is not very we'll
known outside of his district where
his efforts have been chiefly confined,
He Is anxious to get better acquainted
with the Democrats of other districts,
and Will take advantage of this opporA
tuntty to meet them. Mr.. Jones has
been appealed to my many people to
become candidate for United States
Senator, but has up to this time he nas
refused TO allow any one to make the
announcement for him THAT he will urn,
1t appears now that a very determined
and a very bitter fight Is going to be
made on Superintendent of Public In
Legislature comes to choose his success
sor. The resolution recently offered In
tho Sons OF Veterans Camp here is a
sample OF the attempts being made on
Massey. There is no question of tho
fact that such warfare Is helping the
superintendent. Those who favor some
one other than Mr. Massey for the place
are said ITO regret to see the spirit of
anything-and- anybody to beat Massey
f(.b iS
quarters.
Mrs. Loretto Small-Ford, who cams
down to Richmond to look after her
interests in her suit for divorce from
her husband. Is still here The fact that
she called upon Mr.. Fords counsel
aroused rumor that q movement look
ing to compromise was on foot. Mrs.
Ford dcnies that such Is true. She says
her visit TO General Edgar Allan was a
social one entirely. The suit, she says,
will be fought to the bitter end, and
nothing, In her opinion, can keep her
from securing O. verdict in her favor
The suit will be called next week, and
1t is expected the taking of dispositions
will begin at once. AS soon as the suit
Is ended Mrs. Small will go to Cincinnati
and take lessons from q dramatic
teacher. She expects to make her de-
but on the stage in Atlanta next winter,
The firm Of Seymour Bros, bankers,
and brokers, which failed in New York
yesterday, has a branch house here.
Mr.. w B. Isaacs Is the manager. The
business done here was small and very
few people will be caught in the crash,
Colonel TaZewell Elicit, who for some
weeks has been in Venezuela with
Counsel Samuel Proskaurar. for the pur-
pose OF forming q big whlskey trust,
has returned to the city Much busi-
ness had accumulated during his abb
sence, and when q reporter called the
cx-Congressman was SO busy he could
not be seen.
The number of convicts in the peni-
tentiary to-day is 1924. The building
has 1913 cells, which makes an average OF
6 1-3 convicts to cell. OF the bove
number 70 are females of which rs are
colored and WHITE. Among the males
there are 99S colored and 255 white At
the State farm there are 207, of which
24S are cOlored; at Jos. r. Anderson's
keg factory there are 27 all colored:
employed on the roads in Henry county
are 25 Of which % are colored. Thus
Is 1t seen that four-1fths Of the convicts
are colored.
The Hon. j. Taylor Ellyson has gone
to Wythvlle to attend the convention
to nominate q candidate for the Senate.
CAMERON WILL SUPPORT TFLE
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