Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-21
HON. }. T. ELLYS0N.
INTERVIEW WITH HIM on yrR-
GINA POLITICAL SITUATION.
The GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN.
ItIs Bcginning TO Attract Attention.
The Gold Dcmocrats-Succcs fo
ID 9icI-Virginia CongreSsionaiia--
Other Notes.


Especially )-Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson. who
IS a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor OF Virginia, was in
Washington this afternoon on private
business. and was seen by your CORE
spondent at the Raleigh tonight.
"How are politics IN Virginiag' your
correspondent asked.
"Weu. the people generally are not yet
talking much about politics; but the cam
paign OF next fan IS beginning TO attract
attention. and the candidates and their
personal friends are organizing their
forces"
Are YOU receiving many letters from
the people relative 70 your candidacy"
"Yes. every mail for the past week has
brought me q large number of letters
from friends in every county and city in
the State. and. II 1 may judge by the
kind things they are pleased 10 write me,
] shall certainly have a strong support
for the nomination for Governor"
"WUl the state Democratic Convention
he likely 20 make any utterance with re-
spect 10 national issucsY'
1T has been the unvarying custom for
many years for the state convention,
meeting in the year next following the
national convention. TO reafirm the de-
clarations OF the national platform, 50
that. as matter OF course, following
the precelcnt OF many years, the ma
tional platform Will be reailiimed at the
next state convention
Are YOU willing to accept the nomi-
nation upon such PLATFORM
Il am surprised you should ask me
such "a question. 1 have always accept
a the candidates and the Ratform OF
my party as my own, in all the thirty
years in which ] have had the honor 10
serve in its ranks. II was not wiling
TO ACCEPT the nomination upon such a
platform. I would not be candidate
ON the day Mr. Bryan was nominated, in
response to a telegram from one of the
New York dailies, I promptly replied that
] would accept the platform and the
candidate at Chicago as my platform ana
NV candidate j subsequently accepted
the chairmanshlp Of the State Commit
Tee and no man worked more earnestly
for the election Of the one and the tri-
umph OF the other than did; and stand
now as / stood then, squarely on the
state and national platforms, as they
were declared at Stauuton and Chicago;
and. as a candidate for the highest honor
I'm the gift Of the next state cOnven-
fion. / have no hesitation in saying that
whatever the action Of that convention
may be- / shall give to the candidates
nominated my heartiest support, and TO
the platform my most earnest advo-
cacy."
THE GOLD DEMOCRATS.
"Do YOU think that many of the gold
Democrats will come back to the party
next fall?"
II believe that a great many Of them
,~rl and / heartily endorse the ccncilia-
tory policy outlined by Hon. Peter j.
Otev. I'm an interview published a few
weeks ago. I'm which he stated that the
virginia Democracy should invite ah VINO
would TO ioin us in our primaries and
conventions-the only test or Quallhc9-
tion necessary being determination 10
abide the action. and support tho pat
form and candidates"
"Wiu Senator Daniel have any cpposi-
tion for the senatorshlpF
"None whatever. / do not know man
In the ranks of the party IN the State
who would for g moment seriously enter
tain the idea OF opposing Senator Daniel
for denomination. He viii certainly sue
ceed himself
what do you think Of the general con-
dition Of the party in the State
81 believe that we are much stronger
TODAY than we were last year. when
Virginia gave 10000 majority for Bryan;
and there IS nothing I'm the present situa-
tion but announcement to believe that
that majority VIII De largely hCteaseu
next November"
"Vhen do you leave Washington
II expect to return on the eaIly train
tomorrow morning"
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
The general deficiency bill. which
uassed the House last night, contains a
clause which authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury TO restore the compen-
sation OF employees at a number Of sea-
uorts among them Newport News, Va,
where the amount Is S57il4L The sala-
ries of these officials had previously been
reduced by the Secretary III order 10
avoid a deficiency in the appropriation
for collecting revenue from customs
from the date that such reduction was
orIered-the amount or that. denelehcy
being in all, $n,SS5.52.
The bin also includes an Appropriation
OF 5000 for the rebuilding OF steam
launch on the Potomac, 10 be used IN
connection with the shad hatchery on
that river.
IL IS TO be regretted. however, that the
general deficiency bin passed the House
Just as So came from the conferees during
the last hours of the Fifiy-fourIh Con-
gress ln which shape the appropriations
for Richmond College and the Richmond
Locomotive and Machine-W Orks were
eliminated from il. The bin now goes 10
the Senate. where IL win be subject TO
amendment and where these two merl-
torious bills Will be added to IL.
The sundry civil bin, the other appio'
priatlon measure which failed IN the last
Congress. but which passed the House
last night, under special rule, contains
the appropriation for the addition 10 the
public building al Norfolk Of SlOOO0'.
Representative Otey to-day introduced
a bin 20 increase the pension of Fannie
A. Marabce, widow of BENJAMIN Mara
bee, OF Charlotte county Va, soldier
OF tho war of 1872, 10 so per month
The deficiency estimates Included IN
the bin which has just passed tne House
contains the following:
In the Navy Department:
old Dominion steamship Company
items amounting ga aI 20 $222 o.
S. $ Nottingham. Jr. publisher. items
NJ GieSnan. proprietor. Norfolk Va.
$40
POSTMAGISTERIAL COMPENSATION
I'm the Post-Omce Department:
O. G.. Cullen, late postmaster Cullen
Va. compensation undercredited second
quarter. 1896 1903,
James B0yce postmaster, Ciaremo"S
Va. compensation undeleredilcO, secoAu
quarter 1886 10 cents
j.. S. Grigg postmaster, JafidiI Va
compensation undercledited. fourth quar-
ter. 1885 SW3t
Lafayette u. cave. postmaster. Mark,
Va, compensation uodcrcredited. sec0hu
quarter 1856 SO
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