Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-20
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LEXINGTON.
The Tenth District Cougressiohai
Fight. Etc.

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Fight, Etc.
| LEXINGTON, VA, May l9.-tSpeciai')-
The great fight for the Democratic
nomination in the Tenth Virginia Con-
| eressionaI District continues, and IL
watched with great interest The deie-
gates elected to date are lined up as ioi-
lows: For Flood -Appomattoz, >; Am
! herst. IS; Allegheny, z; Buckingham, ~
| Cumberland, 6. Total, 81. For QUARTS
| Augusta. 81: stanton, Z. Total 90 j Ut
| GIasgow-Botetourt 10: Buena vista, =
Highland, 6; Rockbridge, TO- 1otai' o'
| The counties yet to elect delegates az
Nelson, IS: Fluvanna, 9, and Bath, D. Nei-
| son will probably elect delegates Tor cor
| don and Fluvanna delegates Tor Fet'it'
! Path is uncertain. but ii is expected 10
go for Glasgow. In any case, IL nlasso"
| Is dropped, and the fight Is pe'"eeh
| Ouarles and Flood, and the tlasAow
| men 40 to Quarles, Flood VIII only nee"
| five votes: but should Quarles be drop
nod and his men 20 TO Glasgow, the lat
| ter will only need the four from batn.
| On the home stretch it Will be a very
nrettv race. and some fur will be mace
| TO fly. 800
MIR. Samuel II. Lyle died at the home
| NJ Mr. Thomas A. Sterrett, on TIMBER
Ridge. Tuesday morning. Early last WIN.
ter he had his feet badly frosted, ana II
became necessary to amputate theIh'
from the effects of which he never re-
covered. Mr.. Lyle was 5S years ola anu
was unmarried. He was son OF tne
late Samuel w. Lyle, and was educateu
at washington College, now Washlhsto"
and Lee University. He served win as
tinction In the college company KNOWN
as the Liberty Hall volunteers, IN the
Stonewall Brigade. in the late war; anu
was n lieutenant noted for his bravery.
Buena Vista furnace will go into biast
in . few DAYS. Fires were started In the
engines on Friday, and the blast Will be
turned on so soon as n supply OF coal
and coke arrives, which is expected each
dav. The furnace has been put in tho
rough repair by the Virginia Develop
ment Company, which has been work.
ing in that direction for the past Two
months. The furnace will be under the
management of II. Catseby Jones, ana
will be operated by the Allegheny Iron
Company. About sixty hands VIII be
employed.
The 18th annual celebration OF the
Dialectic Society Of the Virginia Military
Institute will take place saturday nlsht
in the Jackson Memorial Hall, at which
time three medals will be contested for
by the members Of the society.
President Wilson, of the Washington
and Lee University, who has just re-
turned from visit of two weeks 10
Yale University, where he delivered a
course of lectures on the history Of rep
resentative government. spoke before the
weekly meeting of the university body
| this morning, upon the recent develop
| ments in the war between Spain and the
| United States. He prefaced his address
| with remarks as to the advantages pre-
| scented in small colleges when compared
| with larger ones. He spoke OF having
| been recently TO Harvard, Yale, and
Princeton, which were rich in requests.
| and had large numbers Of students and
| handsome buildings, but although the
| southern universities were, he said, with
out money, still there was great adj
vantage in their smaller number OF stu
| dents, in that the students could be bet
| ter taught and be brought into closer
contact with their teachers. After this
he passed to the main theme. He said
| that while the victory at Manila natu-
rally aroused the pride of the American
people. it might in the long run pro-
| duce results disastrous to the well being
| of our country This victory had sud-
| denly brought the United States face 10
II
| face with the eastern question. which
| had dominated European politics for
more than half a century and had been
| the cause of several wars. He called at
| tention TO the fact that already part
| of the press and of the people were adj
vocating the holding of the Philippine
Islands by the United States, and point
ed out the dangers which would result
| from that course, which would be radi-
| cal departure from the advice contained
| in Washington's farewell address and
| from the past policy of the United
| States. He said that the complications
resulting from this eastern question, in
| which we were now urged to take part,
had forced the European nations TO main
tain large armies and navies, and to go
| on steadily increasing their debts and
| taxation, while the conservative policy
| of the United States had enabled us TO
develop good government with good
laws and light taxation. Mr.. Wilson ex-
pressed the opinion that the wise course
| for the United States was 10 follow the
| teachings Of the fathers OF the republic.
rather than the yellow journals and jim
| goes of to-day; to adhere TO our past
| policies. and TO rely upon justice and
| the respect of the world for our posi-
| ton, rather than upon large armies,
costly nayies. and lingo policies.