Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-08-31
POLITICAL.

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Senator Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, is in war with the preachers
and newspapers of his State.
Dr.. II. A. Wise, of the Second
Congressional District, refuses to
obey Hanna's mandate and resign.
Ii is now announced that Mr..
Bryan VIII do nearly as much speak
ing in this campaign as he did in
1896.
The Popullst National Committee
on Monday accepted Towae's resigna-
ton and endorsed Stevenson on the
first ballot.
Bourke Cochran, of New York, an
nounces that he will vote for Bryan
and Stevenson, and will take the
stump for that ticket.
The name of Gov. Roosevelt was
Kissed at the meeting of the Non
partisan Colored Conference, held in
Boston, Mass, last week.
Republican Senator Wellington,
who is out with the Mckinley adj
miniStration, says Maryland will
give Bryan $4,000 majority.
A Massachusetts Republican pa
per presents the name of Senator
Daniel as an available and appropriate
one for Mr.. Bryan's Secretary of
State.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Scott, Of North
ampton county, Va, who was candi-
date for elector-at-large on the
Palmer Buckner ticket IN 1896, will
support Bryan.
1t is said that the Republicans of
the Fifth district of Virginia will
not nominate candidate for Con
gress, thus giving Hon. Claude
Swanson, Democrat, walkover.
The Hon. David B. Hill writes
to the New York Journal that he
knows of many Republicans who are
going to vote for Bryan. 1t IS clear
that Bryan is gaining strength in
New York.
w. j. Bryan has written a manly
letter to the Chicago e. A. II. people
stating that since President McKin-
ley could not attend the encamp
ment he would not give it the APP
pearance Of partisanship bv attend
ing himself.
Mckinley is being dissected. The
Democratic textbook shows many
flaws in bis policies, among them be
ing the scandals of Spanish war
broken promises, bad ralions and the
apotheosls of Eagau. The money
conference pledge has also beer
broken.
1t is said that Republican man
ayers expect to play United States
Minister Conger as Il spleudid card
on the stump. They are talking .oi
the possibilities of getting him here
before the close of the Presidential
campaign, and OF having him glorify
the foreign policy of President
Mckinley's administration.
Mr.. Bryan has steadily driven the
Republicans from post to pillar
until now they are IN the centre OF
the field, hardly knowing which wa,
to turn. Indeed, Mr.. Hanna, in his
Asbury Park speech, virtually con.
fessed that they had lost every point
they had attempted to make in the
game, and their only hope was to buy
Out.-RichmOnd Dispatch.
The fredericksburg Free Lance
recently published a letter from DR.
e. w. LeCato, State Senator from
Accomac, father of the Fisheries bill,
announcing his candidacy for the
Lieutenant Governorship. Quite a
number of papers from other sections
than Underwater have taken up the
matter and are advocating the
Easternshore statesman's claims.
The Republican State Committee
met in Richmond on Monday night
and decided to put up candidates
or support Independent ones in every
District in the State. They
seemed to be sanguine of carrying
the Ninth aud Tenth Districts, with
possibly the Second and Fourth.
There was a marked absence of co.
ored politicians at the committee
meeting.
Another new party has come from
somewhere in the cloud-enshrouded
East and proposes to nominate the
Hon. Grover Cleveland for President
A contest and count between Whar-
ton Barker and Mr.. Cleveland would
be interesting as indicating whether
the Populist or the flopulist vote is
the stronger. Mr.. Cleveland is d
mighty good man and We have moth
ing to say against him, but this is a
bad year for scratch candidates.
Richmond Ae,cS.
1t is mentioned as one of the curl
osities of politics that the Illinois
State Democratic Convention offered
ex-Vice President Adlai L. Steven
son position of alternate to the
Kansas City Convention, which lie
declined. Yet, says the Louisville
COmrier-Journal, "the delegation went
without him, and when he was named
for Vice-President they stood on
their feet and cheered Justify" The
same convention in which he had
been denied a vote promptly gave
him the nomination for the second
place on the ticket.
Magnus II. hess, of Chicago, the
"Original Mckinley Man." who
organized the first Mckinley club in
the United States, and by whose
personal efforts 1900 votes were cast
for the Canton statesman, has Joined
the Bryan ranks. The membership
of the original Mckinley club is still
~ faof apd 80, ,.,.u, ho.e 90 l.