The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-03
VICTORY CERTAIN
ON EVE OF BATTLE
Democrats Will Sweep
the City on Tuesday.
MADE A GREAT FIGHT.
Hopes of the Republicans Have All
Vanished.
HAVE FAILED AT EVERY POINT.
Deuocratlc leaders United and the Rank and
File In Line-C Chairman Doher,y Issues
Splendid Appeal Captain VIII
lard to Speak Here. To-
Morrow Night-Cam-
paign Notes.
A GREAT FIGHT.
HAVE FAILED AT EVERY POINT.

paign Notes.
On the eve of battle. it looks like a
safe prediction that Andrew Jackson
Montagu of Danvilie; Joseph E. Willard.
of Fairfax, and William a. Anderson. OF 4
Rockbridge, will be chosen ON Tuesday
next to the offices of Governor, Lteuten-
ant-Governor,s and Attorney General, for
which they were respectively nominated
by the Democratic Convention at Norfolk !
last summer, by about $1,000 majority,
over their Republican opponents. -Messrs. /
Hoge, Dickinson and Groner, and that
their, party will be again in safe control
OF both branches of the General Assembly,. |
With the splendid work of yesterday
and last night one of the hottest ants
most interesting, campaigns ver@foughr
In Virginia was practically brought to
close.
Tomorrow will be devoted largely to
work relating to the getting out of the
vote on Tuesday, which is the day ap-
poinetd by law for the great battle OF
the ballots. a few speeches VIII be-
made by leading orators tomorrow and
tomorrow night, but the greater portion
of the tale has been told from the stump.
and now one grand, supreme effort will
be made by. all hands to get the vote out.
so that the sweeping Democratic triumph
which has been predicted by the leaders
may not fail to be Forthcoming on Tues
day.
WILL WIND III uP.ss
Mr.. Montague. will close up hisaspeag-
ing tour at Gloucester c. Fl. Tomorrow.
aNr-.y
tomorrow night. while Major Anderson
will make his last speech tomorrow IN
his home town of Lexington.
Senator Martin will close the campaign
in Charlottesville, and Mr.. Swanson Will
speak in Alexandria tomorrow night
Some other prominent appointments for
the final day of the struggle are as fol-
lows: Senator Barksdale, at Rocky
Mount; Hon. S. L. Kelley, at S2otsyi
vania; Hon. F. r. Lassiter. at k,mporia.
Hon. H. D. Flood. at Lexington: Hon.
James Hay, at Charlottesville: Hon. j.
L. Jeffries, at Isle of Wight; Hon. Eppa
Hunton. Jr., at Prince William, and .JudSs
Samuel W. Williams. Pulaski.
There are some minor appointments an
nounced for different sections of the
State. but most of them are for local
county points.
Tomorrow will be a day of much busl-
ness with the politicians all over the
State Chairman Ellyson's work is prac-
ticalIy ended ard he has surely done &c
well. 1 is now ..up to- the local leaders
to get the vote out, and conferences will
be held in nearly every precinct in the
State, at which local chairman will give
final Instructions to their lieutenants.
THE SIZE OF THE; VOTE
II indications are worth anything. a
large vote will be rolied, for never have
the Democrats waged such Il hot can
vass since 1855, when. under the splendid
lead of the gallant Fftz Lee. they suc-
ceeded in overthrowng Readjusterism in
the State; and rarely if ever before have
their efforts to stir the voters been at
tended with so much apparent success.
There was apathy and plenty of it all
over the State at one time, but for tho
past thirty days it has been steadily dis
appearing under heavy fire from the
stump, and it is the judgment OF good
leaders that a large vote will be polIed
and that, except for some spots here and
there-notably the southwest--the party
is in as good shape as it usually is on
the eve of a State election.
The Democratic leaders have waged an
exceptionally attractive canvass. and
their abIest and most powerful stump ora
tors have preached the doctrines of De-
moeracy with wonderful effect from Har-
per's Ferry to Cumberland Gap for the
past thirty days. AL wings OF the party
have torped together aud every element
has come forward to do duty at the Cruz
cial time for the gallant standard bear
ers OF the Norfolk Convention.
REPUBLICANS DISAPPOINTED.
The Republicans banked their hopes OF
carrying. the State on three.issues all of
which have fallen to the earth and in the
final days OF the struggle they are t.oHr-
dering in an effort to find some Vulnerable
spot in the Democratic arnler. against
which, up to this time, they have Gathered
apparently in vain.
Their first mo.e was in their State Con-
vention at Roanoke to throw the negro
overheard and to inausurate ssliiy
white campaign. But the, negro would
not down. and it came To pass III tho
course of events tfat Mr.. Hogc had negro
orators speaking for him on the stump
and declaring that they thanked God
that at last a President of the United
States had been given the country By the
Republican party whc would have a negro
to dine with him in the White House.
A negro uttered this sentiment frenl the
stump in Amelia. ane. in the mex, breath
appealed to MS hearers to stand by Col-s
onel Hoge. the nominee of his party
And so departed the lily white issue
which had been raised TO catch the un-
wary oa Colonel Hoge's color.
The next great issue was Democratic
discord. and that. too. vanished like the
miSts before the morning sun. for add
ed to the splendid harmony which pre-
vailed at Norfolk. Swanson Jeffr.es E.ch-
OILS. Marshall. lie Cato. Parks Williams
Robertson and the rest of the gallant
leaders who had faiiet. to secure the hon
ors they sought. formed regiments OF
their devoted followers and threw them
into the thickest of the fight for Sfonta-
que. Willard and Anderson. and shut the
mouths cc their Republican opponents at
once as to divisions in the Democratic
ranks.
THIRD AND LAST HOPE.
Falling to feast extrava ga ltiv on the
two would-be issues referred to atoYe.
Continued on Third Paga.l