The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-21

R0ssE|R2' CHANCES
MORE Than BRIGHT
Rumors From the White House
are to This Effect.
PAST RECORDS BEING DUG UP
President is Said 10 ATTACH Importance TO an
Order rom the American Bark Note
Company Case in Which Brown
A!ln Figured.
PASTREC0RDS BEING DUG UP
-lspeelal Dispasch to The TLmss.l

WASHINGTON, ID. G., Jan. 2U.-Ilere
was & gathering of Virginia Repuba-
cans at the Hotel Johnson to-day. Park
4Agaew. j. Hampton noge, Hugh Gordon
Miller and s. Brown Allen being among
tIlo-nlo prominent ones in evidence i'll
the lobby.
Mr. Hogs arrived this morning and.
leaves tonight when asked his opinion
il. regard TO the position OF the ma
chine, he said -lEe thought tho President
felt very friendly toward it, and he saw
saOL a great deal OF opposition to IL
throughout the State. MI. Ioge declares
haus is not 4 candidate for any Federal
Office. '11%ot even. asreeeptioye candidate,
ne added, with a smile, when 1t was sJS-
gested that he, too, might be in the posi-
ton occupied by so many of the Virginia
Republicans CT standing ready to eaten
any plum that might fall.
Mr. AgEaw and Nlr. 1ogc had several
talks together. Mr.. AgneW, always sat
isfied with the present state of things and
optimistic in his view of the future, out
wardsy expressed himself as feeling COM
Portable.
Lugh- Gordon Miller is returning to Nor
folk from q visit to Philadelphia, where
Ia. spoke st a banquet Saturday night.
given in celebration of the sending South
Of the Liberty Bell. The occasion was
a joint reunion Of Confederate and FEEDER
al veterans, General Joseph Wheeler pc
Ing invited 10 speak as a representative
Of the ConfedcrzIcy and NIr. Miller as
Representative Of the new South" Mr.
Miller would have very little 10 say about
the fight for the Federal offices IN inc
Eastern District He acmttted, now
ever, that they were all guessing.
CHANCES FOR ROSSER
RuInors from the White House were
flying about to-day to the effect that Cen
craI RosScr's chances for the marshall
snip of the Western District were more
than bright From Il reliable source
comes the information that If Brown
Allen is not reappOinted it will be because
Roosevelt does not like the odor Of the
case of tho American Bank Note Corn-
pany in which Allen figured when he was
State Auditor. OF course, this was
thrcShed out by the Senate when Aliens
name was first sent III, but ii has been
brought up again by those DESTROYS OF
oustin| him. and it is said that ROose-
welt has attached a good deal OF import
ance to it. Should the strenuous incum-
bent of the office OF Chief Executive of
The nation see tit to dig back, with char
tcriStic force and energy, deep down
into the records of all applicants for Off
ccs. as in this case, there will, it is said,
be serious trouble aiiead for other Vir-
ginians. 1t weuld be strange indeed if
Eds,tr Allan. Who ifhmihdful of the Roa
Inohe convention Of which BroW-l} sei1s
jW5ES chairman By and the iirjuffees tiet1a
j Kim there, is furnishing n great deal Of
the thuuder USED against thepresent mar
sinai Of tho western District, so rllnlor
has it, Should succeed in dcthroning
Brown Alien only to have similar records
dug up and used against him with pos
sible harmful effects
Certain It is that Thorpe and Groner are
already in the arena against the attorney
for the Eastern District. His time for
anxious watching of the White House
but1etin is not SO far off, after all.