Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-11-08

The above is the result OF the con
Sressional election held in Virginia
Tuesday. The Democrats made
clean sweep except In the Ninth Dis
trict. where it appears from almost
comnlete returns that Colonel H..
Campbell Slemp, Of Lee county, the
ReDnblican nominee, has defeated
Copgressman w. II. Rhea, OF Bristol.
for re-election by about 500 ma jority.
Jndpe Rhea claimed the district on
incomplete returns at 9 o'clock by
ZOO Init there is hardly reasonable
doubt that he has fallen outside the
breastworks after two victorious
battles with the late General James
A Walker. The defeat OF Judge
Rhea is something of surprise,
though all the we'll posted Demo-
cratic leaders knew he had q power
ful FIGHT on his hands from the first.
He ran behind his vote OF two years
ago in nearly every county In the
di.trict. as we'll as in his home city Of
Bristol, while Colonel Slemp's vote
was in excess of that of General
Walker in 1900.
The election was an exceptionally
Quiet and orderly one, and there was
no trouble reported anywhere in the
State. 1t was the first held under
the new Constitution, and while the
vote was comparatively light, the
estimated Democratic majority in
the State is over 100000. The result
in the Ninth District makes a break
in the Virginia delegation in Con-
gress for the first time in four years
In the other nine districts the
Democrats had easy victories. The
election was quiet and orderly all
over the State and the barest inter-
est was manifested. What was hith-
erto known sh the "Black Belt"
showed a clear white sheet, May
nard and Southall, Democratic nomi-
pees respectively, in the Second and
Fourth Districts, probably carrying
every county therein.
The negroes were even more
apathetic than the whites and num-
hers of those who had gotten on the
books did not trouble themselves to
20 to the polls. Mr.. Hughes made a
sorry run against Congressman May
nard down in the Second, while Mr..
Southall's independent opponent in
the Fourth cut even less dgure.
Congressman Jones swept the First
District over Mr.. Malcolm A. Coles,
carving every county aud city by
handsome majorities. Mr.. Swanson
had a clear walkover in the Fifth, de-
feating bis Republican opponent, Mr..
B. A. Davis, by an almost cruel ma
jority.
Captain Lambs victory was an
easy one in the Third. He had all
sorts Of opponents, regular and irre>
gular Republicans, independents and
socialists. The vote poIled in Rich
mond was less than 1,O00,the smallest
perhaps in the recent HISTORY OF the
city. But Captain Lamb got nearly
all OF them. The same was true OF
Manchester and the counties. The
result was close ia King William, but
it probably went for the popular
Congressman.
In the Sixth District Mr.. Glass lost
Montgomery to bis chief opponent,
Mr.. Aaron Graham, by narrow
margin, but swept everything else in
sight. The vote in the Sixth, like
that in all the others, was light, but
it was nearly all for Mr.. Glass, out
side of Montgomery county, which
generally goes Republican.
The Seventh and Eighth Districts
returned Messrs. Hay and Rixey by
splendid majorities, the opposition
in neither amounting to anything.
Mr.. Flood made fine run III the
Tenth, carrying every county and
city in the district. Allegheny and
Rockbridge both wheeled into the
Democratic column, the former giv>
ing Mr.. Flood 108 majority, against
200 for Mckinley in 1900. 1t was
this county that encompassed Mr.
Floods defeat in 1895, when it gave
over 900 for Yost, For the first time
in years, every one of Mr.. Floods
westside counties went Democratic,
while Cumberland. always close and
sometimes Republican, gave Flood
about 200 over Colonel James Lyons.
The majorities for the Democratic
nomineer outside of the Ninth Dis
trict range from 5000 to, 1000, and it
is safe to estimate that the State has
given not less than 1000 Democratic
Observation-Disclosures Times.