Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-09-12
POLITICAL.

w hss viz DSmOSiotiC parry uceQo
is a Joshua who will lead it into
the Promised Land. It has already
Moseyed out of the Wilderness
Memphis Commercial. Appeal.
Why doesn't the Republican cam
paign book mention the full dinner
pail Perhaps they omitted that on
account of so many strikes all over
the country.--Freclericks5Hrq Star.
The action of the defeated candi-
dates in the Second District is dis
tinctly handsome and illustrates the
old political maxim that the men
who make the hottest fights are the
most loyal friends when the fighting
is over.-Richmond NetcS.
Rev. w. f. Graham, colored
pastor in Richmond, Is urging his
race to let politics alone and to cease
taking steps to test the legality of
the new Constitution. lie advises
the colored people to fit themselves
for industrial and commercial posi-
tions.-Peninsala Enterprise.
There is statement going the
rounds of the Republican press to
the effect that the farmers of the
country make larger percentage of
income on the amount invested than
does the steel trust, and the Charles
ton wv. Va.) Gazette is not miles
from the truth when it characterizes
the statement as u campaign lie."
According to orders from President
Roosevelt Virginia Republicans will
make nominations in most of the
Congressional Districts. They will
fight without hope, however, as they
do not expect to win in a single dis
trict. So far the new registration
indicates that only about one-tenth
of the negroes are registering and
about half of the whites.
Efforts are being made by in
terested parties to have the President
call an extra session of Congress,
but they had just as we'll stop these
efforts for they will be in vain. Mr..
Roosevelt is very anxious that his
party shall carry the next House and
fears to risk session before the next
election lest the Republicans commit
grave errors both of commission and
omission.-Ale1andria Gazette.
The Charlottesville Progress is not
only unopposed to the upbuilding of
respectable" Republican party in
the South, but it earnestly desires
such consummation, now that the
negro has been eliminated as voter.
The Progress says: "No party is
wholly good; no party is wholly bad.
The simple preponderance of good or
evil is the line of demarcation, and
hence the acute competition which
draws forth the good OF each and
rejects the evil of each is the best
blessing possible for the public"
The primary plan of choosing can
didates is apparently fixity in Vir-
ginia Democratic ranks, until, at
least, the people weary of it. 1t has,
however, not been met with the gush
of popular adulation the originators
of the plan hoped for. 1t has been
praised by those who have won under
it, abused by those who have lost
and treated with natural indifference
by the rest of mankind. The heavy
expense of useless campaign which
it involves, will deter many aspiring
candidates from entering politics,
thus leaving a clean field to those
already among the elect. The peo-
pie of the state voted for a new Con
stitntion, in order, partly, to abolish
one elections a year, but the politicians
could not be satisfied until they had
provided another to take it's place.
Eastern Shore Herald.
1t is an open secret that the cam.
paign for the United States Senate IL
succeed Senator Thomas S. Martin,
whose second term expires March
4th, 1907, and whose successor will
be elected by the Legislature chosen
in 1905 and prior thereto, is already
begun. For a long time it has been
thought Governor Montague, even
before election to the Governorship
aspired to seat in the upper House
| of the Federal Congress, and it has