The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-07
MIR GAINES
MAY A ! LOSE Sc
Fight Over Woman a May. x. Cost '::'
Congress ma an I His H $. Seat.
AT REQUEST Of GRANT /.
AT REQUEST OF (, j I! GRANT + 4. I |
She is al First Cousin Of the General
!; and West Virginia Representative
Refuses to r Recommend That the
Postofflce Be Taken from Her
The Times Dispatch Bureau.
No, E1417 6 Street, N. Nv,
washington, D. O., April Stu.

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A fight over a woman who is q post
master, and that woman a first cousin
OF General U.s s.. Grant. may have se-ii--
GUS results In a political II way. sS in the
Third West Virginia District. It may
cause a change OF Congressman IN tho
district ana may even DO a factor in the
fight for tho seat OF Hon. n. 3. Scott
In tho United States Senate, RI
Fiji During the first term. or may be the
second. Of General Grant, tho daug hter
Of HIS father brother Roswell Grant,
who was a we'll known man in Kanawha
county. w. Va, applied for tho postmas-
)tershIp OF ST., Albnns, o small town i on
the kannwha8 River, q fow miles west
/ OF Charleston. The lady. Mrs BALD win,
was In needy ciroumstnn noes, and instead
OF asking aid OF her eminent cousin,
simply asked him IL to help her get tho
helped her may be imagined from the
fact that. the entry of hor appointment,
made In the records OF the Postoflce De-
partmont, stat o, Appointed at the ro-.
quest of President Grant" sss .t55S
Mrs. Baldwin has held 4 the position
through every adm nistration since that
time. Mr.. Cleveland had two ohancos to
SO. But here latterly there hns been a
determined effort made to got rid OF Mrs.
Baldwin, and use the oftlce lna reWard1ng
an active party worker, @ "A group OF
3IIanawha county politicians 8 have set
themselves to have the office for one ot
their number and tremendous pressure
has been brought to bear on Hon, Joseph
Holt Gaines, member OF. Congress- from
the Third Y District. & to induce him TO
recommend the lady,s dismissal This
Gaines has stendfnstly refused to do
"and still refuses as the lawyers say,
AS a result, there Is bitter feeling against;
him In Kanawha county on the part Of
some OF the Republican politicians. and
II Gaines Is defeated for a. denomination
1t Will be probably due more to his res
fusal to recommend the oust!ng Of q
woman from Office than to any other one
thing. But those who know him best
say no VIII not recede from HIS position.
MAY RUN FOR SEN ATE
There is talk Of running Gaines for the.
United States Senate to succeed Senator
Scott. Caldwell, a millionaire, OF Hunting
ton, Is SCOTS most formidable compe-
titor, apparently; but he Is not at all
satisfactory to q large portion OF the
people who are opposed to Soott,81 have
heard 1t whispered that an arrangement
might be made whereby Gaines would
be substituted for Caldwell and W. sey-
mour lJdWarda ne eeoteo 70 congress 20
succeed Gaines Edwards has always ops
posed the nomination Of Gainea and, in
fact, OF every other man except hlmsef., He
ia soemthlng OF a freak in politics, A few
people outside Of tho district know Of
him as college mate OF Roosevelt, But
ali over the district he is known ms a Joke
which never grows stale. EIetwould make
a picturesque ngressman-a Ham Lewis
with the brains left out,
VIRGINIA GIRL MISSING, 81
f. The police OF this city have been asked
to look out for Miss Minnie Reedy. who
disappeared from this city ABOUT twenty,
years old, aud her homo Is at Timber
wills va, She WAS employed at No, 42s
q Street, N. w, from where she Is re-
ported to have disappeared, The parents
With the Rev. s, p. Togle, of No. 29O5 N
Street, concerning her whereabouts
a slght-seelng party Which arrived In