The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-20
WILL NAME REGISTER fiII
Il. AND CIRCUIT JUDGE
Tic Most Interesting Contests
6of This Session to@EngageH
tcntion Of This CaucusI
suit ITnccrtaill Congress III
man Glass on Norfolk
County Situation.


register Of the land Office and for judge
of the Fourteenth Circuit. While not CALI
cd for that purpose, It is Inevitable that
the question Of tho right Of Messrs.
Owens and Parker, members Of tho
House for Norfolk county. to sit In tho
& caucus will come up s5s3 EI.ss. yI;9S
Tho contests for the two officers to fbe
nominated arc hot enough b.; indeed. both
are as close as It. Isl possible Tor such
struggles to be-but, the Norfolk county
8snarl promises to- be tho subject oftchiefS
contention. and to provoke I he flercest3
fight Of tho evening. n if the alter Is n
taken up pAat sallss AT tho meeting Of the;
5tca,,cus a week ago ~ e will be remnrn-#
:.bered, Colonel s stewart opened the spro--SA eo,-S
&ceedings with q proposlt tion to exclude the
two Fusion m EN- bersa Of the House from
participation In The ga ucus on the ground
that they are }no t Detno ara ts. In Yiiig$
run against the reg ularly on,inat ted, canrs
Eddates OF u the Democratic patty. l1i.
Thomas, OF Lynchburg, offered a substi-a
#tute proposition looking 6 \. to IL he settle
tment OF the perpetual political ;feld but
sithe caucus was unwilling to SO into@thc5 4
matter, and a motion to table both sreso-s
%lutlons prevailed without even O recorded
vote The standing vote wa sixty odd 5tcs
thirty. 8s /; ii sfy u 5!i ay Il iSIE Il HILL #
To Fight Their Admission.
Tonight there is every reason to ex-
pect a renewal of the resolution to eX-
clude the two Norfolk county members.
ant, in that event more stubborn battle
over the question. Since last Wednes-
day the newspapers have been full or
thu Norfolk county situation and the
members Of the two rival factions Pc 2,
tween whom such bitter wa rfare u has
long been waged have been hard satS
work pressing the case upon The atteN-s
ton of the members of both houses.
There are some who oppose going inltn,S
the factionnl quarrel but whether these
5arc sufficiently numerous to again table
the, proposition, cannot be forecast 7. Clrl-
Gus care nothing whatever Is to y thsi&
merits of the quarrel; they simply object &
To II long and bitter controversy betnH
settled in the caucus and do not care
TO have to sit through II \, d,
n The agitation by the press and by tbs 4
advocates i OF the regularity OF tho
Stinightout faction during tho week thae
! has interviewed since the caucus has ull-@
itGoubtedly had some effect, and many
have been aroused to an interest In tho
struggle thoy did not feel before. Both
Sides have been active In their effort
TO convince the members Of the jusf'caE
of their claims. The fusion champions
have pointed to the precedent OF tho
Stands case In which that member js
fthc Senate, though having run gainss
Colonel Boykin, who hnd the STAMP .oE:5
regularity, was recognized as the right
2ful occupant OF the seat. They charsa "
that NIr Glass has, reversed himseit ~ 3 FL
advocating Mr., Stands right 70 SIT Il
the caucus then and In Opposing ing
right Of Messrs. Owens and Parker "a ~ M
seats in the party council
Both Sides Working Hard.
Mr.. Hugh Johnston, editor Of the
straightout organ, the Norfolk county
Democrat. and Colonel George c. Cabell.
counsel for that faction, nave neem n,,'.. ~ ~
city practically ali the week enueaSorlns
10 infuence the members to exclude the +
iF,,sIonists. On tho other hand. Nlessrs'
Parker and Owens themselves have u
stronr nersonal following and consider y
oh,e influence. AR, Parker, the new 5
member especially has irnpressed mo
caucus with his Willingness % pe tain. t
bv The urriva, in the city Of Sheriff Nc,
Cromwell and Mr., r. II. Bagby. the !ast Al
named an attorney representing the nv
sion wing ,o,t,o,,
Few other adherents OF either faction &
have come in yet, but manY VIII prop, &
nbly be here to-day In the effort 70 mould
sentiment in favor OF one or tlss otfer
views The question is the burning lssue.
and is going to provoke u bitter strusae +
if taken up this evening
The Two Contests.
The situation IN the jndgeshlp and the
Register of the Land Office contests has y
already bcen fully stated, when u y saln 8
that both are as close as they could wei'Ss
be apparently, Each candidate ~ eact,
eontestfis claiming victory, but neither. ~ "A
as certain MS he would lik,e to be 'Thc Z
friends az Alr. Richardson, Register of
Tia Land Once. would probably have
won had the election been pulled on
Week ago. a strenuous light fof aatloiv
was made then, but the advocates of
reinforcement Won, With that Victory
the opponents Of the incumbent were b
greatly ENCOURAGED and two or three 81
days it Vas predicted that colones Nems
ho,,ss wo.Id win. Since then the friends 4
Of Mr.. richardson have exer.ed poWerfnl
influence ana energy In the effort q, q Wy
him frow 3ssasst aud as 9 Fesut's \ p's ~