Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-07-29

teu OtdNCS.
1t is expected that ex-President
Cleveland will make ut least one
speech for Judge Parker in the cam
paign.
81 shall go en- the stump when the
campaign opens, and will make a
number of speeches." says Senator
Martin. 81 suppose the campaign
will open about the first of Septem-
Der. see Mr.. Ellyson fixes that as
the date"
Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, was
unanimously chosen as the chairman
of the Democratic National Commit
tee ir New York on Monday for the
next four years. His selection came
after renewed and persistent efforts
to get Senator German to accept the
post.
IF you can't win yourself, pitch
in and help the other fellow" is the
policy Mr.. William Randolph Hearst
proposes to pursue. Mr.. Hearst is
not nearly so thin-skinned as lot of
other people who have had their
presidential aspirations thwarted.-
Roanoke Times.
There is no question but that the
Democrats have nominated two good
men. Judge Parker took up col.
lection in the church at Esopus last
Sunday, and Mr.. Henry G. Davis at
tended services at Elkins in church
he himself had built.-Staunton
Spectator.
At Kinsale, Westmoreland county,
on July 18th, Hon. John II. Dospas-
SOS, Oh New York, delivered a pub
lie address in which he paid high
tribute to National Democratic
ticket-Parker and Davis. He was
introduced by Hon. w. A. Jones.
Both gentlemen were warmly APP
plauded by their auditors.
There is no reason to doubt that
the mass of the gold Democrats in
tend to rejoin their party as soon as
it renders their utilization with it
agreeable. Mr.. Roosevelt who is not
lost to appreciation of the Difficult
ties that beset him, is naturally eager
to prevent their return, and in this
fact may be found the reason for his
appointment of gold Democrat to
a place in his Cabinet. 1t is, how
ever, quite likely that he will find
the gold Democrats not the sort of
men to be caught with bait of this
kind.
A report comes from Washington,
with assurances that it is trustworthy,
that Mr.. Roosevelt has declared his
"intention to settle the race question
in the South if he is elected in No
vember." Since we are given to
understand that this signifies the
setting of the seal of approval form
ally upon the negro plank of the
Chicago platform, it really commits
him to an attempt to unsettle the
race question. But politically that
question at the South has been
settled. and Mr.. Roosevelt cannot
unsettle it, so far as bringing back
the old order is concerned.
1t is plain to see that the Republi-
cans are sadly disappointed at the
harmony in the Democratic party
and the unanimity with which the
ticket has been endorsed by all fac
tons of the party. 1t 10 true the
nominations have not changed the
views of the Democrats on some Ques-
tions, and those differences will con-
tinue to exist, but it has harmonized
all factions of the party in hearty
support OF their nominees. Differ
ences will exist in parties sometimes,
but it is patriotic to lay them aside,
to take up and carry forward matters
of greater concern &c the country. |
Free Lance.
The action of the Union League
Club members, of New York city,
one of the Rockefellers among others,
in refusing to serve upon the Roose-
velt campaign committee is one of |
the most significant incidents of the
campaign so far. The Union
League Club is the most anbstantial
and. important Republican club in
the United States. 1t numbers
among its members the wealthiest
Republicans in New York and is
always looked to for large part of
the party's campaign funds. And
now comes the announcement that
men in the club who represent the
country's largest financial interests
have refused to serve on the campaign
committee, which means that they
will not contribute to the campaign
barrel. Nor is this all. John n. |
Rockefeller is said to make no bones
about the expression of his hostility
to Mr.. Roosevelt.
If present indications count for
anything, Hon. Andrew Jackson
Montague bids fair to follow in the
wake of all of Virginia's past Cover.
nors and retire to private life at the
expiration OF his term of office. At
least, this ia an almost certainty, if |
the Governor is depending on defeat.
ing Hon. Thos. Is. Martin ip order TO |
give him longer tenure of public
ofiice. The fact of the business is |
that Montague shot his bolt when he |
threw dust into the peoples eyes and |
defeated Swanson on that anti
machine cry. The Democrats of
Virginia were not long in realizing
that they had made possible the
election of man, who, while decry-
ing the politician in other men, is
nothing more nor less than polite
ian himself, and vino had hardly
seated himself securely in the Gov
ernor's chair before his plans were
maturing for election to the U. S. Sen
ate. Montague after making the State