Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-10-14
POLITICAL.

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lSidor Rayner raps Theodor
Roosevelt when the former declare
that the race problem was solving il
self until the President meddled.
William Il. Hearst has come ou
with a strong appeal to Democrats t.
forget ali petty quarrels and supper
the national ticket, which is NOR
likely to serve the best interests O.
the nation than that put up by tn
Republicans.
The highest praise yet bestowed oil
the Barksdale pure election law is tn
announcement that Virginia Demo
cracy will receive no campaign fund
IN the pending presidential contest
The Republicans can't use them il
they receive them.
Fully 100000 women entitled t.
vote at the coming Presidential elec
tlon have been registered in Colorado
wyoming, Utah and Idaho this year
and 1t is admitted by politicians thai
they practically hold the balance OF
power in those States.
The Populists throughout the
country and the Prohibitionists in
most States are combining to aid the
Republicans in the national elect on
Tom Watson, Populist candidate fol
President and renegade Democrat
pronounces doom upon the Demo.
cratic party.
John p. FrenzeD, treasurer Of the
National Gold Standard Committee
of 1896 and 1900, has turned over tc
George Foster Peabody, treasurer of
the Democratic National Committee.
all funds (betw-en$5, 900 and SIC, ,OOOl
in his hands IS treasurer of the Gold
Democrats. This action is looked
upon as equivalent to dissolution
of the GoldDemocratic organization
The Tryinian-PilOt, a supporter
of Governor Montague, says: awe
have no purpose to assail Senator
Martini He has been a faithful
plodder in the harness, so far as we
have sen. If he has neglected the
interests of the State when his atten-
tion vas directed to them. we do not
recall the case. But no man has an
insienable right to office, and, when
all is said, Mr.. Martin is politician
rther than statesman"
The Yazoo City Blade, not having
IA veritable electrotype plate of Judge
Parker, and desiring to print his
picture, substituted that of w. L.
Douglass, the famous shoe manufac-
turer. Harper'S Weekly reprints the
picture with the following comment:
1.-The Judge is not quite as bald as
this, and he wears another type of
scarf. His expression, too, is less
alert and more reflective. However
the picture doubtless will serve its
purposes, and we can perceive no
real basis for complaint from either
gentleman"
General Nelson A. Miles will take
the stump for Judge Parker. He
made this announcement just after a
visit to Chairman Taggart. He said
that he would make several speeches
during the campaign. The General
said ne would dwell at length on two
topics, somewhat to the exclusion of
other topics. One is the attitude of
the United States toward the people
of the Philippines. The other is
to the establishment of a
general army staff, which is one of
President Roosevelt's pet imperialis-
tic schemes.
Republicans are preparing for a
virulent attack on the South. The
cutting down of Southern represen-
tation in Congress is going to be
made an active issue in some of the
close Northern States. EMPLOYEES
of the Republican National Commit
tee are at work compiling statistics
comparing the size of the usual vote
in the Southern States with the pop-
ulation of these States, aud the vote
for varions officers, especially mem
bers of congress in the Southern
States, as compared with the States
In the North.
Chairman Taggart of the Demo
cratic National committee has put
up job upon Congressman Jessie
Over street of Indiana, and the
Democrats are now chuckling over
the way. Mr.. Overstreet is squirm-
ing. Mr.. Overstreet's district has
In it 5000 negro voters. This
year no power on earth could make
them vote other than a Republican
ticket, so Mr.. Taggart has furnished
them with an independent Republi-
can candidate for Congress in the
person of locally prominent colored
man. 1t is predicted that he will
poll 5000 Republican votes. With
this detection, and the postoffice peo-
pie after Mr.. Overstreet, he will have
to work to win.