Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-05-12
DOINGS In POLITICS.

~ iaChS teTmlnai 1acllltleS. The
talk about Martin being the candi
date of "ring;" how is it with Mon
tague? His ''ring", is irving to en-
circle the State.!Orange Observer
The Attorney-general holds tha
II any citizen or judge Of election
suspects that any mans poll take
were not personally paid, that is
paid out of his own means. it is
duty to challenge him when he ma,
be examined under oath. In Rich
mond city only $500 voters hav,
qualified to date, about 700 less thar
last year, and the registered vote ther
was very small.
Nobody questions the fact that
Gov. Montague is a man Of ability
but, unfortunately, he has become
aware of that fact, and regards him
self as the only man in the State with
sense enough to fill seat in the
Senate. He talks about the deca.
dence of the Senate. If elected, how
could be associate with such body
he will have to take his stand in
Statuary Hall, where be can com.
mune with the great dead heads OF
the past and waste his oratory on the
desert air.-Orange Observer.
Congressman Glass, of the Sixth
Virginia District, has made public
data which he collected throug hout
the State from the clerks of the sew
eral counties, showing the operation
OF the election laws under the new
Constitution. OF the 301, 200 white
men eligible for registration under
the old law, 276,O00 have registered
under the new. OF the 147,OOO ne
groes of voting age, only 81, 900 have
been able to register under the
present qualifications. These figures,
while showing an unquestioned white
supremacy in the Virginia electorate,
also show a respectable strength for
the negro vote.
Editor Accomac News:-The prob
lem in political arithmetic sub
united by student" of Chinco-
league, in your issue of the Sth inst,
reading: eff, according to report il
took $S0,000 of millionaire Willard s
money to defeat Swanson in 1901,
and elect Montague governor, and
defeat DR.. LeCato and elect himself
lieut.. governor, how much of his
fortune will it now require to defeat
Martin aud make Montague Sen
ator, and to defeat both Swan
son and Mann, and make himself
governor" is thus solved: it would
take his entire fortune ($10,O0O,O0O)
the office mortgaged, and the Gov
ernor's mansion rented. He will
have to join the ranks of Kuropat-
kin, as a great political wave is
sweeping everything to Martin
and Swanson.-Political Calculator,
Cape Charles, Va.
Hon. Claude Swanson is out in a
statement in which he declares for
the adoption of the single list of
school books, but qualities that by
saying that he would not favor an
immediate change from the multiple
to the single list because it might
entail upon parents a great deal of
needless expense. Mr.. Swanson is a
candidate for Governor and his views
upon this all-important question are
necessarily interesting to the Demo
cratic voters of the State. Mr.. Swan
son if elected Governor will be a
member of the State Board of Educa-
tion and will necessarily have to pass
upon the question of single or mul-
tiple list. That he is right in saying
that it might not be we'll to change
from the multiple to the single list
at once is clear, for the reason that
to do so would be to put out of use
all school books adopted under the
multiple system that would not come
within the single list that the State
Board of Education will adopt. This
would probably involve the discard
ing of one-half Of the books in use
in the public schools of Virginia anu
a consequent loss to the parents of
school children.-Norfolk Virginian-
Pilot.
Congressman Flood has PROFOUND.
ed some questions for Governor
Montague to answer, and it seems
now that the Governor is not to have
things all his own way in his attack
upon the record of Senator Martin.
There will be reply from Governor
Montague, followed by another at
tack from Mr.. Flood, and so on, al
most indefinitely, as the campaign
grows warmer. This species of cam
paigning can only result in bitter
feelings, and the Republicans are
watching with pleasure the Demo-
cratic lions tearing each other to
pieces, knowing that if the feeling
between the friends of the different
candidates only grows bitter enough
they will have the best opportunity
they have had in twenty years to
carry the State. 1t makes good
reading to say that those who par
ticipate in a primary are bound to
support the winning candidates,
whoever they may be, but in practice
men can not be made to vote for
nominees who are distasteful to them
and if there is a large number OF
stay-at-homes on election day the
State may fall into the hands of the
Republicans. If a halt is not called
on the present mode of conducting
the campaign for the Democratic
nomination for Senator, the winning
candidate may have the disgust OF
seeing the prize snatched from him
by one of the opposition party
Fredericksburg Journal.
RUBBER OYSTERS.
speaking of OYSTERS" said the
major, "puts me in mind of the time
went into the patent oyster bust
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