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sTiie Two Regimes Are Similar
and Conditions Point to IL
Like Results. is5
DISSATISFIED RE PUB LlCANsI
The Democrats Are United and
Determined and nd Have we. Fine III,
4, 5.53. Material. 81
DISSATISFIED REL Re EPUBLlcANs
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MARION, III VA, y July IA There are
those 6 who prophesy that the signal
failure OF the popular Tennessee Con
sgressnar. Walter r. BroWnlow, In the
councils OF his party will very soon have
Its parallel In the overthrow OF tho Slen1p
regime III Virginia.
S$ The recent overthrow OF the easy boss
$of Tennessee Republicans, and the cons
8ditions leading up ito y his downfall after
{ q long. career as q dispenser Of Federal
5to8 some extent an insight Into the state,
Of AFFAIRS now prevailing in the Ninth
Virginia District, where Congressman
Campbell Sletnp has 4 for two successive
terms held the relns OF party power The
ability to hand II out the gifts resulting
from party supremacy in the Federal
/ government x would u seem to be-. o. dan
Bgerous thing even IA In ii the hands OF
tBrowniow. who Es L. past master IN the the
directing OF machine me nods. s 51i3 *
e TO the causual observer at the recent
Marion vention which nominated 7. Mr. +:
8slemp to make the race for third term
IN Congress 4 the cut-and-dried 3naAure OF
the proceedings was apparent, and the
convention was marked by the x absence
Of lifelong Republican, who have here
stofore Been to @the front In every contest
III, THE district. The convention was %un-
gdoubtedly harmonious. but whether sin-
scerely SO SorS no remains to be seen. Ger
tain It is that the element which might
Z have tended to the stirring up Of the
spirit Of discord was for the most part
Conspicuous by 8 It's absence, and what
part III Nj element will play In 4 the ap-
fproac hing election cannot be foretold. 8f
the Congressman has used his po-
Bsition OF Virginia spie -distri butter as Judi
scIously3 as possible for his own interests
In the political battle-ground OF the State
! was "a clearly vi shown in 81 the convention,
where ID his friends were apparently Il nu-
fmerous and enthusiast In his support,
but the simpoa sibllity or satistying every
body leads Sto the already acknowled edged
fact 5 that 81 there are those In his Il own
party, and In no small number. who have
their political knives whetted for the.
sdestrlcu lon Of the man from the Cum M
aberland I ia
81 far9 az can be determined then the
81 esen { sta tus, OF the Republ ican candi-Y
date seems to be X his: By virtue OF his
service for two successive terms in Con-
gress and the power in his hands as the
sole Repu blican representa- tive from the
State. he has gathered about him q cote
RE of Fed eralg of1ceh holt ers, suppl menteds
by those members OF his party who are
Republican. ana upon these, BY the use
or ma lline met hods. he relies for the
control or the large army OF Ind viduall
voters A. who alone can direct the pol It'll
cal tide. IN the district 5ii a sS3.
II III e IA eantime he has done little or
nothing to- commend him to the an lection
81 support OF these indiv dual ters,y who
are without office or the hope Of Federal
reward 4 and to whom he must look for