The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-02
WANT Of CONCORD
APPROACHES. c 1 ROW. !
Absence of State Repub-
lICan Unity Alarms
Party in Virginia
ACCOUNT OF NINTH
DISTRICT AVARICE
Members of the G. o. P. Without
the Precincts Of Col. Slemp's
District Charge That
Only a Few Crumbs
Arc Given.
Them.
Prom Our ReguIar corrcspondent.l

Qron, Our Regular Corrcspondent)
WASHINGTON. d. c., February L.
The general public may not care. but 1t
is certain that 1T does not know there
lis such row now In progress in the
ranks OF tile Republican party OF yir-
gInin that the harmony of tho organiza-
tion Is not only serioiisly threatened. but
TX already practically destroyed. AS is
us,ial with rows In the party In the
southern states, the present trouble Is
Tie result of the dIspensation of patron
age. It Is charged by the Republicans
OF the other nine districts OF the state
that tho Ninth. which Is Mr.. Slemp's, is
being shown a partially in the distribu-
ticn of Federal plums which is out
iagcous," to use the term employed by
q Virginia Republican in discussing the
situation to-day. Mr.. Slemp's primary
idea in tho distribution of patronage is
said TO be to upbuild the organization
4, tho Ninth District. and in this way
make certain his retention in Congress.
lie has done this In every manner pos
siblc. and there are signs that he viii
strengthen IL still further.
Sinecure for Summers.
Tho colonel gave the Ninth District
machine Il powerful prop when he had
Mr.. Lewis Summers, of Abingdon, ap-
pointed collector of internal revenue for
the Alexandria District, displacing Park
a;ncw. OF that city, who was the chair
man of the State organization. 1t was
a death blow to -ABnew, one of the
eieanest men in the Republican party in
Nirstnia, and ne has retired from poll
ties for good and all. his friends say.
Mr.. Slemp then went 10 work and had
the office OF the collector removed from
Alexandria to Abingdon. The Office was,
established at Alexandria. because OF
the proximity OF the latter place to
Washington. An attempt to have 1t To-
Gated In LynchburG. which Is within II
few hours of Washington. and in nearly
the exact center of the district, was met
by Secretary Shaw with the argument
that there WAS not sufficient room in
the public building at Lynchburg which
could be placed at the disposal Of the
collector. Az a matter OF fact the space
available for the offices In the Lynch
burg building Is said to be about twice
US great as that in the lulldlng at Abing-
uun. But, with the Offices at tho latter
point Collector Summers lis able to con.
tinue the practice of law at home. with
the collectorship as something of a side
Issue. Mr.. Summers has an exceeding
ly good thing of it.. and there is little
wonder that the Republicans OF the other
districts should be looking at the Ninth
District Republicans with envious eyes.
Tho clerks employed In the Office of the
collector. IL Is charged. are mainly from
the Nihth District.
Tho rnarshalship of the Western Dis
trict OF Virginia Is held by Colonel s..
n Let, rI,I,
district attorneyship is held by 4. Lee
Moore OF Montgomery county, who lives
a few miles outside the Ninth District,
III the sixth. But the assistant attorney
ship is held by Mr.. Blair, who lives at
WStheville. III the Ninth District
Up Against Royal Flush.
The Ninth District Republicans are
now making desperate efforts to capture
the marshalship from the Tenth District.
man. Colonel Allen Is putting up the fight
or his life to retain it. but there are
strong odds against him. The friends
OF State Senator Noel, who claim that
victory is certain, assert that they have
the backing OF Representative Slemp. and
that this settles It, But Mr.. Allen and
his friends know that back of all this
row there is an old agreement between
Colonel Allen and the representative,
through which the Ninth District repre-
State organization. The Yosts and Coll
onel Allen have been fighting each other
for years In the Tenth District. In re-
return for recognition by Colonel Slemp,
Colonel Allen supported him in his strug-
gle for the control of the organization,
and this turned the tide against the fol-
lowers Of Mr.. George Z. Bowden. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether Colonel Allen
VIII succeed in impresslng on the Ninth
District wit Il Snf al ,buc ciS
tho fact that the Allenite faction is
stronger than the Yostites In tho Tenth
= District. Possibly. Colonel Slemp himself
does not know which is tile stronger. He
claims he has not endorsed Mr. Noel
and Mr. Noel's friends claim lie has. Take
your choice. 8
Bird in the Hand, Etc.
The charge that everything is going
to The Ninth District Republicans those
days is met BY the assertion of the Ninth
District people that tile other faction has
shown u readiness to allow more to go
to the district il thereby they could hold
on to what they already have. It is
claimed that Colonel Allen offered to ap-
point two Ninth District men to deputies
places under him, II he We're renppolnted
marshal, 1t Is also asserted that when
: the change In the Office of the collector
ship Of the internal revenue ut Richmond
was under consideration a fcw months
ago, tho advocate of Il Richmond man for
Tho place offered to assure Colonel Slemp,
that one or two of the clerks in the Of
lce should be Ninth District Republicans,
y But Mr., Lowry, a First District man. was
appointed, and there was no occasion for.
appointing Ninth District man under
dim.
Colonel Asa Rogers whom Mr. LoWry
displaced as collector, Is well out OF the
hess He says he Us glad he Is not both
\ sred any Imore hy tho ups and downs of
politics, and it is reported that he has
recently made snhg sun, through real
sstate Investment on Nhe line Of tho elec-
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