Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-08-30
POLITICAL.

nc wiz os canulu1tS Tor the
gubernatorial nomination. If Mr.. Jones
Is candidate. then it is said Harry
st. George Tucker will not aspire. If
Mr.. Jones is not candidate then Mr..
Tucker is in the contest. That makes
just five avowed candidates at this time
and the campaign is more than eigh-
teen months if.-Alex. Gazette.
There is a singular unanimity of
opinion in every Republican leader from
Southern State that visits Washing
ton. They are all for Roosevelt, or
whoever he selects. AS about all the
Republican leaders in the South are
federal officials, whether of the white
or black-and-tan variety, they evidently
feel inseparably bound up with the adj
ministration and have sworn fealtv to
the particular Republican baron who
lords it over them, and he, OF course,
whether it is Taft, or Cortelyou, or
other Department Chiefs, are faithful
retainers of their liege lord, the Presi-
dent. Thus can party feudalism be per-
petuated.
The talk of Mr.. Bryan's friends that
the suggestion by Democrats of a
Southern man for President comes from
Wall Street influence is hardly borne
out by political conditions. The Repub-
leans have always had the support of
the Wall Street element since that
party was able to elect President. In
return the Republican party has legis-
lated IN the interest of the corporations.
There is no prominent Democrat named
as prospective candidate for president,
either from the South or from the
North, that Wall Street could dominate.
Wall Street may not just like President
Roosevelt, but it would take him or
Secretary Taft with avidity rather than
any Democrat that has been seriously
mentioned.
1t is reported that President Roose-
welt, having satisfied himself that Secre-
tary Taft will be the Republican nomi-
nee to the presidency, has turned his
| attention TO naming the Vice-President.
1t is stated on good authority that Gov
ernor Hughes, of New York, has been
selected by the President as running
mate for Secretary Taft. 1t is admit
ted that Taft and Hughes would
make strong ticket. A majority of
the people close to the President believe
he will run again, that he wants to run.
and that he will see to it that conditions
are such that he will be the logical can
didate. Should there be serious trouble
with Japan, it is believed he would re-
gard conditions such as to warrant his
retracting his promise. Others close to
the President hint that he Will be a
candidate again unless he is given a
life Senatorship from New York.
We picked up Sunday paper this
week, and saw at the top of column.
next to pure reading matter" an excel
lent likeness Of the Congressman from
the Ninth Virginia district, Col. C.
Slemp. Above the picture in bold black
type was: 81 took Pe-ru-na with good
Results" Below was flattering test
imonial. saying, among other things:
land can unhesitatingly recommend
your remedy to my friends as an invig-
Grating tonic and an effective and perm
anent cure for catarrh." POUNDS
why in the name of the shades of
Plutarch has the Kernel remained
silent so long? All he would have had
to do just following the Bristol conven-
ton was to arise and say: Gentlemen,
my catarrh was particularly catarrhal
on that day of the convention, and pos
sibly over-zealous use of Pc ru-na invig-
crates me little too much" Or, he
might have used words to that effect.
Washington County Journal.
We heartily approve of the sugges-
ton OF our esteemed contemporary, the
Lynchburg News, that the South take
the leadership in the councils of the
Democratic party, and that Virginia
should take the initiative in this
movement. The News says in part:
"The time has come when suggestions
are IN order as to the best means of as
serting and carrying into effect a pro-
gram by which the Democracy of this
section may demonstrate a firm and un-
yielding purpose to claim in every sense
and IN the fullest sense the right to have
forceful SAY" as to the future of the
national Democratic party, and, while
loyalty ready to bow to the verdict of
the national Democratic convention. vet
no longer willing to do so without hav-
ing made strong insistence that the
views and wishes of its people shall find
Iuil and unfettered expression in the
ma naelonal Democratic plat f o + m.
ms great commonwealth can be the
iirse State In the Union, or among the
very first, to send her Democracy into
the national political arena of 1908 to
snow OF what kind it is, what it stands
Tor, what 1T will fight for-and the
things which it will be instructed to on.
pose. The opportunity should not be
allowed TO pass unheeded. Let Virginia
take the lead!''
We have frequently contended that
the time was ripe for Southern supre-
macy in Democratic affairs, and for the
nomination of a Southern Democrat
Virginia is, of course, logically the
State to take the lead in this matter
and a firm and aggressive stand by the
Old Dominion will not only mean the
enunciation of sound Democratic prin-
clpies IN the platform of the party in
1908, but it will in our opinion mean
that Mr.. Bryan will not be the nominee.