Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12
CONTESTS FOR CONGRESS
Bone Of Contention in Randolph.
Macon College Fight.
LIVELY SCRAP OVER A DOG
Conflict Between Richmond and the
State Over Death of Canine
Veteran Policeman Retired.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

the south who declined to vote for Bryan
when he was nominated the first time for
the presidency will decline to accept him
this time. The first time it was the free
silver craze that drove them from the
party. The second time it was a COM
bination of things that forced them to
remain away from the ship in which
they had made voyages to success which
brought them from the horrors of the
days Of reconstruction This time it
is because Bryan is Bryan that he is
not to receive the votes of some of the
old element-good men. strong men, but
they are afraid of Bryan. They are ad-
mirers of Roosevelt and his policies,
and they contend that Roosevelt through
Taft, Will again dominate the govern
ment'S policies.
Regardless of the OBJECTIONS from the
democratic party, however. the efforts
of the republicans and the Indifference
OF the democrats who will refuse to
participate in the election. there will be
no trouble in placing the electoral vote
from the Old Dominion long before. the
vote is cast. Virginia will vote for
Bryan and will give him the biggest
vote she has ever polled for him. This
is especially true of the rural districts,
for while Bryan may nave lost pres tige
with some few of his old friends in the
cities he has added more in the coun-
try districts than he could possibly have
lost in the cities.
The nomination of Bryan has been so
long foreshadowed that had the result
been different there would have been
some surprise. His majority in the
convention was larger than was at first
believed to be possible, especially when
the vote in the contested cases was made
known. Democrats who claim to be
possessed of second sight and to be able
e. folI hot mill hn nr1 hat
Bryan has far better show at this
time than he has previously had. They
point to the unrest in the west and mid
die west. to the unsettled labor and
business conditions throughout the cOun-
try and to the general depression en-
velopfng the country at large.
The workingmen and the union work.
ers are to be kept fully informed of the
attitude of Taft and others in the ia
nous Debs case. and the orators are to
lay stress upon the language of the two
platforms in the injunction-plank sec
ton. Time will be wasted on the stump
in Virginia by both parties, for all that
can be done will not result in swerving
the state from the ranks of the solid
south.
Congressional Candidates.
Only two districts in the state have
failed TO name their candidates for Con-
gress-the second and the ninth. The time
is growing short for these. and in the
second district the election is to come off
within a few days. There are four cam
didates for the nomination-Mr. Maynard,
Mr.. Holland Mr.. Young and Mr. Cabell.
Mr. MAYNARD SAYS he is confident of being
returned and each of the other gentlemen
says the same thing. Old party lines are
very much disturbed and confused and
mixed and upset in this contest. The en-
trance fee in this fight is only about $500
for each of the four candidates.
In the ninth district the chances are
that any candidate who will agree to
make the race will be rendered the nom
ination. There the nomination will cost
nothing. Because of the recent gerry
mander of the congressional districts of
the state there is lost to the ninth district
a candidate for Congress who might have
won. That man is Judge James w. Mar
shall of Craig. who has been taken up
and put in the tenth district.
In this connection 1t is interesting to
note that r. Lindsay Gordon of Louisa,
who lost in his fight with Representative
Carlin for the nomination FOR the eighth
district has placed his statement of ex-
penses in the hands of the secretary OF
the commonwealth. 1t shows that he
managed to get rid of s. CTS. Mr.. Carlin' S
statement has not come in as yet but it is
expected that he succeeded in placing
certainly as much as Mr.. Gordon did and
with far better results.
In contrast with this affalr-where one
man has accounted for nearly $4,000 and
the entrance fee of others has been placed
at $3OO-Representative Carter Glass OBJ
tanned the nomination in his district for Il
two-cent stamp, that being the amount OF
postage on the letter which carried his
check for $3.50 to the secretary of the dis
trict committee, which met and declared
him the nominee, no one entering Tor the
nomination. The check was returned to
him with his certificate of nomination.
In this district Cant John Lamb got
through with the same expense account
as Representative Glass. So when one
strikes the average for primary election
expenses in congressional contests it will
be seen that the total expended was small
but it must be borne in mind that the
total was expended by two or three can
didates instead of ten. The absence of
opposition lets off the bulk of the candi-
dates with no expense.
1t tranSpireS that the real fight over
the question of ownership and control of
the Randolph Macon system of colleges is
az to permitting the college to receive
funds from various sources, especially the
Andrew Carnegie foundation fund. The
Carnegie fund is not available for any
school or college in which there is denOm-
national control. The Randolph Macon
system has heretofore been and is de-
nominational school. The old-line Metho-
dists of the state are very much concerned
over the action of the trustees in trying
to wrest from the active control of the
churchs the property which has been the
work of sacrifice and devotion to the
church.
1t is understood that the idea is to al
low the church to have a voice in the
management but the church people are
very much in earnest, and say they Will
decline to make a cent of contributor 10
the system for the future unless the
trustees will abandon the proposition TO
have the college known as other than a
| strictly denominational system for the
education of the sons and daughters OF
| the members of the church. The matter
| Is to come up before the next annual
| conference at Norfolk, and there is NO
| question that it will eventually find Its
way into the courts.
Horse Show Passes Away.
With no definite announcement of the
discontinuance of the horse shows in this
| city it is accepted that this city has seen
| the last of these exhibitions for the next
| two or three years at least. The show
| was a great success for the first severa
! seasons but the last exhibition was MOI
! attended with that measure of nurrah anc
| dazzle that is essential, and the balance
| was such as to make the management,
| think for some time. The officers are
| still thinking. so far as the general public
is concerned The horse show Is to bt
| succeeded by the state fair, which is Il
| have the horse show features, at which
time there will be racing and other event:
! for the entertainment of the visitors
Then, too the people from the rural dis
| tricts will come to the city and make thu
| occasion one of great pleasure and sue
cess But the horse show Is a thing o