Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-28
". J. BRYAN'S MATE
Virqinia Politicians Interested
Now in Denver.
BOOM FOR w. G. CONRAD
Order for Coal Cars Enthuses Rich
mond Business Men.
NOTED NEGRO IS VERY ILL
Four-Cornered Fight for Congress.
Demand for High Schools-At-
lacking Judge Mann-Notes.
BOOM FOR W. G. CONRAD
NOTED NEGRO IS VERY ILL
SneciaI Corrcspondence of The Star.


The naming of a running mate for Will
liam Jennings Bryan is engaging the at
tention of the politicians in this section
True the state of Virginia is away at the
bottom of the list and she may not have
a vote in making the selection, but the fell
lows with political aspirations are alert
and moving heaven and earth to have the
right man nominated. Whether the right
man" is taken to mean the man who has
the barrel and the disposition to knock
the head in is not known. but they are
all trying to pick the right man. There
is sort of boom on for w G.. Conrad
of Montana Washington city and Vir-
ginia. He is being touted as all sorts
of a great and wise and sagacious and
influential and wealthy mantle kind of
man who can do the hOnOrs and pay the
bills. A great many lean toward Lieut..
Gov Chanler of New York for the nomi-
nation
There are some of the Virginia dele
gates who not averSe to seeing SEN
ator John W. Daniel of Virginia named
for the position of Vice President. 1t is
not known if Senator Daniel will accept
the honor, however. He may prefer to
remain in the Senate, which position he
will hold as long he lives, or until
there is political revolution in the Old
Dominion
1t is settled that Senator Daniel will
go to the committee platform when
the Denver convention gets down to
work. and it is believed by many that
he will be the chairman of that commit
tee Senator Martin is said to be slated
Tor the committee on credentials. and if
there are any tangled contests to
straighten out he will be the man to get
at the bottom OF the facts in a few
minutes
welcome News for Business Men.
The announcement that the Norfolk
and Western had received orders from
the coal mining companies for one thou
sand cars a day, beginning July l. was
about the most welcome news the city
has received for a long time This is
taken 10 mean that business in all lines
Will open up at early date, for with
the demand for coal there follows a gen.
eral resumption Of business in practically
all lines. The placing of these cars in
position to be loaded will put to work
several hundred trainmen of the Norfolk
and Western who have been idle since
the panic set in last fall These cars are
scattered along the line of the railroad
from Norfolk to the coal fields a dis
lance of some four hundred miles The
sidetracks for long distances are filed
With them. and at one point in Bedford
county. where the grade has been
changed and the Old road abandoned for
trains. there are four tracks which can
be seen for a distance of several miles
and the empty cars are banked there to
the limit of the tracks. The assembling
of empty box cars a the Norfolk end is
take- to mean that heavy shipments of
merchandise are expected soon. The be-
lief IS that the Chesapeake and Ohio will
soon begin the moving of the miles of
idle sondolas between this city and New
port News.
President John H Smyth. the head of
the negro reformatory. located in Han
over county. is critically i'll in this city,
where he has been brought for treatment
He is believed to be suffering from
Bright's disease. President Smith is one
of the most distinguished negroes in
America. He was minister to Liberia
under President Cleveland and is one of
the very highest types of the old Virginia
negro. He is Well educated and with the
polish of elegant training he combines
the dignity, the ease. the grace and the
manners of the negro of -bellum
days. No man stands higher in the esti-
nation OF the whites of this city than
President Smyth. The board managing
the negro reformatory is composed of
bankers lawyers, doctors. business men,
preachers. The president entertains them
when they go to the reformatOry TO hold
meetings. He boasts that there is no
social equality in the reformatory. He
gives the members good dinners and the
inmates of the place the walters. He
has his meals in another room His con-
duct of the place has been marked with
signal ability.
Bank Cashiers Indicted
E. W. Overbey. former cashier of the
Bank of Meckenburg and ]. Haskins
cashier of a branch bank which became
involved several months ago. are to stand
trial for their connection with the condi-