Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-07-29
Acknowledgement Anderson to
Retire from Politics

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Anderson t.
Retire from Politics
The Richmond Times-Disp atcl
of last Sunday says:
MAJOR VIM. A. Anderson, famil
iarly known in political circles al
the ELAINE Lion from Lexington,
will not be a candidate for renom
ination to the office of Attorney
General in the Democratic pri-
mary next year. Major Anderson
who is now spending his vacation
at his home in Lexington, sent an
announcement 70 this effect to the
Tlmes-Dispatch yesterday. His
friends HAD been pressing him for
a decision in the matter for some
months and be told representa-
tive of this paper before leaving
the city that ne would come to an
early conclusion after arriving at
his home, and would at once make
his announcement to the people
through the columns of The Times
Dispatch. Major Anderson has
not only made strong and faith
full Attorney General, but he has
behind him most distinguished
record as lawyer, soldier ano
statesman. AS an ee dence of his
devotion to Virginia and the South
during the Civil War, he bears
wounds which resulted in gripping
him for life, and his record at the
bar has been distinguished.
He served in the Legislature in
the stormy days when strong men
we're needed to solve the perplex-
ing questions arising out Of the
war and later helped to frame the
present State Constitution. Major
Anderson was elected Attorney
General about seven years ago, on
the ticket with Governor Monta-
que, after sharp contest for the
nomination with former Senator
John l.. Jeffries, then of Culpep-
err, but now of Norfolk. Three
years ago he was opposed by
Judge S. w. Williams of Wythe,
but won out with comparative
ease.
Major Anderson's reasons for not
standing for reelection next year
are clearly set out in the following
statement:
after careful consideration, l
have decided not to be a candidate
for election a third time to the Off
ice | now hold.
81 gratefully appreciate the
kind confederation which | have
received from the people of Vir-
ginia in connection with the dis
charge of the duties Of the office
during the past seven rather event.
full years, and the generous as
surances of continued confidence
and renewed support which have
come to me from every quart
er of the State.
cit may be fairly assumed that
most of the important cases in
which | have been called upon to
the State not alre ady de-
clded will have been disposed of
before February 1, 1910, when my
present term of office will end.
every effort is being made to
bring the suit with West Virginia
to a close at the earliest practicable
moment, and it is to be hoped that
a satisfactory end of that very i'm
portant litigation Will have been
reached before that date.
However this may be, after
eight or nine years of continuous
public service in the Constitution
al Convention and in the office of
Of Attorney General l find that
liduciary, professional and other
duties, some of them too long
postponed, imperatively require
my attention. 1 will therefore
not offer for reelection"
Major Anderson expects at the
end of his term to return to the
active practice of law, and he will
probably open offices both in Lex
ngton and Richmond, and pract-
zee in the Supreme Court of APP
peals of Virginia, in the United
States Supreme Court and in the
circuit and corporation courts of
,he State and the United States
circuit courts, in special cases.
Meeting of Bryan Kern Club