Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
Three Candidates for Govern
or to Talk Labor Day
AT RICHMOND CELEBRATION
Republicans Fighting Judge Saun-
ders in Fifth District.
CONFIDENT THEY WILL WIN
Harry Maynard Also Has Opposition
in the Second District-Rich-
mond Blues Go to Boston.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. Va, September 5.-Three
of the candidates for governor are to
meet on the same platform and discuss
their ideas of the value a d the dignity
of labor Monday, when Labor day is
celebrated in this city. Just how much
time they will have to present their views
is not known. but all will be given
chance at Lakeside Park. where the day
is to be spent by organized workingmen.
The records of the candidates are being
scanned, and at least one of them Is
known to be Stanch advocate of union
labor and has repeatedly advocated the
cause of the workingman. The attitude
of the others is believed to be friendly.
The tenor of these speeches will have an
important bearing on the Eubernatorial
election next year. for the nomination
made by the democrats will be equivalent
to election. The impression is that the
candidates will speak in order of age,
and, If that is done, Judge Mann will
lead and will be followed by MIR. Stuart.
There is to be a street parade. and COM
mittee will call for the speakers and es-
cort them to the station for the trip
to the park. Five thousand workingmen
are expected to take part In the exer-
ciseS, and it will be the first time that
all OIL Unem nave LdO d CIdHCc W BET d
look at all the candidates
Fighting Judge Saunders.
Reports from the fifth district indicate
that the republicans are in dead earnest
in their fight on Judge E. W. Saunders,
who, succeeded Gov. Swanson when he
retired from the national legislature.
Judge Saunders is not very much of
mixer, but is regarded as one of the best
speakers in the state. On the other hand.
the republicans have named State Sena-
tor John NJ. Parsons of GraySon, who
has gotten down to work and is going
all over the district. What els more, Mr..
Parsons is a mixer, an expert hand
shaker, knows everybody in the mountain
section of the district and is being given
the cordial support of the party.
Chairman Slemp is paying goo. deal
of attention to the fifth district, by that
means diverting some of the attention OF
the democrats from himself. The repub-
licans are saying that they will elect Mr..
Parsons. that the district has been gone
over with sufficient care to know that
there are votes ready to give majority
to him. and that they have paIa up their
poll taxes more. generally than have the
democrats. Gov. Swanson, who is just
back from that section, says that there
will be no trouble in the fifth, but other
democrats do not entirely agree with the
governor. The fight will be close. not
the fact that Floyd county
has been cut off and placed in the sixth
district
Martin Scents Victory.
Alvah H. Martin of Norfolk county
member of the republican national COM
mittee, and clerk of Norfolk county, says
the republicans will carry the second dis
trict. D. Lawrence Groner is the candi-
date against Representative Maynard.
Mr.. Martin declares there is division
among the democrats this year and that
the wOrkingmen realize that the election
of Bryan means a continuation of the
present depressed business conditions,
and he is basng much of his optimism
on the OBJECTIONS from the democratic
party because of the nomination of Bry-
an. Democrats in the second district de-
clare that Mr.. Martin may believe what
he says but that when the vote is count
has confidence in the present representa-
tive and will return him by a good ma
jority.
Blues Invading Boston.
The Richmond Light Infantry Blues,
battalion of three companies, left here at
o'clock this afternoon for Boston, where
they go as the guests of the Ancient and
Artillery. The Blues organ
ization has been in continuous existence
for about one hundred and twenty years
and comprises the best element of the
men of the city. 1t Is an ex-
elusive organization, the SHOW COM
mand of the Old Dominion, and has been
on many state occasions.
of the members are sons Of Con-
veterans who belonged to the
during the civil war. The SOL
diers will leave here with one hundred
and sixty men and a band of twenty-five
pieces. They will remain in Boston for
a week. The Ancient and Honorable Ar
tillery has frequently been to this city
and has been entertained by the Blues,
and this visit is made az the invitation
of the veteran Boston command.
Mysterious Mr.. league.
s. w. league came to this city a few
days ago and registered at one of the
hotels as coming from Washington. He
made his presence known to the news
paper men and in one of them he got
pretty lengthy interview. He posed as
the head and front of a sort of labor or
ganizati and said that meeting of
the officers of the various bodies was to
be held here in a short time. He mar
rated the character of the movement.
what was to be accomplished. said that
the membership was some fifty thousand
and that 1t was an organization that
slips giving the constitution and declara-
ton of principles. The next day after
the interview appeared the man was
He. paid up his bill and left,
though he made an engagement to meet
a newspaper man the day following his
departure. The labor men here do not
know anything about the man or where
he came from.
Poll-Tax Case in November.
The supreme court of appeals will not
pass on the Norfolk poll-tax case until
November The case is most interest
Ing and puzzling one. Citizens of Norfolk
sued out a mandamus to compel the city
treasurer to eliminate from his list all
persons who had paid their poll taxes
from which lists the voting lists are made
up, unless he could certify that they had
come to his Office in person and paid him
or one of his deputies their dues to the
state. The case went to Judge Martin
and he held that the mandamuS should