Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-03-27
WELL REPRESENTS WRECK OF THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY IN VIRGINIA.

PUBLICAN PARli IN VIRGINIA.
The proceedings of recent Republican
conventions in the Seventh congress
sional district, where otficehOlders haC
completed control, have come under
the eve and been brought to the atten
ton of several of the influential New
York papers-The Tribune, The Press
and the Evening Post-the first two
Republican and the latter independent
These papers call the attention of The
President To the action OF the office
holders named, and propose to bring
the matter before the civil service com
mission itself.
A similar condition to that complain
ed of in the Seventh district, exists
in the Tenth district, probably
i'll more aggravated form. In the
city Republican meeting to send dele
gates to the county, district and state
conventions, ii was called 10 order 10y
Mr.. Collins, chairman of the city COM
mittee, and deputy postmaster at this
place. :. Brown Allen and j. L..
(;Ieaves, L. 5. marshal and marshal's
chief clerk, respectively addressed the
meeting and Allen read a series of reSO-
buttons, and a list of delegates, among
them 5. Brown Allen, L. S. marshal,
r. A Fulwiler, postmaster at Staun-
ton, John A. Noon, L. S. guager and
storekeeper, II. T. Voorhees,, deputy in
ternal revenue collector for the Sixth
district, and John ID. Rodgers, L. $.
deputy marshal, one Of the alternates.
The resolutions provides that MAORI
ty of the delegates shall determine the
vote of the entire delegation. The reso-
buttons laud the late Campbell Slemp
and his son, chairman of the state CEN
trail committee, very highly.
The county convention met on the
Goth of February, and was addressed
by S. b. Allen, L. 5. marshal, }. Il.
Gleaves, chief clerk to the marshal, and
r. A. Fnlwiler, postmaster at Staun-
ton. \ resolution was adopted endors-
ing S. Brown Allen for delegate-at-
large to the Chicago convention and II.
A. Fulwiler, postmaster at Staunton,
as one of the district delegates.
We see it stated that Bacon Slemp
will be one of the delegates at large to
the Chicago convention. Allen, Slemp
and Fulwiler will be able to represent
the wreck of the Republican party in
Virginia, or the officeholding contin-
gent and not the strength of the party
in the state. Under their administers
ton of affairs, for the past few years
they have succeeded i'll reducing the
vote in the ten congressional districts
to $4,000, as evidenced by the election
of 1906 when there were nominated
candidates in nine of them.
In 1896 the Republican candidate fol
congress received 1000 more votes In
Augusta county alone than were cas1
for the Republican nominee for con
gress in 1906 in the entire II counties
constituting the congressional district
That is the way the Slemp combine is
building up virile Republican party
in administration Sun, Republic
can.
The above article from the Old DO
minion Sun well represents the condl
ton of the Republican party in The
South, in Virginia, and in this, the 10tf
Congressional district of Virginia. NJ
more hopeless aggregation ever existed
than that party, in so far as welding
votes and establishing itself on wha
might be termed respectable politica
basis. Once in Virginia a number O
most respectable men joined that party
under what was known as the "MahOnt
Regime, obut after brief enjoyment O
power the aggregation went to pieces
and party disintegration resulted. To
day those i'll power do not want The
better men of the State to join theil
party and give no encouragement t
such. Men of that character would bt
frightfully in their way, if they should
not, indeed, cause their downfall. The
party in Virginia has become Oily
white.n AT the Manchester Repubii
can convention few days ago not
single negro delegate appeared and The
communion of the office holders, who
practically formed the ruling element
was sweet and apetizing. They think
they see in trent of them four years
more of their kind of prosperity, and
they are said to have nudged each Other
over il in the most gleeful way. The
Republican convention in this county
was much of the same character. No
negroes were present, so far as we have
been able to ascertain, but if they were
their effect on the convention was nil,
and so far as they were personally con-
cerned they might as well have been on
the shores of Lake Victoria NVanZa
Mr.. Roosevelt is said TO have grown
very tired of this condition and speaks
his mind freely when these leaders go
to him for favors. All in all there is
nothing in the South to attract white
man to Republicanism, hence it has
grown TO be the general belief that all
who join that party have visions of
public DAD