Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-15
POLITICAL.

Seaborn Wright of Georgia, expect.
to get the Prohibition nomination fol
President, and says that he is ready tc
spend 800. 600 in the cause.
John A. johnson swept the Mime.
sofa Democratic primaries in the late
election in that state, Bryan's support.
ers being overwhelmingly defeated.
John Mitchell, until recently presi-
dent of the mine workers union. is to be
the Democratic nominee for governor OF
Illinois, if the Democratic leaders of
that state can force the nomination
upon him.
Tom johnson was badly defeated in
the Democratic Convention in Ohio last
week. The convention nominated
Judson Harmon, Attorney General of
Cleveland, for Governor, and endorsed
Bryan for President.
Senator Foraker has definitely de-
cided to enter the race for the Presi-
dency. Mr.. Foraker is not a GUTTER.
add has worked hard for the balance of
power, namely the negro vote. So far
Mr. Taft has the lead and long way
ahead of his competitors in the race for
the nomination.
After hearing your own splendid
Governor, Mr.. Swanson, the other even
ing, l felt little like ,enlarging the
ticket and calling it johnson and Swan
son. 1t has rhythm; it has swing; it
has a go in it, and it has two men who
belong to the future. DIR. Smith.
Republican, President of Public Insti-
tuition, of Minnesota.
The National Negro American Polit-
zeal League has addressed a letter to-
Senator Knox, Speaker Cannon and
Vice-President Fairbanks, declaring the
negroes of the country are opposed
to the nomination of President Roose
welt or Secretary Taft, and that the
nomination of either would mean the
defeat of the Republican national ticket
in November.
Giles county democrats, in conyen-
ton, elected delegates to the Roanoke
convention, passed resolutions indoors
ing Governor Swanson's administration
and the course of Judge Martin Will
liams in the Legislature, instructed for
Daniel, Martin, Swanson and Ex-Governor
Tyler for elegates-at-arge to the Den
yer convention, and passed resolutions
strongly favoring Bryan's nomination.
The present primary plan has not &C
complished what was expected. The
theory is all right, but practically does
not work, so for as the State and congress
sional nominations are concerned. Think
OF it-four candidates for governor at an
average expense of $40, 900 each! Sup
pose Judge Mann should be defeated
again for the nomination. he would be
out $4,000. That strikes us as being
rather steep. There is nothing fair in
proclamation by the committee. as in
the cases of Jones, Lamb, Flood and
Glass, while the rest of the congress
~ANs0oNOo VIII nave 10 paw
thousand or two dollars apiece.-South
Boston News.
The fight in the eighth congressional
district between Mr.. Carlin, the present
incumbent, and Mr.. Gordon, who was n
candidate in the election that placed Mr..
Carlin in the House, wakes hotter and
hotter, and the Ananias fellow is in the
thick of this primary Gordon charges
indirectly that the country papers of
the district that are advocating Car
Inns reelection are subsidized by that
and the papers respond. in
dignantly as matter of course. Per-
haps the most remarkable claim for Mr.. |
Carlin is made by the Orange Observer.
that Mr.. Carlin is the ablest represen-
tative the district has had since the
Civil War.