Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-07-23

We honestly doubt Harry fuckers
ability to carry his own county. 1t
begins to look like landslide in favor
of Judge Mann. -Index-Appeal.
James M. Lewis, of Essex county,
present member of the House of Dele
gates from the district composed of
Essex and King & Queen counties. has
been declared the Democratic nominee
for reelection to the House of Dele
gates, no one having opposed him.
Mr.. Tucker has very carefully re-
Trained from discussing before the peo-
pie of Virginia his connection with the
Ogden movement in which ne was asso-
ciated with Booker Washington in
scheme gotten up by Northern philan-
thropists for the education of both ra-
ces in the South, part of the plan be-
ing compulsory education law, under
which man can be compelled to send
his children to school, whether he wants
to or not, and if he does not he can be
punished under the criminal law.
The publication of the Mann Malone
letters by newspaper that is a blind
partisan of Mr.. Tucker has merely suf-
feed to show how desperate the cause
of Tucker has become. This we have
asserted before, and the signs multiply.
Incidentally it is high tribute to Judge
Mann that his opponents are wholly I'M
able to find any flaw in his official or
political record, and after abandoning
all other attempts, have gone back thir-
ty years to find what to our mind is but
an eloquent tribute to Mann's fealty to
party and his lofty idea of the proprie-
ties of judicial conduct. -Danville Bee.
In plain, clean, manly speech, lack
ing in frills but full of meat, William
Hodges Mann captivated the people of
Gloucester on Monday and made new
friends by the score. Many who had
been wavering,, between the two can
didates openly avowed that they were
no longer on the fence but would cast
their votes for Mann. Notwithstanding
a considerable wet" element in Glou-
cester which has not been able to
forgive the Judge for the Mann law
and his activity on behalf of temper
ance, Gloucester county will give him
between $50 and 200 majority on Au-
gust 9th. Tribune.
The Norfolk Landmark, which is not
a Mann paper, says: Put no faith in
the suggestion that Judge Mann, if
nominated. would be in serious danger
of defeat by the Republican candidate.
Judge Mann would carry the State
without difficulty. With the Democra-
tic organization behind him and the
influence Of the Anti-Saloon League
behind him. any lack of strength which
he might show as a candidate under
ordinary conditions would be substan-
TALLY counteracted. If this combined
influence can nominate him, as seems
probable, there is no doubt about it's
being able to elect him."
REPUBLICANS ELECT DELEGATES.
At meeting at Lancaster C. III.
Monday July 10. the Republican county
convention was called to order by county
chairman Saml. p. Gresham, who
explained the object of the convention
to be for the purpose of electing dele
gates to the State convention to be
held at Newport News, Va. July 18th.
The following were elected as dele
gates to said State conventions: S. p.
Gresham, II. S. Gresham, f. w. Gresh-
am. Leon Bonner, H. E. Owen, DIR. B..
H. B. Hubbard, Geo. H. Jenkins and
Geo. E. Lewis. Each delegate to cast
one-quarter vote.
S. p. GRESHAM, Chairman.
GEO. E. LEWIS, Sec'y