Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03
SHORT: ON NOMINEES
Old Dominion Republicans Shy
in the Counties.
NO INTEREST MANIFESTED
But Few Candidates Named fors the
Legislature.
ACTIVITY ON THE ROSTRUM
Future of Liquor Issue Under Con-
Northumberland for State
Wide Prohibition.
,ecial Correspondence Of The Star.


RICHMOND, Va, October 2, 1909.
But few days remain in which to make
nominations for the house of delegates.
and up to this time less than twenty
five candidates have been named for
the lower branch of the general as
sembly by the republicans. Where
nominations have been made the white
voters predominant. the vast majority
being in the ninth congressional district.
The belief prevails that the motive be-
hind this action is the desire to convince
the voters of the state generally that
the republican party is in earnest in its
claims that they are rid of the negro
Were there to be nominations in some
of the districts the negroes would natural
ly have to be consulted, and 1t Is pos
sible that they might insist that some of
the honors be given to them. However.
the colored voters are evincing very little
interest in political affairs at this time,
Notwithstanding more of them are
registered in the cities of the state than
have been since the new constitution
went into effect. This is due to the fact,
1t is said, that all the walters and porters
in the business houses were made to pay
up and to get ready to participate in the
local option elections that We're impend-
ing some of which We're recently held
and others are believed to be in con-
temptation.
Activity Displayed.
The democrats and the republicans are
active on the stump in all parts of the
state, the campaign having formally
opened when Judge Mann opened the
speechmaking He was followed by Gov.
Swanson, who took up the arraignment
of the administration by Capt. Kent.
The governor reviewed the statements of
Capt. Kent in order. and discussed rec
ords of the last twenty years. comparing
the conditions now with those when the
democrats took charge OF the state after
four years of coalition rule. That period
was when the republicans and readjust
ers had charge Of the government. 1t
is charged that the treasury was left
bankrupt and the school teachers of the
state had to dispose of their warrants
at sacrifice. The legislature then made
less than $500 appropriation for Con-
federate pensions, while now more than
$3.50, 900 is expended for that purpose. 1t
is also claimed that the pay of teachers
is nearly doubled, and they are paid In
cash.
The local option campaign in the city of
Roanoke, which ended in the election last
Thursday, when the city went wet by
seVenty-tWo majority, means, it is said,
that the claim OF d move for statewide
prohibition Will come with the next gener
al assembly. The Anti-Saloon League has
commended for a long time that it would
only resort to state wide prohibition after
all other means had been exhausted, and
as three of the elections recently held
have been defeats, there is no question
that the legislature VIII be asked to pass
a bill giving to the people of the state at
large the right to express themselves on
the subject. The belief is that the gen.
eral assembly will pass such a bill, and
that the election will be held during the
coming summer, when the vote can be
taken without reference to any other is
rayed against each other on party lines.
Effects of Country Prohibition.
One effect of the dry sentiment in the
country districts has been the driving to
the cities of many of the negroes who
have for years been living in the country
as we'll as great many others who de-
clare that they do not care to live where
they cannot have access to liquors when
they feel like it. The country districts it
is declared, will be ready to vote LIQUOR
out of the cities, for there are MANY who
resent the idea of the cities being allow
ed privileges which are not extended to
the country districts, and they would not
hesitate to vote the state dry, at least. to
put the cities on the same footing as the
counties and towns which are without
liquor establishments. THIS is WHY the
defeat in Roanoke means that state
wide fight will come next year.
Isaiah w. Fuller, the assistant postmas-
ter in Richmond, has given his friends
and the republicans of the city a real
shock. MIR. Fuller has been regarded as
one of the taft adherents OF the
gent emen who voted for the republican
President and who was accepted as op-
But the records show that Mr.. Fuller Is a
democrat OF the real old-faShiOned sort.