Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05
DEMOCRATS IN ARMS
Plan Hot Fight in Ninth Vir-
ginia District.
AFTER SLEMP'S SCALP
Great Speechmaking Campaign Is
Being Projected.
RENEW FIGHT ON BARRINGER
Alumni Association of Polytechnic
Institute Still Seeking His
Resignation.
Special correspondence of The star.

| Special Core SpOndence of The star.
! RICHMOND. Va June 1.-The eyes of
! the politicians of the state are turned to
! the ninth district. where Henry {. Stuart.
democrat is making the race for Con-
gress against G. Bascom Slemp. the pollt-
| ical heir OF his father Col Campbell Slemp.
! and the present republican representative.
The members of the democratic dis
, trict committee met at Pula ski a few days
| ago and went over the situation with Mr..
| Stuart, who hurried from New York to
attend to some of the details of the
| campaign Reports from the counties in
the district were made and the utmost
confidence and enthusiasm was indicated
in every direction. The organization of
the democrats is said to surpaSs any
thing the state has ever had. There are
the county, district and the precinct
clubs Every voter in the district is enroll
ed taxes are paid up and preparations are
under way for one of the hardest cam
paigns the state has ever witnessed.
State Chairman Ellyson and the mem
berS of the state democratic committee
have announced that they will take
hand and already the list of speakers
is being made up. Senator Thomas ,.
Martin heads the list. Others Will pc:
i
Champ Clark. Senator Bob Taylor,
former Gov Montague, Judge w t:
Rhea. former Gov. J. Hoge Tyler and
Senator Robert F. Bruce.
Renew Fight on DR.. Barringer.
The Alumni Association of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute has not given up
the fight on Dr. Paul b. Barringer, ,iio
president of the institute. Lawrence
Priddy president of the association, and
others who have been fighting DR.. Bar
ringer are to go to Blacksburg the week
of June Il to attend the rnals. and there
is meeting of the association scheduled
for that week. Proxies are being col
lected and another demand is to be made
that DIR. Barringer shall resign.
1t is expected that the real fight will
begin when the election of a successor to
Mr.. Priddy is chosen. If his faction shall
retain the presidency. the fight will be
continued. Both sides are at work. and
a test of strength will be made when the
election is held. There will be no let up
in the effort to GUST DR.. Barringer If
Mr.. Priddy and the welfare committee
are allowed to have their way. The
friends of DR.. Barringer are ready to
make opposition to the plans of the as
ISOLATION, and will see to it that tie
resolutions against DR.. Barringer are
not adopted without a protest.
Aduy SOASClA LID Sut4d " Gu
June j saw the ending Of some 500 con-
Germs which have been chartered in Nir-
ginia. These concerns We're organized
three years or more ago and were in all
parts of the state. For the most part
these companies were capitalized at less
than 100000 each, and about one-half of
the delinquents were identified with some
feature of the jamestown exposition, and
.r-it hn oil of hot ont how
We're allowed to lapse and go out of ex-
istence.
The cancellation was due to the fact
that the reports FOR three years ending
this month they failed to make any report
of operations and did not pay their taxes
and registration fees required by law.
The headquarters of some of the concerns
We're in Washington and Alexandria.
Old Negroes Long Tramp.
James Turner, aged about seventy-five
years. recently tramped to this city from
New Orleans with the hope that he could
find alive some of the officers with whom
he served in the civil war. The old
man has no one TO contribute to his sup
port and he wanted to get his papers
fixed up so that he could get pension.
Old man Turner. or Uncle jim, as he
is called. failed TO find any one who could
furnish him with the desired Information,
and he turned his face toward New Or
leans and said he would step on back to
his old home
The old man told of how he had fol-
lowed an officer as Il valet, had taken his
dead body from the field and had gone
back home to find that ''all his folks were
dead" Veterans in the city made up
purse and bought a ticket for the old
man, sending him back in comfort. He
took three months to walk to this city,
begging food on his way and sleeping
| wherever he could find lodging.
Building Good Roads.
Capt F. ST. Julian Wilson, state high
way commissioner, has recently awarded
contracts for the building of more than
fifty miles Of good roads in Greensville
and Spotsylvana counties. The latter
county has twenty-five miles. and the
work will commence at once. The roads
are to he of gravel and will cost
approximately sl.7:yo a mile. The con-
tractors for this work are Gunter, Nor
rs * Co of Newport News. The coun-
ty several months ago ordered an issue
of bonds for this work. and it is under
stood that more bonds are to be sold to
continue the improvement.
Work will commence within few days
on a stretch of six miles from Fairfax
Court House to TysOn's. The work will
he done by the county, all the bids being
unsatisfactory.
State Health Commissioner Williams
has made protest against the use of
the highways of the state for automobile
purposes, such as endurance runs, tour
ing parties and the like, on the ground
that they are dangerous to the life and
| limb of the country people because of the
reckless manner in which the drivers
| speed over the roads. The matter has
! been referred to the authorities of the
several counties which have made i'm
prOVemcnt of their roads.
Lash Has Been Abolished.
Maj. James e. Wood of the state peni-
Tertiary who has been in charge of the
| institution for some four months, has
| practically abolished the lash for unruly