Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
MARTIN IS SILENT
Senator Declines to Answer
Attacks Made on Him.
HOLLAND GOOD CANDIDATE
Nominee for Congress Democrat of
the Old School.
VIRGINIA'S DIPHTHERIA SCARE
Chase City Schools Closed-Negro
State Fair Will Open at Rich
mond Monday.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
RICHMOND, Va. October %, 1910.
Mutterings are still coming from the
second district, in which it is plain that
the. effort to implicate Senator Martin in
the primary, the investigation and the
late convention to name a representative
is being fostered in every way. The news
papers are arrayed against the ma
chine and they see nothing else but his
hand in all that has been done. They are
declaring that Maynard, Young. Holland
and Deal were all opposed to him, and
the declaration is being made that the
recognized party men are against him to
a man. No reference is made to the fact
that, with all the men aspiring to the
congressional nomination against Sen
ator Martin, he has declined to take any
part in the muss. He declared that the
gentlemen seeking the nomination were
his friends, that 1t was a family row
and that 1t was not incumbent on him to
have a word to say. He has announced
that when the time comes and his serv-
ices are needed on the stump to elect
the nominee he can be found ready to do
his part.
1t is significant that on all sides SEN
ator Martin was censured for 'meddiinS
with the second district in the first
primary, and when the matter was In
vestigated he was censured for not TAX
ing part and putting an end to the at
fair The senator kept his counsel and
had nothing to say save that he had not
interfered and did not propose to do so,
whether the party men liked it or not.
Friends Of Senator Martin here do not
hesitate to say that the opposition which
Is now being paraded in the press of
that section is nothing more nor less
than the opposition that he has encoun-
tered In every campaign in which he has
been before the people
Holland Able Statesman.
Virginia will certainly have one new
man in the next Congress in the person
Of Edward E. Holland of Suffolk. who
will take the place of III. l.. Maynard of
the second district. Mr.. Holland was the
nominee of the convention primary this
week. The delegates to the convention
were chosen in primary by direct
vote for the representative, and repre-
sentation was given to the candidates in
proportion to their strength. In
this way the delegates were named
by the candidates. That same
plan is the one which is being favored
as the successor to the existing primary.
Mr.. Holland has served as mayor of
as a member Of the last senate. He
took front rank in the legislative halls
and was one Of the ablest men in the up
per branch OF the Virginia legislature.
He is about fifty years old. He is gener
ally regarded as a democrat of the old
school, served on the staff of Governor
Montague and supported him for the
United States Senate. In the senate, how
men and was always In line on all ques-
tons of party policy. He is unassuming
and affable.
Diphtheria has developed in many parts
like an epidemic. there are cases in
every section of the state. So far as re-
ports indicate, only one place has been
compelled to close its schools because
OF the prevalence of the disease: That
is Chase City. where the schools were
closed some days ago. The action by
the authorities was more precautionary
than because OF the number of cases,
and the physicians have been and are
using antitoxin in large quantities
scourge. There Is no excitement and it
is expected that within ten days the
schools will be in full operation.
High Tribute to Negro.
Edward s. Brown. colored, assistant IL
brarian in the law library, is dead at the
age Of sixty years. Forty years Of this
time was spent in the law library. Brown
was a man Of education, the result Of
his own efforts. He had considerable
ability. was versed in the law and a man
of wide general information. Since 1870
he had been identified with the library.
come and go and librarian changed half
dozen times. OF the 10000 volumes in
the law library he knew the name. the
case and the author OF each volume as
r.
did not have calls from lawyers for au-
thorfties certain questions, and such
was his Information that he would go
to the racks and get the necessary books
without a moments hesitation:
The Richmond Bar Association held
special meeting and passed resolutions
eulogizing Brown. and they will be spread
on the records OF the court OF appeals.
Many members of the bar attended his
funeral Friday, and there were floral
tributes from the court, the bar and in
dividuals who had long known and es-
teemed him.
The negro state fair will open here
Monday morning and run the entire week.
dairy. domestic. household.
fancy. culinary, arts. laundry and all
else that enters into the life and occupa-
ton Of the race. Giles Beecher Jackson,
will have charge. He and committee
invited Col Roosevelt to makSs:a visit to
the city and to be the guest or the fair,
but letter received at the last moment
came expressing regret that the colonels
are such that he cannot
come. Barney Cldfield, the automobile
driver, has signed up and will be here
for series Of races I'm his high-power
machines. There are several special fea-
lures, and the negroes have set apart
one or two days for the especial patron
age of the whites of the city.
New Assessment Figures.
Westmoreland county has made it's re-
port to the auditor of the assessment for
the new year, and it shows an increase
of about $4,000. as compared with last
year. Several counties have not as yet
sent IN their corrected books and SO 1t
will be some time before the-igures for
the new assessment can be formulated.
Mary Joseph. Syrian woman, convict
ed in the police court Of selling liquor
to minors, appealed to the hustings court,
and that tribunal has confirmed the lower
court She will have to pay a fine of
500 and give bond for good behavior for
a year, but because of her health she
will escape the Jail sentence.