The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-23
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JUDGE SAUNDERS
Democrats of Fifth Much More
Hopeful Nov Than Two
Weeks Ago.
EXCITEMENT OUT IN NINTH
Personal Toi1ch Has Aroused
Voters to Intense Interest
iii Campaign.

REPORTS which have reached state
chairman j. Taylor I;llyson from the
Hlfthi Congressional District during the
past few days have been about 100 per
cent, Tor encouraging than were
slatefnents made two or three weeks
as to the situation. Seeing their
uAnger, the party workers OF the dis
nrlch nave Ntaken heart. have roiled
up 9Inelr sleeves and are in the nSht 10
Tits fully realized that the district
lsSpy4 no means secure. n great IDEAL
ators Parsons and his lieutenants during
LIn ne summer months, and only lately
Ehove the Democrats taken the lid from
Ille- situation and been able to see what
RasHunderneath.
The Organization which has been
deficient during the past few
years has been wonderfully strength
ned In some sections of the district.
a g believed that at these PLACES
stnan& q been the case since the adop-
ftlon OF the Constitution. In some
remaining portions of the district, the
Figadersaappear to be still not stirred
Supfto @theglmportance of putting up a
stronger8f fight. butsittis hoped to bring
|stnem allAtntQ faction this week.
me outlook Just two weeks IN ad-
anc OF. h tgeneral election Is for
kthe election of Representative E.%Ws
y BY a safe majority. He has
grown in favor constantly, especially
With3sthe thinking element In the dis
tIrlct,s which in him one OF the
cation, and II Representative who. In
the coming Democratic Congress, Will
make his mark.
Looks Coco for Stuart.
AS stog$thes Ninth, there continues to.
be no break In the general chorus
OF predictions of the success of Henry
;G stnart.ssup to a month or soaago,.
thesreport was that the best possible
was,b being tputup and hat Stuart
line based n q careful survey of the
situation. and a practically complete.
.pollSof the district. the statement has
been that ""Stuart will certainly be-
elected If nothing happens to turn the
.tide.ps Nothing has happened.
NOV, 1t be understood that
nobody isGoverconfdent. There Is no.
failure tossrealize the menace of that,
Years agoEbys Representative Siemp. It.
is fully known that one serious mis-
even now turn the scale
: amdsineSndthe ha rs-e msda . o. NJ: s ; ! na,
there issno reason to doubt. that the
$of 1.-The district are going,
into the final fight with every sdeter-t
mination TO win.
State which Is now worth writing
about, s.nce all of them are as cer-
tainly Democratic as anything In poll-
tics can be. OF course, efforts are he
Ing made5in them to induce the. Demo-
Gratis to poll aSgood vote, and to that
end Representatives Flood, Lamb, Jones
and other candidates are making some
speeches.
Harry st. George Tucker is now
speaking In the Ninth. Yesterday he
addressed in audience at Liberty Hail
and the present week Will he devoted
to stumping Washington county. w.
II. Werth,5o TaZewell,i is to be with
him at several points.
Preston w. Campbell and other dis
trict men who. haNesoffered their SER
vices. are making addresses for Mr..
The. idea is not to have lust,
a few remarks ut county seats. but TO
go to the people at their own pre-
cincts.
This sort OF work has resulted In
arousing popular interest Throughout
the district among, people who have
in previous years been largely inl.1-
ferent. Party feeling is running at
a high tide, %presaging the most in
tense excitement at5the end of the cam
paign4 and on the day gof the cleo
tion,