The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-12
REPUBLICANS MAY
NOT TAKE ACTION
Regarded as Doubtful If Candi-
date for Congress Will
Be Named.
TREAT MAY TAKE CONTROL
Convention Will Possibly Be
Dominated by Former
Marshal.
TREAT MAY TAKE CONTROL

That the strenuous scenes of sat
nrday nights Republican n,assmeet-
Ing will be duplicated in the Third
Congressional District Convention
which meets in this city to-day, is
fully anticipated by local Republicans
The initial proposition will be the
selection of party authorities, and, I'M
less a positive majority is secured at
the outset for the slate the leaders
want, there will in all probability
be fight over whether or not can
didate for Congress shall be named,
and, II SO, who 1t shall be.
Many party men are inclined to the
relief that with Royal L. Cabcll, Edgar
Allan, Jr., and c. Rideway Moore in
the saddle. after Saturday nights vic
tory of what James l.. Shelton called
he ofiice-holding trust, the convention
win not name party candidate to
oppose Representative John Lamb Ger
tain II is that an element is opposed
20 nomination.
Flegenheimer Out.
AT all events, whatever hopes might
have been entertained BIZ Melvin Fleg-
enheimer and his friends of his nomi-
nation for Congress seem to have gene
-glinmering. At one time it appeared
That lie would be the probable choice
of the convention, but his overwhelm-
ing defeat On Saturday night for re-
election as city chairman is regarded
as having spelled his political death.
1T is pointed out that he has served
his party faithfully and successfully;
that he has, wonder Of wonders, asked
no Federal office, and that there is no
criticism of his administration to be
heard, and yet he was turned down.
inadvertently, the name of T. T.
Campbell, who played Il prominent
part in the Belviderc Hall mass-meet-
ing in opposition to control by office
holders, was printed as j. fl. Camp
bell. The latter Is the brother of Il.
T. Campbell. Both of them have kicks
as to this mistake. Il. t. Campbell
desires to have the credit for the in
effectual fight which he put up, while
j. II. Campbell wants the public tc
know that he has not attended any
political meetings since the Lilly
Whites" came into control of the
party organization. These Lilly
Whites" said Mr.. Campbell last night
ARE not disposed, it appears, to place
Republican candidates in nomination
for legislative representation, as re.
quired in a government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the PEG.
pie.
Flirt With Democrats.
The record of, the Republican
party" he continued. should be sup.
ported by Republican legislators as
we'll as organizers. to defend our ma.
tional principles in Virginia withou,
fear or favor, as is done in other
tat. y f,,
too much masquerading with the Dem
ocratic party among the Republicans
of Virginia for non-partisan candidates
among the legal fraternity"
The attitude of former United States
Marshal Morgan Treat is a matter of
speculation. Mr.. Treat will be in to-
days convention at the head, of the
King William county delegation. in
the election of which he completely
routed his opponents in the West Point
mass-meeting. While King William
has but three votes IN a total of
thirty-nine, there are those who be-
lieve that Mr.. Treat will join hands
with the forces which control the ma
jority of the Richmond delegation, and
that whate yer may be decided upon
at conference between them will be
done. This is taken to mean that Mr..
Treat can naYe. the nomination If he
wants it, white, on .the other hand, 1t
is believed TO be not unlikely that he
will oppose the nomination of any
one.
Finally, there are few. indeed, who
Will venture positive prediction as
to the result, for all are convinced
that whatever is decided upon at a
caucus of leaders to be held this morn
will he I Of In,
by the district convention when it as
sembles at noon at Thompson's Hall.
Other Districts to Act.
In another Virginia district the Re-
publicans Will meet in convention to-
day. This district is the Tenth, whose
delegates will assemble at Buena Vista
+ S. Brown Allen, now postmaster at
stanton, lis the choice of some of the
counties FOR nomination to oppose Rep
resentative II. D. Flood, and the pre-
sumption Is that he can have the honor
if he wants it.
On Wednesday the Republicans Of the
Seventh District will meet at
Charlottesville. There had been a
strong demand for the nomination OF
Captain John Paul. of Harrisonburg
son Of the late Judge John Paul,
and it is not improbable that he will
De named However, mis- convention
VIII be full OF contesting delegations,
since most of the Valley counties have
completely split.
With the exception of the Repub.
licans OF the First District, all parties
which VIII act at all will have COM
pleted their nominations for Congress
this week The First District Republi-
cans will meet at fredericksburg next
week, but il is believed by few that ii
Will make q nomination. The party
has already had conventions in the
Sixth and Eighth Districts, which re.
fused to make nominations. II. IT.
Rumble, OF Norfolk, is the Republican
candidate In the Second District; John
NJ. Parsons, of Grayson, in the Fifth
and c. B. Slemp, in the Ninth. In the
Fourth District. the party has made
no move. In all probability four yir-
sinia Democrats will be unopposed a,
the November election.