The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-05
EARLY CAMP AIGN
|. is NOW INDICATED
Extra Session, However, Likely
to Curtail Speeches From
Senatorial Aspirants.
REPUBLICAN VIII 'NsuReE
Anglin Promises Progressive
Movement Many Candidates
for Legislature.
REPUBLICAN WILL iNsURGE

With the establishment at Murphy's
Hotel of the headquarters OF Repre-
sentative ". a. Jones, from which to
conduct his fight for scat In the
Limited States Senate. the outward and
visible sign of a campaign which has
really been In progress for several
months makes it's appearance. With
out doubt this action will be follow
cd within Very few days by the
other three candidates for senatorial
honors
This is taken to indicate beyond
question an early campaign When
one starts, the others will follow. for
no candidate Will ALLOW any tactical
advantage TO be taken IL be can help
IT. Senator Martin, Senator Swanson
and Representative Glass will decide
that they should get into the game al
so, And then, when quarters are Sc
cured. as gathering places for follow
ers. as officers for the dissemination
Of literature and letters to constitu-
ents, as the seats of conferences,
nothing can keep tho campaign from
taking an active turn.
Cut Out Much Speaking.
However. there can be no question
! that tho extra session of Congress.
which Is now an absolute certainty
VIII prevent a good deal of the public
speaking which would otherwise have
taken place. No one OF the four men,
during such an Important session, can
! we'll afford to leave his representa-
tive duties in Washington to speak
all over the State. 1t Is Of course,
possible that they can get away for
a day at time 10 speak in the larger
, places, but continued tour is re.
Sarded as an impossibility.
Probably both sides arc inclined to
the belief that the extra session Will
q q g no iy, ~
| in order TO get them out the voters
must be shown why. f the aspirants
have not the opportunity TO tell tho
citizens about It. their position is Of
necessity correspondingly weakened.
Effect OF Extra Session.
The duration OF the extra session Is
a mere matter OF speculation, but ac-
cording to dope from Washington II
can hardly conclude its business be-
fore tho end OF June. This would
leave only two months or SO Tor speak
ing, and with the proba bility that a
still later date Will be the real one.
1T can be seen that the chances OF
extended oratory are small
But there is nothing to prevent
series of written statements, contain
Ing charges and countercharges, cX-
plantations and denials 1t Is not to
| be supposed that Mr.. Jones and Mr.
| Glass will not seek to instruct the
: the public prints and by mail nor
! that Senator Martin and Senator
| Swanson Will not mako reply to the
| best Of their ability and to the full
strength Of the English language.
| The Liquor Question.
| The part to be played III the sena-
torial election by the Anti Saloon
| League is problematical. The league
| has indicated its intention OF Querying
! all the candidates on their support or
! otherwise OF the Miller Curtis bill or
| a Similar measure, intended TO prevent
/ the interstate shipment of Intoxicating,
/ liquors into dry territory. AIR Glass
! is an avowcd Statewide prohibitionist
| while he mas repeatedly stated that he
/ does not think this is an ISSUE which
| should play part III The candidacy OF
| any man for public office His exact
! Language is that he does not regard IL
| rs proper political asset OF a candi-
| date.
While the other three men have
/ stood for temperance and for local OPP
! zion, they are not popularity supposed to
| favor Statewide prohibition. This will
| evidently not be a factor in their par
1 tcular candidacy, and the extent to
| which their Individual former and
/ present position Will influence the votes
/! of members of tho league is a question
| League md Politicians.
|
/ Virginia politics it Is quite evident
Jthat the Anti-Saloon League has not
! yet succeeded In convincing tho poiti-
| clans of the state that il is going to
! win or that it will ever got anything
! more than It now has. and Which was
/ the law for years before tho league was
! born-local option. There are plenty of
men in every State where the agitation
for IA prohibtoiy law has been pushed
| TO successful issue who have Joined
| the band wagon and have ridden trium.
| phantly into office just as soon as they
dtscerned the signs of the times
| There are plenty such men in virginia
and they would have been active partic-
! inants in the recent meeting at New
port News, it is claimed had they be-
lievcd the league was going 20 win.
Republican InsnrScncy.
new SORT OF Statewide slogan has
been raised by J. e. Anglin. of Martins
Vile. who was an independent Replib,
lican candidate for Congress In tho
Fifth District at the last Novembe
election Mr. Anglin says in q card in
his home paper:
II have been asked by many Of my
Republican friends if 1 would be n
candidate for Congress in 1912. | will
answer by saying there will be Pro-
Fressivc Republican candidate in the
field We are now organizing a Pro-
gressivc Republican, party in this dis
trict, and it will be State-wide in I912.''
insurgency in G. Q. T.. ranks has not
made so much progress in Virginia as
/ it has elsewhere. but MIR. Anglin seems
confident that new men VIII be at the
helm before the State is many years
older. Perhaps lie has noted the new
rule Of Cabell and Paul and Hitchcock.
Ont for Legislature.
i.ocai candidates ere coming out with
every passing hour. II, is understood
that NJ Nclnls. OF Newport News
will be candidate for the senate from,
| tho Thirty-sixth District now. repre-
sented by Saxon ". Holt. OF tie aatne
':ty. Mr.. Neins II is stated, will have
the support OF the Anti-Saloon League
y report has been printed to the effect
chat Dr. IL. S. Myers now the NOM
Der OF the House from Amherst county
/, will be candidate for the Senate from