The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-19
BRIGADE HAS
new LEADERSHIP
Cabcll Has Apparently Wrestcd
Control OF Appointments
From Slcmp.

Evidences continue to multiply in
these latter days of Il now deal in
Washington that the aceptre Of Eir.
einia Republicanism has passed from
tho imperial hands Of {. Il. Stomp and
.Alvah II Martin, and has gone into
the care and Keeping of Royal L
Cabell ana John Paul. Il has been
~strcnuously denied, but more than one
warm supporter Of the two mon, VINO
have stood behind the pic counter for
years, has been forced only lately to
admit that Ills true: it's pity. pity
It's, It's true
Soon after tho November election.
The Times Dispatch Sentured tho pre-
diction that the first real vital test
Of a~treagth between tho two factions
or the party iii this State would come
over the postmastersl,ip at Harrison
burg. G. NJ. Kcczell, who had handed
out the mail to the people OF the
Rockingham county seat when ne was
not engaged in tho pleasureahls pur-
suit of politics. wanted to keep his
Job. Captain John Paul. who had Won
his spurs as q politician b: beating
Hugh S. Lupton. the other Rcpubli.
can candidate for Congress i'll the Sov.
enth District. out of his boots. was
after kcezeli's scalp. An inspector
came down from Washington 10 looli
into sundry charges Of ''pernicious pc.
litical activity"
WAS Always Active, +
Postmaster Kecccll smiled. So did
his friends. He had been accused be
fore OF political activity. and he had
smiled then. Political activity is tho
greatest asset q Virginia postmaster
has. II is what brings him his daily
bread, In tho Ninth District. and for
that matter, III all the districts, the
rostmnstcrs ana the revenue agents
run the party. do its work. control It's
destinics. deliver its delegates. For
machinery it is the envy OF mere
tyros like Charlie Murphy and Boics
Penrosc. NJ
But Captain Paul is supposed 10 have
seen Mr.. CGbel1. Mr.. Cabell is sup-
posed to have seen Postmastcr-Gen-
cral Hitchcock. The Postmastcr-cien-
eral Is said to have seen Mr.. Taft.
Alr. Kcexeil was relieved Of his pc
sition. #
Slemp and L.urton didn't win. Royal
and Paul cid.
Take, TOO. The Bristol situation. HAY
ing ensconccd himself securely. as lie
thought, in his seat in Congress. MIR.
Slcnp determined to measure swords
with Representative Walter T.. Browu-
low, then near The end Of his career,
Tennessee side of Bristol had held
the postmaatcrship FOR so many years
tina t the memory OF mar ran nowhere
near the conirary-cver since thai day
IN the dim past when Bristol was a
village, and when some entcrprisinc
son OF tho volunteer state. so the story
goes. carried OF tho Bristol post-of-
ficc. stamps and mail and all. in a
sack on his back from Virginia ID
south III the state line. Probably the
office wasn't worth hauling back ir
those days.
Tcnnrsscnn Still In.
Mr.. 4Slemp secured the appointment
Ot 70, HL Il l.OnGrl his Mite +, oirt.,a, NE
as postmaster. But Mir. Erowulow was
not Yet dead, and tho old postrnastcr,
Eli Warren, was his old friend ana
, supporter. lie had the appointment
noid mp. Not lor<. afterwards Mir.
Warren WIS relieved, and the officf.
tnlrcd ovnr 10 his Guretics. Who pUt
in another TonneSsean Ho is still
there. BrownioW is iii his grave. and
his successor was elected only for tho
short term. and has no Influence. Ru,
the trick has not turned Mr., Slemp's
way.
1; - stated that Nj Siomr had in
; o"rsef some enc other than 6. G. Nc