The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-05
DEMOCRATS SURE
OF BIG MAJORITY
Opposition TO Nominees Made
in Small Minority OF
Districts.
SOME WARM LOCAL FIGHTS
All County Officers in State to
BE Chosen in Tuesdays
Election.
SOME WARM LOCAL FIGHTS

! While all members ~ The General
Assembly and every county officer in
the State will be elected on Tuesday Of
this week. the total vote cast Will be
very small. in comparison with that In
z presidential election or In u contest
over State Offices. Most 90 tho lights
were made in tile Democratic prlma
ries. and In a majority of the counties
not wave OF opposition rolls ucross
| the peaceful Democratic breast
| IN thirty-two OF the senatorial dis
| tricts the Democratic candidates will
win without contest, Ia ono the Re.
publican candidate has no opposition.
| four districts arc being warmly con-
/ tested between representatives of tho
TWO parties. In two districts the DEM
! ocrats have independent opposition,
| while In one the Republican nominee
| races an independent who is seeking tho
| position.
Republicans Cannot Gain.
Should all of the sIX Republican nom
inees succeed In securing majority
| Of the votes, that party will have the
same representation in tho next as II
has In the present Senate. Indications
arc for Democratic gain Of one and
| perhaps two.
In seventy-threc of the 100 House
districts the Democrats have plain
sailing. Two Republicans Will get by
| without opposition. Seventeen Repub-
leans are ccntesting seats with Dem
/ orrats. Two independents are running
| against Republicans, while Democrats
F! are raced By Independents as opponents
In six districts, The last House con-
tained eighty-seven Democrats. thr-
teen Republicans and no independents.
Some Local Contests,
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that no contests exists In those coun-
tics where the Democratic legislative
| nominees have no opposition In many
instances there are Republicans who
gre contesting for county positions.
and these fights will serve TO bring
| out a large vote in thrsc localities
While there liz no Republican who
cares to try conclusions. for instance.
| III Norfolk county. with the Democratic
; nominees for tho Legislature, the tight
! there Ia exceedingly warm between
the Straigltout Democrats aud the
I Republican, Fusion candidates for clerk
/ and treasurer. 1t is stated that the
| Strai6htouts ar" developing good
/ deal of uuGNpcctrd Htr-ngth It has
J been thought HAT Alvah IL. Martin
} would have no trouble In securing his
reelection, but the fact that for tho
irst time In his long political career
( he has taken 10 the stump, Is an in
dicatton that at least he has had TO
"sht LOT MS continued supremacy.
Cities Are Quiet.
No city officers arc elected at this
timc, save clerks OF CORPORATION
F! Courts in some places. This fact keeps
down interest In the cities OF Vir-
Sin'a And IL SO happens that In near
~ every instance The Democratic nom
inees for the Legislature in districts
which include cities are unopposed.
lhe only exceptions are in Bristol and
hadford, whero the fight is between
Democrats and Republicans and in
stanton and Buena Vista, where in
dependents are Contesting with the
Democrats
Local papers in counties where con-
tests are Oh are niled with farewell
addresses to the beloved citizenry or
the commonwealth detailing the un-
raralleled public services of the can
nidates for sundry offices, and cypress
ing undyinS devotion to the interests
ut the free and untrammclcd people.
! returns Oh Tuesday night are likely
! 10 be slow, since In the districts where
there Is opposition the tickets are nee
essariiv long. Including magisterial
district offices, there will he mimi
mum OF twenty-siN names where the
two parties have nominated complete
tickets. In other cases they Will run
| even higher
Features OF Campaign,
I one of the warmest fights i'm the
state Is in Alexandria county, where
no primary was held and where a
free-for-all contest is being waged.
save for two Republicans. who arc out
/ for supervisor. all candidates are Dem
ocrats Fractional feeling runs high.
| Tho campaign Is not without its hu
| NOR. Dr. j. ". -. Haynes. independent
| candidate for the House from Mathews
and SNdd!esex. said that he would bury.
! MS opponent, Julien r. Christian the
| Democratic nominee. on November 2
MIR. Christian retorts that DR.. Haynes
| mas been burying his mistakes for
many years at other peoples expense,
but that his own funeral at his own
expense Will be this years result.
Two OF the daily papers of Harrison
burg continue their criticisms OF Sem
ator -cezell while the third supports
him In his fight for treasurer. The
coS:est for the House is quite lost in
tho heat OF the fray between keezcu
aud his three opponents, and between
| John Paul and George ~. Conrad for
the State Senate. Both Kee2oIl and
Paul. one a Democrat and the other n
Repst'tcan, are battling for their po
! littcal existence.