Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-28
BOTH CLAIM VICTORY.
Widely Different Views of Support
ers of Senatorial Candidates in
Coming Primary.

Richmond, Va, Aug, 28.-On the
morning Of September s some people
will have an immense amount of ex-
planning to do. Estimates on the re-
suit of the primary to be held on Sep
tember 7 for the nomination of two
democratic candidates for the United
States Senate, vary so widely, accord
ing to the viewpoint OF the prophet,
that it is very evident that somebody
is indeed badly mistaken.
Opinions vary good deal regarding
the size OF the total vote-indeed, the
reports made by the local lieutenants
show much discrepancy. While a
large vote will be polled in those
counties which have local fights OH
hand, and where the candidates for
county Offices or for the General As
sembly will see that the citizens get to
the polls, it IS likely to be small where
no such contests exist. This is peculi-
arlv the case in the Ninth District.
The people Of the Southwest District,
which casts about as many democratic
votes as three ordinary districts, do not
believe in primaries, and have named
their local candidates in convention.
However, the estimates on the total
vote have been variously placed at
from 65, 900 to $4,000. Some of the
sanguine have put it high as $4,000.
Coming to what the public wants
TO know. supporters OF United States
Senator Thomas s. Martin, who have
figures they believe to be as reliable as
those ordinarily secured from local
lieutenants, claim that the senior sena-
tor will receive majority of approx
mately $4,000 over his competitor,
Representative w. A Jones. Should
this prove correct, it will mean larger
majority than has been accorded any
candidate within the party since the
adoption of the primary system.
The Martin people, while led by
some enthusiastic supporters to hope
that the First District will be very close,
or even return a majority for their can
didate, are disposed to coDcede Mr..
Jones's home district to him by ma
iority of 500. All the other nine dis
tricts in the state are claimed by Sena-
tor Martin.
:Majorities claimed for Martin in dis
tricts other than the First are as follows:
Second. $500; Third, 1000, Fourth.
$500, Fifth 1000; Sixth, 1000,
Seventh, 1000, Eighth, 1000; Ninth,
1000; Tenth $500. This makes total
OF. 25, 500, and, deducting the admitted
Jones's majority of 500 in the First
District, leaves a Martin majority of
just 25, 1000.
The Swanson supporters have no
particular figures There is DISPOSE
ton among them, however, to take the
estimates made for Senator Martin and
to indicate that the result will be about
the same.
The Martin claims are ridiculed at
the headquarters OF the Virginia Dem
ocratic League. Asked yesterday re-
garding the outlook, General Manager
G. B. Garnett said that he fully expect
ed that Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Glass would
be nominated by substantial major
tiles.
Analysing the vote and giving both
sides, it may be said in the beginning
that the friends Of Mr.. Jones claim that
he will carry every county and city in
in the First Districts. Not single
political subdivision in the district is
conceded to Senator Martin. The league
expects to carry Accomac, with ito big
vote, by an enormous majority, and to
roll up large votes in nearly every
county. AS much AS 5000 majority
has been mentioned as the figure with
which Mr.. Jones will leave the district
which he has represented in Congress
for more than twenty years.