Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19
GOING AFTER SLEMP
Democrats Hope to Win in
Ninth Virginia District.
OUT AFTER GLASS SEAT
Recent Senatorial Candidate Is OPP
posed for Congress.
TAXES A HARD PROBLEM
General Assembly Will Be Asked to
Pass Equalizing Laws-Dan-
iel's Grave Unmarked.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va. November 1s.-
According to the views of Senator
Roland e. Chase of Dickinson county,
the republicans of the ninth district
for electing a republican member of
Congress from that section the COM
ing year. Senator Chase was appalled,
at the way in which the democrats
went right after every position early
in this month, and they succeeded in
making such inroads on the republic
cans that the slim majority Of Repre-
sentative Slemp was wiped away.
1t Is being pointed out that Henry
c. Stuart of Russell. who last year
was defeated by Representative Slemp
by less than 800 majority. is believed
to be responsible for this condition
of affairs. for it was the perfect Or
ganization which he built up that was
intact this year, and which went to
work to redeem the district. There
are those who are calling on Mr..
stuart to make the race again next
year. claiming that he can win, and
that in doing SO he will be right in
Mr.. Stuart is said to prefer the gov
ernorship to Congress, but he may ac-
cede to the demand, and again lead the
democrats of that section of the state
Another Opponent to Glass.
With two aspirants already in the
field for the seat in Congress from the
sixth district. in opposition to Repre-
sentative Carter Glass, there is another
in the field in the person of Judge
George f. Cassell of Radford. Judge
Cassell announced his decision here a
day or two ago, and said that when
he got back to his home he would is
sue the formal declaration of inten-
ton to stand for the nomination.
The other candidates are State Sen
ator Don P. Halsey, nephew of the
late Senator Daniel, and Fred Harper,
son-inlaw of the dead senator, and
for long time his law partner. Mr..
Glass will be in the race, and the
Tight Will be a merry one.
Tax Problem a Puzzler.
When the general assembly comes here
in January one of the matters which will
engage attention will be the report Of the
state tax commission. A voluminous re-
port has been prepared and Is being print
Until it is first read by the legislators
the members are loath to go into details
at any length regarding their recommen-
dat1ons. From a source hat is generally
accepted, it is declared that the matter of
equalization will be the most prominent
factor in the report.
The tax rate is now IS cents, and If the
of the board are needed
the rate can be cut to 10 cents on the
one hundred dollars of property. This
r.. 4 Ill., lit
on the same classes of property in every
section of the state. A board of equaliza
ton will be formed, and it will be the
duty Of this body to take the returns of
the commissioners of the revenue and
make an average.
Another Landmark Doomed.
"Washington's headquarters" an old
stone house in East Main street, soon
to disappear. The heirs of the property
entered a suit to have division, and the
sale was ordered. and when that is done
the old building will be torn down, For
many years the place has been one Of the
sights of the city, and there have been
tourists without number in the building,
where relics of the civil war are kept on
sale, a collector having rented the place
and made a living selling bullets, army
rifles and the like to visitors. The house
ago.
College Matter Settled.
After much wrangling and discussion
on the floor of the Methodist conference
of Virginia the Randolph Macon College
trouble has finally been adjusted. The
control of the system and the naming
of the members of the board Of trustees
was the point in dispute. The board is a
self-perpetuating body. and the fight has
been to allow the conference the right to
confirm the trustees after they shall have
been chosen by the board.
The concession by the board really
amounts to little, for the reason that
it will never name the very cement
in the conference which is aiming to get
on the board of trustees. But it ends a
contention and appeases those who think
that they have won great point in the
affair This aces the college system
under the specific and avowed control of
the church and removes it from the Car
negie foundation. it being strictly de-
nominatonal school.
Daniels Grave Unmarked.
The grave Of the late Senator John w.
Daniel, in Lynchburg, is absolutely un-
marked. There is not flower or shrub
or anything else to mark the last resting
place of the illustrious Virginian. Since
the first flowers were put there the day
of the burial no attention has been paid
to the spot. There is a committee of
citizens of the Hill city engaged in rails
ing fund to place monument over
the grave, and Already there az several
thousand dollars in hand for this purpose.
But at this time there is nothing to in
dictate that the grave contains all that
was mortal of the senior senator from the
OId Dominion.