Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09
FIVE HEAD TICKETS
Part of virginia's Democratic
Congressman Renominated.
FIGHT IN OTHER DISTRICTS
New Aspirants Appear in First,
Third, Fourth and Sixth.

Special Dispatch to The star.
RICHMOND. Va, June S.-Five of Vir-
ginia's nine democratic representatives
can read their title clear to the nomina-
ton to succeed themselves, while in the
ninth district the democrats have nomi-
mated Gen. Rufus A. Ayres of Big Stone
Gap, which is the home of Representa-
tive c. Bascom Slemp, the republican
member. Representative Holland of the
second. Saunders of the fifth, Hay of
the seventh, Carlin of the eighth and
Flood OF the tenth have been declared the
nominees and their fees for primaries
have been returned to them. In the first
third, fourth and sixth there Is war be-
tween rival aspirants for the nomination.
and in some of them the contests are
bitter. Samuel r. Buxton of Newport
News is in the race in opposition to
w. A. Jones. who has been in Congress
for some years, and who last year OPP
posed Senator Martin for the United
States Senate. Mr.. Buxton is making
reports to the effect that he will make
a fine showing in all parts of the dis
trict, especially in his immediate section
In the third district the friends OF
Gov. Montague are declaring that he
will sweep the veteran. Capt. Lamb. from
the face Of the political map. but Capt
Lamb enters q demur to that claim ana
insists that he is very much in the race,
ana tndI ne Will De TeluIHeO Will tHc
usual majority 1t is believed that Mr.
Montague will get a larger vote here
than will Capt. Lamb, but the latter is
very much the stronger in the counties
of the district.
Judge Walter A. Watson has covered
every county in the fourth district and
declares that he Is confident of the
nomination by a majority of not less
than 1900. and he is an old-time cam
paigner, works necessarily and goes
e. h. hot,
traversed every county in the district
in a buggy, consuming about three
months in that work.
The sixth district Is furnishing tri-
angular fight. Representative Glass hav-
ing two candidates against him. One OF
these, City Sergeant T. r. Tillett OF
Roanoke. has paid his entrance fee and
is in the race to a finish, and It rs
expected that the fee required OF for
mer Senator Don P. Halsey of Lynch
burg. will be paid in the course of the
next few days. Representative Glass is
not worrying himself to any great extent.
however, and when Congress shall nave
completed its session he will get into
the campaign and ask the voters to re-
turn him.
Will Stand by Taft.
Hopes OF the Roosevelt followers to
get part Of the Virginia delegation
will not bear much fruit IL the reports
of the Taft people are worthy OF Gre
dence. Claims have been sent broadcast
that there would be a break In the ranks,
but this is denied by the delegates them
selves. The fact Is that the ambition Of
the disgruntled colored element and the
anti-organization republicans Is at the
bottom of the boast that Col Roose-
welt Is to get a fair break in the N1r-
ginia vote. Possibly he may get four
hill
but this to be taken with a good deal
of uncertainty. All districts save two
have instructed for the President, and
his followers have lost no time In see
ing to it that the voice Of the districts
Is needed. 1t need occasion no surprise
If Taft gets every one of the full quota
from Virginia. However, colored
lawyer here declares that Col. Roose-
Welt will make big inroadsl
Just where the vote of the state OF
Virginia will go in the democratic ma
tional convention the wise men Of poll
tics are disa agreed. The Wilson forces are
making boasts that they will get ma
jority Of thetwenty-four delegates or
Underwood. Clark and Harmon do not
concede this The best that Is conceded
to Wilson is seven and half votes,
which is one-half vote less than
ed to vote as a unit when two-thirds
shall so direct. 1t remains to be seen
If sixteen will agree on one man and
cast the vote for the state.
Counsel for Floyd Allen, the chief of
the Carroll county gang of outlaws, con-
victed Of the murder of William NJ.
Foster, prosecuting attorney for that
county, will go to the supreme court OF
appeal in his behalf. Unless that trib-
unal shall interfere with the verdict of
chance in a thousand for escaping the
death chair. The old man has sworn that
he will never be put in the death chair.
but the hope of any clemency from Gov.
Mann is so remote that 1t will be
waste of time for him to make the
appeal.
Public school teachers are making
protest against the enormous costs of
conducted in Virginia for a month each
summer for their benefit They receive
instruction in the latest methods of
teaching. but the teachers have to pay
the instructors out Of their earnings for
that instruction. though the state makes
an appropriation for the schools. Last
year In the school at the University of
Virginia the teachers of the public
schools paid more than Sill 600 in fees to
men who are already receiving, in many
instances. fees from the state of Virginia
for teaching In the higher institutions of
learning. and money was also paid to
other men on the pay rolls of the state
for lectures delivered to the teachers
Thirty Die in Ten Years.
Next Monday will be the tenth ami
versary of the converting Of the constitu-
tional convention in this city, which body
was In session for more than a year. The
body was composed of 100 members and
while great many Of them were old
men when they began their labors. yet in
all that time-thirteen months-there was
not a death. Soon after the body COM
pleted it's work, however ard the men,
peared. and the rate has been high. No
less than thirty of the men who COM
posed that body have passed away most
of them the older members. One man was
killed in a runaway accident, but disease
was responsible for the taking off of the
others Three of the members of the con-
vention are now serving as members of
Congress from this state-Turnbull, Glass
and Flood. Several others are now fee
BILE and unable to discharge duty Of any
sort
When Mr.. Paul Il. Barringer president
Of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, was
asked here regarding the report that he
would retire from that institution on the
completion of the current term, he de-
clared that he did not have a word to
say. and he refused to make any state
metn denying affirming the report. a.
T.. Johnson, chairman of the board of
visitors, likewise refused to discuss the
report. However. the report is now more
persistent than 1t was a week ago that
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