The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-27
SEVEN MORE DAYS
!. Of Work AND EllD.
Of FIGHT CONES
Democratic Primary Takes
Place Week From Next
Tuesday
WILL BE BUSY TIME
FOR ALL. CANDIDATES
Eight Who Have Opposition
VIII Campaign in Different
Parts of State--Ellyson
Gives Platform

Gives Platform
Thesocver candfdaxesrfor tho Demo-
cratic nomination for attorney gen.
eral. lieutenant governor and commits
sioner Of agric,lkure-s1so only ones
having oppositscn-haye one more
week inswhich to complies their cam
paiEns.and then begins the.fan OF bal
lots which. ending attsundown Tues
day Of next weelr willlsettle their fate.
more days OF letter writing. seven
mora days OF handshaking. of per-
sonal solicitation. OF telegraphing and
OF advertising and tho end will DO at
hand.
The Candidates.
Thu rr1max- takes place on August
6th. which IL one week from Tuesday.
The candidates are as follows:
For Lieutenant Governor. Tay-
Tor Enyson. Lewis II. Machen and
Alexander Wedderburn.
williams, John Garland Pollard. s.
Gordon Cumming.
For Commissioner of Agriculture
George w. Koiner. J. Thompson
Brown.
For Secretary Of the Commonwealth
--B. o. JAmeA
For superintendent of Public In
structton---R. 8. Stearnes.
For State Treasurer-A. W. Har-
man.
Stuart. James Hartman and
Etearnes have no opposition and their
names Will not go on the ballot. They
have already been declared the NOM
fnees. The fight will be between three
candidates for attorney general. three
for lieutenant governor and two for
commissioner OF Agricultural.
This Weeks Work.
OF the candidates for attorney gen.
eral Gordon Cumming will spend the
greater part of the week in Bedford
City, Roanoke and the Southwest, 60
ing to the first two places Monday
and Tuesday. John Garland Pollard
will address a ChautauQua meeting at
wharton's Grove today and will speak
In Portsmouth Monday. and Norfolk
Tuesday. On Thursday he will be on
the Eastern Shore and Saturday in
Shenandoah county. where he will ad-
dress reunion OF Confederate vet
Grams. Attorney General Williams
itinerary had not been arranged as
he had expected tofbe busy in Wash
tngton for several days. However.
the meetings Of the, debt commission
will have adjourned, and the attorney
general will be able to spend this last
week in campaigning for reelection.
Commissioner koiner will speak in
Franklin and Mr.. Brown. his oppo-
nent In Fluvanna, this week. Other
dates have not beenSarranged by them.
Mr.. Machen and Mr.. Wedderburn's
plans are not known Lieutenant Gov
orner Ellyson has not as yet made any
public speeches, but has been very
frank In defining his,position on pub
lie questions. Indeed, he has been as
sociated with public matters for SO
long that his views are pretty well
known. To The Virginian last night
he gave his platform. rs follows:
Mr.. Ellyson's Platform.
Mr.. Ellyson's first training school
was the Confederate army, in which
he s~rved az a member OF the Sec
ond company. Richmond Howitzers.
until the surrender of General Lee
at Appomattox He returned home
to finish his career as n student OF
Richmond college and the University
OF Virginia
His frst entrance into political life
was as a member Of the common
council of Richmond. where he served
for eight years as chairman OF the
finance committee. as,prestdent OF tho
common council. and as president OF
the board OF public interests. He
was then elected to tho State senate
and served two sessions He was next
called to the mayoralty of Richmond.
which Office ne filled for three terms
He has been a member and chairman
Of the State COMMITTEES for twenty
two years, and has enjoyed the un-
usual distinction of election to that
honorable position without oppos.-
ton, no matter what faction OF our
party happened to be in power.
He was for sixteen years chairman
OF the city school board and has been
for twenty years a member OF and
for eighteen years president OF the
board OF trustees OF Richmond col
lege. He II q member OF the COM
mittee having charge Of the work at
Richmond academy. and for forty
years he has enjoyed the priv1leve OF
conducting in large part tho work Of
the Baptist education board OF Viz
ginia. whose mission It Is to train
young men for the ministry.
He has been identified with public
movemsnts Of many kinds. and was
governor OF history. education and
social economy at the jamestown
exposition, where he won high repu-
tatton a. ono OF the most useful and
uneelflsh man. connected with that
work.
Friend Of the Schools.
Mr.. Eliyson il IN favor OF generous
/ appropriations to public schooisy and
r he believes there should be an abso-
lutte divorce OF the schools from
politics.
He was the first member TO intro
duce into the legislature OF Virginia
a resolution advocating opposing the
employment of convict labor in OPP