The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-04
Aubrey Strobe Comes Back
After Several Years, Absence
From Senate
WALTER TANSILL OLIVER
WILL REMAIN AT HOME
w. Walker Ware Wins Over
Gunn-Result Still in Doubt
In Fight Between Watkins
and Hening

Rainy weather and storms
throughout the state delaying re-
turns have prevented full reports
from yesterdays Democratic pri-
mary, but returns to hand last
night indicated the victory OF q
number of dry senators over their
wet opponents and few. III any.
unexpected victories for the wet
men. Indeed, the temperance
people made steady gains in their
senate campaign, which was the
only prominent issue In the fight.
The result of the voting seems to
indicate that in the next Senate
there will he majority OF friends
of TEMPERANCE who can be relied
upon TO push through the prohi-
bition Enforcement laws which
will he presented to the Legfsla-
ture by the Anti Saloon League OF
Virginia, other temperance organ
izations, and the neucleus OF pro-
hibition leaders In the Senate.
Dry Victories.
Outstanding victories, for the Dir
people, are tina nomination OF =.
Mathews, dry and cirlzen party.
Norfolk: the defeat OF r. e BROCK
of Farmville, wet lncum oent. TOT sns
nomination. of the Twenty-eighth Dis
trict; the-vfctory of s, 3. Barham. dry
over A. r. Hobbs. wet incumbent, n
the Twenty-seventh District: re-
nomination of c. T. Bowers, dry. over
8. Nj. Newhouse, wet, in the Fifteentn
District; nomination of Aubrey y
Strobe, dry, over Bland Massies We
in the Nineteenth District, ana thA
nominal ton of A. w. Robertson, dry.a
over W. T. Paxton. in the twenty
second District. composed of BEDFORD.
Rockbridge.
Votes In Doubt.
Several contests are still in ooupI.
On the face of returns to hsna tast
night, w w. Ware, of James CITY. nad
a majority of about seventy over
Julien Gum, of Henrico. but i've
precincts OF Henrico were NOT re-
ported, nor the counties of Cnariess
CITY and New Kent. In HenEico Gum
will run best. while Ware&sWili lead
In the other two counties.
The only county heard from IN tha
district composed Of Page, Warren
and Clarke went for r. s. 3. Smith,
drv incumbent, but the other corn
ties are the strongholds of his oppo-
nents Reports were not in from the
Sixteenth District. where Senator Wat
kins and DIR. Hening. dry, are fighting
1t out
Senator Reinhart defeated w X
q
composed of Clifton Forge, Coving-
ton. Botetourt, Craig, Allegheny and
Bath. However, Captain Rinehart u
pledged on a strong dry platform him
self.
only two Senatorial districts went
to the vets in the primary returns to
hand. They are the district wof by
T. T. Pitcher, wet, over Major r, a.
Mcintyre by a very close vote. alter
~ uxAlf hys hsn
entry of A. D. Kelley. Loundoun and
Fauquier compose the district. Major
Mcintyre made a great fight. but the
odds were against him. This district
was carried by Pitcher.
In Senator Smiths district, although
returns to hand from one county give
him a majority, ii Is thought the vote
in other counties, Warren and Pags.
Is against him.
ed by dry men against former vets
who have made in most cases, IRON
clad dry declarations.
general survey gives the drys vsr~
tory In the majority OF the Senata com
tests Particularly notable are the
votes for r. c. Mathews in norfolk:
against r. X, Brock in the twenty
eighth District; for c. r. Bowers in the
Fifteenth, and for s. b. Barham ever
a. H. HOODS Inc VsctnrY OF AlHg@N
e. Strobe, who introduced the nrf
ginai enabling act in the Senate. ii
OF great interest. He defeated Senator
Bland Massie for the nomination.
Nothing had been heard from
Brunswick and Meckienburg Countess
where j. ID. Elan, of Ebony, and w. III. Il
Jeffreys, OF Chase City. were contests
ing for the nomination They ara
both running on the dry platform
and are original dry men, 10 that
from the temperance viewpoint thiNI
district result viii not alter the sitlsa-
ton Mayor Jeffreys seemed TO have
the advantage through an earlier start
in the race.
Twenty-eighth District III
There was greater interest iii uir-
ginia and in the Twenty -eighsh Disc
trict over the fight between Allen ana
Brock for the nomination In that die-
trict than in any other election. TA6
Citizens party victory In NortnIk -
tracted much attention. bur the sfron9
efforts OF the Brock people u stem
the tide against them resulted III tha
publication OF q statement ut tl3n fnak
moment In the fight which aftnekxA
the accuracy 81 Il statement rnAdA sevs
eral months before ~ M. jArrses can s
non concerninx y x6fd 6f nj ipf