Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-28
Attorney General Pollard
Rules Out Those Voted
Against Ticket
EFFECT IN THE STATE.
Pollard Also Upholds Action of Rich
mond Democrats and Rules to
Throw Out Single Shots"

Richmond, July 2S-Following de-
luge of requests for rulirgs on VINO
is eligible to vote in the Democratic
primary next Tuesday, Attorney
General Pollard last night announced
that the primary law is plain on this
point-that no person who voted for
Republican or candidate of any other
party in the preceding election could
participate in the primary. If the
voter did not cast ballot at the pre-
ceding election, and he is challenged,
the Judge. may require him to make
an affidavit that he will support the
nominees Of the primary.
The requests for the Attorney Cen
erals opinion on this question have
come principally from counties in the
Tenth Congressional District, where
Representative Hal D. Flood was
Scratched by many Democratic vo-
ters in the November election last
year. In the city of Staunton, George
w. Revercomb, of Covington, the Re
publican nominee, had Il majority, ami
Floods plurality in Augusta County
was far below normal. He lost High
land altogether, and Revercomb police
a large Democratic vote in his home
County of Allegheny, in Clifton Forge
and one or two other counties in the
district ---. -
In view of the fact that the pri-
mary law makes Democrats, who vot-
ed for Republicans in the last con-
gressional election, ineligible to par
ticipate in the primary, the political
situation in several counties in the
Tenth District has become decidedly
muddled. With the exclusion Of the
recalcitrant party men from the prl-
mary, they will feel no obligation to
support the party nominees, and the
result may; be: that several Demoera-
tic candidates will have lively fights
on their hands-in November, and may
haye an important bearing on one OF
two primary races.
The situation in the seventh sena-
torial District, composed of the Cour-
ties of Craig, Botetourt, Allegheny,
Bath and the city of Clifton Forge,
is causing uneasincss among friends
of Senator W. A. Rinehart, of Gov
ington, who is opposed for re-elec-
tion by VIM. r. Allen, of Fincastle.
Rinehart's strongholds are in the
section which will be affected most
severely by the primary law, gov
erning the eligibility of voters, while
Aliens strength lies in counties where
the Republican nominee for Congress
received no more than his normal
party vote. The result will be to make
the race in this district very close,
political observers at the Capitol says,
The dissatisfaction with the p-i-
mary law among the anti-Flood De-
mocrats in .Staunton, Augusta and
Highland is said to be largely res
ponsible for the independent. candi-
dacy of Professor G. T. Jordan for
the State Senate from that district
in opposition to Senator VII. Lam
des, who has been declared the Demo
cratic nominee. Under the primary
law, the independents" as they arc
styled, who voted for Revercomb last
November, would be excluded from
the primary.
In political circles there is no at
tempt to minimize Jordan's strength
as a candidate, especially in view ol
the support he will receive from Re
publicans, independents and eS
treme prohibitionists. The fear IS
expressed that many Democrats, wht
may be refused the privilege Of par
t;cipating in the primary for count,
/ officers in Augusta, because of tflcI1
! attitude toward the party nomne'
last fall, may become sufficiently dis
gruntled to throw their votes and in
7uence against Landes.
Richmond July 28-Attorney-Gene
raj John Garland Pollard yesterda.