Evening star., 1922-10-29
WAGED
IN NINTH VIRGINIA
Ex-Gov. Cox of Ohio to Aid
Democratic Nominee for
Congress.

LYNCHBU RG. Va, October rs
Former GOV. James NJ Cox of Ohio
and democratic presidential candi-
date two years ago will make an ad-
dress the evening Of November / in
the ninth congressional district on
behalf of the candidacy of George &.
Peery, democrat, for Congress. Mr..
Cox will be given an appointment at
some point on the Norfolk and West
erh railway from which he will be
able to leave at night. to make an
appointment the following evening at
Day ton. Ohio. The promise of Mr..
Cox to make this address Came
through Senator Carter Glass, VINO
sent the letter TO democratic head =
quarters in the district so that the
arrangements can be made. 1t IS not
improba that Pulaski or TaZeweil,
the latter the home of MIR. feery, Will
be selected as the place for the ad-
dress.
Fight Grows Hot.
The fight in the ninth continues to
wax hotter and it is expected that
u record breaking vote Will be gotten
out because of the conSre sSional fgh
between beery and j. IL. HaSSlnger.
the latter the G. q. I. candidate.
| The republicans are making cam
paign capital out Of the mistake
made in the adoption Of the sena-
torial redistrictlug bill i'll the gen
craI assembly last winter, which
caused Madison county TO be lett
without representation and VIII
, cAus,. the MULTIPLICATION Of the law
unless it is corrected a. an extra srs-
sion, which may BE- called to give
consideration to the state highway
BAL.
tny responsibility and hold the error
was Il clerical one that any party
might be guilty of. The u. o. r.
speakers are trying to create the i'm
precision that the mistake was made
in order to render the redistrict InS
plan null.
Mny Reject Convention Call.
The question of calling d constitu-
tional convention, which goes to the
voters November /. so far has not
taken on a political aspect and ind;-
cations now are that the enabling
act will see an overwhelming vote
against d convention. There seems to
be q widespread demand in the stat"
for a number Of changes III the con-
Stltution, but the voters do not seem
, to be in favor of Il convention be
cause of the cost of such IL move and
because of the uncertainty as to
state. Advocates of changes gen
orally seem to favor the idea of
bring ing about any needed chanSes
| by amendment rather than by unu-r-
! taking a wholesale revision of the
constitutional law of the state. The
| democratic party has left the QuCs-
! tioa open fo- its following to do as
! 1t pleas-s. and it is pronao!. that the
republican vote will be soiidly against
! tn" calling of IL convention.
| The fact that tn" republicans have
! pat up tickets i'll all of ,ne congress
Sional districts in opposition TO the
! democrats and that they have Il can
didate for senator does not seem tp
have aroused the majority voters. and
general apathy seems 70 prevail over
the state, the only exception to this
being found in the seventh and ninth
districts. where the G. Q. P. is max
ing 4 strong enough fight to mean
heavy votes
Light Vote In Other Districts.
In the eight other districts the vote
promises TO be woefully light. The
women appear to have caught the
apathy which has characterized the
men for two decades and now, in two
years after their enfranchisement. the
ma jority of them seem to be giving
politics the go-by.
Fred W. McWane. republican candi-
date for Congress in the sixth dis
trict will probab surprise the demo-
Gratis by the size of the vote he is
going to poll against Judge G. A.
Woodrum. democratic primary nomi-
nee. McWane. who is general man
ager of the Lynchburg Foundry Com
pany. which concern employs more
than 1.400 men here and in Radford,
Will get a highly creditahle vote In
the locations of the two plants. while
~ ia known that his friends believe a
surprise will be seen in the vote in
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