The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-03
Virginia Elections


al contests and the race for the Unit
ed States Senate will feature the
Democratic primary in Virginia to-
morrow.
In the senatorial race Senator
Caulde A. Swanson, incumbent, is op-
posed by former Governor Westmore-
land Davis. The fight for congre $
will be between J. Il. Beal, incumben:,
and ]. d. Hank, assistant attorney
general, in the second district, .au,,
James p. Wood, incumbent, agairs,
Judge Clifton A. Woodlum IN tie
sixth district.
In the ninth district, which is now
and has been for q number Of %GarS
represented by c. Bascom Slemp, Re
publican, the Democrats in coCren
tion have already nominated C. org
H. Perry, Of Tazewell. M. Slem%
has already announced that he viii
not stand for reelection.
Candidates for other congressional
districts are without opposition in to.
morrow's primary.
Politicians forecast warm fight
in the seventh district in November
between Rep. Harrison, Democrat
incumbent, and John Paul, Repub,,-
can. Mr.. Paul already has been pro
nounced entitled to the seat from the
seventh by the house elections COM
mittee following a contest of the 1920
:esuts instituted by the Repu5 :. ~.
In the senatorial race the issues be-
tween Senator Swanson and form r
Governor Davis are not strongly dc
G'lcu. The former governor has pub
licly announced that if elected he will
ally himself with the farmer bloc" in
the senate, while Senator Swanson's
friends declare that the senator will
not be linked up with the agricultural
block but will vote for or against
measures of interest to the farmer,
on their merits, according to his
judgment.
Mr.. Davis, in a public statement
has announced that he does not care
for the support of the Anti-Salool
League in Virginia, charging tina
some of its officials are politically
"dry" while secretly "wet." Friends
of Senator Swanson claim as an adj
vantage his experience as. legisla,
tor, and in a recent public statement
some of them declared Mr.. Davis will
be seventy years old before he car
begin to be of any use in the senate
In the second district Representa-
tive Deal is unofficially allied with the
political group favoring a modifica,
tion of the Volstead act. Assistant
Attorney General Hank, on the other
hand, maintains that prohibition ant
suffrage are dead issues and he sees
no reason why they should be drag.
ged into the campaign.
Judge Woodrum has been featuring
his political speeches in the sixth
district by musical program il
which he is the central figure, pos
sessing what his friends declare is al
7 eNccrent h,-;+ Ine vorce. rIr-eveI .
hamlet, village and town in the dis
trict Judge Woodrums voice has beer
heard in song. His opponent, Repre-
sentative Woods, the incumbent, ha
appealed to the electorate on his ex
perience as legislator against wha
he terms Judge Woodrum's lack o
experience.
In recent campaign speech Rep
.cscn!atiye Woods was quoted as say
ing:
"Although it is too late for me t
take up singing lessons, | really don
think the people of this district ar
especially anxious to send man t.
ccHg.css just to delight his colleague
with song. There is something
more serious and more important t
10 than furnish melody"
Whether the Republicans in the
state will put up a candidate for tn
senate and in the congressional dis
tricts in addition to the seventh AM
rinth districts, will not be determineC
until after tomorrow's primary, il
was learned from officials of tn
= yarty