Evening star., 1923-09-09
REPUBLICANS FACE
TEST IN VIRGINIA
Have Only Little More Than
Half Vote in National
Convention.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
! RICHMOND. Va, September S-yir.
ginia republicans are to be on their
mettle in the elections Of the coming
years. This became known when the
| full import of the action looking to
| fixing the basis Of representation in
! national party councils was fully un-
| derstood and realized Under the
change there will be only a bit more
| than half of the usual vote of the
state in the national convention, and,
! as the party is in power and the
member of the national committee is
| high in the affairs of the administra-
ton, the pride of the party is at
stake and the strength of the party
! must be reflected in the changed con-
ditions. To. this end there are to be
trict the coming year in order to re-
ViVe the party and to indicate that
they are not merely seeking to con-
troll and get the benefit of the patron
age. but to stand for and uphold the
principles of the party.
| Little Chance for Nominees.
There is little or no chance for the
save in the seventh and ninth dis
! tricts. They have been more or less
changeable for years, and have a
! population that often votes as it
pleases just to show that they have
a vote and can cast 1t as suits them.
The ninth district. however, has for
years been the one stronghold in the
state, and while last year the voters
proceeded to turn their backs on the
tandldate ca oil aeen for Congress-. 1t remains
mind when the election of a Presi-
/ dent and Vice President are involved.
On the whole. the belief is that not
more than one republican can be
| of the republicans will have the time
of his life wrestling the district from
the democrats. who are in power at
| this time, but they have no patron
! age to dispense. which has not always
proven helpful to Mr.. Slemp when
| he was the congressman. The demo-
Gratis perfected their organization the
! last time and 1t is being kept alive
in every precinct for the election Of
next year. So far there is no indi-
| cation as to whom the republicans
will name in the district, but there
, are many who will offer for the nomi-
nation.
Senator Glass Choice,
Virginia democrats have not yet
signified that they will have any sec
Tbsv gRa choice aps ~ for s, the Presdentia race
for that post He is the choice of the
Virginians and he will go into the
! convention certainly with his own
state behind him unless he shall saw
otherwise. There are some of the
democrats who are talking good
deal about former Gov. Haskell Of
Oklahoma as the man who would
prove acceptable if it. shall be demon
strated that Senator Glass Is not to
get the nomination, the gentleman
from Oklahoma having business ac.
quaintances here who have consider.
! able influence, but who are not adopts
in politics.
Chances are that Virginia will not
| make any changes in her congress.
sional delegation the coming year,
and 1t is accepted that all Of the
members at this time are willing and
anxious to succeed Themselves 1t
has been intimated that Congressman
Thomas w. Harrison Of the seventh
district might be taken out of Com
gress and placed on the supreme
court bench and that he was not dis.
posed to object to such a procedure,
but a definite statement from him has
not appeared. Judge Harrison had
long been on the bench in Virginia
before he went to Congress and is Of
judicial temperament and leanings.
HORACE A. HAWKINS.