Evening star., 1923-09-02
CUT IN DELEGATES
DEBATED BY c. 0. P.
Party Divided Over Proposal
to Reduce National Con-
vention Representation.
Special Dispatch to The star.


RICHMOND. Va, September Ii
There is division of sentiment among
the republicans of the state on the
proposition to reduce the representa-
ton in the national convention to
basis of $500 votes cast in each con-
gressional district. The members of
the party inimical to the attitude of
c. Bascom Slemp. the secretary to
President Coolidge, can see nothing
but the destruction of the party in
the move. The state will have four
teen votes in the approaching ma
tional convention of the new appor-
tionment shall obtain.
The vote Of Virginia will go to
President Coolidge under the new ar
rangement. and he will not have any
trouble In having the delegation in
Mr.. Slemp hold that II Is the wise
and proper thing to do to arouse the
voters to their full duty in every dis
trict.
Vote mt Last Election.
As a matter of fact. in the last
five of the districts which cast as
much as 2.500 votes for the republi-
can nominees for CongresS-the fifth,
sixth Srs, sseod seventh mi, ninth and tenth The
failed to come to the minimum in
order to be entitled to the two dele
gates which each district will have.
:. The influential men in the repub-
lican party are unanimous in the be-
lief that Virginia will be solid for
President Coolidge. Not a man who
does not express such conviction. And,
what is more, the delegates to the
Of the, lily white organization. for
the colored voters are an organiza-
tion unto themselves. by their own
act having abandoned the party
tion of their demands at the last
state convention and then on appeal
to the national convention having no
better success They have named
that time, and the lily whites have
not shown the least signs of olive
branch extension under the new order
of things.
1t is no secret that the republi-
cans will not carry Virginia, and
they do not hope to do that. But
the leaders of the organization will
keep intact the machinery; they
tive and they hope to increase the
strength of their vote by such ap-
peals and the naming Of men for
places that will show that they have
tho welfare OF the people and the
commonwealth as the principle ac-
comes to cast q vote the "outs" of
the party will march to the polls
and will support the choice OF the
republican national convention.
VIII Name Congress Candidates.
Next year the republicans will
name a candidate for Congress in
every district, and they will conduct
campaign in earnest. and while
few of them will entertain a hope
for success they will be found on
the stump. That is a presidential
year. and the voters will come out
did last year-the off, year in pol
itics. Eyes are turned at this time
to the ninth district, formerly rep
resented by Mr.. slemp. and which
the race last year. The question now
Is to get a man who will be able
to retake that former republican
stronghold. That man is not yet in
sight. but the men from that section
of the state say that at the proper
time he will be found.
Trinkle Not a Candidate.
ed as possible opponent of United
States Senator Carter Glass next
year, says he will not make the race
that he has no idea of doing so.
In the past the former governors
OF Virginia have retired from politics
when they quilted the governors
office. and for fifty years or more
there is no record of any governor
having been sent to the Senate by
direct vote of the people for his first
term Senator Swanson, when Sena-
tor Daniel died, was appointed to fill
the vacancy, and after that appoint
ment he was nominated by the people.
It is a fact that several former gov
ernors have essayed the come back,
but with no success, as the success
sive defeat of these former govern
ors will show.
1t looks like Senator Glass will
have a clear field for the nomination
next year, as he had following his
appointment at the hands of Gov.
Davis.
HORACE A. HAWKINS.