Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-09
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for an hour or more, last night, in a poorly
lighted room, 10 the second story of loves
luding, corner of King and Henry streets, for
, ouorum of the Third Ward Radical Club to
assemble, the reporter was glad to hear the an
n,uucement that the meeting would proceed
:, business. During the time he was waiting
) Hctflebower said it was impossible to get the
,nlorri men to do anything until mlduight,and
some were discussing the merits OF the build
;nr and inquiring what it was erected tor, &c.
f.w more having come 10 L. j. Edelin took
Tho chair. The Secretary being absent, after
much difficulty aud many refuSals, q. W.. Par
Ter was selected to fill his place. He said he
wrd ACT because no one else would.
Hannibal King wanted to know what the
,.onIe could be thinking about, not to act as
Secretary; it would not cause them much
trouble.
few present, he moved that the meeting ad-
;ourn uutil Tuesday evening. and In the mean
fine see what was going on IN the CITY, and IN
ouirc into the workings or the other party, as
he thought it would be best to put the nomlna-
tons off as long as possible, so that the Demo
.r,ts would not have u chance to pick them to
pieces. p
W. Fl. Morgan rise to point OF order
The President State your point.
Morgan-My point is that if Mr.. Hetf1ebowcr
wants to 20 home let him so, aud not try to
break up the meeting. ;.
rbe meeting then went into an election Of
officers for the club, with the following result:
Hannibal King, President; w. H. Morgan,
Vice President; g. w. Parker, Secretary ;
Henry Ditcber, Treasurer.
Hannibal King took the chair, and vote OF
thanks was rendered to L. j. Edelin, for the
faithful performance Of his duty while Presi-
dent of the club.
Robert Armstrong said that the majority Of
the Wards wanted mass Convention, and he
hoped the Sd Ward would act in conjunction
with the Second and other Wards aud have
such Convention to nominate candidate Tor
Mayor.
Gustavus Lumkius-I rise to point of
ORDER Robert Armstrong does not live in this
Ward
The President Point we'll taken.
John Fields moved the meetlng proceed to
business.
Robert Armstrong rose to speak, but was cut
short by
john Fields, who rose to ''pint' of order i;
Armstrong did not live in the Ward.
The President sustained the pint.
A motion was then made and carried that
Armstrong be allowed to spaek.
ArmstrOng-Nr. President and gentlemen :
| don't propose to make speech; only want
to state few facts 1t is our policy to draw 20
party line but select persons suitable to all par
ties. As the Conservatives have the majority
we should ignore all party strife. =.
Lumpkins-I rise to a polut OF order. We
are not here to hear speeches on annexation.
The President-Mr. Armstrong has been
given the privilege to speak
Arulstrong-This is a party question Of vital
mpotance to us; we must elect annexation men
10 Council, So we can have our streets eve!cd
ana graded, aud not let set be sent TO Council
who can use the city funds to prevent anncxa-
lon. Why not put men there who are IN favor
nranncxatiou? and let us have the Board of
Public Works down here to regradc our streets
and give the poor men work.
\ voice-Tes give the poor men work; they
amt able to pay them for their work IN Wash
inytDn.
". 5. Powell This Convention business is
nut up lob There is one Wau--the It'll
whic! has selected delegates 1t is a slur on
the Republicans Of that Wharf.-The banner
Ward Of the city-to agitate the question OF a
mass Convention now. [ did not think that
We came here to discuss annexation. 1t Is Ger
tain that the Legislature will have to be APP
piled to aud it is rs certain they will not grant
our prayer for the Board of Public Works TO
come down here and regradc our streets and
if they did grant it the result would be that the
Board of Public Works would swallow up the
little bit of property the poor man OWLS and
leave him penniless.
Robert Armstrong wanted to know what the
Legislature had to do with the annexation !;
when Congress returned Alexandria to Vlr-
ginia it was all we'll and good, and it it was
tn ho IN -
lature, Thad Stevens. the Pillar Ut Republican,.
ISM would not have gotten up 10 Congress and
made himself laughing stock by advocat-
w. S. POWELL rise to q point of order. We
did not come here to diseuss annexation but to
elect candidates, &c. :,
Armstrong said he wanted to put himself
right
w. II. Morgan-I rise to point Of order:
Mr. Armstrong does not live in this Ward, and
has no right to come here and prevent us from
attending to business.
hrmstrong-Wha want to know is this; IS
this meeting for remuneration or not?
At this point the members began to leave,
against the protest OF the President.
Somebody in the crowd said Il thought it
would end this way.
Armstrong left with the crowd.
Hannibal Kiug--Gcntlemen please come
back
A few having remained and order being re-
stored, a motion was made that the meeting
select ten delegates to Convention to nominate
candidate for Mayor. The motion was carried
and the following were elected:
IL. King, w. H. Morgan, Fenton Harris, Gus
lumkius John Fields, John Chinn NJ. Pines,
a. A hopkins, ChaS. jackson, and -- Nc
Gafney
Lumkus moved that the delegates be de-
cared unanimously elected, and his motion was
chair. '1 w.
Lumkns said it was next in order to nomi-
pate Candidates to represent the ward in the
poard OF Aldermen and Common Council, and