The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-05-17

PETERSBURG, VA. May 5h 1888
TO the Delegates elected to The ffate and District
Conventions under the taU Of the Republican
state Committee OF Faginic:
Whereas H Libbey a me IN her of the Com
mittet for the "a Congressional dis riot: ]. w.
Wright. u member of the Committee for the
9Th congressional district; 8. + Lindsay, q
member OF the Committee Tor the 18th Congress
sional district; edmond Burke, a member of
the Committee for the eigh,h (sih) Congress
slOnal district; j. "A. Frazier, a member OF the
Committee Tor the 10th Congressional district,
and W. {. Pendleton and another person OF the
9Th CongI essiOlal district (ueihpr of whom be-
long to any state or District Committee), have
issued pretended calls In their respective dis
tricts for Conventions to elect two delegates to
the National Convention and one elector in
each of the districts enumerated. this is to ex-
pose and repudiate said pretended calls as
bogus and utterly unauthorized. including any
othef sucn calls that may be hereafter issued
by any and all unauthorized persons and Tor
and In behalf of the State REPUBLICAN Commit.
tee OF Virginia and its Executive Committee,
hereby warn all duly elected and loyal dele
gates to pay no attention whatever to such
pretended calls. as the call of the State Com
mittee, the only proper authority, summons
them to the State convention to be held at
Petersburg, on the 18th day of May 1888, when
majority determine whether it will then and
there appoint two delegates to Chicago and one
Elector or Will adjourn TO some agreed place
within the bounds of its district to do that
work.
The party plan of organic stior, Article II.
Section 2, says "lt the State Executive Com
any Election District, and all variarces in the
party as to conventions. candidates and nomi-
nees, or otherwise, that may arise, calculated
to affect the cause and the efficiency of the Or
ganization or the success of the party"
Article Ill, section of the same pan, emu
merattng the powers and duties of the State
Committee, says: sit shall tx the time and
place OF all State and Congl essioual Conven-
tons of the party, and prescribe the number of
delegates and alternai's for each county and
city OF the STATE, and the mode of electing the
same to such conventions"
The State Committee is composed of three
members from each District. and it acts and
only has power to act, as whole-in body.
No member, nor all three of the members, from
district, even If they agree, have any author
1ty conferred upon them to call conventions.
1t Is the state Committee acting, a whole,
that alone is authorized to call District Con-
ventons.
In the sixth (6th) or Liberty District Mr.. ].
w. Wright was present at the state Commit
son of DR.. ]. X. WalthalI, and voted for .he call
issued by the State Committee dated the Goth
March
In the Tenth OOth) or Lexington District, Mr..
Frazier was present at the meeting OF the State
Committee, and while he voted against the call,
Craig and Perkins, the other two members
from that district, voted for the Call issued by
that Committee.
In The Eighth (Sth) or Alexandria District,
Mr. Edmund Burke was present at the State
Committee meeting, and so were the Othert two
members from that District-Messrs. Elan and
West, and they voted for the Call made by the
State Committee.
In the Seventh Oth) or Charlottesville Dis
trict, Mr.. Smart r. Lindsay was not present at
the Meeting OF the State Committee, viii e the
other two members were, and voted for the
call.
In the Second cd or Hampton District, Mr.,
the call issued by the State Committee, while
the other two members from that District,
BOwden and Dyer, voted for it,
Neither Mr.. Frazier, Mr.. b lrke nor Mr.. Lib
hey ever before attended any meeting of the
nor Mr.. Lindsay either in person or by proxy.
Neither Mr.. Frazier. MIR. Wright, Mr. LibDey,
MI. Burke nor ,! MI. Lindsay, nor any other
thority conferred upon them by the parry law,
state or National, 70 call a District Convention,
"a ID the calls made by each of these for Dis
tricG Meetings are entitled to no more respect
than that which any other Republican voter
may make.
Delegates appointed under the call of the
State Committee issued the Goth day of March,
are not delegates to the b'gus Conventions
called at Liberty, Lexington, Charlottesville,
Alexandria and Hampton, any delegate APP
pointed under the call of the State Committee
issued the 18th day Of March appearing in such
bogus conventions, divests himself thereby of
his representative functions, and speaks only
for himself. So as TO any convention which
may be likewise called In any District.
The Delegates appointed under the call of
the Stale Committee are Delegates only to the
Conventions Wuich iat call LANES. whose
time and place of meeting it, likes, cOndi-
tiOns, aid when any delegate SO chosen attenus
any other meeting. at any other time or place,
he does SO simply as any other undelegated
Republican. with no representative powers.
anu melei, lends himself to Il scheme of disor-
ganization
he Fourth Section of the call cannot be
fairly and interpreted that they may. before
the State Coiv, ntlon asst Inbies, meet else
where. The district delegates are delegated to
Assem- Sle there III Petersburg and to organize
there, when they may appoint district dele
gates and electors, or II majority agree. adj
journ To some place within The bounds of the
District.
charman Of the State and Executive Gem
mittee, IL Is made my duty by the provision of
the party law. TO warn all delegates duly APP
pointed under The Call of the state Committee
l.sued the 29ih day of Marcn, to abstain from
any recognition OF these unwarianted, sedi-
tious and dlsOfganiZing, but vain efforts TO
create delegates to the National Convention
who cannot be certified he nor recognized at
Chicago as such, by any lawful authority.
VIM. MALONE,
Chairman Rep. Slate Com Of Va.