The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-28
EDMUN.DS' DAY.
DEMOCRATS OF THE SIXTH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
The FARMER CONGRESSMAN SAFE.
Delegates FaS, Asscmbiing-G Order Of
the COnyenti"n-The Ladies' Invited
To Hear Judge Crisp Spenk-N0ecs
Before Tie Convention.

onvene at the Opera House.
Already the delegates are arriving
in the city, and last night the hotels
were crowded with them; but the
great majority will get here on this
mornings trains. Altogether there
will be quite two hundred and fifty
men in the city from the counties and
cities making up the district.
Hon. Paul c. Edmunds the only
candidate and the present Incumbent,
arrived on the afternoon train with
his son, and registered ut the Hotel
Roanoke. He brought with him II
large number of the Halifax delega-
ton, and most of them found quarters
at the Hotel Felix. His, son, the
| Junior, stopped there. and proved
himself to be almost as popular as his
| father.
The evening train also brough t
Major p. a. Krise, the chairman of
the Sixth district committee. from
Lynchburg, and in the evening there
was Il meeting of The committee in
the reading room of the Hotel Roam
ole to make arrangements to perfect
Il temporary organization. The meet
ing was in session but Il few hours,
and the programme OF the convention
was sooa arranged.
This morning at II o'clock every dele
cation will hold Il separate meeting
for the purpose of electing members
OF the committee on credentials, the
committee on permanent organization
and the committee on resolutions. 1T
has been customary in past conven-
tions to appoint three members to
each of these counties, but the chair
man thinks that it is best to have
only one IN future. This makes the
committees less clumsy, and they are
able to do5their work more quickly.
As soon as the work of the commit
tees is completed the convention will
be called to order and n temporary or
gani2ation will be made by the elec.
ton OF chairman and secretary. 1t
is very probable that John ID. Shop
pardson Il well-known Democrat of
Charlotte county, will be made chair
man. He is prominently mentioned
for the place and there is no other
candidate in the field.
As soon as the temporary organiza-
ton is perfected nominations will be
in order. Then the balloting will be-
gin. 1t is expected that Mr.. Edmunds
will be nominated on the first ballot
and unanimously There is no other
candidate, and ell of the county con-
ventionS that elected delegates en-
dorsed his course in Congress. Mr..
Edmunds will doubtless address the
convention after he has been nomi-
mated, and those who have heard him
speak may expect a rare treat.
After the business Of the convention
has been completed q recess will be
taken for dinner. When the conven-
ton reassembles the doors will be
thrown open to tie fair sex, which
will grace the occasion in numbers.
Judge Crisp, the representative of
the Third district of Georgia, will
then address the convention on the
issues of the day.
Mr.. Crisp is one of the leaders of
the Democratic party in the House.
He has Il national reputation as an
orator and statesman, and his ideas
on the various measures now before
the country will be attentively
listened to. He is an Englishman by
birth, but he is an American to the
core. His record in the army and
in the halls Of Congress is something
to be proud Of Besides serving four
terms in Congress, Judge Crisp has
long been known as one of the most
promising statesmen in the country,
and constitutional lawyer of nation
a! reputation.
NOTES BEFORE THE CONVENTION.
A large number of prominent Demo
Gratis came in yesterday afternoon to
attend the meeting of the convention.
Henry Edmunds, a brother of the
Congressman, was at the Hotel Roam
oke. He looks very much like the
Congressman, and is well known al /
through the district.
William A. GLASGOW, Jr., son of
ex-State Senator GLASGOW was also at
the Roanoke. He was raised in this
section near the city. and years ago
shot ducks wheres$he busy throng
now passes along Salem avenue. The
town of Glasgow, on the Shenandoah
Valley, was named for one branch
of the family. Mr. GLASGOW is a
smooth faced and intellectual man
and likes to smoke a briar-wood pipe.
Honorable r. r. Noblin, of Halifax.
the present representative of Halifax
county in the legislature, arrived last
night. He wears black moustache
and spectacles and thinks that his
native county will give bigger ma
iority than ever before. The Force
bill he thinks will make the South
more Democratic than ever.
Honorable Lewis Arthur. of Bed
ford, is in the senate from that ccun-
ty, and last night he met his old
friend, Judge Williams for the first
time in quite a while. They spent the
evening in exchanging "reminiscences
in the Hotel Felix corridors. Mr. Ar
thur is a farmer and he thinks that
Edmunds will have a walkover.
Judge r. II. Ward, judge of the
County Court, also arrived on the
afternoon train. He is a delegate
from Charlotte, and comes from near
the place where John Randolph, Of
Roanoke. once lived. The old house
where the distinguished statesman
once lived is now in ruins.
Major P. A Krise, the chairman OF
the Sixth district committee, has held
that position for nearly twenty years.
He is tall gentleman with black
beard, and thinks that the progress
.l.,,ie by Roanoke during the past
few years has been something phe-
nomenal. He is president of the
Krise Banking Company, of Lynch
burg, and has large interests through
out the Southwest.
The following Halifax delegates are
quartered at the Hotel Felix: Hon. j.
d. Hawkins, j. G. Cam, w. T. Alison,
! W. J. Jordan, HI. j. Watkins, w. a..
Snead, j. II. Roberts, III. Fl. Burgess,
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