Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-18
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By this time the members of the com
ID ittee interfered, and the men were sep,
Grated, but the incident created good
deal of talk.
| The fight began when Senator Stubs
of Gloucester, member of the commit,
tee on platform and Tyler man, moved
that the convention adopt platform
before making any nominations. Inc
object of this was to precipitate the pat
tie on silver. Mr.. Stubs was continu-
ally interrupted in pressing his motion.
1t was finally rejected by an over
whelming majority, and so decided by
the chair. This was test vote, and
downed the opposition.
At 9.15 o'clock Judge w. +. Rhea, OF
Washington county, placed before the
convention the name of Col. c. L. U Fer
rail- for Governor. He complimented his
candidate in high terms. Judge Rnea
only spoke 10 of the Is minutes allowed
under the rule adopted. Col. Z. ;;
Stringfellow, of Richmond, next placed
Col. A. s. Buford in nomination for
Governor.
When Judge Waller r. Staples, of
Montgomery, stepped out on the plat
form to nominate J. Hoge Tyler he was
met with applause. Like his predeece9s-
sor, Judge Staples did not exceed the
Is minutes limit.
Judge George C. Cassell, of Radford,
a brother-in-law, seconded Tyler's
nomination, and w. 7. Atkins, of
Mecklenburg, performed the service
for O'Ferrall. Mr.. H. G.. Williams, of
Augusta, as the representative of the
farmer element. also seconded OFFER
rails nomination, and Hon. Geo. G.
Cabell then seconded the nomination OF
Buford.
At 1912 the roll was called and the
balloting for Governor commenced.
The ballot resulted in O'Ferrell's nomi-
nation by large majority.
The ballot stood as follows OFFER
rail-, /, 14G; Tyler, $780, Buford, 159. 1t
only required S2l votes to nominate.
Alexandria city cast II for O'Ferrall,
and 5 for Buford, and the county cast
for O'Ferrall and for Tyler.
At the announcement the convention
went wild, while the band played
Dixie Col. J. Hampton Hoge, OF
Montgomery, moved to make the NOM
nation unanimous, and it was carried
with rush.
When the convention voted to 90 on
with the nominations, Judge Duncan, OF
Lee county, nominated Col. Robert c.
Kent for Lieutenant Governor. The
rules were at once suspended and Kent
was nominated without opposition.
The convention now began to rush
things, and the friends of Hon. r. Tay-
lor Scott insisted upon going into the
nomination of Attorney General. The
friends of the other four or five candi-
dates opposed this.
The Scott men won. For Attorney
General Judge Cassell nominated r.
Taylor Scott. and Hampton Hoge, OF
Montgomery county, nominated Sen,
ator Blackstone, of Accomac.
Before the nominations for Attorney
General were finished Col. c. 7. OFFER.
rail. the nominee for Governor, came
in with the committee who waited
upon him and presented him to the
convention. He addressed the conyen
ton at considerable length.
Lieut.. Gov. J. Hoge Tyler followed
Col 0'Ferrall and indorsed the nomi
nee and his successful rival in the most
humorous speech of the evening.
Mr.. Kent, the nominee for Lieut..
Governor, came forward and accepted
the honor.
Col. Buford also spoke, gracefully ac-
cepting the result, and ple1ging his sup,
: port to the ticket.
!; Before the convention proceeded to
business there was bitter wrangle over
adjournment, which ended at 1:30 in q
defeat for motion to adjourn by a vote
of l, III to 543. Congressman Marshall
nominated William A. Little, of Fred
ericksburg, for attorney general, and
then Hal Flood, of Augusta, made an
other motion to adjourn to y o'clock
to-day. These filibustering efforts were
holly resented by the delegates, and
Congressman Meredith denounced them
in speech.
For the fourth time Judge Oldham,
of Accomac, began to second Black
stones nomination in a rambling
speech.
Name your man, for Gods sake =
shouted tired delegate and the orator
sat down.
An attempt to declare the nomina-
tions closed led to another exhibition
of turbulence, which even Speaker
Cardwell was powerless to quell. The
convention was now q disorganiZed
mob.
| 1t was 2 o'clock when the roll was
finally called on the nomination for at
torney general. At its conclusion,
Chairman Cardwell announced that
Scott had received 928, n majority of
the votes. Mr.. Flood, who had been
making a gallant but vain fight for
Blackstone, moved to make it unani-
nous. which was agreed to. The Off
cial vote was not announced, but Scott
received aver 900 votes. There were
speeches, the platform was read by
Judge Goode and adopted, and the
handful of delegates remaining adjourn
ed sine die at $50 O'CLOCK.
Just before adjournment Mayor j..
Taylor Ellyson. of Richmond, was
elected State chairman for the next
four years.
The platform is as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The representatives Of the democrat
ic party of Virginia, in convention as
sembled, reaffirming their allegiance to
III n MI IN N; n. M tho no rtv os formu lated