Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-19
r,o crhernatorial nomination.

convention, but charges are made that
snap judgments are being taken by one
method in one place, and another meth
cd in another place The selections of
delegates should be by proceedings and
after notice that will make charges OF
this sort impossible. The Governor
should be that person who is the choice
of the people, and there should be moth
ing done which will even seem to justi-
fy charges of machine-made delegates
to defeat the popular will.-Richmond
Times.
Exactly so. Our able and respected
contemporary is absolutely right in its
conclusion. But why not treat the
matter in more explicit and less gen
eral way2 Does not the Times know
that the primary meetings in Clarke
county were appointed to be held even
before call was issued for the State
convention, and that they were held
thus early to subserye the interests OF q
particular candidate? Why should del
egates be hastily elected in June to a
convention that is to be held late in
August? Why this disposition to take
snap Judgment, to forestall public SEN
timent i? And how does it happen that
in every case it has been done in the
interest of one particular candidate ::
The office-holders and office seekers and
political thimble riggers had best be-
ware. The people of Virginia are not
easily imposed on by such manifestly
unfair Misunderstanding Ne'cs.
"The snapjudgmentn methods adopt
ed by the friends of Col. O'Ferrall in
Clarke and Henry counties and Buena
Vista city to secure delegates to the
State convention, may seem to them to
be bit of sharp practice, and in accord
with good democratic doctrine, but
such acts usually return to plague their
sponsors. There is no Justice or neces-
sity in calling county convention at a
days notice to name delegates, when
the State convention is two months Off.
The democracy ofthcse counties should,
without reference to the claims OF any
candidate, repudiate the acts of few
rinesters, and demand fair notice and
fair play. This is no time TO introduce
the isnappersn methods in this State,
and the party cannot afford to permit
it.-Rodnoke Record.
The meeting in Henry county was
decidedly in favor of O'Ferrall, but
sustained the Bulletins suggestion and
declined to instruct, or even to question
the delegates as to their preference be-
tween the three aspirants.
Henry's delegates are free TO act as
they think best in the interest OF the
democratic party.-Henry Bulletin.
BERRYv1LLE, Va, June 16, 1898.
To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette.
Will YOU kindly ALLOW me space in
your paper 10 correct a statement
which appeared in your Washington
letter of the 18th inst, wherein Messrs'
Marshall Mccormick and S. S. Thorn
as are reported TO have said that in our
recent convention "a Tyler man voted
negroes and republicans and man
with patch on his eye five times and
then bolted.n I think your correspond
ent must have misunderstood the gen.
tleman, because it is not true that the
men who voted against Col. O,Ferrall
were either negroes or republicans
They were the sturdy democrats OF
Clarke county who faithful among
the faithless found" bearing the heat
and burden of many hand foug bit po'
litical contest, triumphantly carried to
victory the banner of the democratic
party. Are such men to be branded
ne renuhIicons because they do not sup
port O'Ferrall?
1t is true that five negroes voted
with the anti OFerrall men;they were
however, democrats, and had Votec
the democratic ticket in the last cleo
ton. Then they were voting for O'Fer
raj and that was all right; anC
when they vote against O'Ferrall they
are all wrong. These very negroe:
were brought in the democratic fold by
tho eloquent speeches made by Mr.
Mccormick and others in the last cam
paign. On every principle of right ant
Justice were they not fully entitled tc
participate in a democratic meeting
At least Mr.. Mccormick and MIR
Thomas must have thought so because
then roted colored voters for O'Ferral
in the same convention. AS to the man
with patch on his eye, this was 8
drunken man from Harper's Ferry who
in an earlier part of the day was, tol
disorderly conduct and insulting Ian
guage, very properly knocked down by
a son of the man who supported Col
O'Ferrall. Out fpique he in his maud
lin state Joined our lines, but he wa:
repeatedly put out and nerer coted once
This reported statement looks very
much like desperate effort to 'patct
up" tale. OF course l do not NEAR
this in any offensive sense. One wore
more as to the boiling. When the let
ter announced 147 votes against OFFER
rail- and only 1872 were counted for him
one tremendous cheer arose from the
ranks of the -O'Ferrall men, and be
lieving the victory won many OF them
at once left the Court green. Then
came in the tactics of Speaker Reid
At least one-third of the anti.O'Ferral
men had gone. 1t is now claimed that
chairman Thomas then ordered re.
count. This was so manifestly unfair
that the convention became mob and
would not consent to do so. Taking
the bit in his mouth Speaker Reid, alias
Thomas, threw out the entire l47 votes
and declared that the 132 votes elect
ed the delegates. | am informed thai
Mr.. Thomas, on his return from Wash
ington, denied having made the state
ment withlwhich he is credited. Indeed
he had a public encounter on the street
with Sheriff Livi because nc is said in
the article to have stated that Col. OVER.