Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-06-20
AUGUSTA COUNTY ALL RIGHT.
HER DELEGATION UNANIMOUS FOR
TUCKER.

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| TUCKER.
She Honors Herself in Endorsing the Able
and Faithful Representative of this Con-
| gressiOnal District.
| The election of Delegates for Staunton and
! Augusta county to the Congressional conven
| ton to be held in Buchanan on the 10th oil
August, was held in the county districts on
last Saturday afternoon and in the two wards
of this city at s pm. that evening. and all the
As delegates thus elected are in favor of the
nomination and reelection of Hon. H. st. G
Tucker who has represented the district with
consummate ability, and made record in
Congress of which any man might justly feel
proud.
The following are the delegates elected in
the two wards of the city of Staunton and in
the six districts in the county
FIRST WARD.
w. c. Hedrick, John ]. Kigalen, John C.
Whitock, William Patrick and James A.
Hutcheson, with authority to select their own
alternates.
SECOND WARD.
George M Cochran, VIM. Wholey, s. H.
Rosenbaum, James Bumgardner, jr., George
W. Blackley, with authority to appoint their
own alternates.
BEVERLY MANOR DISTRICT.
James n. Mcfarland West End; NJ F. Gilke-
son, Folly Mills; Il. NJ. Spencer Sandy Hol-
low; John W. Todd, Bolivar; and j. H. Lup
ton, Burnett.
NORTH RIVER DISTRICT.
Alex. Walker, Mt Scion: T. S. Hogsh cad,
Parnassus; B. Vint, Sangersville; Samuel For
rer, Centreville; n. Z. Wheeler, Spring Hill.
The following alternates were also elected
Chesley Blair, N. Z. Whitmer, Alexander Dud-
ley, Douglas Huffman.
Samuel FOrrer presided over the convention
and J. H. Silling was made secretary.
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted:
WHEREAS, We, the people of North River
District in Augusta county, in convention as
sembled to nominate and elect delegates to a
Congressional convention of the Tenth Dis
trict of Virginia., to be held at Buchanan on
the 18th day of August; therefore,
Resolved, LIST. That the delegates elected by
this meeting are earnestly requested to sup
port by their votes and influence, the Hon. H.
st. George Tucker, our present efficient, and,
as we believe, honest representative.
ReSolyed, End. Recognizing the great DIVERSE
ty of local interest of the people on the ques-
ton OF tariff reform as one of paramount i'm
portance, yet one of seeming utter impossi-
bility to satisfy and accommodate all sections
and complicated interests, yet we trust good
may come in the end to all the people.
Resoloed, 3rd We believe Hon. H. St. e.
Tucker has striven to represent his district
faithfully and honestly and has been the in
of having repealed the odious and
infamous Elections BILL much to the salts
faction of the whole people, and further that
he has brought prominently before the peo-
pie bill to amend the constitution in regard
n O plpptiOn IT NV bp
which we trust will ultimately become the law
of the land.
Respectfully submitted,
L. S. HOGsHEAD, Chairman.
RIvERHEADs DISTRICT.
R. F. Larew, Samuel Gilkeson, G. P Light
ner, j. w. Beard, w. W. Sproul, j. Alex
Bumgardner and s. f. Prison, with authority
to appoint their own alternates.
The following resolution offered by Col
Samuel Goode. with a few appropriate re-
marks, was unanimously adopted
Resolyed, That this meeting thoroughly in
dorses and approves the course of our distin-
guished representative in Congress during the
last five years. that in our opinion it marks
him as a statesman and patriot; that we send
him the greeting due to good man and true,
and that in view of his eminent ability, in
domitable Democracy and large experience in
public affairs, we earnestly and confidently
recommend him as his own successor in Cen
gress, and that our delegates in the nominal
ing convention are hereby instructed to sup
port his nomination so long as his name shall
be before that body
MIDDLE RIVER DISTRICT.
w. H. Moorman, c. S. Patterson c. S. Wat
son, DR.. J. E. Eakle and S. H. Walker.
The delegates were instructed to vote for
Tucker.
SOUTH RIVER DISTRICT
G. S. Meyer, Elijah Coiner, ]. S. Stuart,
Henry Antrim, James Kemper, J. w. Church
man, W. 6. Abney, M. R. Ellis and f. w.
Weaver.
The delegates instructed to support Tucker,
and each authorized to appoint his alternate.
PASTURES DISTRICT.
D. F. Hoover, E. ]. Montgomery, j. w. Sieg
M. r. Coalter-instructed for Tucker If any
delegates be absent those present will cast
their votes.
The meeting adopted the following instruc-
TONS
I'VE, the Democrats of Pastures district, Au-
gusta county, Virginia, in mass meeting as
sembled, hereby heartily endorse the course
of our able representative in the National
Congress, and the delegates which have Just
been chosen by this meeting to the Congress
sional convention which meets in Buchanan
on the 10Th day of August 1894. are hereby
instructed to vote for and use every honorable
means to secure the denomination of the Hon.
H. ST. Geo. Tucker as the Democratic nominee
for Congress from this district.