The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-02
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Will Meet i'll Radford July 80 to Nom
nate, Il Candidate for Congress.

Will Meet i'll Radford July 80 to Nomi
nate. Candidate for Congress.
The Republican convention for the
nomination of Il candidate for Congress,
in the Sixth district, and the transaction
of other business, will be held at Radford
JulA 30. This was decided upon ut a recent
meeting OF the Republican district COM
mittee, and the call is as follows:
ITO the voters of the Sixth Congress
sional District of Virginia Pursuant to
the plan of the party organization. all
voters, without regard to past political
utilization, who believe in Republican
principles, endorse Republican policies
and will support the Republican nominee.
are cordially invited to unite under this
call to participate in the nomination of
Il candidate for Congress for this district
to be voted for ut the coming November
election, for the election of three (3) mem
bers of the State committee and chair
man of the district Congress ional com
mittee, are hereby called to assemble in
district convention in the city of Radford.
in the county of Montgomery. on Thurs
day, the Both day of July, 1896, at /
O'Clock p. III
Delegates and alternateS to said dis
trict convention shall be elected by coun-
ty and city conventions, or by mass meet
ings, as is the usual custom in said coun-
ties and cities.
The permanent chairman of such coun-
ty or city convention, or mass meeting
Will deliver certificate to each delegate
and alternate so elected to the district
convention, which certificate must be
signed by the permanent secretary and
countersigned by the county or..city chair
man, and also forward certified list of
delegates and alternates so elected to w.
Lee Brand, secretary of the district COM
mittee, at Salem. Va.
In addition to the above and immedi-
ately after the election of such delegates
and alternates each county or city con
veutlon or mass meeting, will elect for
their respective counties or cities one
member of the district Congressional
committee as the case may be, which COM
mittee will consist for each county, of a
chairman and one member for each mag
isterial district, and for each city, chair
man and two members for each voting
precinct therein, and the chairman of such
delegated county or city convention or
mass. meeting will notify Col. VIM.
Lamb chairman OF the State Committee,
OF the names and postoffice addresses OF
the chalrmen and committeeman so
elected.
The respective county and city chair
men will give public notice of said con-
ventions or mass meetings and state the
number of delegates and alternates to be
chosen by each magisterial district
The. number of delegates and alter
mates to be elected by each county and
city of the district is, as given by the an
neNed schedule, based upon the vote for
the Republican nominee for Congress
cast in the November election of 1894:
One delegate and one alternate for each
two hundred (2OO) votes or fraction there
OF OF 100 or more cast at said election:
Bedford, 10 delegates, 10 alternates;
Campbell, delegates, s alternates; Char
lotte, delegates, > alternates; Halifax,
- delegates, II alternates: Iynchburg, 8
delegates, 8 alternates; MONTGOMERY, {
delegates, alternates; Roanoke city, {
delegates, Salternates; Roanoke county, 6
delegates, s alternates.
A. $. Asberry, chairman
w. Lee Brand, secretary.
w. III. Faulkner, by proxy,
Adolphus Humbles, by proxy