The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-05
CAUSE or THE TROUBLE.
Now Prevailing in The Raj ks OF The Rtpuh-
llGan Party In This State.
COLONEL WIN. LAMBS DEMONSTRATIONS,
OF Judge waddili. Gen. Alien ana FIX
Con.ressnnnn Bouden Last Might
ut Meeting OF CoIored RcpubIt.
enns-hIe Calls Thcn Traitors-Thc
Wnddill Side of IL.

What has caused all the trouble In
wy ranks OF the ltepu blicau party! %
was asked prominent member Of that
party by Nirginan reporter yestsr-
uaE. The gentleman is a. follower of
the Waddill- Bowdcn-Luw faction
ana lie expressed himself freely as to tho
origin of the trouble which has resulted
III an effort on the part Of Col. Lamb
TO Dust Mr Thomas Lowcrv out OF thu
embarrassing of the party in this city.
IL Is no secret that Col. Lamb wants
10 get rid OF Chairman Lowe!y and he
wants TO get rid of him very badly
This he asserted most positively last
night IN a speech before about 200 col
ored men at Beslow's Hail, on Scott
street.
Col. Lamb. in addition 10 being the
chairman Of the Republican party in
this State, is a member of the National
committee. chairman of the State Exc
cu'iNe Committee and q member OF the
National Executive Committee.
His language last night could not
be mistaken. He boldly denounced
Judge Waddill. Yankee" Allan. as he
called Gen Edgar Allan. and cx-Con-
gresham George +. Eowdcn as con
spira;ors and traitors; claimed that
t3iey had entered into a conspiracy
to defeat his party and fat-footedly an
nounccd that he was for q colorcd man
John Mitchell, editor of the Planet,
Of I2ichmond-for delegate to the Re
publican National Convention. even as
sorting that he would trust Mitchell be-
fore he would any of those mentioned.
THE TROUBLE
The origin of the trouble rs explained
by the friends of Chairman I.owrry, is
that just after the death OF Gen. Ma
hone the panty leaders began looking
about for his successor on both the
National Committee and as State Chair
man. Judge Waddill was selected as
State Chairman and Col. Lamb as Ma
tional Committeeman. When the meet
Ing of the St::c Committee was held in
Petersburg. however Col. Lamb declined
10 accept one position without the other.
This did not please the Waddill faction
and they began casting about for an
other combination. They fixed up
slate which proposed Bowden for State
Chairman and Waddil for National
Committeeman When the time for the
filling of the two positions came on.
however this slate was smashed and
Col. Lamb captured both plu,ns.
This action on the part Of Waddill,
BOwdcn. ct ais, il Is said. incensed Col
one Lamb. and he ri once began look
ing about for revenge. 1t happened
that General Edgar Allan. the chairman
Of the Richmond City Committee. was
a close friend of Judge Waddill and he
NAS StitCltu dS liI' diSti ilioutoii
TO shoot q; judge Waddill
Mr.. Thomas Lowery. the chairman OF
the party in Norfolk Is also Il close
friend 10 Mr. Bowdcn. This, 1t is said.
is why he was selected for the decapita-
ton act. OF course IL was only natural
that Mr.. Lowcry should be selected n.
the first victim, because he was in easy
reach of Colonel Lamb
This is the story told by the opponents
OF Colonel Lamb. although the reason
he gave To a Virgnian reporter last
night was that he did not believe that
either General Allan or Mr.. Lowery
would count fair. He was afraid to
trust either Of them"
They are traitors" he declared.
LAST NIGHTS MEETING
In the call for the meeting last night
as mentioned above. all Republicans
We're invited TO come and hear the truth
as 10 the present organization of the
City Committee" The hall was crowd
ed with colored men. 4 few white Re
publicanS stood in the rear. II WAS pro-
badly $40 o'clock when Charles Y. BaS-
low the chairman. called the meeting 10
order aud introduced Colonel Lamb
Col. Lamb said that every moment of
his time was valuable. but that owing
TO 50 many MISREPRESENTATION about
him, he had come 10 address the pco-
pie who had always stood by him He
said that he had unwllingly succeeded
Gen. Malone. Upon the lattcr's death
he had been called TO New York and
banqnettcd by leading Republicans.
who had promised to give him such
support as mad never been given to
Virginia. This was why he consented.
He did not want Office; he only wished to
capture this State from the thraldom
OF II degenerate Democracy. He was
unwilling to take one place without the
other. and his friends insisted that he
should take both. He had found friends
everywhere In the State. except in his
own district He had given his Ia bors to
the Republican party for thirteen years.
lie charged that a conspiracy had
been Matched in this city to defeat him
He had defeated Judge Waddill by so
overwhelming Il majority that his cleo
ton WAS made unanimous. Immediately
YANKEE" Allan denounced him.
Il CHARGE said Col. Lamb. that
Yankee Allan. Judge Waddill and Geo.
Bowden have entered into II conspiracy
to turn me out at the State Conven-
ton at stanton and elect Judge Wad-
dill VIII you allow them to DO it?"
Cries of NO! MOI"
He said that the Democratic papers
were supporting the other side. bu, they
could not frightcn him. He claimed to
have defended the rights OF the colored
man. and said that ne had been made
a member of the National Executive
Committee and would be one of eighteen