Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-07
THROUGH THE STATE.
SEVENTH DISTRICT REfuBLIcAN
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
contesss and "A Fisf-shaking Incl
aent-ColoneI Lamb Endorsed
Robert J. walker Nominated by
AccTnmatIon--othe Virginia News.

LURAy, VA, August 6.-(Special.)-
The Republican convention to nominate
a candidate for Congress from the
Seventh Congressional District was call
cd to order ia the courthouse here
to-day at II o'clock by a. z. Funk
houscr, OF Harrsonburg. Andrew Broad
dus. OF Luray, was made temporary chair
man Of the convention, and G. NJ. Glib
bens OF Winchester, and members Of the
Republican press temporary secretaries.
Committees on Permanent Organization.
Credentials. Resolutions. and order OF
Business. and on Nominations were then
appointed, and the convention took a
recess for half hour to await reports
from the committees.
Upon the reassembling OF the conven-
ton the Committee on Credentials re-
ported contests from Clarke, Rappahan-
mock. and Warren counties. and recon-
mended the seating Of both delegations
from the two former counties. giving each
delegate half vote; also. that one dele
cation only be seated from Warren
county. The report OF the committee
produced considerable discussion which
posing delegates from Warren county
shaking their fists al each other in a
threatening manner. The committees re-
port was finally adopted and harmony
apparently restored.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The temporary organization was made
permanent, and the Committee on Reso-
luti0ns. through c. NJ. Louthan, of Madi-
son. chairman, submitted a report signed
by nine Of its ten members. The resolu-
lions declared for projection and sound
money. agains, the importation Of foreign
labor. endorsed the st. Louis platform.
and pledged the support OF the party
10 Colonel William Lamb as State chair
man Mr.. Funkhouser, the other MEM
Der of the committee. offered a sub
HtItute for the resolution which endorsed
Colonel Lamb. but in 1t referred 10 past
differences in tho party now settled and
commended the action of the National
Committee in appointing an Advisory
Committee 10 assist the State chairman
in conducting the campaign. After seve-
raj speeches the resolutions reported by
the majority OF the committee were
adopted. The Committee on Nomina-
lions reported the name Of Robert j.
Walker OF Shenandoah county as the
candidate of the Republican party for
Congress from this district and speeches
mendation By c. NJ. Louthan, c. l..
Pritchard. John Acker. and others.
WALKER NOMINATED.
Mr. Walker was finally nominated by
reclamation amid much enthusiasm, and
was brought before the convention and
accepted the nomination in a speech
which he had written out In full for the
occasion. Mr.. Walker was followed by
AR 5. Brown Allen. AT the conclusion
Of these speeches. and shortly after 6
O'Clock, the convention adjourned sine
die.
The debate and vote upon the resolution
offered by Mr. Funkhouser developed the
fact that a majority Of the convention
were supporters Of the State chairman
and against outside interference.
There was a sprinkling of colored dele
gates 81 the convention. and one Of them
named Burrell. from Clark county. made
a speech against the report Of the Com
mittee on Credentials, disposing Of the
contest from his county. but the con-
vention did not take the colored brothers
views of the question.