Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-18
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.

executive committee held in Richmond
on November % last, members of the
committee from the Second and Fourth
districts, friends of Hon. George E.
Bowden, Gen. Edgar Allan and Judge
Edmund Waddill, and enemies of Col.
William Lamb, the present chairman,
we're elected, thus ousting the formerly
chosen members, who are of the Lamb
| faction.
At q meeting of the committee, held
in Norfolk yesterday, the action OF the
Richmond meeting was Endorsed by an
, overwhelming vote. The result is that
Col. Lamb finds himself chairman with
only about one-fourth or less of the
committee as his friends.
The meeting was called to order by
State Chairman William Lamb, and it
was over full hall that the sound of
the gavel rang.
Gen. James A. Walker moved the
reading of the minutes of the meeting
| of the 18th of November, held at Rich
| mond.
Judge G. W. Murdaugh was at once
on his feet protesting against the read
ing of those minutes and claiming that
be had not been legally notified. The
legal notification was proven by Mr..
Morgan Treat, who dictated and sent
the notification
After lengthy discussion the motion
| prevailed and these minutes were read.
General Walker then moved that the
minutes as read be adopted and the
roll called on the motion. This Wa
done, and the motion prevailed by q
vote of 20 3 yeas to 2.5 nays, the
second and fourth districts not voting.
This settled the whole question, and
assured Messrs Nichols, Deyer and
| Mitchell of their seats in this district,
the anti-lamb men in the fourth district
of theirs, and leaves Mr.. Sam Bur
| roughs d strict chairman.
Col. James D. Brady then moved to
adjourn. At this point occurred scene
which put the final touch on Colonel
Lambs humiliation. The chairman,
before putting the motion to adjourn,
presented the designations of Messrs.
r. T. Hubbard, II. Libbey and Alvah
Martin from the executive committee.
These were the three elected by the
quasi convention at Newport News last
July, who have never been recognized
by the State committee, or at least by
that part favorable to Mr.. Bowden.
Absolutely no notice VI as paid to these
designations, Colonel Brady merely
renewing his motion to adjourn which
was put and adopted.
Colonel Lamb accepted the inevitable
without aay fight, but gave no intima-
ton that he will resign as chairman of
the party. AS it will be an honor with
out influence, it would seem strange if
Colonel Lamb does not soon retire from
the committee. The executive commit
tee and the State committee both being
against the State chairman, the situa-
ton would seem to be altogether dis
tasteful one to him. The real purpose
of the renewal of the fight against the
State chairman is to tie his hands, so
that he cannot interfere in the distribu-
ton of patronage in Virginia. Bowden,
Brady, Waddill and Allan carried the
Virginia delegation for Mckinley
against the influence of Colonel Lamb.
Their man having been elected, they
do not want the anti Mckinley people
to have any share in the spoils.
After the State committee adjourned,
the executive committee met and elect
ed Colonel Asa Rogers, secretary, and
]. d. Brady, treasurer.
The victory of the anti-Lambites was
informally celebrated after the meeting
in the rooms of the Tjdewater republic
can association.
There was some speechmaking, in
which Mr.. Thorpe, of the Fourth.
nominated General James A. Walker
as the next Governor of Virginia.
The General responded happily, say
ing he was soldier and had learned to
obey orders.
A meeting of the members who were
unseated by the anti.Lamb faction by
yesterdays action ofthe committee and
prominent republicans of the State was
held Immediately after the adjourn
ment OF the committee. The action of
the committee in unseating the friends
of Col. Lamb was denounced in strong
resolutions as unjust and revolutionary
During the discussion it was stated
that S167 900 had been sent into Vir-
GINA by the national republican com.
mittee during the recent campaign and
that the greater portion of this fund
had been used to bring about the down.
fall of Col. Lamb.