Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-07-31
D..nocrattc Mass meeting.

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DR.. John w. Bowdoin, county chair
man. The chairman reported thatat
a meeting of. the Democratic County
Committee, held on that day, that
said committee recommended Il Pri
mary for the purpose of selecting
nominees for the Senate and House
of Delegates, and on motion the fol-
lowing resolutions presented by B. Il.
Gunter, Jr. were unanimously adop
ed:
LIST That Primary Election be
held in the county of Accomack, on
Saturday, the 2Sth day of August,
A. D., 1897, for the purpose of select
ing candidate for the House of Del
egates from said county, and a can
didate from Accomac county to rep
resent Accomack and Northampton
counties in the Senate.
Cd. That all white democrats over
the age of twenty-one years, and all
who will be twenty-one years of age
at the November election, who will
pledge themselves to support the
democratic nominees at the Novem-
Der election 1897 shall be permitted
to vote in said Primary.
Sd. That the County Committee
shall select the places at which said
election shall be held, and shall name
two democrats to act as judges of
election ut each place so selected by
them. Said places and the names of
said judges of election so selected
shall be published for two weeks
prior to said election.
4th That all persons who desire
to become candidates at said election
shall, on or before Saturday, the 18th
day of August 1897, give their names
to the chairman of the democratic
county committee, with Il pledge to
support the successful candidates at
said election, accompanied with the
sum of ten dollars. to be expended in
defraying the expenses of said cleo
ton.
5tb. That the chairman of the
county committee shall have printed
and distributed at the election pre-
cincts selected by said committee,
tickets upon which shall appear the
names of the candidates, who have
given to the chairman their names,
pledges and money on or before
August 18th.
9th. That the judges of said cleo
ton shall keep book in which shall
be written the names of all persons
votr Q at said election, and shall for
ward to the chairman at Accomack
C. II. 8 ID books and all ballots cast
at said e. ction, on Monday, August
Goth, court day.
at the suggestion of the chairman
the above resolutions wereso amended
as to allow all candidates to be present
in person or by proxy at the count
ing of the votes by him.
On motion of N. B. Wescott, a COM
mittee of three from each magisterial
district was appointed by the chair
man to select delegates and alter,
mates to the Democratic State Con-
vention which meets at Roanoke on
the 18th of August, and the following
delegation named by said committee
was unanimously accepted in mass
meeting:
Islands. J. Ma tthews, 0. NJ.
Jones, X. J. Bunting. Alternates.-
John A. NJ. Wheaton, George R..
Coleburn, James NJ. Birch.
-Atlantic.-Harvey T. Hancock, j.
r. brewer, DR.. Frank Fletcher, DR..
Joseph E. Broadwater, Logan Hen
derson, S. Wilkins Matthews, George
w. Glenn. Alternates.-John F.
Powell, John R. Marshall, S. B.
White, James w. Broughton, Thos
p. Evans, John S. Parsons, Jas. E.
Anderton.
Metompkin. DIR. F. Drummond,
Dr.. John w. Bowdoin, c. G. Dix,
John R Rev, VIM. J. Barnes, John
II. Wise. Alternates.-Jas. R. Kick
man, DR.. a. D. f. Ewell, John Il
Hopkins, R. L. Parks, A. j. Rev.
John o. Ewell.
Lee.-J. w. G.. Blackstone, James
Fl. Fletcher, Jr., DR.. Jno. w. hellam
Thomas W. Blackstone, John 7. Fin
! ney, DR.. John H. Ayers, Robert L.
Hopkins, Thomas G. Rellam. Alte
nates-John S. NAPLES, Wesley j
Watkinson. L. James Gunter, WIN.
B. Pitts, Nat. B. Swanger, Edward E
Miles, Robert L. Fletcher, N. w
Mock.
PunSOteaSue.-N. ID. WesCoIu' ~
George w. LeCato, jeff. D. Jacobs
Leonard G. Mears, John H. Johnson,
William 7. Waters, Sam'l W. Ames
Alternates.-George W. Gilmore, Sr
Edwin II. Powell, Frank S. Smith
William j. Wyatt, 6. Walter Mapp
William T. Mason, George B. Hoff'
man.
On motion, the same delegates were
selected to cast the vote of Accomack
for senator in the convention to be
held to nominate candidates for sen
ator from Accomaek and Northamp
ton counties and for floater delegates
for Accomack and Northampton and
Accomack and Elizabeth City coun'
ties.
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