Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-06

| call a convention Tor the purpose OIL ce-
termining all questions iegitimately per-
| tanning TO convention action, and affect
| ing the dignity and the right of the con-
stituent body. They demand greater
economy in State expenses; a reduction
| i'm the number OF officers; an extension
! and Improvement OF the public school
| system; the Improvement OF the public
| highways. and as liberal a pension policy
| in behalf Of disabled Confederate SOL
| diers as the finances OF the State will
permit.
The convention adjourned at o'clock.
CONVENTION NOTES.
The following Executive Committee
was named: william f. Wickham
(chairman); James S. Pattie. Of Roanoke;
| Y. X. Hackman. Of Harrisonburg; r. r.
Hubbard. of buckingham, and Alva Mar
tin, of Norfolk.
| The State Committee is composed as
| follows:
First Districts. F. Gushman. Duff
Green, and f. ID. Lee.
| Second Distrct-A. G. Peachy, c. W.
Murdaugh Jordan Thompson.
Third Distrct-John Mitchell, Jr., ]. J.
Hall, and James Baker
Fourth District-A c. Wilson, f. j.
| Hill. and S. III. Bliss.
Fifth Distrct-E. NJ. McPhleet, j. B.
Engle. and 5. II. Wood.
Sixth Dstrict-J. w. Mcfarland, j. W.
Bond. and r. y. Armistead
Seventh District-R. j. Walker, A. NJ.
Willis, and l.. w. Cox.
Eighth District-A. A. Warfeld, DIR. f.
NJ Brooks. and w. j. Skinner.
Ninth Dlstrict-No report.
Tenth District-D Il. Riveley, j. NJ.
Brown, and j. W. Word.
-,
George T.. Bowden as a traitor to his
party. and demanding his removal from
the National Republican Executive Com
mittee, and commencing Colonel r. r.
Hubbard as n member Of said committee
from Virginia.
The plan of the organization adopted
by the convention is briefly stated as
follows:
There shall be a State chairman; an
executive committee of four--One each
from the Southwest, the Valley, the
Piedmont. and Tidewater; a State COM
mittee composed of three members from
each district; congressional district com
mittees to be elected by county cOnven-
tions; county committees composed Of
county chairmeD and one member from
each precinct. and those committees to
appoint such other auxiliary committees
as they may deem advisable; city COM
mittees to be composed of the chairmen
and two members from each voting pre-
cnct. Representation at each conven-
tion must be based on the vote at the
presidential! election. The State EXecu-
tive Committee is to provide a roll Of
delegates and alternates, and the same
Is TO govern in any vote that may be
taken before the permanent organization
Of a convention. The committee is 70
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and it shall have the power to convene
the State Committee. A State conven-
ton shall be held at least five weeks
preceding every gubernatorial election
and four weeks prior TO the national
convention, and at least fifty days prior
TO that time the State Committee must
meet and fix a time and place for hold
Ing the convention and apportion the
delegates. If the committee should fail
TO act. it shall be the duty of the State
Chairman 10 act in their place. The
right of the party 10 hold a convention
shall not be defeated by the refusal OF
the State Committee anu the State
Chairman to act. Whenever any dis
trict. city. or county committee shall re-
fuse to discharge their duties. then the
Executive Committee may act for them.
An Anti-Lnmb Comment.
Ex-Postmaster James NJ. Mclaughlin,
who is a conspicuous leader in this Sec
ton of the State among the anti-Lamb
faction. was seen tonight by your cor
respondent and asked his opinion as 10
the convention and it's nominees. He
said
"As to Pat NIcCaulI. have not word
to say. He is my strong personal friend.
supported him i'm his fight for Collector.
For several years he and | stood shoul-
der To shoulder In this district. | do
not know Mr. Wickham, but understand
he is no organizer He has a thOrny path
ahead of him. These gentlemen must
know that the gathering here to-day can
not be called a convention. portion of
their platform is good Republican doc
trine. but their so-called plan of organi-
zation is a stupendous farce. 1t will
meet with no response from the Repub-
Iicans of Virginia According TO Colonel
Lambs call there should be on O free
representation some 1,i0O delegates. AS
a matter of fact there were hardly five
hundred present Anybody could go into
the hall who wanted to- TO a stranger
the audience looked quite large. but there
were always 800 TO 400 Lynchburgers in
the hall. peculiarly striking fact, and
one that must be gratifying to the sup
porters of the regular party organization,
party is I'm the ascendant, being represent |
ed i'm Congress by General James a. |
Walker. and a district which In a repre- |
sentative Republican convention always |
furnishes a delegation conspicuous for |
numbers and personnel, had no represen- |
tation in to-day's Lamb gathering. This, |
too. Notwithstanding the fact that the |
convention was called 10 meet at Lynch |
burg especially in the hope Of having a /
big delegation from that banner district. |
The large majority of the delegates har |
evidently never attended a convention be- |
fore: they were doubtless honest i'm their |
views, but very few of them know any
thing about rarity organization. The
people to be relied on TO get a full Re-
publican vote out 10 the polls were con-
spicuousy absent. The only bad taste |
| had noticed was the Permanent-Chair-
man Yost's repeated references to office
seekers, pie-hunters. etc, when he him
self is an office-holder now, and has been
seeking office for himself or some member
of his family for years.
"The most sensible thing done by any
one in the convention was by Colonel
Lamb, when he declined 10 be reelected
chairman. Had he been OF the same
way of thinking two years ago. his So
called convention OF to-day would not
have been necessary"