Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-19
COL. LAMB DEP0SED
By THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
LYSCHBURG YESTERDAY.
PARK AGNEW HIS SUCCESSOR.
No state Ticket TO BE Put Up-An
Addrcss-same Old Cry-0usted
yention.

Committee met mere lO-uiSnL at y NioSh
in the parlors of the Carroll Hotel. Every
member was present in person or by
proxy. About 200 prominent Republicans
from all sections of the state were IN
attendance. The feeling between the
Lamb and anti-Lamb factions ran high.
and many caustic criticisms were heard
on both sides. Asa Rogers. of Peters
burg. secretary Of the State Executive
Committee, called the meeting to order,
and ]. l.. Cleaves, Of Wytheville, was
elected chairman.
The Committee on Personal Represen-
tation and Proxies reported the following
present: First District-Josephus Trader,
Edwin Brown. and Morgan Treat; proxy
for T. A. McKenny.
Second District-H. b. Nichols, John J.
Deyer. and James T. Mitchell.
Third District-Edgar Allan, Morgan
Treat. and w G. Singleton.
Fourth District-Asa Rogers, w. NJ.
Flanagan. and A. W. Harris.
Fifth District-C. NJ. Tucker. c. p.
Barksdale, and Wlngfeld Scott proxy
for B. S. Pedigo.
Sixth Dlstrict-W. H. Faulkner, w. II.
Mosby, and A. S. Asberry.
Seventh District-John Acker. c. Il.
Pritchard. and z. w. Strother; proxy for
B: G. Simms.
Eighth Dlstrlct-Park Agnew. proxy
for r. r. Campbell, and r. l.. F'latford.
Ninth District-A. NJ. Dickinson, J. l..
Gleaves. General James A. Walker; proxy
for G. w. Blankenship.
Tenth Districts Brown Allen, proxy
for J. l.. Hamilton and John w. Word;
T.. J. McCuloch, John A. Moon.
A motion that a committee be appoint
ed to notify Colonel Lamb that the State
Committee was in session was, after some
discussion, withdrawn.
CHARGES AGAINST LAMB.
The following paper, preferring charges
against Colonel Lamb, was read by the
secretary:
Experience has demonstrated your
ineflciency to perform the duties re-
qulred of you; that you nave been for a
long time past in utter antagonsm 20
the State organization, and attempting
to create discord; that being on the eve
OF a State campaign. in which it IS all
important shat there should be no diver
sion in the plans of the Republican or
ganiZatiOn, such harmony we are salts
fed cannot be obtained so long as you
remain the chairman; that during the
campaign Of 1895 you. as the head Of the
Republican party Of the state was largely
responsible for the conduct of that cam
paign, and continually placed yourself in
antagonism to the united action of the
Campaign Committee appointed by the
National Republican Committee; that
since that campaign you have unjustly
assailed Hon. n. B. Scott, who was
designated by the National Committee
as their representative IN the Virginia
campaign by publicly charging him with
acknowledgment; that you have usurped
the powers which belong to the COM
mitteo whose chairman you are, In that
without consulting the committee. you
have appointed your own brother as act
ing secretary Of the State Executive
Committee; that since appointing your
brother as acting secretary you have
circulated through the State, over his
signature as acting secretary, certain
communications marked "COnfidential,"
in which you unjustly assail the policy
OF the Mckinley Administration In re-
gard to the management Of Republican
interests in the State, and attempt to
involve the party in Virginia I'm a con-
flict with the national administration,
and also seek TO incte among tho Repub-
leans Of the State distrust Of the recog-
nized party organization, Of which you
are a part. Although IL provided i'm The
plan of organization that the State Com
mittee shall fix the time and place for
all State convention, you have announced
through the press that you. regardless
OF the action OF the committee at Lynch
burg, would call a State convention TO
place a Republican ticket in the field
for the fan election, thereby placing
yourself I'm rebellion against the orsani-
zation Of which you are part"
4 SUBSTITUTE.
General Walker offered substitute FOR
the charges, and proposed that instead OF
removing Colonel Lamb at this meeting
the matter be postponed. lie SPOKE
earnestly Of the necessity OF holding
convention and letting that convention
determine whether or not Colonel Lamb
should be deposed. He did not dispute
the right of the committee to do as il
thought best, and said he would bow TO
the will of the majority
Hon. Jake Yost seconded I'm earnest
terms General Walkers notion
MIR. Edgar Allan spoke at length In sup
port Of the charges against Colonel LAMB.
A resolution offered by Mr. w. NJ
Flanagan, deposing Colonel Lamb as state
chairman, was adopted by an almost
unanimous VOTE Jol ASHS" va" SA~~sN@
TO succeed him.
The committee then adjourned after
adopting an address to the Republican
voters Of Virginia.
THE ADDRESS.
The address charges fraud by the
Democrats in the last presidential cleo
ton. and claims that the Republican
ballots destroyed after being cast ex-
ceeded by thousands the majority re-
turned for the Democratic electoral
ticket. IL denounces the Parker act'
as a medium Of educating in dark ways"
thousands of citizens; says that so long
as the present 'pretence" Of holding
elections in the State exists, it would be
worse than folly to subject Republican
voters TO the loss and expenditure or
time and money essential TO an election
for State officers, and declares that In
the judgment of the committee, I'VE
(the Republicans) are confronted az this
particular time with conditions or cir
cumstances which would inject into the
canvass appeals to passion and prejudice
such as have not characterized any cam
paign i'm our state for many years past"
The address then INDUCES I'm another
TRADE against alleged Democratic frauds.
makes another admission that contest
for State offices would be hopeless, and
adds:
THE only hope or remedy for ex-
listing evils lies in an awakening OF the
honest yeomanry OF the Democratic
party TO the iniquitous nature OF our
election law and the fraudulent purpose
of and practice under those laws
Continuing. the address says:
at is the judgment CT the state Com
mlttee that. avoiding the acrlmony ana
minimizing the zeal which would be en-
gendered by placing full State ticket
I'm the held. and combining ourselves 10 the
vigorous efforts 10 secure the eiectioh