Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-04

in putting up Col. 3Boylsin, and one re-
fused osSYote at all. In addition 70
these uncontested delegates there we're
two .contesting delegation from Isle OF
Wight county, Col. Boykin's home, con-
sisting of twenty-six (26) Delegates
each. The whole question Of who Is en-
titled to- be called the regular nominee
depends on which Of the Isle OF Nlght
delegations was entitled to represent
that county in the convention. me
facts surrounding the two delegations
are as follows: Col. G. L. Day, County
Chairman Of the Democratic Executive
Committee of Isle of Wight county.
Va, and father-in-1aw of Senator Thos.
$. Martin. In accordance with the usuai
custom in that county, called mass
meeting of the Democratic voters OF
that county to be held at the court
house on August 18th, 1899 County
Court day), for the purpose OF nominal
ing candidate for the House of Dele
gates and delegates to the Senator!ai
Convention to be held in Suffolk. Va,
on August 24th 1899. At the appoint
ed hour he called the said meeting to
order (, and he was elected as It's pre-
siding officer. OF course. at that mo-
ment his power as county chairman.
ceased. and he became merely the pre-
siding officer of the meeting and sub
Ject 10 the rules of parliamentary pro-
cedure, then after some preliminary
proceedings, nominations for the House
OF Delesa ties were declared in order,
DIR. c. j. bradshaw and Hir. j. n.
Jones were placed in nomination, and
tellers were duly appointed TO make the
count The Jones and Bradshaw fol-
lowers separated and retired to the
places designated by the chairman for
me count to be taken of them. AS soon
as the crowd separated 1T was seif-cNi-
dent that DR.. Bradshaws followers
we're largely in the majority, and that
Jones was overwhelmingly defeated
and as the result, the Jones leaders lost
heart and would not participate i'm the
count That the tellcrs who had been
duly appointed proceeded to canvass
the BRADSHAW vote. and that the vote
was fairly and honestly taken, and
that the representatives of both sides
were privileged to participate in the
count and the Bradshaw tcllcrs would
gladly have welcomed the Jones tellers
during the count. That the mass meet
ing reaSSembled to hear report OF tell
ers. and that Colonel Day nscended the
platform and as chairman of the Coun-
~ Democratic Executive Committee ut.
tempted to adjourn the meeting sine
die for no good cause and without au-
thorrty. motion or consent of the meet
'hg, ana vacated the chair. protest
against such unwarranted action on his
part was ut once raised, and as he re-
fused 10 further occupy the chair, the
meeting elected another chairman TO
preside over 1t. and continued to tram
sact the business FOR which it was
called. rcnorts from the teIlers were
called for. The Bradshaw tcllers re-
ported, but the Jones tellers failed to
report, and DR.. Bradshaw was declared
inc nominee. Up to this point nothing
hnd been done about Senatorial dele
gates. but after nominating Bradshaw
tho meeting proceeded to do the work
that Colonel Day had called it to do,
and selected delegates for the Senator
ial convention, and Stands delegates
were elected. do not believe that any
unprejudiced mind will decide that
there was anything irregular in this
whole proceeding. except the arbitrary
action of Colonel Day i'm attempting to
adjourn the meeting without motion
and consent of the body. Such an at
tempted action was wholly unwarrant-
ed and is not sustained By parliament
tary law, and has no precedent in his.
Tory If, after such attempted action
on his part the l3oykin people failed to
take part in the meeting cit was self
evident that they were in the minority,
1t was their own fault and i'm no manner
invalidnted the action of the meeting
what Democrat that knows Day and
Boykin, believes that they would have
failed to have continued in that mnss
meeting had they have had majority
OF supporters In the said meeting? Col
onelS Day ana Boykin afterwards at
tempted to retrieve their lost fortunes
by calling n primary TO select delegatc s
to the Senatorial convention. My
friends refused to participate in that.
as delegates had already been regularly
chosen at the call of Colonel Day. At
that primary they claim to have po!led
more votes than We're cast for Brad
shaw Mt the mass meeting but admit
ting for the sake of argument. II you
VIII. that that claim may be we'll
rounded still ii did not invalilate the
election at The mass meeting, for if
there had been only one hundred voters
at that mass meeting then the action
or only fifty one CT them would have
been binding on the meeting and on the
party, though there were two thousand
voters in the county who failed 10 at
Tend the mass meeting.
At The Senatorial convention, held in
Suffolk, Va, on August a. 1899. Col
onel Day. who by reason of his being
senior chairman in The district. called
me convention to order and refused to
recognize the delegates regularly elect
eu M the ms meeting, and announced
his intention to allow the Irregular del
eSatcs. selected in accordance with the
so-calied primary. to vote on tempo
rarN organiza ton. and the proposed
temporary chairman announced that
lie would recognize the said irregular
delegation 10 vote i'm the convention
on their own contest and would eX-
clude those regularly elected Mt the
mass-mceting. Such high handed and
arbitrary action the thirtv-fve uncon-
tested delegates for ME refused TO sub
mt to, and would not permit Colonel
Day to thus organize the convention
In consequence thereof. the thirty-hve
neieSa es Tor me. with the regular
uciegation from Isle OF Wight county.
orga n'zed the convention and nomi-
hatcd me. While the other twenty del
esateS' with The Irregular delegation
from Isle of Wight. held another meet
IL.E IN me same han end mi lid Colonial