Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-04-07

was completed.
On motion, the nomination of the
following candidates for Commission
ers of,he Revenue made by the Dis
trict Conventions was ratified;
Lee District, w. Ii. Snapp.
Ashby L. 5. Calvert.
Madison G. NJ. Chnedinst.
s,onewan " w. L. Wisman.
Jobrston d" Milton Crabill.
Davis Mason BY.
The Convention proceeded to the
nomination ofcounty officers.
The usual convention orators
seemed to be absent and tie
candidates were nominated with very
brief speeches. The following were
nominated by reclamation:
G. w. Koontz for County Trees
urer; G. w. Miley for Circuit Clerk
and J. II. Downey for Sheriff. For
county Clerk, Joseph Boyer, II. c.
Magruder aud II, B. Chapman were
placed in nomination. ltwas deter
mined that the vote should be taken
bv precincts. When the Court House
precinct was called, it was announced
that the vote was Magruder 1898,
Boyer . 62-93, Chapman 2 1898,
there was protest from several of the
delegates, but the spokesman Of the
delegation announced that he had the
certificate of the Chairman and secre-
tary of the primary that that was cor
rect. As it was not probable that
the convention would go behind the
returns" the matter was passed ever,
but it engendered a bitterness upon
the part of the delegates and lack
of harmony which not even the oily
and rhetorical speech of DIR. Rice
could gloss over. Delegates from
the Court House precinct claim that
at the primary 1t was agreed that
there should be minority representa-
ton. that Magruder had 20 votes,
Chapman 80 and Boyer 81, that tie
meeting undertook 10 decide how
the vote should be apportioned and
that the meeting first gave Chapman
3 delegates, Boyer ,, and Magruder
2, and afterwards disposed of ihc
eighth vote by giving cac' ofthe dele
gates one-seventh OF vote addition
al and that under this apportionmon
made an agreed to by the meetn 6
Chapman was to have 3 and three
seventh votes, Boyer two and two.
seventies and Mlgruder two and
two-sevenths and that the Chairman
and Secretary had no right to make
any other report.
1t was excee dun ely unfortunate for
all parties that this difficulty occur
red. The defeated candidates feel
that they were wrongcd, and the sue
cessful, though he may have known
nothing of the arrangement, will lose
the enthusiastic support Of some who
would under other circumstances !
have been his most ardent workers q
On the third ballot another cause 1
Of dissatisfaction was given, when the
convention had passed resolution
that 10 candidate should be dropped .
before three ballots had been taken, n
and a part ofthe instructed vote from c
the Court House was taken from one 5
candidate and gwen to another.
On the third ballot Mr.. Jos. w. =
Boyer was declared the nominee.
In ballotting for Commonwealth .
Attorney it was claimed by some of &
the S.icklcy delegates that the votes '
Of two precincts were not cast accord .
ing to the instructions of the prima- Q
ries. %
Gen. J. II. Williams was nominated d
}, candidate for Commonwealth 10
Attorney. p
If any we're looking for a lack of I"
Iarmony In the organization OF the ra
,arty, they were destined to be dis o.
as the party was reorganiz- ne
d by continuing the old dual organi-
alton with two Chairmen and two o
They will be able to a
FORK tremendously together. OF
The candidates nominated arc all y