The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-25
Delegates for Young Went Over to
Him and Decided the Question.
BALLoTED ALL NIGHT LONG.
Net Until Three O'Clock in the Morn
ing Was the Contest Ended-Free
Fight in tho Convention Hall
Was Very Narrowly Avcrted.
The Nominee Very Popu-
lar With All Glasses.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.)


NEWPORT NEWS. VA, August
24-Hon H L. Maynard, of Portsmouth
was nominated for Congress on the
sixtieth ballot at o'clock this morning,
after the most desperate fight ever nude
in a Democratic Congressional Convention
in the Second Virginia District.
Nothing like it was ever seen here be-
fore All night long the bailoting re-
mained practically at the s.nrt, the
smaller counties wavering backward and
forward us their candidates were dropped
nd brought in nsain. Never was such per-
sistent jockeying known before in con-
Tention in this section and so well dis
tributed were the votes that on the fifty-
ninth ballot the situation was not changed
ten per cent. from what it was on the
first. BY that time. however, Tyiers
friends realized reluctantly that all hope
of nominating their man was gone and
decided. as Brownley's strength would
not come to Tyler to throw Tyler's
strength to Brewnley. AT this critical
juncture Young's twenty-six Norfolk dele
gates We're delivered to Maynard and the
battle was lost and won.
SIXTY BALLOTS.
ne SlsiitSii SiioH t6 ~ itl Nd
nard and a for Erownley. the vote being
Immediately made unanimous amid i'm
mense cheering and in a scene of wild
enthusiasm, in which everybody cheered
everybody else and all cheered the de-
tented candidates and the winner
The Newport News delegation distinguish
ed itself rather doubtfully, Messrs. Ruth
and Watson fighting for Maynard, the
other three, for Young: with Kelly, their
own nominee, a sort of SIDE issue on
alternate ballots, just TO keep up the
show.
The alteration between Messrs.
Kelly md Ruth in the midst of the con-
yention was one of the most remarkable
and sensational the widest dream of poll
tics ever conceived and that a free fight
was averted was not due to the gentlemen
themselves so much rs to the Kindness of
Providence
The candidates. delegates and their
friends left for their homes early this
morning for the most part.
Hon. II. /. Maynard was the recipient of
many congratulations. He and his friends
went back in style on the New York, Phil
adelph3a and Norfolk Railroad steamer,
which brought over the Portsmouth con-
tingent yesterday.
THE NOMINEE.
Hon. Harry Lee Maynard is thirty-nine
years of age, having been born at Ports
mouth N 1851. His father. the late John
w Maynard. was a Western branch truck
farmer. Senator Maynard, as he is Sener-
ally called. was educated in the Norfolk
county public schools, and later at the
State college at Backsburg Va. He has
for mpny years been identified with public
affairs in Norfolk county, and has been
equally active in building up the city of
Portsmouth his home. He in 1888 repre-
scented Portsmouth as a member of the
House Of Delegates, and in 1891 was sent to
The State Senate md his services being
highly satisfactory to his constituency he
has since been returned regularly TO the
Senate upon each election day.
He has been a working member of the
Senate. being chairman of the Committee
on Roads and Internal Navigation; MEM
ber of the Committees on Cities. Towns.
Organization, Privileges and Elections.
To the settlement of the Shands-Boykin
southampton county party squnb5le, which
was referred to the last named committee
at the last session. Mr.. Maynard contri-
buted greatly, and a threatened breach in
the party was healed.
Mr.. Maynard IS president of the Nor
folk, Portsmouth and Newport News (oig
Point Railway Company, rs of several OF
the land companies who have greatly de-
releped Portsmouth's suburban realty. He
is one of the lessees of the Norfolk-Ports-
mouth Ferry Company, and IS interested in
various enterprises with Mr.. r. Lancaster
Williams. of Richmond
Inc people of Portsmouth are almost
unanimously his supporters. and he has
thousands Of friends throughout the dis
trict, and no enemies SO far as known.