West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-07-05

J N""N "NN'N nave BdSScu on the fOurti
OF July or for any candidate present
but as Monongalia county was sole
TOR Dayton, everybody knew who h,
was trying to nominate. He had hi,
speech wrote out, and DIR. I. p
Fitch, Postmaster at Morgantown,
held the copy on his lap and prompt.
ed Cox. As it had been agreed to
limit the speeches to FIVE minutes,
his time was up before he got to his
man, and there was loud calls OF
"Time" from the Meredith. Hol,
and Pitzer rooters, and the Chair
man called him down, spelling his
brilliant Grafton. He named his
man as he went down. amidst such
a storm of applause that hardly any
one heard it, somebody shouting,
"Hurrah for Freer %
w. II. Wentz, of Barbour, sec.
onded Dayton in good short
speech.
Then W. b. Lindsey, a young
attorney from Martinsburg. spread
himself for Pitzer, and +. NJ. Sho-
walter, another young lawyer from
fairmont, made really eloquent
speech, presenting Meredith, sec
onded by Arch Welton, of Grant
county. Then III. w. Bayor, of
Morgan county, seconded Pitzer, and
Charles p. Guard of Grafton, made
one of the best speeches of the Con-
vention in naming Judge Holt.
A colored delegate from Tucker
named w. S. Thompson, seconded
Dayton in witty speech that got
more applause than any delivered
that day and then the balloting
began.
Barbour, Hardy, Jefferson, Mo-
mongolia, Randolph and Tucker
voted solidly for Dayton, making
SO votes, and Mineral gave him ,
and Pendleton AZ, running it up to
ooIa, and as it only took 1913 to
nominate, Preston, with her ss
votes, nearly solid for Dayton, had
the opportunity she was waiting for.
There was great excitement in the
delegation, and when the vote was
announced for Meredith, az for
Holt and a0E for Dayton, giving
him one more than the nomination,
war-whoop went up that Jared the
whole block, and before the secre-
tary could count the vote, TAYLOR
county went over solid for Dayton
with her rs votes, which had been
cast for Holt, and Grant county
came in with 6 more. Then Pres.
ton rallied again after scrapping
over the vote as reported, Joe Miller
OF Tunnelton, declaring that he was
a delegate and had voted for Pitzer
and wanted it counted. The cor
rected vote of Preston stood 32 for
Dayton, ? for Holt and one for Pit
ger. After the changes the vote
stood, Dayton 16a =, Meredith AZ u,
Pitzer AZ and Holt 2.
Dayton was then declared the
nominee by acc!imapion, and com
mittee appointed to notify him. The
committee on resolutions reported
through w: E Glasscock, the chair
man
The convention proceeded 10
nominate an elector, and Charles NJ.
Lamar of Berkeley county and M.
G.. Keim of Elkins, we're nominated
and the latter elected, receiving 1873
oIt Of the zs4 votes in the conven-
ton. Justice James w. Flynn of
this place, had been spoken of by
his friends, but his name was not
presented as they probably found
oun that he was not eligible on ac-
count of holding an office of trust
and profit and being on the ticket
again for it.
After the convention adjourned,
Dayton, Meredith, Pitzer and Holt
were all introduced by Judge John
W. Mason Of Fairmont, and made
short speeches from the veranda of
the Terra Alta Hotel.