Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-09-19
MEETING
OF REPUBLICANS
The Republicans of TaZeVell Count!
Assemble.
'W. |. MOORE is NOMINATED
The Meeting is Addressed by Genera
James A. Walker, and He is En-
Enthusiastically Received.
L. MOORE is NOMINATED

Inc hepuDncanS OF laZeWel OOunty
pursuant to call, assembled in mass. meet.
sng at the courthouse on last Tuesday
sThe meeting was called to order by h. g.
Mccall, County Chairman. J. N. Har.
man was made Permanent Chairman Of
!. the meeting and Wm. G. .Pendleton was
made Secretary.
! The object of the meeting was explained
to be, the nomination of a candidate for
1.-THE House of Delegates and the selection
,of delegates to the Senatorial Convention.
On motion the chair appointed com
.mittee on resolutions composed of: M.
IL. Peery, Henry Bowen and Q. j. Barns.
While the Committee on Resolutions
were out preparing their report, General
james A. Walker, being present, was
called for and addressed the meeting in a
brief but forcble speech. He called at.
,tention TO the issues that would be passed
upon in the present campaign and showed
how the Democrats were seeking to violate
their solemn pledge to submit the new
Constitution to the people for ratification
or rejection. He then paid an eloquent
tribute to the lamented President McKin-
ley; and said that while our country and
the whole civilized world was grieved and
shocked at the terrible calamity that had
Ibefallen our Nation, there should be no
feeling of alarm for the future, that the
mantle of William Mckinley had fallen on
worthy shoulders, the manly shoulders of
Theodore Roosevelt General Walker
spoke in the highest terms of President
Roosevelt, whose moral and intellectual
fitness for the exalted position of Chief
Executive of the Republic could not be
questioned
The Committee on Resolutions then re
ported the following:
WHEREAS, by the hand of an Infamous
assassin William Mckinley, President of.
the United States has been taken from his
earthly labors
BE IT RESOLVED, That it is the sense,
of this Convention that in his death this.
country has lost, citizen of the highest.
type, an, Executive of the noblest kind, of
the purest patriotism and highest ideal of
bis duty, and Christian, who, in his fear-E
less death, eliminated career that should,
be an example to all Americans, and
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the sympa.l
thy of this convention be extended TO his,
bereaved widow, whose loss We know to-
be irreparable, though we hope that the
of her husbands admirers will,
give her strength to sustain this awful
trial, and
RESOLVED FURTHER, While we deplore
the death of VIM. Mckinley, we declare
our confidence in the patriotism, the abili':
ty, and the Republicanism of our Presi.i.
dent, Theodore Roosevelt, and we pledge
our cordial and hearty support to bis adj
RESOLVED FURTHER, That we hereby:
desire to express our most serious indigna.ss
ton toward, and emphatic condemnationE,
Of any association, sect or individual, which !,
las for Its or their declared object, theE
isregard of law and order, the breaking
Town of existing forms of government, orr
be ASSASSINATION of our President, or thesl
Jhief Executive or ruler of any other nag
ion or country" 81
The following was also offered by theri
Committee on Resolutions: y
"REsoLvED, By the Republicans Of
azewell County in Mass-Meetlng Assem- Il
led, that they most heartily commends1
be course ofthe Hon. Joseph S. Moss assa
leir representative in the House of Dele-3s
ates of Virginia in looking after the inter-d
sts of the people of the County, and es- n
ecially in defeating the bill which wasSi'
ltended to deprive the people of Taze-Es
ell, through their Board of Supervisors, TX
selecting their own County Surveyors3s
I'd Superintendent of the Poor. 81.
On motion the report of the Committees9'
as adopted. ~
The chairman then announced thatHS
)minations for a candidate for the House, &
Delegates were in order. Hon. w. B. III
,ratt then presented the name of thefJf
on w. L. Moore to the convention, and[S
m. C. Pendleton seconded his nomina s.
IN. Mr.. Moore was nominated by ac- F,S
amation. h(
The mass.meeting then proceeded toEiC
lect delegates 10 the Senatorial Conven.El<
IN which met at Tazewell on last Tues
y night. The following delegates werei]\
,cted: IN
JEFFERSONvILLEj DISTRICT. k3E
]. K. Laird, Shields Hartman, Andrews
itten, ]. P. Whitman and f. Thompson,H
legates. VIM. G. Pendleton, M. LIZ
cry, j. Powell Royal, Ben T. Daily andH
B, Warren, alternates. "a