Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-07-31
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two counties. The candidate of the
democratic party in the Legislative dis
trict Just mentioned, is selected BY a
joint delegated convention of the par
ty, each county being entitled TO
seat In this convention twenty-one
delegates, making forty-two repre-
septstives for both counties.
Any citizen of Clarke and Warren,
qualified for seat in the House of
Delegates of Virginia, can be 8 cam
didate for nomination by this joint
convention, aud he who receives $
majority Of the votes cast is declared
70 be the nominee and entitled at the
election for the House of Delegates,
by the people, 10 receive the votes of
all true democrats. Such is the rule
established by the democratic party
in this legislative district.
Our party has for various purposes
a committee in this county, called the
democratic executive committee,
which has recently met and at their
last meeting have done several things,
among which are the following:
They have ordered primary meet
ings 10 be held in each Of the magisterial
districts in the county al each of the vot-
ing places in said district.
2.-They have given each district the
right 10 its proper number Of delegates
in the joint convention TO be held in Ber-
ryville, Va, Sept. 18th. 1901, TO. select a
nominee for the party a. its candidate
for the House OF Delegates of Virginia;
have declared how these delegates shall
be chosen, and have given 10 each dele
gate from the several districts his proper
power and vote.
All of the above several specifoa-
tions seem very good and very fair,
but the next, which | shall designate
as "Clsuse No. 3" cuts up Nos. and
BY the root and is not fair or dem
ocratic. 1t provides
That any candidate who secures q
majority Of all the delegates from the
entire county shall, in the nominating
convention, be entitled 10 have cast for
him the whole number Of delegates from
the county
Thus, he who gets eleven votes
from Clarke county will be entitled
not only TO his eleven votes, but to
the other ten Clarke votes, making
twenty-one votes in all, and can there
by, with the cid of even one vote from
Warren, receive the nomipa-
ton from the convention,
and with it the power before the
people, which such nomination
gives. A citizen of the county Of
Clarke, or of the county of Warren,
qualified according TO our oonstitu-
ton, has right to stand forth as a
candidate for election to the Virginia
House of Delegates to represent them
in the Legislature of Virginia. A
citizen of the county of Clarke offers
himself as candidate. He is pop
ular man in both counties, and be il
g man of ability, culture and public
worth. He is voted for in Clarke
county at the primary election, but
only gets for some reason eight dele
gated votes from the districts, but
more than a majority of all the votes
cast in the various districts; but he
gets almost by reclamation 20 votes
of the good old county of Warren.
Under ordinary circumstances this
man would be nominated by the Joint
democratic committee of Septem Der,
1901, having twenty votes from War
rem and eight votes from Clarke; but
just in his hour of expected triumph
be receives information that the eight
votes from the Berryville district and
the FIVE votes from the Chapel dis
trict in the convention have centered
on 'Mr. Red" his opponent, and IN
der the resolution of the democratic
executive committee, all of the Clarke
votes will be cast for "Mr. Red
Imagine the feelings of "Mr. White, -
the opponent of "Mr. Red" and his
judgment as to the action of the
Clarke county democratic executive
committee, when he ascertains all
this.
Mr. Editor: l ask through you
our executive committee if they have
done the right thing, in thus passing
the way, as they have done,
for man from the coun-
ty of Clarke who while he may be
the choice of the majority of her leg
islstive convention delegates, and
may not be that of her democratic
voters nor of the democratic voters
of her sister county of Warren.
Why should not our Warren
neighbors have their choice of a
Clarke man, and the right to nomi-
nate him, with the aid of their
friends and delegates.
l have not forgotten, that by a rule
of courtesy, between the counties of
Clarke and Warren. the delegates to
the General Assembly, from the two
counties of Clarke and Warren, lie
chosen one term, say, Warren and
the next term from Clarke county.
He is chosen from the citizens of the
one county, not by the vote of bis