The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11
TODD EIGHT
BRAUER FIVE
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bhRUEh FWE
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the famous Brauer-Todd affair, Brauer
had been showed under and was well nigh
buried out OF sight,
The Result
But the matter was considered never
theless and upon motion of the b .auer
contingent. The members OF the commit
tee were permitted for a while to finger
q letter from State Committeeman Patton,
who declared fatty that Todd had agreed
to abide by the decision Of the State Com
mIttee and that nothing short of bond
with security could be more binding than
the agreement Todd made before tie
Central Committee. Then Mr.. Meyer got
up and called for an executive session for
the Consideration Of the troubles before
the County Committee. The committee
thereupon arranged itself in executive
session.
Results were announced about an hour
later. Mr. Meyer had presented series
of resolutions, embodying a statement u
the party laws, providing for right OK
appeal to the state Committee, and there
fore declaring the County committee TO
be amenable TO such regulations Tho
committee was therefore to recognize
Brauer as the party nominee. These re-
solutions were hustled aside and SUBJ
stitute was offered by Mr.. Ruftin and
adopted, Under this substitute tho Coun-
ty Committee Of Henrico, BY vote OF
eight to five, reiterated It's denial OF the
right of the State Committee to inter-
fere and pledged It's support to- Walter j.
Todd, the Democratic nominee for the
office of treasurer. The committee snort
ly thereafter declared itself adjourned.
A few minutes later four OF the five
men composing the minority met and Is
sued paper. In 1t they declared their
allegiance to the State Committee and
pledged Their support to William n.
Braucr, the Democratic nominee for tho
office Of treasurer. Then they. too. adj
Journcd. They have placed themselves in
direct conflict with the remainder OF the
committee and will probably all resign
next week. This Is about the only course
now left open tc them The four men who
thus split off from TIE others are Messrs.
Edward L. Ryan, of Shumaker's Pre-
cinct; T. s. Kellam, of Harcin's shop;
Louis F. Meyer, Of Jones: and G. FL.
Graves, of Seven Pines.
70 h Viii Run.
The long awaited session Of the new
committee. therefore, results in nothing.
except more gricvous split in the party
than ever There are still two candidates
IT. the field, and both claim the party
nomination; the State Committee has
been defled again. All of this happened
once before.
Mr. Todd is now preparing for asbig
fight to the end. He has for second
time secured the endorsement of the
County Committee. He and Mr.. Heckler.
who will probably be his deputy. If he
Is elected will stump the county Tne
campaign will be as hot as Ere and Todd
will be in the thick of It.
Mr. Brauer announces that he will
~, ,ty,n "a
has received the unanimous endorsement
of the State Committee and tie endorse
,ncnt of portion OF the county COM
mlttec. He considers that he is the nomi-
nee. and that anybody else Is an inter
lopcr He will make strong fight ana
time comes he will probably make some
movement against the county committee.
Major Sands. Mr.. Brauer's counsel. said
yesterday that they would contest the ad-
nittance Of the Henrico Committee to the
next State Democratic Convention. He
holds that the committee has placed
itself outside OF the pale OF the party.
II Session, fthe g mmittes.
Things were decided a-bustlc around
The courthouse when the hour of noon
gradually wore around The buster of
the weather on the outside drew most
of those present to the interior, and the
corridor was full of people gathered In
Brauer was present with his attorney,
Mr.. ". H. Sands. and many OF his fol-
lowers The other side was also well
represented Mr.. Todd and Mr.. Hecher
we're both there. with large party OF
their. friends In this party was also
Mr.. St. George Coalter, counsel for Mr..
Todd Apart from these, there were sew
eral others not avowedly representative
Of either side.
There was every evidence Of the very
liyeliest interest in everything that was
10 occur, and that did occur. The little
room In which the committee usually
sits was packed to suffocation when tho
session began, and things finally grew
so bad that adjournment was made to
the large room Of the County Court,
where committee and crowd could dis
pose themselves more comfortably.
Bauer Showed Under.
The meeting was called to order about
1915 o'clock by Chairman Rutfn. who
was made temporary chairman of the new
committee The atmosphere was already
beginning to tell OF Iodd victory ana
BraueI defeat.
After some parliamentary confusion the
committee took up the consideration ot
the credentials of Mr.. a. L. Cornwall
elected from Town Hall. but now resi-
dent OF Carter's. Mr.. Cornwall was
Brauer man and an effort was made by
the Brauer wing to scat him. 1t failed.
and there and then was given the first In
dication of split in the committee. the
majority side being for Todd. BY vote OF
five to four seat on the committee was
refused TO Mr. Cornwall because he was
not now a resident of the precinct from
which he was elected.
The election of permanent chairman
gave still more pronounced indication
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