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| and warmer. Meetings will be held every
night until election day.
The Todd Meetings.
Perhaps two hundred people were pres.
cnt in Leisie!d's Hall, when the Todd
meeting was called to order. 1t is a
| curious fact that the gathering was held
| In the city OF Richmond the county line
| is some little distance beyond the hall.
| The attendance nevertheless was crush
| Ing and 1t taxed the place TO Its ut
| most capacity. Todd enthusiasm ran
| high from start to finish.
First among the speakers was A1r.
Thomas C. Ruffin, chairman of the DEM
ocratic Committee OF Henrico county.
| The chairman made a calm, clear and
| dispassonate argument, the chief design
Of which was to prove on the, one hand
| that the Count yCommttee Is the sole
arbiter in county political affairs and on
! the other that. the evidence produced
against Brauer was sufficient to convict
him of violation of the pure elections
| law. lie deprecated the conflict that had
sprung up between the County Committee
| and the State Committee but said that
| the former, acting under n statute Of
| Virginia, was clearly within It's rights
and that the latter arrogated an authority
| that 1t old not possess. The State Com
| mittee, he said, had pulled down the
bars and made 1t impossible in the here
after to have that purity in elections
which might have been possible IL it had
| stood behind the County Committee. He
believed III his heart that the latter had
,ben commended by all the good people
rof the county.,34S
I "Gentlemen,"i said the chairman in eff
feet "Mr Walter J. Todd Is the only
regular and true nominee of the Demo-
cratic party in Henrico for the office OF
treasurer. He has received the certi-
ficate at the hands Of the body empower
| ed by law to confer It; Mr.. Brauer re-
ceved 1t at The hands OF a body that pos
sessed no such right. ask your sup
| port for Mr. Todd. the nominee of the
| party.
Mr.. Throckmorton's Speech.
AS soon as the applause that greeted
| the chairman Gained down, Mr.. c. w.
| Throckmortor- who was defeated In the
race against Wendenburg for Common
] wealth's Attorney. proceeded to make a
! sLort talk. He argued for the supremacy
| OF the County Committee. stating that 1t
| acted under law giving 1t the authority,
! to be exercised II 1t saw fit, to adopt q
| primary system of It's own, and make
| such rules and regulations as 1t might
| deem proper. Redress. If any were re-
Guired, might have been sought in the
| courts, but not before the State Commit
tee, which in overriding the County Com
nlittee set up a government contrary to
| the State of Virginia. He declared fur
| tEermore, that before the appeal was
taken to the State Committee, Mr.. Mere
dith, Brauer's attorney, had agreed with
Kim (Throckn1orton) in this contention.
Some pretty ha:d slaps at Mr. Barks-
dale were made by Mr.. Throckmorton.
The speaker said Mr.. Barksdale the au-
| thor of the pure elections law, was the
| Senator from district including Halifax,
| the county that had for years gone Dem
ocratic, despite the fact that there were
| two negroes there to every white man.
| Yet Mr.. Barlsdale preached purity. He
| said, furthermore, that the Senator had
once been rip-roarng Republican; he
then jumped into the Democratic party.
| and on the first opportunity thereafter
! bolted clear out of 1t again. He was
now back at the old stand.
MIR. Coalter's Speech.
One of the chief matters referred to by
| Mr.. ST. John Coalter. who followed next,
was to an article published few days
ago. In this article there was q SEN
| tence that read in part as follows: ON
| the other will appear brilliant array of
| State Committee material, including tho
author of the famous pure elections law,
which WAS the starting point Tor the
| Henrico toughs,' but which Is now lost
somewhere among tho knots" Ho empha-
| sized the word coughs" and declared to
/ the crowd that the paper of which a'rep-
resentatlve was then present had called
the people Of Henrico "toughs" When he
| had concluded his attention was called
! to the manifest absurdity of the language.
BY q Typographical error the WORD
coughs" had been substituted for tho
word 'tangle." The analogy Is clear, as
will be seen, If the last mentioned word
ia substituted for the other Mr.. Coalter
1 az once recognized this, and promptly
made tho explanation to the crowd,
Like his MT goe!ef DE
s anas o ahS en from Whom an appeal
should have been taken to tho courts.
He said. with referene 70 the, state
Committee, that It was ,o made up Lar la1se ~,
Clyde Saunders, who was turned down
by the Norfolk convention for member,
ship on he same committee lie Jumped
Anybody dy'" who is'' was familiar With he
career Of the Senator. he said. would
realize how Ridiculous n i was f9 pw him IN
to preach purity N e te phe n S1M of
written by Mr., Barlt,dalo to Mr.. o'Elah-
| erty before the appear 10 the otate Coin-
mttee, and which was printed in THIS
| Bnrksdale said the law Enthusiastically
applied 10 primaries, and that treating
voters to whiskey was a violation or IT,
Mr.. Todd's Speech.
FOLLOWING a short talk by Mr. H. G.,
,liecher, who, predicted great success
for tho Todd forces, ~ ~, Iodd hims eia
machine agai.st him, including a horde
Of city politicians who live. by the sweat
] OF somebody else's brow, and @ho never