The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-01
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION.
Splendid Body Of Virginians to
Meet III This City Next
Week.
DELEGATES AND ELECTORS
Selection Of Three and Amend
nent Of Primary Comprise
Necessary Business.

.t1o o'clock noon on Thursday, June
9th, the Democratic State Convention, the
first Tor three years, Will be called 70
order lv Hon ]. Taylor Ellyson. chair
man Of me state Central Committee, IN
The Armory Of the SEVENTEEN Regiment
Eleventh. and Marshall Streets
Immediately after the cnll to order and
4 the opening prayer BY some local MINIS
tar, the State chairman Will announce
the temporary officers of the convention
chairman, secretary and serseant-at-arins
who will have been chosen by the state
Central Committee the evening before
the convention. Then the temporary
chair,naan will make his address, key
noto speech, and thereafter the selec-
t,on Of Committees on Permanent Or
rrnnization. Credentials and Resolutions
will be named by the various districts
one member Of each committee from eaoh
district These committees Will retire
and prepare their reports FOR SUBMISSION
K To tina convention. That on Permanent
(. 2f,rraniyetion will be the first made 10
the convention. The report of the COM
n,ittee will almost certainly be adopted
without opposition by the convention and
the new officers will take their places
EAnd the permanent chairman VIII MAKE
his address to the convention.
I, b Time will be consumed in speech-mak-
ing until the Credentials Commute 10
ready to report and with It's report IN
and adopted. the convention VIII De reaus
forS the business before It, The ten con-
eressional. district delegations will sub
NIT their recommendations for two dele
gates each to the National Convention at
ST Louis, and one elector for each dis
Ir,ct Then the convention. as whole,
Si,l select the four delegates at-large 70
81 Louis, to which the State Is entitled,
ana two electors nt-large for the ticket.
Suggest a Platform.
The various district delegations. vii re-
port their selections -of i've nlel, rro..,
sact to constitute the State Central Com
nittee, and with this, the work OF the con-
,vention will have been done save that the
ranort Of the Committee on Resolutions
,yI1, he made. considered and adopted III
.om. form. This will embrace the eA-
Treesions Of the convention on the SUD
iect Of national issues and candidates'
,essibly an endorsement OF Vlrsinlail
for yice-presidential nominee, ana some
recommendation as to hmendmen g, :, - .ns
II ,,,r,,n,,ry Man Tho contemplated cnhnses
e, fT+na urinary are those deemed deslrh-
No Nv members Of the party, wlthouC
rssnect to factonal affiliations. so Ftar
fknoyn no one Is opposing the prl-
mary principle.
I'm to this time few have been men e,
toned for temporary chairman OF ,ne
convention. de must be man aeie '.i,In,,
IL the state Central Committee, "hlcn
n has the selection. The same is true %
4 +ha Temporary secretary and sergeaht-at-
arn,s trhe state Committee Is so evenly
divided between the two factions OF .,'e
marty that it connot be forecasted WHY
will be the temporary chairman. eoionel
button, secretary of the State COMMITTEES
viii li,elv bo made the temporary secre-
tary. Mr.. Frank b. Watkins. sergeant
alarms of the Senate, Is mentioned tor
that position in the convention. 7
The permanent officers are to be chosen
by a committee Of ten mem oers' repre-
eenting the ten districts. 1t depends upon
which faction controls the conVe,.l,on eor az
will be permanent chairman ana secIs-
tarv While there are probably aspiri-
ants. few have made their aspirations
known thus early, when too rev deiesates
have been chosen to make aspirations >
worth while Speaker John f. Ryan, Q,
the House OF Delegates Is one sussest 'o.
for permanent chairman. but II IS YET
LOO early " ~ oPtiSt =" $3.50 1E'1 jFN.
Delegates" at Large.
For delegates at large to St. LOUIS ~, Svn-
stors Daniel and Martin, Chairman lily !,
son, Governor Montague. Congressnleh
Jones and Maynard and MT a. :. fr i'S:,
ton are all mentioned. or the e,sht hal.lsa
only four will be chosen. Almost unvars y.
ing precedent points to the two senator's
as STATE delegates. Governor Montasue
and Mr., Ellyson each has strong sup
mort for another, and the fburth may pc
bestowed on any of the others Al lhis
time it IS difficult TO form an ioea Oh t''o
result. 3, 4, VII
For electors at large. Judge 5. w. WI.
1lams. of Wytheville; Hon. Fl. st. Georse
Trucker and State Senator A. a, Phlesui.
of Montgomery. are now mentioned, ~ ~
81 precedent be followed only one OF tne
trio will be chosen. the other com'hs
from the eastern half of the statet
Little has yet developed In the mater nav
of district delegates and electors, hele
will be plenty of competition for the non
ors. which are usually stepping stones 70
future nominations for office espec'a''S
the electors
The convention viii consist of about
f fifteen hundred members, among wnon'
will be all or nearly all the congress-
men and many other men prominent IN
me councils OF the party. Congressman
Hay and Ex-Governor Cameron are IVY