The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-10
Business Could Not be Conf
pleted and Body Meets at 10
O'clock to Receive Report II
Of Committee on Rcsoltl-
tions, on Primary and
Endorsement Parker. .s
Delegates at Large
Senator John w. Daniel.
Senator Thomas S. Martin. i
Governor a. ]. Montague.
Allan Caperton Braxton.
Electors at Large
William p Barksdale.
Harry St. George Tucker. 81

tual work OF the Dem mocrat1c Sta tcS
Convention yesterday. The cons
svention spent seven hours il scs-
sion, but the real accomplishments
were lew. There were many
waits. 1t was a day and night Of
waits. The waits produced ora
tory in great streams, but little
more. Il I 4 I.
There was wait because ofS
the inability Of the Second Dis
trict delegation to settle the diff
sferences between the delegations
from Norfolk county and from
Southampton col1nty
There was IA er, a, wait e for
the Credentials Commit &c to re-
port. And then there were seve-
raj waits for the e Committee on
Resolutions to formulate a report
The last wait was too much for.
the patience Of the convention
and at midnight, shortly after8theNi
committee had sent word that II \
would perhaps be ready to sub
NIT a report i'll two hours, the
body adjourned until 10 o'clock
to-day.
There was no fighting on the
floor OF the convention. The
speeches were entirely those call
culated to fire the heart Of the
Democratic voter, or to induce
the delegates to give their sup-
port to certain men for places in
the gift Of the convention.
1t was in the Committee on Re
solutions that the real fighting
took place, The report Of the
Committee on Amendments toEI 81.
the primary plan Of nominating
candidates for office was the cause
OF all the trouble. The commit
tee had little difficulty in agree rec.
ing upon a declaration Of princi-#
pies. The platform, as agreed
upon for presentation to the con-
vention, is ready for submission,
and will not cause any discus
sion.
Fighting on Primary Plan.
All the labor and all the fight
ing was caused by the primary
plan, that subject which has been
SO prolific Of discussion in Vir-8
GINA since the session Of the State
Convention at Roanoke, in 1897,
when Hon. William A. Jones made
a great fight to have candidates
for the United States Senate nom
mated in primary election. Mr.
Tones Is the chairman OF the pres
ent committee. 1t was stated at
midnight that he was addressing
the committee in favor of the viva
voce method of voting, which it
is proposed to abolish. The Conf
mittee had already adopted an
amendment to the present plan;
allowing the local party authort-
ties to exercise discretion in the
manner Of selecting candidates
for local offices and members OF
the General Assembly It sas-
sured that the committee will re-
port in favor Of adopting the Sc
ceret ballot. The full COMMITTEES
had not much chance to discuss
the plan. 1t was receiving the at a
tention OF subcommittee for the
greater part Of the time, and II
was late at night before the report
Of the latter was taken UP.
While there is no doubt that
the committee will report re-
solution endorsing the candidacy &
of Judge Parker. there IS also
no doubt that an attempt viii pc
made BY many Of the strongest