Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-10
Republicans Select Richmond Dis,
trict Attorney as Leader of
the State Ticket.
LIEUT.. GOVERNOR, w. P. KtNI
Newport News Negro Makes Second.
ing Speech and is Loudly AppIaudcd
Platform Declares For Homo Rule
in Regard 10 Liquor Question and
Denounces all Graft in Public Office.


U}y Associated l'rrss.)
ROANOKE, VA, Aug. 9.-Whcn-thc
Republican State Convention rcasscm-
hlcd today the resolutions brought in
the platform. which was road AMI
adopted as a whole amid rousing APP
plausc.
After the > atform was adopted a
new plan Of organization Of the party
was read and adopted. G. Bascom
Slcmp, of the Ninth district, was re-
elected State chairman by acclama-
ticn. Nominations for governor were
then i'll order.
United States District Attorney
Thomas l.. Moore, of Christiansburg.
put in nomination Judge l.. l.. Lewis,
Of Richmond, who was nominated by
reclamation.
Among tho ten speeches scconding
the nomination of Judge Lewis was
one by w. H. c. Brown, a negro of
Newport News. a Harvard graduate,
whose address was frequently AMI lib
orally applaudcd. The following non-
nations then came in the order given:
Lieutenant governor, w. u. Kent, of
Wythcville; attorney general, George
a. Rcvercomb, of Allegheny; treasnr-
or, John Ackcr, OF Rockingham; sup
erintendcnt Of public instruction, j..
~ Harmon. of Tazewcll; con,mission.
er OF agriculture, w. H. Eggburn, OF
Culpcpcr; secretary OF the Common
wealth. V. Nj. Sowder, of Floyd. All Of
| these nominations were made without
opposition and the convention adjourn
| cd sine die.
The Platform.
The platform in part is as follows:
The Republican party Of the State
OF Virginia presents this declaration
OF principles and appeals To the voters
of the State for support;
las National Republicans, we be-
liere in the principles OF the Rcpuh.
lican party as cnunciatcd i'll our ma
tional platforms, and prominent
| among them we believe in n sound
and stable currency. in IL protective
tariff, in national expansion, in hold
| ing To the Monroe doctrine, in prompt
ly building the Panama canal. in a
| navy large enough 10 care for all
| American interests, and in that con-
| tinucd progress in all directions SO
| worthily summed up in the history
| ~
government.
I'VE find these ideas cXrmplilicd
in Theodore Roosevelt, president of
the United States.
| I'VE dcplorc the unimportant part
which Virginia has occupied in the
great national movements carried on
by The Republican party. Her Dem
ocralic' leaders have held aloof from
share in the national progress We
demand that she he relieved from the
bonds of Democratic obstruction, and
that under Republican control. she
take once more that place in the ma
tional councils to which alike her his
tory, her people and her resources
entitle her
| I'VE pledge ourselves, If placed in
power, to free the schools from par
tisnn control. to increase their eff
cheney by liberal appropriations, to
furnish free books that every child
in this Commonwealth may have 4
common school education, and to adj
minister the schools honestly and sole
ly with regard to their efficiency.
we dcnnuncc the Democratic par
| ty for the manner i'm which the new
constitution was forced upon The peo-
pie of Virginia by proclaiming, after
the pledge that the same should be
submitted to the people for ratification
or rejection.
"We favor the traditional Republic
can doctrine of leaving to the people
OF each community to decide whether
intoxicating liquors shall be sold
among them. and the condition of
! such sale, if allowed trusting to their
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