The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-08-06
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of the primary election to the Park
ersburg and Fsairmont conventions,
which delegations were never con-
tested by the new committee NOR the
manner or regularity of their APP
pointment questioned.
The minutes of this meeting on
April 10 also contain the following:
Stuart +. Reed, candidate for the
Republican nomination for secretary
of state for West Virginia. was the
only candidate for state Office vot-
ed for at said primary election, and
received the highest number of votes
cast for any state officer. Under
paragraph ofsthe rules and regula-
tons for holding said primary cleo
ton the person receiving the high
est number of votes cast for any state
office is authorized to appoint "a
delegates to the Republican state
convention to be held at Charleston,
West Virginia, on July the Sth, A. D.
1908.
Stuart r. Reed. candidate for sec
rotary of state. as aforesaid, present.
ed to the chairman of this committee
a lost of "a delegates selected by him
to represent Harrison county at the
state convention, to be held on the
Sth day of July, 1908. at Charleston,
West Virginia. for the purpose of
nominating state officers, which list
was inl the words and figures follow
ing:
Reed Appoints.
April IS, 1908.
" To the Republican Executive Com
mittee of Harrison County, West
Virginia.
BY virtue of the authority grant
ed under Rule of the Rules and
Regulations adopted by the Harrison
County Republican Executive Com
mitteelfor the government of the pri-
mary election held in said county
April 6, 1908. l, as the candidate for
secretary of state receiving the high
est vote cast at said primary election
for state office, do hereby approve
the following named delegates to
represent Harrison county In the Re-
publican state convention to be held
at Charleston on July the Sth, A. ID.
190S.'" The names of the dele
gates then follow in Senator Reeds
communication.
Next on the minutes OF the meet
Ing is the following:
"Thereupon. on motion OF Melvin
G. Sperry, seconded by Adelbert A.
Lang, it was ordered that the APP
pointment of delegates to the state
convention SO made, by Stuart h.
Reed, be ratified and approved. and
that the chairman and secretary of
the committee certify to the proper
officers the appointment of the dele
gates so made. The said motion was
adopted by an unanimous vote of the
committe presents" The delegates
SO appointed were notified April IA
of their appointment.
The names of the delegates APP
pointed by Mr.. Reed and approved by
the committee were published in the
Daily Telegram April IA.
The committee adjourned until
April IL, after approving the dele
gates appointed by Mr.. Reed to
hear the Gore-Ogden contest. At
the meeting April IL the old COM
mittee adjourned sine die, and the
new committe held its first meeting
April %.
Ohio County NEEDLES.
The delegations appointed to the
Parkersburg and Fairmont conven-.
lions by the old committee were not
contested, and, it is safe TO say, there
would have been no contest as to the
Reed delegation had it not been for
the interference of Ohio county poll
ticiars, some of whom came here and
personally worked up the contest.
After a good deal of indecision the
new committee finally appointed a
contesting delegation May 20, more
than month after the regular dele
cation had been appointed and after
other delegations appointed by the
old committee had taken part in the
conventions to which they were chos-
en-. and the fact that these delega-
lions were allowed to serve without
a contest substantiates the old COM
mtttees right to approve the delega-
ton as appointed by Mr.. Reed.
In connection with tha Road dale