Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-07-14
TAZEWELL SENDS
SLEMP DELEGATION
Republicans in Mass Convention Monday
Endorsed The Mini District Congress-
man and Pledged Loyal Support.

'aSsoeA GeyNt 0uPPVih
In pursuance to a call of the county
chairman the Republicans of Tazeweil
county assembled in mass meeting at
the court house here at O'Clock D. m.
on last Tuesday.
County Chairman John T. Barns. in
few well chosen words, stated the OBJ
Ject OF the meeting, and requested that
nominations for temporary chairman
and secretary be made. J. Walter
Graybeal was then nominated as tenn
porary chairman and w. G. O'Brien as
temporary secretary. TIE TEMPORARY
organization was then made permanent.
On motion of Col. VIM. C. Pendleton
the three magisterial districts separa-
ted and selected a list of delegates to
represent Tazewell county in the Con-
gressional convention at Abingdon. and
at the same time selected the members
OF the county committee for their re-
spective districts.
Tazewell county under the call was
entitled to forty delegates and like
number of alternates, but on account of
the large number that had expressed a
desire to attend the Abingdon conven-
tion, each district appointed more than
tnelr quota, with the understanding that
they as well as other Republicans from
the county who attended the convention
could cast their pro rata vote as dele
gates. Clear Fork selected 81 dele
gates and alternates; Jeffersonville 54.
and Maiden Spring 20, making a total
OF III delegates and alternates.
Ihe present county committee was
reelected, except where death or re-
moval from the county made it neces-
sary to select new members. The com
mlttee as now constituted consists of
the following:
Clear Fork District-C. W. Crockett.
Tiptop; R. c. Wells, Bluestone; E. G.
Compton, Falls Mills; S. P. Mustard,
Aobs Valley; ]. F. Ward, Pocahontas;
d. A. Long, Burkes Garden; j. Floyd
Creek; H. C. Galloway, Graham.
Jeffersonville Districts. S. F. Har-
man, Tazewell; NJ. L. Peery, North
Tazewell; ]. P. Whitman, Crockett's
Cove; A. R. Beavers, Dry Fork; ]. d.
Daley, Gap Store; R. S. Brooks, Ben
bow; VIM. Clayton, Thompson Valley:
+. II. Warner, Freestone.
Maiden Spring District-W. B. Spratt.
Richlands; ]. Ed Mcclure, Cedar Bluff:
ID. Green, Paint Lick; ]. Saunders Gil
lespie, Pounding Mill; M. F. Brown.
Poor Valley; w. r Bowen, Liberty Hill:
;. +. Allison, Lockhart's; VIM. Bandy,
Baptist Valley.
Col. VIM. c. Pendleton then offered
the following resolutions which. on mo-
tion of W. L. Moore, were unanimously
adopted:
The Republicans of Tazewell county
IN mass meeting assembled hereby re-
affirm their continued allegiance to the
principles and policies of the national
Republican party; and be it resolved:
lst. We point with pride to the great
accomplishments in the way of useful
legislation enacted by the Republicans
IN the Congress that has recently ad-
lourned, and congratulate President
Taft on his successful administration of
the affairs of this great nation.
'2nd We express our appreciation
OF the record made by the Hon. C. B.
Siemp as our representative in the
SlXty-thlrd Congress, he having per-
formed his representative duties there
IN with diligence, in accordance with his
promises to his constituents and in ac-
cordance with their will
Srd: We hereby instruct the dele
gates this day chosen to represent Taze-
well county In the convention to be held
at Abingdon on the Goth instant, to vote
as unit for the Hon. c. B. SIemp as
our candidate for Congress
'4th. That any Republican from
Iazewell county who sees fit to attend
the convention at Abingdon on the 10th
in 'tant, will sit with the delegates and
aiternates IN the convention and cast
proportional part of the vote"
Clear Fork and Maiden Spring dis
trlcts endorsed the present county
chairman for reelection in their reports
to the meeting. A motion was then
made to elect John T. Barns Chairman
and James W. Harman secretary of the
county committee, and both were unan-
imously chosen. The convention then
adjourned sine die.