Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-07-20
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING.
Only Men Who Know the 6ame-Men who
Will Spend MOney-Wanted.

morning at IL o'clock at the courthouse
Tor the purpose of electing the county
committee for the next two years.
The meeting was called to order by
County Chairman A. S. Higginbotham.
On motion of ]. B. Boyer, W. Archie
Thompson was elected secretary. The
chairman then stated the object of the
meeting was to select the members
OF the county committee for t h e
ensuing two years, it being nee
essary to elect them every two
years and the party plan of organiza-
ton called for two or more members
for each magisterial district, selected
by the voters of the several districts.
The chairman suggested that the com
mittee be increased and suggested
twenty-four as the right number-eipht
from each district. c. R. Brown then
moved and S. D. May seconded the mo-
ton to make the number of committee
men twenty-four instead of fifteen as
at present.
V. L. Sexton, of Graham, suggested
that that number would be unwieldy.
That they could not get the fifteen to-
gether so why make it more.
s. d. May, answering Mr.. Sections
objection, stated it only required a ma
jority of those present at q meeting to
transact the business so it would leave
things In the hands of the real workers.
Col. Boyer offered an amendment
that steering committee of three be
appointed to outline the work but was
withdrawn in accordance with a suppes-
tion from S. D. May that this be left to
the committee.
G. X. Brown said the distribution of
this committee over the county would
add prestige and usefulness to the COM
mittee regardless of fact that a few
would do the real work. On call for
vote the motion carried.
The chairman suggested that a COM
mittee of three be appointed in the dis
trict meetings to select the members
OF the committee as being preferable to
the hit and miss method of indis-
criminate selections usual in mass meet
ings.
The chairman started to ask the va
rious districts to retire and select their
members when V. L. Sexton, of Gra-
ham, threw a bomb into the meeting
with motion that an entire new COM
mittee be selected. Mr.. Sexton pro-
tested this was no reflection on the
present committee and that he intro
duced it after consultation with three
OF the present committee but the con-
census of opinion was that it was aimed
at specific committeeman and made
general to conceal the real purpose of
the motion.
G. w. st. Clair opposed Mr.. Sections
motion on ground that new committee
would take two or three years to learn
the ins and outs of the game while the
present men had it at the ends of their
fingers. c. R. Brown said: Hoped
motion would not carry" S. d. Nav
said: 81 don't know how to do the work
but the fifteen old members do" J.B.
Boyer said: '1n another year or so we
will have the most important election
to confront and need experienced men,"
Mr. Sexton here interrupted and said
that there were men off the committee
with as much experience as those on it.
Mr.. Boyer continued: 1--WE need men
of experience, tried politicians and men
who know the game"
Question being called the chairman
declared motion lost. Mr.. Sexton called
for rising vote, which resulted ayes
II, noes 20. Motion lost.
The same fight that appeared in mass
meeting cropped out in the meeting of
the Jeffersonville district when some of
the out of town members objected to
the town hogging the matter and taking
majority of the membership of the
committee and moved another member
from out of town, the fight apparently
being made against Col. J. B. Bower.
5. ID. May come to the Colonel's rescue
with the statement that Col. Bower
worked harder and spent more monev
than any other member of the commit
tee, on which the opposition withdrew
motion.
Mass meeting then resumed its ses-
sion and districts announced the follow
lowing elected as members of the coun-
ty committee:
Clear Fork District-E. King Crock
EFT, John Roberts, J. H. Harris. H. R.
Showers, ]. R. Gildersleeve, s. N. Huff
ford, Lee j. Barbee, Robert Tarter.
Jeffersonville District-John T. Kee.
see, A. st. Clair, C. R. Brown. ]. r.
Boyer, A. 3. Correll, ]. w. Whitley. A.
S. Higginbotham, A. ]. Steele.
Maiden Spring Districts. ]. Thomp-
son. W. P. Payne, C. H. Peery, C. r.
Neal, w. P. Boggess, Balfour White
J. Sam Gillespie, J. Harvie Beavers.
Chairman then announced that he
would call the committee together in
about ten days to select chairman and
secretary, and meeting then adjourned.