The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-05-23

and on the floor he renewed hts fexfty -
10 the old party organization with the 4
declaration that the committee itself
would have provided for an increare q
or membership II the request had been
made @sN
Owing to the many attacks ON the :.
State Committee none of the Commit.
'cemen objected to the proposition TO
increase their mem bership. Had this
proposal been combatted It would haya
onered an opportunity for the Roose. L
welt leaders to declare that the com. p
mittce did not care to share ira ra-
sponsibility. Instead, those who op-
posed the proposition criticised the :
method OF appointing the new COM
mitteemen. ~"
Immediately AFTER the convention
ADJOURNED the committee met and
adopted resolution providing for the
election of 16 additional committees
men at the June primary and re-open- !
ed the call for the primary until Nav
"a to give the candidates for membAr.
snip on the committee sufficient time
to make their entries into the pri-
mary. &r.,'
whether or not the resolution of the
committee will be complied with re-
mains to be seen. The reorganization
resolution, adopted at the convention.
provided for the election of the addf-
t1onal committeeman by the conven-
tlon, one from each senatorial district
and Negro member-at-large, and tho
new committeeman were so elected.
Besides, the old committee was com
pletely sholn of it's power and emas-
culated by the convention in passing
the resolution, which also provided
that the party call should not be re-
opened. ...-.
Ihls latter clause was aimed a. For
mer Senator Davis Elkins, who has
been insisting for several weeks that
the primary be thrown open to the
candidates for the Office Of United
States. The committee had not been
disposed to meet and consider the re-
quest of Senator Elkins until the day
Of the State Convention, when the
proposition was discussed and several
members of the committee expressed
| themselves favorably toward the Elk
ms proposal
Prior to the convention the commit
| tee refused to take any definite action
| upon the request of Senator Elkins
for a senatorial primary, but it was
| agreed that Immediately after the ad-
iJOurnment- of the convention another
meeting would be held and conch1-
sion reached. In the meantime the
Roosevelt leaders sprang thir propose
al to re-organize the committee, and
that body was shorn of power with the
insertion Of the provision that the
primary call should not be re-open=
ed.
| After the passage of ~'resofItfon
IN the convention Senator Efkins made
no further effort to have the committees
place the office of United States Sena-
tor in the June primary. Instead, she
stated that he had asked for the pri7
mary and had been willing, as a can
didate, for the United States Senate
to submit his cause to the voters when
the state ticket was chosen, and he
asked those on the committee who
were favorably inclind toward the
senatorial primary TO desist. 49,.
The committee, however was I'm
willing to be bound by the action of
the convention and adopted the reso-
luton providing for the election of the
| 10 additional members Of the body In (
| the primary. Several Of the members
OF the committee objected to the pro-
| cedure and S. P. Smith, Of Kanawha.
and w. w. Whyte, OF Mcdowell, did
| not favor the action taken.
The appointment of the additional
members Of the committee by the cou-
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