The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-20
r. p. A. CONVENTION COMES
TO CLOSE IN CITY OF SUFFOLK
Delegates Leave With Many Pleasant Memories OF Cordial
,Hostitabe Tcday--lr cjdents During Closing Hours
OF Most Entertaining Profitable Gathering

rate. Tcddy Roosevelt must remain
forever sitrHt ubout race suicide.
suffolk is also remarkable aS an
office holding city. The distinguished
chairman of the corporation com
mission lis ours: the congressman from
+ the Second district Is ours, and by
ihe way. lac liz such a pond con gress-
man that he Will nave. no opponent
for "a second term, the Judge Of THIS
Virginia circuit IL ours. the senator
Of the Thirty-second senatorial dis
irsct Is ours. Joe Holiday Is our dis
dnguished mayer; Ned Lewis Is ours
ours. Cllf Lewis IS ours
VII. I suspect after the prcsidcn-
tisl candidates are through scrapuing
at Chicago and Baltimore, they might
ind candidate right here in Suf-
folk.
Transportation Facilities
We are also remarkable for the
transportation facilities What CITY
. ip Virginia can boast of six grand
railroads and deep water 10 the sea -
"IheIe -iA-Qnn- G,-iaEu1- t.Aa.i-ihat
II yoG do not Ike suffolk after you
have looked US over. you can xpt
away quite easily. for. in addition 10
the facilities now, walking Is very
good.
Then Ne have the fsft+st Ftttfttf iis-
! able hataka la the country the finest
water supply, we have the commits
sion form Of government, without
appeal to- the legislature, and in fact
we are IT,"
Delegations Leave.
The Richmond delegation left over
| tho Norfolk and Western yesterday
eXenln&- fa=-tha-l - ;...4,l l++tp- the
. party were James II. Duggtns. George
! r Harrington. r b, WalthalI. Frank
! Brown, William Jenkins Jr, Clar-
ence Coleman, l.. d. Whitmors, j. II.
/ Koiner. Bayard II. Storm. c. c. Sat
I terrified. George w Rogers. w. h.
i. Cridlin. IL. l.. HARDWOOD. 8. J. Allen
/ md J. =. Sampson.
m the train was the Petersburg
/ delegation, embracing J. II. Bailey.
| ' NJ, peAlton, r. =. Robertson. r.
4 f. I.unSford. Fred Pitcher, $. NJ.
! ireen. Jr,. r.. y. Beckwith. Sidney
I'LL. w l.. Rahily. Franklin Smith.
! y. Il, Turner, r. w. Price, w. r.
| Baugh. A. q. M. Martin. Jr.
Messrs. Green and ttahliy are the
delegates to the national convention.
They will do all possible for the next
| convention for Richmond.
Also on the train was Secretary
Eddie MayfIeid, OF the Lynchburs
| Chamber OF Comemrce. He was
happy over the fact that Lynchburg
had secured the next State eonven-
ton, and delivered many speeches on
the train
'Lynchburg will have hard time
doing better than SufYole." he said.
hut she will show you. gentlemen.
! one OF the greatest State conventions
ever given ia the South"
Incidents of the Meeting.
In eaueusing for delegates for the
! national convention three posts had
/ but one representative each present
| fhey met In the corner singiy and
nominated themselves. The incident
proved amusing to the members OF
1 the convention when 1t was an
i nouneed from the stage. The three
are among the most' active In the
sitate~~b. C.. Quintin. Of Fredericks~
burg; y. l.. Trainham, OF South Bo1-
r tnss Nathan Marks, Of focahontaE
Their names We're ch.ered. and they
j were elected unanimously
I Secretary Harwood's voice, was out
of wnaek, He had trouble making
himself heard, and was forced to call
upon volunteers 10 help him. On
several occasions Messrs George
Rogers. j. y, Williams and Dan Sale
got in the game and made impromptu
speeches, Iarwood soon regaincd
the use nf his voice.
They say that tho drummer is
long nr drinks" said Frank Brown.
I'd that he does not like to No 70
g dry town, but here we are In Suf-
folk IL dry town. having one of the
! aeAt conventions. We ever had and
NOT drop 10 drink except ginger ale
and things like that
fiddle Mayheld was given a bottle
Of grape nice by q friend Ia honor
~ his great speech for I.ynchburg
lie lost II four times between the
hotel and the depot, and when he re-
| Ee1Ncd II aH the tFa4B-it-tta f1ty-n
transformed into tt bottle OF apoliin-
arts.
j. c, Boatwrisht Of pauviIia. pres-
ident of the State league, who was
one NJ the hard working delegates.
said the talk about Suffolk getting
Che Danville franchise AMOUNTS 20
nothing we viii keep panpiiie. -
he said. nothing can gct the fran
chtse We want baseball. and we will
ha@e it, suffolk liz good town and
| would Ike her 10 have franchise.
but sne can't yet ourn"
X, - Walthal. Of Post 4, came ALI
tho way from South Carolina to lie
/ present at the convention, He Will
remain home a week. and then get
fHfs* IL thg adn1T Son III a.
The Norfolk bunch held open house.
They were roofing for HArksdale for
president. ana didn't care who knew
It Barksdale was the last man 10
know II officially" navs stribling
and Hancock put in somo good lcks
for him.
"on to Lynchburg now" said Dan
| sale. We want every member. his
wife and family. and We Will take care
of MIN Ike q prince, This Suffolk
cn''-@r'ten "a hna Of -he finest 7 evNr